Olympic qualification-chasing duo Sam Buckley and Hannah Craig will defend their Irish Senior National titles during the first weekend of February 2027 following the confirmation of the Squash Ireland tournament calendar for the new 2026/27 season.
Buckley, Craig and Breanne Flynn, this year’s women’s section runner-up, are all provisionally qualified for the European Games, the qualifier event where Ireland’s leading players can win through to play at LA28.
Before the qualifier event next June in Istanbul, Ireland’s leading players will battle it out in the Irish Senior Nationals at Fitzwilliam on the weekend of February 5th-7th.
That will be followed by the Irish Open – again at Fitzwilliam – in June, a couple of weeks before the European tournament in Turkey.
Waterford, Galway, Belfast and Dublin, meanwhile, will play host to the respective provincial senior opens, while PSA events are planned for Fitzwilliam, Curragh and Limerick over the course of the season.
The Irish Junior Nationals will be held at Sutton on February 12th-14th, while the Irish Masters Nationals is scheduled to take place at Fitzwilliam and Mount Pleasant on the weekend of March 5th-6th.
The junior provincial tour will begin in Galway in September with the Connacht Junior Open and the Ulster Junior Open follows in Belfast in October before the Irish Junior Open in November at Sutton and ALSAA.
The Munster Junior Open is also planned for November, with Waterford the host following on from its staging in Cork last season, while Sutton will be the venue for the Leinster Junior Open in January. The season will then lead into the 2027 European Championships in Germany next March.
Elsewhere, the 2026/27 masters tour will begin later this July with the Waterford Masters at Celtic and De La Salle College. Tournaments will then follow in Limerick and the Curragh before the Irish Masters Open takes place in Dublin on October 15th-18th.
The Leinster Masters, which was staged in January in the 2025/26 season, will be held in November, followed by the Connacht Masters in Galway in December and then the Ulster Masters in Belfast in January. The tour will culminate with its annual visit to Sligo in March.
