Donegal Sports Partnership - Tuesday 8th November 2011
We, the Butt Hall Tennis Club, would like to express our gratitude to Donegal Sports Partnership for the grant of €300 which we received to enable us to purchase equipment for our club. Many thanks.
Tennis Courts Booking
Our online booking system for the courts is now available for members.
You will have to register the first time you wish to book. A committee member will then activate your registration and you are ready to go.
Please report any problem you may find by using the 'contact us' form. There might be a few glitches that haven't been uncovered yet.
The gates code will now be sent with your booking confirmation email.
Watch out for it as it will change on a regular basis.
The following green fee rules apply to Non-Members:
- Non Members playing with a Member: €5 per person per hour up to maximum of €10 per court per hour.
- Non-Member Adults: €10 per person per hour up to a maximum of €20 per court per hour.
- Non Members Child/Student: €5 per hour.
For non-members wishing to book a court, please text the following number, stating your name, and date/time required. 087 3636931 Thank you.
The Butt Hall Tennis Club
Since the demolition of the tennis courts behind the old Butt Hall building in Ballybofey in 2006, there have been no public tennis facilities for the people of the Twin Towns, Finn Valley and South-West Donegal.
Thanks to the generosity of Joe and Barbara Bonner, seasoned tennis players and players seeking coaching have been facilitated on a year round basis on their private omni-surface, floodlit court.
As a result of this revival of interest in tennis in the locality, we came to the realization that more courts were needed to cater for the increasing number of people wishing to both play on a leisurely basis and to receive coaching to participate in inter-club tennis.
Following the formation of a tennis committee in February 2006, a lease agreement was secured on a two acre site at Dreenan (one mile from the centre of Ballybofey). Subsequently, full planning permission was secured for four omni-surface floodlit courts with clubhouse and adjacent car park.
June 2008 saw the success of a detailed grant application to the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism. The club was allocated a funding of 80,000.00 on the provision that the courts be constructed by December 2009. The plans have gone to tender and we hope to commence construction at the Dreenan site in September 2009. [download the plans - 1MB]
Thanks to the generosity of the people of the Twin Towns and surrounding areas we have to date accumulated approximately €30,000. In order to succeed with the completion of stage one of the project (groundwork and court construction), we are embarking on a major fund raising effort on Saturday, 18th July when volunteers hope to collect €2 from every house from Donegal Town to Lifford, Mountcharles to Killybegs and from Glenfin to Ardara. Everyone’s support would be greatly appreciated as we endeavour to bring back tennis playing facilities to the south-west of the county. It is a sad indictment of the prosperity of the last ten years that we no longer have the facilities we had a decade ago.
Contact sports and team sports are not for everybody. Tennis is a sport which caters for all ages and abilities. Players with a disability are catered for in wheelchair tennis and people who are not interested in competitive sport can enjoy tennis in a more leisurely fashion. Those who are more serious about the game can be facilitated through intra and inter club competitions all year round due to modern surface conditions and flood lighting. At present senior players from the club have achieved major success in inter-club leagues involving teams from Enniskillen, Irvinestown, Omagh, Lisnaskea and Sligo.
If you would like any further information about the club , please feel free to contact either Barbara Bonner or Tracey Alexander at the numbers below:
Mrs Barbara Bonner - 087 4179069
Mrs Tracey Alexander - 098 9328381
