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Miriam Butler made her international debut with the Irish Veterans team in the home counties international series.

Brideen Lynch gained her first provincial cap as she helped Leinster to an emphatic 10-0 victory over Ulster in the final of the veterans inter-provincial championships.  Brideen formed a strong doubles partnership with Jean Denihan and an equally impressive mixed doubles pairing with Alan Braitwaite as Leinster recorded their only success of the inter-pro weekend.  The championships were totally dominated by Ulster as they romped to victory in all the other five grades from senior level to under-13.

A group of fourteen players and supporters travelled over from the Chelmsford Badminton Federation in May to visit the county for a spot of sightseeing and to do battle on the badminton courts against a local Wexford league selection.  On Tuesday night the two squads met in a representative match that was won rather easier than expected by the model county selection.  The visitors came more into their own in the Thursday nights ladies and men’s doubles events and in Saturday’s mixed doubles tournament.  The ladies doubles competition on Thursday was won by Marjorie Slann (Chelmsford) and Rosemary Burke (Wexford) who had two points to spare over the 2nd place local partnership of Jennifer Sinnott and Miriam Butler.  The men’s grade was split into an A and B section with yet another Chelmsford/Wexford combination taking the top honours.  John Whalebone and John Joe Murphy took the A-title ahead of Norman Hume (Chelmsford) and Liam Sinnott (Wexford).  The B-grade was won by Tony Sinnott (Wexford) and Jake Gibson (Chelmsford) who finished ahead of Norman Pharaoh (Chelmsford) and Sonny Cahill (Wexford).  The week’s badminton activities concluded on Saturday afternoon with a mixed doubles tournament.  After a very exciting grade-A final Ellen O’Neill (Wexford) and John Whalebone (Chelmsford) just edged out Ann Weathersby (Chelmsford) and Liam Sinnott (Wexford) 15/11, 9/15, 17/15.  Almost as exciting was the grade-B final where the local combination of Jennifer Sinnott and Wayne Redmond had a narrow 17/16, 15/13 victory over Oona Wright and Dick Brewster.