Seven Irish Fireball teams are enjoying an early summer having made the trip to beautiful Thailand to take part in the International Fireball  World Championship which kicks off on Sunday.

With International Week just complete Noel Butler and Seamus Moore who finish 14th in a 67 boat fleet will be looking to build on their improving results over the pre worlds when the main racing event get underway. They will be closely followed by Irish paring of Conor Clancy and Francis Rowan who posted a top ten finish in race 1 of the pre worlds leading Bulter and Moore in early part of the week.  CZE team of Tomas Musil and Jan Stantejsky squeezed past GBR team of David Wade and Ben McGrane on the last day of racing to take the Warm up event.

Notable the Irish travellers  include 3 mixed parings of  Louis Symth and Suize Mulligan, Frank Miller and Marguerite O'Rourke along with  husband and wife team of Ciaran and Mary Hickey.

There progress can be followed on Fireball International's Website below.

Fireball International THAILAND 2008
International  Week 8 / 14 March and
World Championship  16 / 21 March

Overall Results for the Fireball World Championship 2008
Place NCA Sail No Helm Crew 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total  Dis-card  Final Score

15 IRL  14894  NOEL BUTLER  SEAMUS MOORE  15 14 15 12 (69B) 12 18 (35) 7 8 205 104 101
34 IRL  14840  CONOR CLANCY  FRANCIS ROWAN  (69B) (69F) 42G 21 69B 15 26 23 25 20 378? 138 240
41 IRL  14765  OWEN LAVERTY  ED BUTLER  (69B) (47) 25 31 32 45 39 37 35 43 403 116 287
51 IRL  14854  LOUIS SMYTH  SUZIE MULLIGAN  (53) (61) 52 45 40 44 42 42 42 52 473 114 359
58 IRL  14877  FRANK MILLER  MARGUERITE O'ROURKE  40 43 42 47 (69B) (69B) 53 69F 57 51 540 138 402 
60 IRL  14695  CIARAN HICKEY  MARY HICKEY  50 (59) 48 (69C) 53 54 54 58 56 54 555 128 427
66 IRL  1489  JOHN CHAMBERS  IAN McGONIGLE  37 40 (69F) (69F) 69C 69C 69C 69C 69C 69C 629 138 491

Venue Pattaya, Thailand
Royal Varuna Yacht Club