Students of the Year

 To end 2025 we held our Student awards. We do this each year to honour the best performing, most inspiring and most dedicated students. It's always a difficult choice.

This year we choose the following:

Ronan Luxford for Student of the year in the Little Wolves category and his sister Fionnuala with an award of merit for best attendance

Fionn Coen for Student of The Year in the General classes

Meábh Fleming was our Competitor of the Year

Tuam National Recreational Week

We where invited to teach as part of Tuam Recreational week, where Tuam town provide varied activities for teenagers in the area.
It is a great idea and once again we where delighted to be part of the event.

March Little Wolves Student of the Month

Medal winners Bella and Kiera , well done girls keep up the good work.

Tuam Student of the Month

Well done to our consistently hard working students Aodhan and Amy on winning student of the month in March.

MSKC

A strong Faolchú Karate Team traveled and competed at the MSKC tournament with great success.

2013 Karate Squad Training in Tuam

FAOLCHÚ SQUAD TRAINING

After a very successful 2012 squad training we have decided to continue with squad training for 2013.
Our 2013 plan is as follows.
There will be a total of 10 sessions 3 of these will be with guest instructors.

Incentives for attending squad sessions are:
6 sessions gear bag.
7 sessions new style hoodie.
8 sessions choice of Faolchú  Jacket or new style hoodie.
10 sessions Choice of Faolchú Jacket or new style hoodie AND gear bag.

There will be 7 regular sessions instructed by Malcolm Sensei and Marie Sensei.
These will divided into 3 age groups.

There will be 3 guest instructors
Dermott O Keeffe Sensei, current World Kata Champion.
Matt Price Sensei, English squad coach.
Makita Sensei, from the Japan National Karate team, will make one stop in Ireland, at our dojo, on his European trip.

Normal Sessions will run on Sundays:

10:00 - 11:00 Little Wolves and Team Kata Session
11:00 - 12:00 Age 8+ Session
12:00 - 13:00 Adults, age 16+

Cost per squad training session is €6
Family of 3 €15
Family of 4 €18.

Guest instructors may cost more.

SQUAD DATES 2013

Sun 27th Jan
Dermott O Keefee Sensei
11:00 - 11:50 Under 8's
12:30 - 14:00 All students

Sun 24th Feb

Fri 22nd of March
Matt Price Sensei
Details to be confirmed.

Sun 28th April

Sun 26th May

Sun 16th June

Sun 22nd Sept

Sun 13th Oct

Sun 10th Nov

Mon 18th Nov
Makita Sensei
Details to be confirmed.

Adult Competition

This Sunday 15th Oct Sensei Pat Murtagh will travel to visit us and take along some of his students to partake in a mini competition.

Events will start at 12am in Total Fitness with a short class followed immediately by the competition.

Tuam Students Excel at Club Championships

Well done to Tuam Club Champions who competed successfully in Dublin on Sunday.

Alyssa Fahy, Dmitrijs Cigulovs, Jamie O Toole, Róisín Brogan, Jayden Murphy, Dylan Joyce and Nathan Collins all did Karate in Tuam proud and brought home 4 first place and 3 nd place trophies.

March Student of the Month

Tuam Karate Kid's impressed us as always when it came to student of the month awards. Well done to Tuesday Little Wolves Rory Mullan and Ciara Murray, Combat student Dmitrijs Cigulovs and (pictured) Jadzia Murphy and Amy O Hara.