It’s Wimbledon in the silage pit!
AS sports fans mourn a lost summer of action due to Covid-19, one enterprising young man from Menlough has taken measures to ensure it’s game on, swapping his regular stomping ground for a silage pit.
Christopher Craughwell, 28, is a mechanical engineer who has claimed a corner of the family farm to develop his own championship size tennis court.
Despite being a member of Galway Lawn Tennis Club, the current restrictions on movement due to the pandemic meant he had to look at other ways of maintaining his practice, and that’s where his father’s farm came in.
Christopher Craughwell, 28, is a mechanical engineer who has claimed a corner of the family farm to develop his own championship size tennis court.
Despite being a member of Galway Lawn Tennis Club, the current restrictions on movement due to the pandemic meant he had to look at other ways of maintaining his practice, and that’s where his father’s farm came in.
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