The ICU is hosting the 2007 Glorney and Faber Cup competitions in Dublin City University from 24th to 26th July. The competitions are for players under 18. The Glorney teams are comprised of 5 boys and the Faber teams are comprised of 3 girls. Teams from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England will be participating in the competitions. At the same time the ICU is hosting a Four Nations Championships for U12 and U14 teams from the same 4 countries.
The Glorney Cup for boys, was originally instigated in 1947 by the Dublin businessman, C Parker Glorney. The Faber Cup was introduced in 1967 for girls by Faber Books. The Irish teams will feature Porneema Menon (who at age 14 represented the Irish Senior women's team at the 2006 Turin Chess Olympiad), David Fitzsimons (age 16, who became the youngest Irishman to beat an international grandmaster in Spain, two months ago), and finally five year Shane Melaugh from Donegal who will be competing in the U12 tournament and will feature on the Gerry Ryan show on 2FM next Monday morning (23rd July).
Minister for Education Mary Hanafin will be present to inaugurate preoceedings and make the first move on the top board in the tournament next Tuesday 26th July in DCU at 9am and Senator David Norris will be present at the prizegiving on Thursday 26th July at 2.30pm.
For further details please contact ICU public relations officer , tel. 085-1526889.
Created 2007-07-19 ◦ Last updated 2014-07-23 ◦ Editor MO