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GOOD news in a local paper...

  • 23-07-2010 5:29pm
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    Already pretty well reported in the specialist press/websites, this appeared in one of the local papers this week, taking approximately half of page 3 (in the News section):
    Laois Nationalist, Tuesday 20 July 2010:
    Meet the winner of last weekend’s British open!

    By: Michael Tracey
    robertcarter5914315.jpg
    The winner of the British Open in Scotland, who held his nerve last week in blustery weather conditions, is a Laois man!

    While South African Louis Oosthuizen took home the golfing major at St Andrew’s, Stradbally’s Robert Carter claimed a major of his own just a short trip away in Falkirk winning the British Open Championship in Clay Pigeon Shooting.

    The 21-year-old won by a solitary point last Saturday in the ‘Down the Line’ discipline in the prestigious event.

    The competition is second only in importance in the shooting calendar to the World Cup. Robert described winning the coveted trophy as “unbelievable”.

    Like the golf, the clay pigeon shooting fell victim to the violent gales.

    “I was lucky to have contended it. Mentally you have to be switched on. It was the same weather as the golf and we were on top of a mountain too,” he said.

    Robert has had previous success in the junior sections and has emerged as one of the country’s top shooting talents. This was the first year juniors were eligible to have their scores count in the senior section at the British Open.

    Robert had expectations of doing well in the junior competition but couldn’t have expected he find himself posting the top score in the senior event. “I actually didn’t win the competition I had wanted. I had been going for the international and Irish high gun in the juniors but I didn’t do well enough. I said to myself on Saturday that I gave it away yesterday but I wouldn’t do that today,” he said.

    As well as the British Open, Robert took home three other trophies in various disciplines over the weekend.
    Well done to the shooter, and it's great to see a 'feel-good' shooting article, especially in a prominent non-sports section of a newspaper.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭homerhop


    Its about time. For a long time the nationalist has never seen any qualms about publishing articles from John Fitzgerald and his bile, yet come november made a fortune from local gun clubs posting lands preserved.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    [
    QUOTE=homerhop;67100744]Its about time. For a long time the nationalist has never seen any qualms about publishing articles from John Fitzgerald and his bile
    ,

    Articles is it?? You mean his monthly rants against the fieldsports in general,and CC'd or faxed to every newspaper in the land in the hope they have a space in the letters colum free for his gibberish??:D.
    He must be trying for a job as a social commentator,as I see he is now attempting to comment on the ills of daily life that affect us all in his recent musings.Oh sorry forgot! He IS a "journalist" too these days.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Anyways,well done..We need more of same articles and news of sucesses in shooting.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 569 ✭✭✭bayliner


    well done robert!!!! great win


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