MLTC Club Notices 12/06/2026

MLTC NEWSLETTER 12th June 2026

TENNIS 4 CANCER EVENT

Handbags and Gladrags tournament!

We had a wonderful day on Sunday – the Child of Prague did its job and despite a terrible forecast the rain held off!

48 ladies contested a most enjoyable team tournament won by Team Miriam (Captain Ger Speer) who narrowly defeated Team Marie (captain Jana Stevenson) in a close final. 

This was followed by the presentation by Grace Owens (founder of Tennis4Cancer charity) and a fabulous lunch provided by generous participating volunteers.

The real highlight though was the clothes sale!  Beautifully run by Rachael & Nicola Mullett and Claire McCambridge.  We had a steady stream of happy customers looking fabulous in preloved glamorous donated items. 

A close second was the raffle, where the first prize of a Pamela Scott Voucher, generously donated by Scott Barron was won by a friend of Jennifer Byrne.

We are delighted to say that over €7k was raised and we hope to get that match funded to bring in a total of €14k – absolutely wonderful 👏👏👏

Huge thanks to all who helped – too many to mention but a great demonstration of club and community spirit!!

UPDATE FROM CLUBHOUSE SUB- COMMITTEE

The clubhouse sub-committee is currently working on your behalf to improve the clubhouse, starting with a refresh of the ladies and gent’s bathrooms and changing rooms.

Work will begin this weekend, and while painting is underway there may be some minor disruption  We expect this to be minimal and appreciate your patience and understanding during these improvements.

Watch this space for further updates from the clubhouse sub-committee (Clodagh, Kevin, Lorraine, Carol)

LADIES’ EVENTS

Ladies’ Summer League 2026
With our final week of Summer League just coming to a close we are awaiting all final results to come in before we review our progress across the tournament.

 Again great team spirit and determination displayed across the teams this week and we truly appreciate everyones effort in committing to playing League for the club. It sometimes involves long journeys with equally long evenings and with work and family schedules this can sometimes be difficult to achieve so we do really appreciate everyones huge efforts.

 We are looking through all the results and our ladies player (s) of the tournament  will be announced over the coming week  🏆

Five Mile League 

Five Mile league continues. Best of luck to both of our teams who are playing. 

Wednesday Ladies’ Morning   

Tennis as usual next Wednesday from 10am to 12.  Join us for tennis coffee and cake ☕🍰 which is being hosted by  Mary McLoughlin

Retired Ladies

It was wonderful to see the return of the ‘retired’ ladies to the club for Ladies Morning yesterday.  They really enjoyed meeting up again and having the chats along with tasty treats!  Many thanks to Margaret Heagney and the ladies morning committee for organising.

MEN’S EVENTS

Summer League

 League teams all either first or second place in their groups and special shout out to the fourth team who have already qualified for the play offs with a game to spare!

Great captaining from Tim Stokes. All going well and are either top of group or in play off position, league coaching on going 

 Go MLTC !!!!!

 Handicaps

Please see below re Handicaps and sign up asap!!

MEN’S MORNING – Sunday Mornings

Men’s morning takes place at the usual time of 10am-12 this Sunday, courts 4 & 5, followed by a cuppa, of course - All standards welcome!

MLTC HANDICAPS  2026- REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

Entry to the MLTC 2026 handicaps is now open.

We encourage all senior members to participate in what is a really fun event.

 Tournament Start: 6th July / Finish: 18th July

 Handicaps BBQ: Clubhouse, evening of 18th July - Details to follow very soon….

 In honour of our newly opened Advantage Clay Courts, our tournament will be themed around Roland Garros, Paris and all things French!   Our ‘Cafe Du Paris’ will be serving up Parisian snacks, with a special menu created by our very own Sarah Robson. 

 We hope you’ll be available for our Middle Friday ‘Hugo Spritz’ evening of tennis! (10th July). More details to follow in the coming weeks but in the meantime please sign up for the tennis on:

JUNIOR NEWS

GUARDIAN AND CHILD TOURNAMENT

 A huge €934 was raised and has been donated to Pieta House - Big thank you to all involved!

HOODIE LAUNCH

Please see flyer below for details of sizes/prices – they are on display in the function room if you would like to try for size 

 Get your hoodie order in quick as orders will close by this Sunday!

SUPERVISED TENNIS SUMMER SCHEDULE

Summer Supervision (for children age 7 and older) will be back this summer kicking off on the 29th  June,  11am - 1pm and 2pm - 4pm (members only)

This will run weekly. The first week  29th June, and the week of 10th August will be Monday to Friday (5 days),  The other weeks will be 4 days a week – Mon to Thurs.                  

Cost is €50 for the entire summer or €10 per week or part thereof.

Now open to book on Easy Payments.

CLUB NIGHT

Join us next Thursday for Club Night!
🕗 Anytime between 8:00pm – 10:00pm

Stephen will kick things off at 8:00pm with fun drills and games.

SAVE THE DATES:

 Handicaps:               Senior Handicaps   6th – 18th July.   BBQ – Sat 18th July

                                    Junior Handicaps   6th – 10th  July.

Championships:      Senior Championships 14th – 29th August.  At Home – Sat 29th August

                                    Junior Championships – 17th – 22nd August  (not 21st as previously stated)

Golf Outing:               Friday 4th September 1.30pm Dun Laoghaire Golf Club 

HEAD COACH STEPHEN’S UPDATE

JUNIOR SUMMER CAMPS

Save the dates for Summer Camps:  Check the attached schedule. This will be great fun-an opportunity to make friends and learn new tennis skills open to all levels – we particularly welcome our new junior members to these camps.

Sign up on Payzone. Remember - members can bring a friend to these camps, register your friend when booking on Payzone. 

DAVIS CUP – Europe Group III Playoffs

The Davis Cup Group III Europe playoffs are being played in Chisinau, Moldova this week.  It is a Round Robin format – with 4 teams in each group – whoever tops the group progresses to Group II.

Ireland had a tough start going down to Montenegro 2/1 – Conor Gannon got the point with his singles win.

They then went on to beat Azerbaijan 3/0 and are on court playing their last match of the group V Latvia.

Very best of luck to the 2 Conors – (Gannon and Niland) Player & Catain!

JUNIOR TOURNAMENTS NEWS

On the home front we have a group of Juniors playing in the Co Wicklow Junior Tour 500 Open 2026 this week with some super results:

Daniel Carney and Michael Carney play in the U/12 singles semi – not against each other – so hopefully we’ll have an all Monkstown Final!

Together they play in the Semis of the U/12 Doubles – Very best of Luck today Guys!

 Next week the KPMG Carrickmines Junior Tour 1000 – 200 & 100 tournaments take place – Best of Luck to all involved!

 Hope plenty of you have signed up for the first Tennis Camp – coming up soon!

 All the best         Stephen

REMINDER RE: Club Rules

 Following some feedback from members and for the smooth and safe operation of the club for all members the Executive Committee reminds you of the following:

 Guest fees:   All guests must be registered on the sign in sheet on the main notice board in the club house.  Payment for guests should be made via Payzone in  advance. 

 Dogs:   Members, if you are bringing your dog to the club, for the health and safety of all members, dogs must be kept on a leash and supervised at all times.

 Court Use:   Juniors under 18 are not permitted in club after 7pm unless they are taking part in a club organised senior league coaching session or playing Senior League for the club.

   Thank you for your help and cooperation in keeping MLTC a safe place of enjoyment for all members.

 Margaret Quinn,

Club President on behalf of the Executive Committee