Sport
Soccer, hurling and gaelic football are popular past times amongst the youngsters of the area, who use Duncormick's vast surrounding country side as an advantage, offering beauty, clean air and plenty of space. Sport also plays a key role within the agenda at local schools, including Bridgetown Vocational College, where an upgraded gym offers students excellent facilities.
Local community centres, such as The Stella Maris Community Centre, Kilmore Quay, incorporates a full tournament-sized badminton court with facilities for volleyball, basketball, pool, and table tennis, offering the local community an excellent sporting facility.
St. Annes achieved a magnificent double triumph in the year 2001. They won both the county hurling and football championship. They followed this up in the next season by winning the county football championship once again.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)