I have arranged friendly games next Thursday to be played in our hall for both our CUSAI teams, who will be playing the Celbridge Philippians.

So as not to have our non-Tuesday players miss yet another session, I am booking the main hall from 7. Therefore, we’ll run the usual Thursday training from 7 till 8:30, and the warm-up for the matches will start then. Both matches will be played at once, one on each court.

I hope this will be okay with everyone. Take care,

Matthew

The basketball club hosts a league game on this Thursday evening, so they’re going to have the hall on our practice time. In return, we have their wednesday slot. So for this week, the Thursday session is replaced by another session, which is Wednesday (tomorrow), from 8:30 till 10pm. I’ll be in Galway with our girls and lads teams (wish us good luck!), and we won’t be back till 11pm, but Alexandra has stepped up to run the session. She sounded enthusiastic, and she’s good craic, so I’m sure you guys will have good fun together.

Spread the word — I wouldn’t want too many people to show up on Thursday for peanuts.

Cheers

Matthew

Clubs and societies resume their activities this very week. This mean that volleyball is back on too, Tuesdays (small hall) and Thursdays (large hall), 8 till 10, still. Both sessions are for beginners and experienced together, at least for now – how the trainings will be organised for the coming semester is not defined yet.

Hoping to see many familiar faces,

Matthew

The sports halls are closed from Wednesday until early February for the exams. So training is on on Tuesday, but off on Thursday. We’ll let you know when they resume.

Happy Christmas to you all, and best of luck with your January exams!

Matthew

Most of you are still gone for the easter break i suppose but maybe you will be back tomorow. A match was planned with Cork tomorow (Sunday, April 19th) but was canceled so the sports hall is booked from 1 to 5pm for us.

So i intend to be there most of the afternoon starting from 1pm ’till i’m to exhausted to keep playing.

So for all the people who want to have a little bit of fun playing volleyball, dont hesitate to come! All level and all genders accepted!^^

The more we are, the funnier it is so i hope to see most of youz tomorow afternoon^^

Have a nice day!

Stephen

The finals to the University League will take place on Wednesday the 1st of April in UCD.

The CUSAI has announced the schedule of the event, which you can find here.

So as to spare your resources, training in the sports hall will not be held the day before the finals (i.e. Tuesday the 31st). That leaves us with two practical sessions only, Tomorrow and Thursday, where will go through a revision of what we have seen the last few weeks. Attendance is therefore crucial.

On the other hand, I shall book a room for us on Tuesday evening in the Arts Block, so as to get the teams together one last time before day D, and clarify anything about the finals that needs be. I will send you a confirmation email when I have all details.

That’s it for now, see you tomorrow

Matthew

Sorry for the late notice, but there isn’t going to be training this evening.

I’ll see you all next week,

Matthew

All right, next week, everything is back to normal: lectures, trainings, competition organisation, and all that.

It’s been a long, long break, so we’ll get straight back into it and not loose time, so I expect next Tuesday to see my University League teams in the small sports hall again (Daniel, remember: training’s at 8, not 8:30!), and next Thursday, all of us together again in the main sports hall.

The format for Thursday may be altered for this once, however: with the National League team, we have a big, big day of matches Saturday week, and a bit of practice together (which has not happened in two months!) will do us good. Everybody is welcome, but on one side of the hall, we’ll keep only the most dangerous of you to play against us

Right, looking forward to walking those courts again with you all around,

Take care,

Matthew

So the University finally managed to spill out some more information about the fire and the damage caused. The bottom line is that the gym is scheduled to re-open on 5 January 2009. We hope that we will be able to resume regular trainings as soon as possible after that date, exams and all permitting. In any case, we’ll keep you posted!

Best regards,

Floz

I guess you expected so, given the circumstances. I don’t know how long it will be till something opens again, but it may take a while.

I’ll let you know when (and where, and how) trainings can resume as soon as I do myself.

All the best,

Matthew