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Irish Times
3 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Times
Gavin Tiernan aims to make history after reaching Amateur Championship final
Gavin Tiernan, the 19-year-old Co Louth player, will aim to become a history-maker and also earn places in next month's 153rd Open and next year's Masters tournament after reaching the final of the Amateur Championship at Royal St Georges in Sandwich, England. Tiernan, the first player to reach the final after coming through the stroke play pre-qualifying, has played 139 holes so far this week in reaching the final where world amateur number seven Ethan Fang of the United States provides the opposition. After defeating Estonia's Richard Teder in the quarter-final, his third time to close the deal on the 18th hole, Tiernan returned to the links in the afternoon to defeat Italy's Riccardo Fantinelli where, having turned for home level, the he won the 10th, 12th, 14th and 15th holes for a 4 and 3 win. Fang, a student at the University of Oklahoma, is aiming to become the first American winner of the Amateur since Drew Weaver in 2007, while Tiernan is looking to become the first Irish winner since James Sugrue won at Portmarnock in 2019. READ MORE Tiernan – 1,340th in the world amateur rankings – has played more golf than anyone, reaching the final from an original field of 288 players and taking a superbly positive attitude into each match: 'If you'd told me at the start of the week I'd be in the final, I would have been over the moon. I'm just really enjoying it, taking it one shot at a time, and just having fun out there. That's all I'm trying to do.' 'I hit it way better this afternoon. Off the tee I was way better. I hit a lot of fairways, hit a lot of greens. I think this morning it was a little bit scrappier but this morning was tighter as well. I wasn't up the whole match until 18 when I won,' Tiernan said. 'You don't need to go and take a tonne of birdies. If you're hitting it to the middle of the green all the time, you're just going to bore them to death. That's what I've been trying to do this week, and it's worked so far. 'In my head, I'm the best player here. It might not be the truth, but that's what I believe. It doesn't really matter who I'm playing against. Really I'm just playing against the golf course. Playing against myself.' Gavin Tiernan during the semi-finals of the Amateur Championship at Royal St George's in Sandwich, England. Photograph: Oisín Keniry/R&A/R&A via Getty Images Meanwhile, Shane Lowry struggled to a second round 73, which included three successive bogeys from the 10th to the 13th, to reach the midpoint of the Travelers championship at TPC River Highlands on five over 145, close to the tail end of the field. In the Blot Play9 tournament in France on the HotelPlanner Tour (formerly the Challenge Tour), Dubliner Max Kennedy followed up his opening 60 with a 76 to reach the halfway stage on 136 in tied-third, six shots behind leader James Morrison.
BBC News
11 hours ago
- General
- BBC News
Holocaust survivors' families visit former Kent refugee site
Families of Holocaust survivors have visited a Kent army base that helped rescue thousands of Jewish members of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) visited the Kitchener Camp at Sandwich on Thursday, which had been a haven from the Nazis for their parents and grandparents in group also saw an exhibition at the town's Guildhall Museum which had materials from the Kitchener Camp Project – an online resource bringing together records and family treasures to build a picture of the unlikely website's founder Clare Weissenberg described the day's visit as "profound". "Werner, my father, always kept a suitcase of letters, documents and photographs under the bed at home, all of which never saw the light of day," she said."I was in my early 20s when he died, which is when I found paperwork with the German eagle insignia stamped on it."So I began wondering about his story."Whilst volunteering at The Wiener Holocaust Library in London, Ms Weissenberg met the author Clare Ungerson, who had been chronicling the lives of families just like hers. Hearing tales of some 4,000 others who had similarly fled to Kent to escape Hitler's campaign of ethnic cleansing was like "a cork being taken out of a bottle", she said."Afterwards I set up a Kitchener Camp website and got a great response from all over, with people sending me their own experiences."It really seemed to grab everyone's imagination and I gradually built a picture of this largely forgotten and overlooked piece of history."The Kitchener Camp rescue began in February 1939, seven months before the outbreak of World War Two and shortly after the Nazis coordinated a wave of antisemitic violence known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken rescue was founded and run by the same, mainly Jewish, aid organisations that funded and coordinated the far better known Kindertransport scheme. Stephen Nelken said his father Lothar had escaped fascism and a lengthy internment at a concentration camp. "I found his diary from when he left Germany and came to Kitchener Camp," said Mr Nelken, adding that the people of Sandwich had been "very welcoming" to his dad - even buying him and his fellow refugees a round of pints at the local pub."It's really important to know what went on and that it is passed onto his grandchildren as well," he Ungerson, whose book Four Thousand Lives is about the Kitchener Camp, said she was "surprised how few of these men's descendants knew anything of what happened to their fathers, grandfathers and uncles"."And, to be so at ease with having a camp of refugees in its midst, Sandwich must have been an extraordinary place," she added.
BBC News
4 days ago
- Climate
- BBC News
Sandwich residents blame drains for Kent flooding
Residents in a flood-hit Kent town fear they may have to install defences if drains are not cleared after water flowed into homes and businesses this in Sandwich and across the east of Kent saw rivers of water flowing along streets, with some likening the deluge to a "monsoon".Flood-hit homeowners now claim that issues would not have been as bad if roadside drains had been properly Collings, who woke to find his house in Breezy Corner had been hit by the flooding, said: "There were pools and filth everywhere." He added: "It very quickly turned into a complete deluge. The drains just couldn't cope with it."Unless they fix the drains, which aren't adequate at the moment, then I need to put flood defences in."Mr Collings, who has lived in Sandwich for five years, said he believed that if drains had been cleared then the flooding "would not have been quite so bad". 'Bubbling from drains' Dozens of people, including school students due to sit exams this week, were evacuated after an amber thunderstorm warning from the Met Office came with severe than 30,000 lightning strikes were recorded on Friday night, the Met Office McClory, who runs the Waiting Room Cafe and Bar in Delf Street, said she was woken by the lightning before water started "bubbling up from the drains and the road". She added: "It reminded me of the thunderstorms we would get in Australia where I'm from."The team hadn't finished closing up and were trying to push the water out with brooms and mops."Kent County Council says drains on minor roads are cleaned once every one to three years depending on risk factors including whether the areas are a known flooding on high speed roads are then checked once annually between April and Csuka, Sandwich Town Councillor for North Ward, said: "I have experienced monsoons in Asia before and Friday night was on a par with that."There are underlying issues here that need addressing by Kent County Council. Blocked drains is probably the top issue that comes to me as a councillor."Kent County Council has been approached for comment.
BBC News
12-06-2025
- Science
- BBC News
Sandwich stem event helps students learn 'real science'
More than 1,500 children have descended on the Sandwich Discovery Park for a hands-on exhibition to inspire a new generation of from the biggest bubble blowing to catching a sandwich thief is being demonstrated by scientists from different organisations across Kent at a science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) education Lithgow, from the Canterbury Christchurch University Stem hub, said the event was helping young people understand "real science in the real world".She added: "We welcome everyone to this event but we are particularly keen to see children from deprived areas and also young girls and those who want to be engineers." "When engineers make things, they often do so to solve their own problems so we need as diverse a range of people making things as possible so that they make all our lives better."The two-day annual jamboree, celebrating its 30th anniversary, was established by members of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in 1985 and now works with more than 50 schools in Kent. Teams from businesses such as Southern Water and the Royal Engineers Museum in Medway showed pupils interactive Stem exhibits including making and launching a rocket, and filtering dirty Park is recognized as one of six Life Science Opportunity Zones in the UK by the government, with over 180 companies employing 3,000 people across the 220 acres site was created by Pfizer 70 years ago but was scaled down in Wish, assistant head of Minster Church of England Primary School, brought the school's Year Six cohort for the first time this added: "We feel like it's really important to show our pupils there is a massive, huge growing future in Stem as they head towards secondary school and we want them to enjoy science too."
GMA Network
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
From BINI to Sabrina Carpenter: Here are new songs to check out
It's New Music Friday! From rising stars like Suyen and Ziv, to big names like Sabrina Carpenter, BINI, and Sandwich, here are new songs to add to your playlist. Addison Rae – 'Addison' Addison Rae just dropped her debut album, "Addison." The social media personality turned singer combined all her soulful pop beats in this debut, which includes "Diet Pepsi," "Aquamarine," "High Fashion," "Headphones On," "Fame Is a Gun," and "Times Like This." BINI – 'Shagidi' BINI turned this classic Filipino game into a pop song. The Nation's Girl Group dropped their latest single 'Shagidi,' and it could easily make listeners dance, or who knows, maybe even put a new twist to the game. Ed Sheeran – 'Sapphire' Ed Sheeran turned away from his soulful ballads in 'Sapphire,' an upbeat love song in English but with a catchy hook in the Punjabi language. It is the third single from Ed's upcoming album 'Play.' Enhypen – 'Desire: Unleash' Enhypen just dropped their sixth mini album, 'Desire: Unleash.' It's got eight dance-pop tracks including 'Loose,' 'Bad Desire (With or Without You),' and so much more. Gat – 'Rainbow' Filipino boy band Gat is back with a brand new rendition of a classic Filipino song. Turning away from their danceable 'Daleng Dale' cover, the guys gave a soulful, R&B take on 'Rainbow,' originally by South Border. James Reid, TJ Monterde – 'Pahinga' James Reid turned acoustic with the help of none other than TJ Monterde. The duo sings about taking a break following a challenge with a partner, and allowing each other to rest for a bit to save the relationship. One Click Straight – 'OTW' One Click Straight dropped one of the title tracks of their upcoming EP, 'otw/BROke,' titled 'otw.' The Filipino alternative band tackles themes of commuting like loud horns and gossip, but also traveling to a loved one who feels like home. Sabrina Carpenter – 'Manchild' Sabrina Carpenter is back with a spicy new single, with a beat reminiscent of 1980s pop with hints of country. In 'Manchild,' Sabrina sings about a man who is 'so sexy,' but 'so dumb.' On Instagram, the pop girl said of the song, '[This] song became to me something I can look back on that will score the mental montage to the very confusing and fun young adult years of life.' Suyen and Sandwich – 'Basura' Rising rockstar Suyen teamed up with Sandwich for 'Basura,' a rock song about somebody who is messy in all ways, and that karma is coming for them. Ziv and KAIA – 'Walkie Talkie' Filipina P-Pop group KAIA got together with South Korean artist Ziv for the cutest song about yearning for a guy to talk to them. —CDC, GMA Integrated News
