A selection of students from Shane Fitzgibbon’s “Connacht Taekwon-do Schools” recently attended the International Irish Championships in Neptune Stadium, Cork. With representation from seven European countries, the standard was extremely high. The local group held their own however to bring back a fine haul of silverware. The Galway instructors who attended were Shane Fitzgibbon (Galway and Oranmore ), Lisa Connolly (Labane & Kinvara ), Sally Whelan (Barna ) and Sandra Doyle (Loughrea ). The results were as follows: Black belt results —Shane Fitzgibbon – Gold, silver, bronze; Cillian Howard (Oranmore ) – bronze; Shannon Holland (Galway ) – bronze; Kenneth Duignan (Galway ) – bronze; Cathal Kilbane (Galway ) - silver; Jason Costello (Oranmore ) - bronze; Sandra Doyle (Galway ) - bronze; Ciaran Doyle (Galway ) - bronze. Colour belt results
Robert Walsh (Oranmore ) - Gold x 2; Ronan Conneely (Galway ) - bronze x 2; Brendan Kenny (Oranmore ) - silver, bronze; Michael Conneely (Galway ) - silver x 2; Fawad Noonan (Galway ) - silver, bronze; Deirdre Smyth (Galway ) - gold; Darren Costello (Oranmore ) - bronze; Mark Buckley (Galway ) - silver
