Team Ireland took the gold medal at the scaled-down Home Nations Championships out of Cahersiveen last weekend against very capable English and Welsh opponents. The Irish team followed up first-place finishes on each boat on day one with another great day of fishing on day two, as team members Padraic Clear, Jamie Murphy, Dan Lynch, Heiko Dreier, Shane Gilvarry and Mark Devir secured 1st and 2nd place on each of their boats to leave no doubt of winning gold!
A fantastic team performance against a very strong and talented Team England and Team Wales. The Irish team was managed to gold by John Dennehy, whose competition experience and history of many gold medals helped to guide the team to an even better finish to win the event by over 200%.
Congratulations Team Ireland, now that’s how you win a championship!
The team offered special thanks to:
- Inland Fisheries Ireland for their continued support!
- Halfway Angling Centre in Cork (www.tackledirect.ie) for sponsoring and always supporting Irish boat teams.
- The Kerry Coast Hotel in Cahersiveen for hosting and looking after the teams for the championship.
- Thanks to the boat skippers for putting everyone over fish all week and for pulling out all the stops and making sure the championships was run without any problems.
- The 3 stewards – Pat Shortt, Mark Shortt and Liam O’Callaghan – for giving their time to judge and steward the event.
- And lastly, to Jonny Griffin for organising everything to make it a memorable and successful championships.
