Congratulations to Gilles on winning the final competition in our annual programme, the Broken Boule Singles, on 10 December 2022.

Congratulations to Kevin and John Hennessy (Jnr) on winning the John Paton Mem. Doubles competition on 19 November 2022.

Congratulations to Gerry T on winning the 2 in 1 competition on 5 November 2022.

Congratulations to George and Gerry on winning the Weir Family Shield Doubles on 15 October 2022.

Congratulations to Drew on winning the first competition he has entered. 7 games and 7 wins. Form an orderly queue for autographs.

In beautiful weather, on 10 September 2022, our Club hosted Stage 1 of a qualifier to determine which teams would represent the IPA in the annual CC against Scotland and Wales at North Down PC next May. A great advert for our Club and we received some favourable comments about the presentation of our premises ( rightly so ). Our Club was well represented. Members Sylver and Gilles formed a team with Benji and Franck (Breteche) and other teams were (i) Freda, Gerry Thompson and Humberto (ii) Kevin, Pat, John Hennessy (Snr) and George (iii) Ciaran, Des and Linda Montgomery (iv) Gil, Helen, John Hennessy (Jnr) and Gerry Hennity. Against some very skilful opposition, all our teams won some games, however, only Sylver’s team and Kevin’s team progressed to Stage 2 of the qualifier, to be held at North Down PC on 1 April 2023.

On the evening of 8 September 2023, most members of the Committee participated in an official event in Blackstaff Sq, Belfast, where a Petanque piste forms part of recent developments.

Congratulations to Kevin and John Hennessy (Jnr) on winning the Bass Shield Doubles competition on 20 August 2022.

Congratulations to George and John Hennessy (Jnr) on winning the Millisle Shield Doubles competition on 23 July 2022.

On the evening of 19 July 2022, we had a visit from the members of the local U3A Petanque Club. Our visitors joined the usual ‘melee’ format, creating a great atmosphere and a thoroughly enjoyable time. Our own Club membership were out in force, and we had 36 in total on the piste, by far the highest number since the Celtic Challenge was held here over a decade ago.