'A proud day for Mayo' - Pool players win European gold medal with Ireland team

Two young Mayo pool players have won gold for Ireland.  

Padraic Coyle from Geesala and Danny Feehan from Westport featured in the victory over England in the U-23 European Pool Championship Final in Malta. The other Ireland team members were Sean Walsh from Cork and Daniel McHugh from Donegal.

With Coyle and Feeney, having two boys from Mayo on the four-man Ireland U-23 team is a sign, that pool is up and coming in this county, says Kieran Gallagher from the Mayo Pool Association:

"It's an amazing, an unbelievable success! And it didn't come like a bolt from the blue: Coyle and Feehan won the All-Ireland U-23 title for Mayo last year, together with Dermot Kelly from Killawalla and Adam McAndrew from Erris.

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The Mayo Pool Association writes: "It's a proud day for Mayo Pool to have not one but two players on the team and to see the work that has gone in at underage pool over the last few years paying off like this is very rewarding. The Irish team topped their group and smashed Scotland in the semi-final before beating an excellent England team 8-5 in Malta last night."

It's a huge achievement for the young boys from Mayo. Kieran Gallagher from the Mayo Pool Association points to the wider development the sport has recently seen in the county:

"Pool wouldn't really have been a big sport in the county, but it is now. We have at senior level, when the Mayo Championships are on, you get 70 or 80 people into them. Pool is just growing and growing all the time."

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