Frankfield Pétanque Cork

The Frankfield Pétanque Club Xmas competition took place on the 24th of November.

We had 12 entries , giving us 6 teams of doubles.

Mary & Billy, Breda & Sheila, Catherina & Paul,

Tricia & Jackie, Conor & Cathal, Brion & Patrick.

The weather was not on our side and made the play very challenging,

but everyone battles on and produced some excellent and exciting games.

The first place and winners were Conor & Cathal.

The second team was Brion & Patrick.

The third team was Tricia & Jackie.

Top photo , Conor & Cathal, winners of the Xmas competition, prize is presented by our club Chairperson, Tricia.

Second photo , Patrick & Brion, winning second team of the Xmas competition, prize is presented by our club Chairperson, Tricia.

Third photo, Brion, presenting Tricia with her third prize, Jackie also part of the third team not present.

On the last weekend in August every year since 1992, we hold our biggest open competition, the Frankfield Boules Blitz. This is a unique doubles event that is held over two days. Day one is a qualifier event for day two in which the top six teams of day one compete in the Premier competition (The Gold Shield), the next six compete in the Frankfield Doubles Cup and the remaining teams in the third Doubles Competition. Our aim is to ensure that on day two of the event, teams compete in a competition at their own level.

The event attracts participants from many parts of Europe, including from as far afield as Lanzarote. In 2024 we welcomed teams from Marseille, Carmarthen, Surrey, Bath, Hampshire, Down, Belfast, Dublin, Mullingar, Waterford, Limerick and Cork.

Notwithstanding the keen competition throughout the weekend, the approach of the teams is always to enjoy, meet old friends and make new ones.

The Gold Shield Competition results

1st Stephane Voinot+Sariff Antooaroo.

2nd Jack di Pizzo+Vince.

3rd Colín Delaney+Kevin Menial.

4th. Tom Mc Phillips+Cyril Fabian

The Frankfield Cup results

1st Tansy+Paul Mayfield

2nd Breda Noonan+Jackie Broderick

3rd Barra O’hEireamhoin+Paul Baxter

4th. Philippe Udron+Romain Beretta

The Doubles Competition results

1st Franck +Sylver Bretèche

2nd. Cathal O’Boyle+Fred Subtil

3rd. Angela +Ararat Alekseeva

4th. Peter +Penny Hey

The Frankfield Blitz 2024, was a great success, the entire event was organised and put together by master of pétanque, Jim Ryan.

Some memorabilia of the event.

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