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Warm reception for Larne winners

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Posted by Emo
October 28th, 2011
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Basketball twins hit the heights with Emo

It’s a tall story getting taller - and it’s made basketball twins Conor and Aidan Quinn double winners in the Emo Sports Awards, sponsored by the leading oil company in partnership with the Mary Peters Trust and promoted in the Belfast Telegraph. The brothers are 6ft 1in tall, but having turned 16 only in July they have plenty of time and growth potential as they reach for the top of their ...

Posted by Emo
October 19th, 2011
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Grace hits the bullseye with Emo

Hotshot Grace Coburn has hit the bullseye again – she is the latest winner in the Emocommunity Sports Awards, sponsored by the leading oil company in partnership with the Mary Peters Trust and promoted in the Belfast Telegraph. The 18-year-old from Strangford first had success in her sights when she joined Down High School’s Army Cadet Force detachment in 2005. She started with small-bore s...

Posted by Emo
June 6th, 2011
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Anthony is an Emo ace

Leading deaf tennis player Anthony Sinclair is the latest winner in the Belfast Telegraph’s Emocommunity Sports Awards, sponsored by Northern Ireland’s leading oil company in partnership with the Mary Peters Trust. The 26-year-old, who lives at Crawfordsburn in Co Down, has been profoundly deaf since birth, but has had an impressive record against hearing players. He started to play tennis ...

Posted by Emo
April 27th, 2011
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Young tennis talent wins Emo award

He first held a racket as a nine-year-old on courts in his home town of Donaghadee – now 15-year-old Aaron Stubbs is one of the most promising tennis players in Ireland. And to mark his progress he has been served a winner’s cheque of £400 in the Emocommunity Sports Awards, run in partnership with the Mary Peters Trust and publicised in the Belfast Telegraph. The Bangor Grammar School stud...

Posted by Emo
March 15th, 2011
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Caroline serves up a winner

Caroline Black’s superb performance in the Commonwealth Games has helped make her a winner in the Belfast Telegraph’s Emocommunity Sports Awards, in partnership with the Mary Peters Trust. The Lisburn 16-year-old was one of the youngest badminton competitors in the Delhi Games last October, but she had two victories before losing in the last 16 to India’s Saina Nehwal, then ranked three i...

Posted by Emo
February 14th, 2011
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Emo and Emma are right on track

Emma Mitchell’s training schedule includes three days of action at the Mary Peters Track each week... so it’s appropriate that she is a winner in the Emo Sports Awards, sponsored by the leading oil company in partnership with the Mary Peters Trust and promoted in the Belfast Telegraph. The 17-year-old from Banbridge, who gets £400 in the award scheme, has already shown star potential as a ...

Posted by Emo
January 20th, 2011
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Sports star is riding high

His parents gave him an inflatable surfboard as a 13th birthday present... now Ronan Oertzen is on the real thing and on the crest of a wave. And to mark his progress to becoming one of Ireland’s top surfers, the now 20-year-old is a winner in the Belfast Telegraph’s Emo Sports Awards, sponsored by the leading oil company in partnership with the Mary Peters Trust. Ronan has be...

Posted by Emo
November 30th, 2010
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Top table spot for Keith

Table tennis ace Keith Knox is the latest winner in Emo’s campaign to encourage young sports stars of the future. The 21-year-old from Tyrone gets £400 in the Emo Sports Awards, run in partnership with the Mary Peters Trust and now publicised in the Belfast Telegraph after being featured in the Sunday Life. Trillick man Keith was out of table tennis for two years from 2007 after knee surg...

Posted by Emo
November 15th, 2010
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Young Sports Stars

Emocommunity have partnered with the Mary Peters Trust and the Sunday Life to launch the Emocommunity Sports Awards. Each month, Emocommunity is offering an award of £400 to a young person who requires encouragement and development in their chosen sport. The Sunday Life will be promoting this award in their publication on a weekly basis. Anyone interested in applying for an award should click on ...

Posted by Emo
October 1st, 2010
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