The club recently hosted the annual Mick Germaine Cup competition which is an event for teams of 4 junior players. 16 teams took part including 4 from Elm Mount. The event was won by the Drogheda  Dragons and the best placed Elm Mount team was the Elm Mount Kings who finished 5^th overall.  A number of the Elm Mount players were representing the club for the first time in a chess competition. Well done to all the players involved.

Conall, Ewan, Alon and Eric

Lily, Benjy, Nikheev and Anvita with Paul McAuliffe T.D.

Daniel, Bati and Kirill with Paul McAuliffe T.D.

Shanvi, Patrick Chau, Theo and Jack with Paul McAuliffe T.D.

Elm Mount Kings v Elm Mount Rooks with Alon (left) in foreground playing Shanvi. Ewan and Conall (background on left) and Theo, Jack and Patrick Chau Background on the right)

Anvita left playing against Bati in foreground. Lily and Nikheev (left) and Daniel and Christopher (right) also visible in the background

The playing hall

The last round of the 2025/26 Leinster League season took place on Sunday in Coláiste Éanna in Rathfarnham. It was a successful year for Elm Mount with 4 teams winning promotion. Both the BEA Cup A and BEA Cup B teams won promotion to next years O’Hanlon Cup and their spaces will be taken by Elm Mount’s Bodley A and Bodley B teams who won promotion to play in next years BEA Cup.

Congratulations also to Alex Goss who won an LCU board prize for scoring over 75% in the Heidenfeld Trophy.

The Armstrong Cup (division 1) team finished on a score of exactly 50% (44/88) winning 5 matches, losing 5 and drawing 1. The top scorer on the team was Alice O’Gorman who scored  6½ points.

The Heidenfeld Cup (division 2) team finished in 8th place with 39 points out of a possible 88. The top scorer on the team was captain Alex Goss with 8½  /  11.

The O’Hanlon Cup (division 4) team finished in 6th place with a score of 35 / 66. Bernard Boyle was the highest scorer on the team with 7½ / 10.

In the Division 5 North league, the BEA Cup A team finished in 3rd place with a score of 31½ / 55. The top scorers in the team were Pat Fitzsimons and Eugene McMorrow who both achieved 8 / 11.  The BEA Cup B team finished in 5th place with 24½ / 55. The highest scorer on the team was Eric Yuze Lin who scored 7 / 11.  There were 7 promotion spots available this year due to the restructuring of the O’Hanlon Cup and both the A and B teams were comfortably promoted.

In the Division 6 North league, the Bodley Cup A and Bodley Cup B teams finished close together in 3rd and 4th places respectively. There were 4 promotion spots available so both teams will be playing in next year’s BEA Cup,  The top scorer on the Bodley A team was Wayne Crawley with a score of 5½/8 points.  For the Bodley B team. Trevor Corcoran was the top scorer with 5½./9.

The full league tables can be seen here.

A new section has been added at the top of the page with a list of the books in the trolley in the club. These books are available for borrowing by club members.

Click Library Book List to view the list.

Club librarian Eugene McMorrow provided the list.