As a member of Ringsend Active Retirement Association, it gives me great pleasure to record the outstanding achievements of our very talented indoor bowling members.

We attended the annual presentation dinner dance for the subsidiary indoor bowling league, which was very special but made extra special by the fact that members of our club were very important people at this award-winning ceremony.

The Rinks Cup is a coveted and sought-after trophy but our team knew from day one that the Rinks Cup would be going to one place only, Ringsend. With the bowling skills of Derek Murphy, Kay Flood, Andy Henderson, John Wilson and myself, this proved to be correct.

Our Rinks team are proud to have won the final in representing Ringsend and with the extended rapturous applause accorded to us at the Sheldon Park Hotel on the night we are encouraged to ensure that the Cup remains at Ringsend.

During the early part of 2005/2006, our B team seemed to have lost their way temporarily, but with the addition of Marie Montgomery and Olive Farrell, two very talented bowling ladies, it was evident with our team giving a high-powered performance that the bubble would burst and we would enter the arena again.

We were very proud to be called on again to receive yet another trophy as runners-up in the League to our good friends and winners Ballyfermot.

While exalting our B team to the pinnacle they so richly deserve, we congratulate our A team for keeping the flag flying for Ringsend. They as a team have received numerous trophies and as they are fore-runners for Ringsend, we are confident that with their great skill they will once again grace the winners’ enclosure.

Ringsend will again be entering the bowling fray in the 2006/2007 campaign and after a short rest and partaking of a small or large Jameson (according to taste) and a drop of Uncle Arthur’s Guinness special brew to lubricate the vocal chords, we at Ringsend send our best wishes and thanks to all our bowling friends and ask forgiveness for singing Vera Lynn’s wartime song ‘We’ll Meet Again’.

Our thanks to our Chairman, Bernard Flood, Carmel Magee and Mrs Sadie Murphy for their support in travelling with us to Sheldon Park Hotel.

Pictured above with their trophies are members of the Ringsend Indoor Bowling Association.