Friday, October 25, 2024

This is a Wonderful Story

A Cork national school is marking the 50th anniversary of its unique tradition known as 'Conker Comp' in which students compete to win the coveted David Geary Perpetual Conker Trophy.

Since 1975, students from First to Sixth class in Crosshaven Boys' National School have participated in the annual conker competition.

The trophy has been presented to the winner of the competition since 1989 and is named after a pupil, David Geary, who died at a young age.

Read more here.


2 comments:

  1. By coincidence I'd actually read something recently about someone who cheated at conkers by putting metal in the middle. For the life of me I can't remember where I just read the tale.

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    1. By an even greater coincidence, I was telling an American friend about this story and describing the game of conkers to him. He didn't know exactly how it was played, but he mentioned this metal-in-the-middle businesses. Which I'd never heard about before!

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