South Dublin TKD

Olympic Style Taekwondo Club for all ages, grades & abilities. Creating Champions since 2008. Founded by Robert Taaffe & Niamh Buffini

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🍀 South Dublin Taekwondo wishes all our members, friends, and families around the world a very Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🇮🇪🥋

St. Patrick’s Day is a celebration of Irish culture, community, and pride, shared by people across Ireland and around the world.

Have a great day! 🍀

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Mallorca Open 2025
Beginner:
▪️Azariah Laurel 🥈
Intermed:
▪️Darragh Quinn🥈
▪️Kian Prendegrast 🥈
▪️Adam Bedrani🥈
Adv:
▪️Victoria Laurel🥇
▪️Sorena Shirvani 🥇
▪️Yeva Kovalchuk🥈
▪️Dyzile Chin Estrada🥉
▪️Nicholas Buffini-Taaffe🥉
Officials:
▪️R. Taaffe (C)
▪️C. Shirvani (C)

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Riga Open E1 - Youth
Yeva 🥇-37kg Cadet
Dyzile 🥇 -42kg Junior
Evelina 🥉 -68kg Junior
Ross - Ranking event debut
Leroy (C)

Well done team, in particular Yeva & Dyzile who now join the small but illustrious group of gold medal winners at ranking events from SDTKD

@LeroyNsiluD

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4th SOLIDARITY’S CENTER OPEN
MONTARGIS – France
Day 1 - Cadet / Junior
Yeva -37kg Cadet Female🥉 Nicholas -33kg Cadet Male🥉
Bobby +78kg Junior Male🥉

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Top Tirana Trophy
Day 1 Cadets E3
Nicholas - 3rd Place
-33kg Cadet
QF 2-1 v 🇨🇭, SF 1-2 v 🇬🇷

Day 2 Kids
Sorena - 3rd Place
-33kg Kids
QF 2-0 v 🇦🇱, SF 1-2 v 🇲🇪

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Bucharest Open E3
Nicholas Buffini-Taaffe
Cadet -33kg
QF - Win v 🇨🇾
SF - Loss v 🇺🇦
3rd Place

@Irishtaekwondo @roberttaaffe @niamhbuffini #firstrankingmedal

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Slovenia Open G1 2025
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ryan Doyle Secures a consecutive World Ranking Podium.

Ryan Doyle
-74kg Male
R32 - Bye
R16 - Win v 🇨🇿
QF - Win v 🇲🇪
SF - Loss v 🇧🇪
🥉
🤏🏼

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2024 End Of Year Awards
On Wednesday 12th February SDTKD Club presented our annual end of year awards.
🎖️2024 Medals of Participation
📜 2024 Merit Certificates

2024 Awards Were Voted by Members and awards were presented to - more info: https://t.co/rbz83PZU1m

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Canada Open G2
Ryan Doyle
Senior -74kg
R32 - Bye (seed 3)
R16 - Win v 🇨🇦
QF - Win v 🇺🇸
SF - Loss v 🇺🇸
3rd Place
7.2 Points

Nicholas Buffini-Taaffe
Cadet -33kg
R16 - Win v 🇺🇸
QF - Loss v 🇺🇸
5th Place
@Irishtaekwondo
@sportireland
@TeamIreland
https://t.co/htQ8piFvRm

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Friday Night Poomsae Training 17.01.25
🔸SDTKD were kindly visited by @Irishtaekwondo National Poomsae Coach
🔶 Thank You Master Alan McGowan for visiting

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New Year Training Camp 2025
🙏Merci Ecole Taekwondo Trappes
📍Trappes, France
#sdtkd

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Xmas 2024 - Black Belt Cert Presentations, Black Belt Dinner. We are immensely proud of our black belts. Congrats to our most recent certified. 1 Dan: Sydney, Bobby, Liam, Manu, Eabha, Caoimhe, Réiltín, Isha, Kate, Moontaka, Arsh, Amrutha, Anna, Steve, Lisbeth; 3 Dan: Leroy.

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LMC Championships 2024
Dyzile🥇 (& player of tournament trophy)
Yeva🥇
Claire🥈
Sorena🥉
Nicholas🥉
Coaches
Niamh @niamhbuffini (C)
Cyrus (C)

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🧡
Remembering our friend Adam on the 1st Anniversary of his Passing.
x

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Korean Ambassadors Cup 2024
Poomsae & Kyorugi

Thank You Players, Coaches, Parents, Supporters, Referees, Judges & Event Organisers.

Well Done SDTKD

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16 🎂
2008 ➡️ 2024 ➡️
🙏
South Dublin #taekwondoday

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Presidents Cup Update

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European Presidents Cup 2024
G2 Event

Jack Woolley -58kg
R32 - Bye
R16 - 🇵🇱 ✅
QF - 🇵🇱✅
SF - 🇹🇷✅
F - 🇪🇸✅
🥇

Leroy Nsilu Dilandu -74kg
R32 - 🇸🇪✅
R16 - 🇽🇰 ❌

Ryan Doyle
R32 - 🇺🇦 ❌

@Irishtaekwondo
@sportireland
@TeamIreland
@southdubtkd
@jackwoolley_tkd @LeroyNsiluD

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Aquila Open - London 2024
B Class
Yeva - Child -36kg 🥇
Heidi - Child -32kg 🥇
Claire - Cadets -51kg 🥇
Evelina - Junior -63kg 🥇
Victoria - Child -26kg 🥈

A Class
Nicholas - Child -32kg🥈
Arsh - Junior -63kg🥈
Liam - Cadets -45kg 5️⃣
Ross - Cadets -55kg 5️⃣

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Skopje Open G1 (North Macedonia)
Ryan Doyle -74kg
R16 Win v BIH 🇧🇦
QF Win v BEL 🇧🇪
SF Loss v SRB 🇷🇸
🥉 3rd Place

Leroy Nsilu Dilandu -74kg
R16 Win v TUR 🇹🇷
QF Loss v SRB 🇷🇸
5️⃣

Jack Woolley -63kg
R16 Win v AUT 🇦🇹
QF Loss v POL 🇵🇱
5️⃣

Coach: Dylan Leonard

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European Olympic Qualification Tournament
Sofia, Bulgaria
Jack Woolley -58kg - Paris Qualified 🎟️
Leroy Nsilu Dilandu -68kg - Round of 16
Further details on Taekwondo Ireland media pages.
📷: Picture 1 Images - Marcel Van Vulpen