I took a family dance workshop the other day with the wife and child as part of the Dublin Dance Festival. I used to do a lot of dancing, from traditional to classical, but, like a lot of things, I let it slide in recent years. It was nice to get out for what...
Doesn’t time fly? It’s time again for the Pembroke Summer League. Well, leagues, as there are separate foil and épée leagues on Tuesdays and Thursdays respectively. For those who have not taken part before the summer leagues are run over seven weeks in July and August. They are held in our regular fencing venue,...
Fortunately, nobody did but it did put a stop to their play. A production of Hamlet by Second Age in Cork’s Everyman Theatre was halted when Conor Madden, playing the eponymous Dane, was wounded in the final duel. The last act of Hamlet culminates in a duel between Hamlet and Laertes, the latter using...
I’m sure I mentioned elsewhere on the blog that I have developed an unhealthy running habit in the last year or so. Originally I saw it as a form of cross-training that would improve my general fitness and stamina for fencing, which it has done, and, rather more optimistically, as a way to lose...
And the winners are… We were joined by fencers from several local clubs meaning that the competition had to be held over two Thursday evenings. In the end the Challenge was dominated by the pentathletes with Arthur Lannigan-O’Keeffe, Eanna Bailey and Natalya Coyle coming 1st, 2nd and 3rd with our own Richard Moriarty being...