Irish UFC star Joseph Duffy to host seminar in Dundalk on Monday

Irish UFC star Joseph Duffy will host a seminar in Dundalk this Monday night, less than 48 hours after his headline fight in the 3Arena in Dublin this Saturday.

The 27-year-old Donegal man will headline Saturday’s pay per view event in Dublin when he takes on Dustin Poirier in the lightweight event.

Duffy was the last man to beat Ivan Jorge and Jake Lindsey, while he has also beaten Conor McGregor along the way to help forge his own path to become UFC lightweight champion. Indeed, he has just one professional loss on his record, that coming in October 2011 against Ivan Musardo.

No doubt the large home support will be cheering him on against Poirier on Saturday night but on Bank Holiday Monday at 7pm, less than 40 hours after he walks out of the Octagon, Sanda-MMA at the Dundalk Combat Academy on the Coes Road will host a seminar with Joseph, who will give an insight into the world of mixed martial arts.

The night will consist of a two hour seminar and class and an hour of Q&A and pics. Contact dundalkcombatacademy@gmail.com  for details.

Sanda-MMA Dundalk, coached by Darren Lowry, the Irish National Sanda coach, are developing a new breed of mixed martial artist and have many national champions already in various full contact fight disciplines. The progress is remarkable in the short 18 months since the team started and it is exciting times for this Dundalk fight club.

For further details on them check them out on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DundalkCombatAcademy

Dundalk students create handmade dress out of shuttlecocks

Aoife O’Malley in the shuttlecock dress

Four local schoolgirls have served up something unusual in the style stakes with a handmade dress made from 2,000 badminton shuttlecocks.

Eimear McCoy, Aine Reilly, Orna Owens and Aoife O’Malley from St Vincent’s Secondary School in Seatown have reached the final of the student fashion competition Junk Kourture with their entry ‘Wingin’ It’

The annual competition looks for high fashion from unusual places, as all materials must be recycled.

“It took us five months to make,” Eimear (16) told The Herald.

“We spent most weekends and lunchtimes on it as the shuttlecocks all had to be put on by hand.”

Using the feathers from the shuttlecocks, the creative teens also made a stylish headpiece.

“It was a lot of work but the competition is a great opportunity for us,” the transition year student pointed out.

People can vote for the outfit on the Junk Kourture Facebook page or directly at this link.

The final of the competition will take place on April 24th in the 3Arena.