What a fantastic day for Kerry Badminton! A huge congratulations to all five Kerry teams who proudly represented the Kingdom at the Munster Masters Closed Inter-County Graded Team Competition, held on Sunday, 8th November 2026, at Killarney Sports and Leisure Centre.
With gold, silver and some great performances across the grades, there was plenty to celebrate!
🥇🏆 GOLD FOR KERRY – OVER 40 GRADE E/F!
The highlight of the day undoubtedly came from our Over 40 Grade E/F team, who put in a fantastic performance to be crowned Munster Champions! 💚💛
What a brilliant achievement by the whole team! Bringing home the gold is a fantastic result for Kerry Badminton, and every player deserves huge congratulations! 🏆👏
Over 40 E/F Team
🥈 SILVER FOR KERRY – OVER 40 GRADE C/D!
More medal success came from our Grade C/D Team 1, who put in a terrific performance to finish runners-up and bring home silver medals!
Team 1 – Silver Medallists:
Over 40 C/D Team 1 - Silver Medalist (Tom Burke not in Photo)
🏸 Ruth Concannon 🏸 Jennifer Nash 🏸 Mauriusz T. 🏸 Tom Burke
The Kerry team were beaten by Cork, whose team included a familiar Kerry face – Listowel's own Trish O'Herlihy!
Congratulations to our silver medallists and to Trish on her gold medal success with Cork! 👏
Over 40 C/D Teams
Grade C/D – Team 2:
🏸 Helen Browne 🏸 Sinead Galvin 🏸 Gio G. 🏸 Michael Lyne
Well done to Team 2 for representing Kerry and contributing to a great day of badminton!
💚💛 OVER 40 GRADE G/H – GREAT PROGRESS!
Over 40 G/H Teams
Our two Grade G/H teams were unlucky not to come home with any silverware this year, but there was a definite improvement on last year's performances, which is fantastic to see!
Team 1:
Over 40 Team 1
🏸 Charlot Quinn (Captain) 🏸 Fang Cooper 🏸 Aine Knightly 🏸 Brian Hehir 🏸 Mike Reardon 🏸 Dwaine Mullins
Team 2:
Over40 G/H Team 2
🏸 Anli Liu 🏸 Susan O'Connell 🏸 Mary Flahive 🏸 Christy Deane (Captain) 🏸 Wilson Pais 🏸 Eddie Quinn
It's encouraging to see the progress being made in these grades, and hopefully the experience will encourage everyone to keep playing, training and come back even stronger next year! 💪👏
👏 A HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE BEHIND THE SCENES!
A special word of thanks must go to Betty Thompson President andTrudy Kennedy, Secretary of Munster Badminton, who travelled all the way from Waterford to oversee the competition.
Trudy puts an enormous amount of time and effort into ensuring these competitions take place. Much of this work happens behind the scenes, and without dedicated volunteers like Trudy, opportunities for players to represent their counties simply wouldn't happen. We are extremely grateful for everything she does for badminton throughout Munster. 👏
We would also like to sincerely thank Suzanne Smith, Kieran Crehan and Yit How Wong (Leon) for assisting Trudy throughout the day and helping ensure everything ran smoothly.
Your willingness to lend a hand and keep things moving was very much appreciated!
💛 A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO JOSIE GILBERT & CHRISTOPHER MCCARTHY!
We cannot let the occasion pass without recognising the tremendous work Josie Gilbert and Christopher McCarthy put into getting Kerry's five teams together.
From organising training sessions and encouraging players to participate, to coordinating teams and managing all five Kerry teams on competition day, they gave an incredible amount of their time and energy.
Their dedication and enthusiasm played a huge part in Kerry having five teams competing this year, and we are extremely grateful to them both for everything they did! 👏👏
🏸 A GREAT DAY FOR KERRY BADMINTON!
Finally, congratulations to every player who took to the courts representing Kerry.
To come home with Munster gold and silver medals, along with improved performances in our other teams, is a fantastic achievement.
It's wonderful to see so many players getting involved in Masters badminton, and hopefully we can build on this success and encourage even more Kerry players to take part next year!
A big thank you also to everyone who came along to support the teams and cheer on the Kingdom!
