Ireland Win both Gallery Rifle World Cups and both Individual World Champions

NASRPC

Team Ireland are IGRF World Champions.

Ireland wins the team World Championships in Gallery Rifle Centerfire and Smallbore in a very competitive match against Teams from Great Britain, Germany, South Africa and Australia.
Ireland also won the individual world championship in both centerfire and smallbore to make it a clean sweep on the first occasion of holding the IGRF world championships in Ireland.

Irelands Jeff Kehoe won Centerfire and Irelands Ray Holohan won Smallbore individual world champion.

Midlands National Shooting Centre in Offaly hosted the international competition with competitors from the 20 NASRPC clubs in Ireland attending and from countries around the world.

Centerfire Champions :
Irish National winning team : Jeff Kehoe, Mike Nestor, Pat Grimes, Ray Holohan, Len Regan. Dennis Cummins (Sub)

1st place Ireland
2nd place Great Britain
3rd South Africa

Smallbore Champions :
Irish National winning team : Ray Holohan, Jeff Kehoe, Daniel O'Flaherty, Mike Nestor, Len Regan, James Connolly (Sub)

1st place Ireland
2nd place Great Britain
3rd South Africa

Individual World Champions :
Centerfire
1st Jeff Kehoe (IRL)
2nd Gwyn Roberts (GB)
3rd Phil Wood

Smallbore
1st Ray Holohan
2nd Flippie Van Tonder
3rd Jeff Kehoe

The IGRF World Cup and Irish Open was a great success with all of the nations commending the venue, Irish hospitality and professionalism of the organisers and Range Safety Officers.

The NASRPC would like to thank the overseas teams and individual competitors for travelling, and the Irish competitors for giving them a great Irish welcome.

Ireland is already looking forward to travelling to the next IGRF World Championship in South Africa in 2019 to defend their title.

For more info visit the NASRPC Facebook page.

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tac foley

Showing the way!

Great stuff!

Well done all.

tac

Walter Mittys Brother

Well done to all involved. Will see any national news coverage of this? Doubt it.

Looks like the gallery opposition group are not being missed so.

Grizzly 45

Cough!...Splutterr!!...WHAT??Show people with GUNS !! in a good light ,actually winning things and setting world records???? On RTE or the Irish MSM...OMG NOOO... Most of the staff and whatnot who would have to report this would need to be pried out from their safe spaces with rock breaker bars and would need months of play dough,colouring book and cry ins to sort them out.... :rolleyes:

cra

Fantastic achievment, can't praise you guys enough, it just goes to show that all yere hard work pays off. Two world champion teams and two individual world champions amazing.