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European Team Championship Stats
by John manning
John Walsh now has three European Team championship wins (2003, 2005 and 2025). That puts the Collins player level with Derry McCarthy and one behind the four of all-time record holder Liam O’Donovan.
Eamon Gibney’s second European Team championship win puts him on a par with fellow Meath Inter-County player Sean Downes, Chris Scannell, Derek Courtney and Ray Murphy.
Kieran Earls and Damien Fleming join Derek Courtney, Ray Murphy, John Walsh, John Ross Crangle, Paul O’Brien and Eamon Gibney as both World Cup and European Team championship winners.
Earls, Fleming, Crangle and Gibney won the World Cup first while the other three were initially victorious at European level.
It has taken Earls and Fleming just two years to claim both World Cup and European championship honours, matching Paul O’Brien (European Team championship 2007, World Cup 2008).
Stephen Shoer and Stephen O’Reilly are the ninth and tenth players respectively to secure a European Team championship win on their international debuts. The others were Tommy Hanley, Alan Hanlon, Mark Millar, Liam O’Donovan, Darren O’Reilly, Brendan O’Shea, Junior Smith and their fellow Tipperary man Brian Webster.
Walsh, Earls, Fleming, Gibney and Shoer all boasted 100% Matchplay records at Lucan, a feat previously achieved by Derry McCarthy (1999); Ray Murphy (2001); John Walsh (2003); Liam O'Donovan (2005); Darren Collins (2005); Sean Downes (2007); Derek Courtney (2007); Chris Scannell (2010); William Sheridan (2010); Bryan Delaney (2018) and Tommy Hanley (2018). Walsh is the first Irish player to achieve a 100% record in two European championships.
In all, 27 different players have contributed to Ireland’s seven European Team championship victories – Liam O'Donovan, Derry McCarthy, John Walsh, Chris Scannell, Derek Courtney, Ray Murphy, Sean Downes, Eamon Gibney, Sean Harkins, Darren Collins, Junior Smith, Brendan O'Shea, Frank O'Donoghue, William Buckley, Mark Millar, Paul O'Brien, Brian Webster, Darren O'Reilly, Stephen O'Reilly, John Cahill, James Cleary, Bryan Delaney, Tommy Hanley, John Ross Crangle, Stephen Shoer, Damien Fleming and Kieran Earls.
With 22 wins and two halved matches, John Walsh now marginally overtakes Liam O’Donovan as Ireland’s highest points’ gatherer in European Team championship history.
Ireland has emerged victorious each time the European Team championship has been contested by nine teams (in 2005, 2018 and 2025).
Given that the 2025 European Team championship Strokeplay for seeding was contested over 18 holes rather than the previous 36 holes, Ireland’s 235 at Lucan is an obvious record.
The previous lowest team score for the first eighteen holes was 244 (-26) at Chia in 2007 and the second eighteen lowest was 246 (-24) at McDonagh in 2003.
Chrissie Sheedy, Tara Dillon and Amy Galvin are the first players to collect European Ladies Team championship winners’ trophies.
Chrissie is first lady to represent Ireland in both the World Cup and European Team championship.
Amy is the first player to win a European Ladies Team championship on her international debut.
Tara and Chrissie played together on an Irish ladies team for the third time, having previously represented Ireland together in the 2005 and 2007 Ireland v. Rest of Europe matches.
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