Former world No.7 Derek Ryan will be one of the workshop leaders at this week’s Squash Ireland Junior Performance Academy in Dublin. The 55-year-old physiotherapist and strength and conditioning specialist is scheduled to deliver two presentations on Thursday at Fitzwilliam LTC, starting with a group of U13/U15 players and then presenting to the U17/19 players. […]
Like most sports, squash suffers from a big drop in participation amongst girls when they hit their teens. It’s a classic age when many withdraw from sport and physical exercise — and some never return (writes Squash Player Magazine). Self-consciousness, body image issues, lack of confidence, social pressures or negative previous experiences of sport all […]
Squash Ireland’s new Junior Performance Academy will take a huge leap forward this coming week when 31 players from four age-groups gather in Dublin. The four-day camp, led by national coach Arthur Gaskin, junior performance coach David Noone and junior development coach Michael Conroy, marks the new-season lift-off for the strategic development of the best […]
Four Irish players – including PSA women’s No.139 rank Breanne Flynne – are set to play at the European Individual Closed Squash Championship in France. The four-day event at Chartres, which begins on August 20, has attracted 89 entries across two categories, and Flynn is looking for ranking points following her recent involvement with the […]
Ireland had two players competing in Finland last weekend, Aurora McDonnell securing a first-place Junior Open finish in the GU13 and Myles Fitzpatrick finishing fourth in the Masters Open MS60. There were 85 entries spread across seven junior events, and McDonnell raced through her four matches to the title, defeating three Finnish players and a […]
Twenty-eight players – including women’s European Masters overall No.2 rank Siobhan Parker – will represent Ireland at the European Masters Individual Squash Championships in Poland. The Wroclaw tournament, which runs from August 27 to 30, has attracted a massive entry list of 605, including W40+ player Parker, who had a second-place finish at the Latvian […]
Sean Murphy won the IACT PSA Satellite tournament at Fitzwilliam on Sunday, beating Brian Byrne in a four-game, all-Irish final that lasted 59 minutes. The 22-year-old moved into a 2-0 lead with 11-4 and 11-6 games and while the third went Byrne’s way 11-5, Murphy [pictured left, above, with Byrne] took the spoils 11-7 in […]
Two Irish players who recently played at the World Squash Junior Championships – Aaron Knox and Frank O’Flynn – are on the start list of 16 looking to win this weekend’s PSA Satellite men’s event in Dublin. Celtic club member Knox was a main title round of 128 winner in Cairo, going on to reach […]
Entries are now open for the 2025 Irish Masters Open GP which will be held in Dublin in October. September 28th is the registration deadline across the 18 events – nine men’s and nine women’s – starting at O35 and going all the way up to O75. Fitzwilliam LTC in Dublin will be the main […]
