Ireland win World Shore Championships in South Africa!

well done lads , great achievement

have to say what a year for irish angling too, 4 out of the five teams sent away won gold. things are looking good for the future!

have to agree with eric on this

Fantastic news for once! Well done to all the lads that participated. A truly amazing result of them and the sport.

well done to all invlolved hopefully it will make the news,something good n the country

fantastic achievement lads and a big well done to
all great day for the paddys

Have the individual placings been confirmed yet??

well done lads you have done the country proud

well done team gold for the irish team

the only indivdual place iam sure about is john o brien got silver.

Just to top everything off
John o brien has just been awarded Individual Silver .....

Just confirmed John O'Brien texted me, he got individual Silver to go with his team Gold, we'll all have to make the pilgrimage to his shop in Waterford to kiss the medals...... So Proud of them all....

What an achievement! weldone to John! Good job he has plenty room in that shop I reckon there's a new cabinet going in!!

Well done John, this day just keeps getting better

Speaking as someone who loathes and despises match angling - Fantastic performance and result. Congrats to the Irish Team. Well done!

Timmy O'Sullivan got 4th over all....

really hope the ifsa press office gets it on the news it be fantastic for everybody.great result well done lads

My main contact in rte news is a way, but I dropped an email to them with the name of the local tv station that was covering it...

what a result......proud to be Irish, goes to show the skill involved to topple the big nations is all on our doorstep

This might be a stupid question, but im going to ask because i don't know

Does this mean Ireland is going to be the host nation for next years championship's

No Italy will be,
They already have their site up
http://www.sfwc2011.it/

Ahh, looks like it is in Tuscany, not *too* far from where my sister and her (Italian) husband live. He fishes, and has in Ireland, but is mainly into trout.


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well done to all the lads on their super achievements on of the best days in the history of the federation .