Badminton Ireland have announced that their annual awards night will take place on May 19th at 7pm in the Hilton Hotel Dublin Airport. All the details including nomination forms are available on their website.

The Connacht Open U15 scheduled for next Saturday the 18th in Ballina has been cancelled due to lack of interest.

Please see the following notice from Badminton Ireland:

Teicnic Badminton Coaching Workshop

Notice from Irish Seniors Badminton.

Please pass this on to your clubs. If you need partners, please email back and we will try and help.

Here is the Tournament Software link:

http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=6C5764A0-6658-45E6-8330-F332E99E0D0B

The online entry closes on Sunday, February 12, 2012.

Venue: National Badminton Centre

Address: 36 Belfast Road, Lisburn, BT27 4AS Lisburn, Northern Ireland

Phone: 028 9266 4340

Fax: 028 9262 9674

Contact name: William Martin

Email: williammartin_ubbui@hotmail.co.uk

Some great photos from the Connacht Closed A tournament from a couple of weeks ago. Click here.

Taking place on Saturday 18th Feb. Click here for entry form.

Ballygar Badminton Club are hosting the Connacht Closed D Competition on Saturday 28th Jan. The tournament is a great opportunity for Division 10 players to get experience of competition and improve their badminton game.  We’d strongly encourage all clubs in Connacht to bring their Division 10 players to Ballygar, even if your club doesn’t currently have a Division 10 team.

Ballygar Badminton Club is also delighted to be donating a portion of the proceeds from this event to Cancer Care West.

Entry form: Connaught Closed D

Badminton Ireland are currently looking for enthusiastic coaches to work within the Badminton Ireland High Performance Coaching Team.

Badminton Ireland has three athletes competing for places for the summers 2012 London Olympic Games; an exciting group of young players developing behind them and a new National coach in Daniel Magee.

The 2012/2013 season will see the initiation of a Rio Project Squad with an obvious focus on the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and a Development Group sitting behind this who will be focused on the 2020 Olympic Games. In 2012 we will also look to launch the Badminton Ireland Academy and a ‘Skills based programme’ which will see excellent development opportunities for all involved with the Badminton Ireland HP Team.

There is no better time to be involved, notably we will assign three of the Badminton Ireland High Performance Coaching Team to each of the age group National Junior squads for the 2012/2013 season.

We are looking for coaches from all Branches interested in the opportunities to develop themselves as badminton Ireland HP Coaches and to help Badminton in Ireland reach even greater heights. To register please contact the Badminton Ireland office by contacting the office direct by post or info@badmintonireland.com. We have set the initial date for registration for Monday 13th February. All coaches involved are required to be working towards a Badminton Ireland Level two award as a minimum standard.

When confirming your interest please supply the following information:

Name
Address
Club
Branch
Highest Coach Education level
Email address
Phone number

The 2012 Connaught Closed Junior A event is being held in Boyle Badminton Club on Saturday January 21st.  This event is primarily targeted at players from grades 1 to 6 but is open to all affiliated players.

The entry form is available from the link below and must be returned to Liz O’Dowd at boylebadminton@gmail.com by Wednesday 18th January 2012.

Connacht Closed Grade A – 2012

Connacht Badminton has moved to a new website design (this one!). It has not been feasible to migrate all the old news posts to the new site, but they are all still available at the old address: http://connacht.irishbadminton.com. The new site provides much more administrative power and flexibility and should hopefully mean that over time the site will become more interactive.