A rare Monday evening fixture away to Royal Lopez saw a full team, fair weather and moderate traffic (and the choice of Wagner over Rachmaninov for the M50) for the smooth trip to Ryan’s of Ratoath.
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While Magnus Carlsen is in New York defending his world championship title (and maybe not doing such a great job of it!), the Irish Film Institute will be showing the film Magnus over the next few days.
The draw has been made for the final round of the 2016 Frank Scott Shield, to be played at the end of the month.
Featuring a busy but productive week for the O’Hanlons, and a return to form for the Armstrong.
The club’s two O’Sullivan teams came away from UCD on the wrong side of a combined 1½-8½ scoreline as the hosts kept up their challenge for a double title.
Wednesday night saw the Heidenfeld make it 4/4, even without Dylan and Ross, who were instead on the top 2 boards of the Frank Scott Shield at the same time.
After two rounds, the top six seeds were in a pack on 2/2 – and after round 3, it’s just the top 3 left on 3/3.
The Armstrong’s non-quest for a fourth fourth-place finish in five years is on course after a tight win in Kilkenny, which only came about after the visiting side stole three wins in the last half hour.
The draw has been made for Wednesday’s fourth round of the Frank Scott Shield.
A “Bodley” team – with the aid of four subs from the O’Sullivan B – picked up a battling draw in Inchicore last night.
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