2022 Connacht Open 19th & 20th of February
We are delighted to announce that the 2022 Connacht Open will be taking place on the 19th and 20th of February. The event will be taking place in the Kingfisher Club NUI Galway, NUI Galway Sports Centre, ...
The 2022 Joola Junior and Senior Leinster Open
The Leinster Open is taking place this weekend in the National Indoor Arena, Dublin. Please see attached the draws for this weekend: Leinster-Open-2022-Round-1-GroupsDownload The schedule for the weekend is att ...
JIM LANGAN – AN APPRECIATION
By Norman Nabney INTRODUCTION As long as table tennis is played in Ireland there will be argument over who was Ireland’s best male player. Some would say Tommy Caffrey, winner of 2 Irish Opens, and still playi ...
STEVEN (STEVE) TRACEY OBITUARY
Table Tennis Ireland and Ulster are saddened to learn of the death of Steve Tracey, former international player, from cancer, at the early age of 67. I had the pleasure of knowing Steve from his beginnings at M ...
Leinster Junior Ranking
The Leinster Junior Ranking tournament programme has resumed, with the next event, the Leinster Junior Metropolitan Championships, taking place in Palmerstown on 9 January. U11, Mini Cadet (U13), Cadet (U15) a ...
UPDATE: Senior and Junior Leinster Open 2022
Due to the revised government and Sport Ireland guidance around event finishing times, the Leinster Open Senior groups will now take place on Saturday morning (rather than Friday evening), with the slightly earlier star ...
2022 Wada List of Prohibited Substance
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) 2022 List of Prohibitive Substances has been updated, these changes come into effect from the 1st of January 2022. It is essential that all players and support personnel whether c ...
Level 1 Coaching Course – Ulster
We are delighted to announce that a Level 1 Coaching Course is taking place in Ulster in February. Successful candidates will receive a coaching certificate and will be included on the TTI Coaching database. Candidates ...
Senior and Junior Leinster Open 2022
The 2022 Joola Junior and Senior Leinster Open will take place on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th of January at the National Indoor Arena, Abbotstown, in Dublin. Entries are now open through our GoMembership system and w ...
Communication and Leadership Webinar – Monday 17th of January
Table Tennis Ireland are delighted to announce that we are resuming our online coaching seminars in 2022. We wish to advise you that the next Coaching Webinar will take place on Monday 17th of January at 7.20pm, this we ...
Robinson’s Ice Cream Ulster Open a great success
The Robinson’s Ice Cream Ulster Open, supported by Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council, took place in Lisburn Racquets Club on Saturday and Sunday the 27/28th November. The weekend featured a packed competition with ...
Sophie reaches quarter final of World Youth Championships
Participation in the World Youth Championships is by invitation only for those players ranked high enough to qualify, and Sophie showed what she is really made of at this top-quality event in Vila Nova de Gaia, Port ...
50th Anniversary of ping-pong diplomacy and Ireland’s ‘take’
by Norman Nabney How it all started: At the 1971 World Championships staged in the Japanese city of Nagoya, Glenn Cowan, a young member of the United States team mistakenly boarded the bus carrying the Chinese te ...
Sophie receives International High Achievement Award
Sophie Earley is pictured above receiving an International High Achievement Award from Lady Mary Peters and Kenneth Strong, Table Tennis Ireland Director. She received the award for her superb international results, ...
Maiden Senior Titles for Finn & Gillen, as Dublin…
The much delayed 2021 JOOLA Irish National Championships finally took place on 20/21 November 2021, in Valley Leisure Centre. With various restrictions still in place, and with a congested calendar, there were a numb ...