Tennis Ireland

Serving Up Support for Community Sports! 🎾   Community Finance Ireland recently visited Enniskerry Tennis Club to provide financial support that will help them continue to grow as an inclusive Community Tennis Club.   From Affordable Kids' Camps to Women in Sports programmes, the volunteers at Enniskerry Tennis Club are working hard to make tennis accessible for all! With the support from CFI, they’re also a step closer to the much-anticipated resurfacing of their courts. 🏅   Conor Dowd, Club Secretary, commented: “The support from Community Finance Ireland couldn’t have come at a better time. This funding will not only enhance our facilities but also help us continue making tennis accessible to everyone.”   Barry Symes Head of Community Finance (RoI) said “As a tennis fan myself, I couldn’t resist picking up a racket and learning a few new skills! Huge thanks to the team, and I look forward to seeing the club thrive with this investment”.   Read their story in full: https://lnkd.in/eTAe9ysq   #SocialFinance #TennisForAll #InclusiveSports #EnniskerryTennis #WomenInSports #CommunityFirst

https://lnkd.in/ewEWHMQ6 What an inspiring day today @ IWA-SPORT HQ hosting #hermoves Incredibly proud of Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) the Sports Team, our ambassadors and supporters, leading the way in developing sporting opportunities for young women with disabilities in Ireland. Sport Ireland Shannon Pollock Aoife Beggs (ANutr) Lisa Clancy MBA Kate Feeney Kate Reddy Archery Ireland Tennis Ireland Irish Dogs for the Disabled

A write up on our event with the brilliant team!

The team representing Ireland at the IC Tennis Potter Cup in Spain! 🇮🇪 Michael McMahon, Scott Barron, Cronan McNamara, Gary Kilduff, Stu Doyle, Tom Hamilton. Team lost 5/2 to France today, but something tells us that Spanish sunshine will ease the blow fairly rapidly! Well done, team! 🇮🇪🎾

Coco Gauff is only 20 years old, but her career so far has already been INCREDIBLE! She is the third highest paid female athlete in the entire world, and her career accolades show that she is deserving of that title. Starting at just 15 years old, she defeated her idol Venus Williams at Wimbledon, before going on to win a WTA doubles title that same year. She has won the US Open in 2023 and earned a career high of 2nd ranking in the world, with her most recent accolade being the China Open. Here’s to more success for Coco!

🚨 PARTICIPATION NATION 🚨 The announcement of €2.2 million in funding for Local Sports Partnerhsips today is a hugely significant one. My team at Sport Ireland in Participation and Outdoors designed a scheme that will: ✅ provide more community opportunities to be active ✅ use publicly owned spaces to install outdoor sport equipment ✅ find easy and appropriate solutions to engage the public’s imagination on how you can be active ✅ work with Local Authorities to support local needs The range of sports catered for are extensive and we are all aiming to create more spaces for people to get active. All of this underpinned by the ethos of inclusion while limiting environmental impact. 💪🏻 The LSPs have been so creative and engaged in this process - working with Local Authorities and NGBs, communities and clubs and everyone in between. They have truly excelled themselves. I continue to be impressed with every effort they are making to improve participation at local level 👏🏻 Thank you to everyone who committed to making this a success - the team at Sport Ireland, our colleagues Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and Minister Thomas Byrne for creating the stream. The legacy of this one is going to special 😊 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gnr8eDt3 🔗 All of this and local sports plan are yet to come - 2024 is a big year for participation in Ireland! Shaun O'Donnell and Oisin Foley are central to this progress, well done on this 👏🏻💪🏻👏🏻

🏅 Exciting news from the Sport Ireland Institute! 🏅 Today, we're thrilled to announce the extension of the partnership with the Institut National du Sport, de l'Expertise et de la Performance (INSEP) through to the LA 2028 Olympic & Paralympic Games. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) follows a successful collaboration between the Sport Ireland Institute and INSEP from 2022-2024 which covered the period of the hugely successful Olympic & Paralympic Games held in Paris. The teams at the Institutes will work together to support the development of sports performance by our respective athletes, coaches and sport science and medical practitioners, with a focus on areas such as: 🔗 Knowledge sharing 🧬 Sport Science & Medicine collaboration 💡 Technology, Research & Innovation 🎙️ Conference participation 🏋️♀️ Training camp provision 🎓 Development of high-performance personnel 🌍 Joint participation in pan European projects Dr. Úna May, CEO of Sport Ireland, said: “We are delighted to extend our partnership with INSEP following the highly beneficial collaboration we have had since 2022 and look forward to building on the great work of our respective Institutes in preparing athletes and support staff to perform at their optimum at the Olympic & Paralympic Games, World and European Championships over the coming years.” We were honoured to welcome the Director of INSEP, Mr Fabien CANU .OLY and Head of INSEP International Unit Sean Gandrille. Mr Xavier d'Argoeuves, Cultural Counsellor at the Embassy of France in Ireland and Delphine Tessier were also in attendance as the representative of Her Excellency, Céline Place, Ambassador of France in Ireland. The signing ceremony was held in Dublin in conjunction with the project group visit of 12 INSEP personnel to the Sport Ireland Institute as a joint partner in the Erasmus Ex Acquo Project, focussing on Women in Performance Support.  The project culminates with a major conference at INSEP in Paris next month at which Sport Ireland will have a number of keynote speakers.  Institut National du Sport, de l'Expertise et de la Performance Embassy of France in Ireland Pictured: Dr. Una May Liam Harbison Fabien CANU .OLY Delphine Tessier Xavier d'Argoeuves Sean Gandrille #BelievePerformAchieve

We had the pleasure of celebrating the incredible members of the Irish Blind & Visually Impaired team, yesterday. The team travelled to Italy in September and came home with: A Blind Tennis first: Lisa McLaughlin's mind blowing 28-26 tiebreak - the longest in Blind Tennis history! MVP award: Babs Weiberg was awarded the competition's Most Valuable Player! Two Bronze Medals: Riya Deveruex is a Blind Tennis Double Bronze Medallist! Congratulations to the team, Lisa, Paul, Babs, John, Marguerite, Ariadna, Riya, Vinny and Stuart, to their coaches Wesley, Simon and Jean, and to all involved in getting the team to this point. Thanks to our speakers, Dr. Una May, Joe Geraghty Vision Sports Ireland, George Lucas Sport NI, Liam O'Donohoe and Letty Lucas. To our sponsors Best Menswear & Pamela Scott for providing gifts for the players. We're already looking forward to next year's celebration!

The honour was all ours, Joe.

Our Court Bosses recently completed their Level 1 Coaching Qualification, facilitated by Stephen Garvin.   This qualification will enable our Court Bosses to provide tennis lessons to beginners of all ages, and at all stages of tennis.   The 11 participants will also help address the gender imbalance of coaches across the country.   We want to wish the Court Bosses all the very best in their tennis coaching careers!