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...
The East of Ireland Open, 13 February 2011 Well, I might as well have been. Better to have stayed in bed and caught up on some deserved sleep than to put myself in the way of so many hits. Not the best of days to be getting up early; a dank, gray Sunday in...
And now for a quick word from Duncan:- Looking at the weather out there it is still winter, no matter what the groundhog says. So here is the Pembroke Epee Winter Challenge dedicated to Ciaran Doyle. The competition will be held on the 10th of February, 20:30 to 22:00 and if necessary we...
Clearly, I haven’t been fencing for a while and the blog has been on the back burner. I kind of ran out of things to say too. I know I’m not the only blogger with this issue, Jim Kent talks about it here on his Gray Epee blog. Perhaps I should be considering branching...