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The 2016 Belfast Open will be held in Sullivan Upper School in Holywood 19th & 20th March in conjunction with R5 of the NIJFS (19th March). Online entry for both now open. Go to https://www.nifencing.com/index.php/calendar

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The 4th round of the 2015/16 NIJFS will take place on Sat 27th Feb at RBAI in Belfast.  Enter online now at https://www.nifencing.com/index.php/archives/event/byc-qualifiers-2?instance_id=809

The BYC Qualifiers are being hosted by Lisburn Gladiators at Hunterhouse College on Sun 21 Feb 2016.

NIJFS R4: 4th round of the 2015/16 NIJFS will take place on Sat 27 Feb 2016 at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution in the centre of Belfast. Enter online now!

NIJFS R5: will be held in Sullivan Upper School in Holywood on Sat 19 Mar 2016 in conjunction with the 2016 Belfast Open.

NIJFS R6: the sixth and final round has been provisionally allocated to Grosvenor Grammar School in Belfast, to be held on Sat 07 May 2016. To be confirmed.

Round 3 of the 2015-16 NIJFS was held last Saturday 16 Jan at Sullivan Upper School in Holywood, hosted by Sullivan Upper Fencing Club. Results now posted on the ‘Results – NIJFS’ page, updated rankings to follow.

The Results from the North West Open 2015 have been posted on the Senior Competitions Results Page.  Don’t forget to get signed up for the next Senior Competition in our Calender, the Derry Open

Junior (youth) Academy

Junior Academy will be held on the following dates:

26th September
13th December
14th February
22nd May

All sessions will be at Hunterhouse College starting at 10am until 4pm

This is for all weapons.

Cost £15 per session.

This is open to all young fencers aged 8-14.

The first one will be open and selections will be made for future sessions. The Academy is for fencers who have potential to join the National Academy and fence abroad. I have been asked whether National Academy members can attend. I would be happy for this to happen.

Any questions please contact Maitre Mike Westgate

Maitre Mike Westgate
Performance Manager NIF

Charles Gault or ‘Charlie’ as he was know to generations of Instonians and  fencers was a substantial figure in the fencing world. President of the Northern Ireland Fencing Union for over thirty years and master i/c fencing at RBAI from 1965 he was an enthusiastic and committed fencing administrator serving on committees of Public Schools Fencing and representing us on the Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council through the long years of the sport’s exclusion from the main Games. His greatest pleasure was to register the success of Inst fencers and he was responsible for the school being at the very top of UK Schools’ Fencing for the whole of his involvement, even after retiring from the school staff. He was an active supporter and ambassador helping dozens of individuals in their enjoyment of fencing. The anecdotes are legion, the memories copious. He is a loss not just to his family but to all those who knew him.

Jack Magill

NIJFS Round 5 results are now up on the Results Page, updated rankings on the Rankings Page. NIJFS R5 was held last weekend at St Columbanus’ College in Bangor, hosted by Belfast Fencing Club as part of the 2015 Belfast Open.