Now we are joined by Chloe Philpus. Chloe recently won a world world title and ladies' doubles at the World Handball Moon World Championships, which were held in UL. Chloe, you're very welcome to see our big community radio. Thanks, Will. You're very good to have me. And I just read out here all the consonants had a little bit on the paper. Six days of a one-world handball, over a thousand games, eight hundred competitors and clear players partnered up to bring home three world titles in action up to the very last hours. It was delightful to see Sean Cochran and in their doubles. Claire Menorg, 17 doubles and Chloe Philpus, ladies' single, our doubles all come together to their success. We had a great one in the handball Chloe, and one more is the start of a new game now again. It was an old game, but it's a new game now for all the young people that are playing handball. Yeah, like, well, the likes of me, I would have grown up playing 40 by 20, which would have been our main court. Yeah, we had no one while, so the use of numerical and fergus, and just a big thanks to Paul O'Car for giving us the use of their one walls. It's a fantastic game, like, and the skills that you gain from us. You can bring in to your 40 by 20 game. The way you have to keep it inside the lines, like, it's the same width as the 40 by 20, just not. You don't have the other three walls. Three walls, yeah, yeah. So it is a bit of a guessing game, really, to keep the ball inside the wall. I would say the most consistent players would win. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because if you give an ace away, if you hit a multi-the-line. So it is tricky, but it's great. Yeah, it's great for footwork and everything. Yeah, and if it's somebody judging you, if it's all here and you'll reach out over the line and you'll win the ball back in, is that... So that would be an ace then, to me, if you hit it out, but if it's on the line, it's accounts as an ace, and you have a rough obviously, and you have linesmen to judge. Yeah. Is it more tiring coy, the one wall than the four wall? Yeah, you know what? It probably is, because you're kind of just trying to hit the ball straight. You're hitting it straight. I know you are angling as well, but like I said, the most consistent players win. So you just try and keep the ball up on the wall, whereas in the 40 by 20 court, you can use the walls. Those right walls are kind of... You know that kind of a way. I would say definitely it is more tiring, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you, yourself and your partner was... Elizabeth Pearson from Leash, yeah. She was from Port Leash and some of this, that she was from Kilkenny. I think Bally Kala is on the Leash Kilkenny border. Yeah. Look, she was fantastic. We just paired well. She played up and I played back, so it just worked a treat. Yeah, yeah. They played two girls from Manahin. I would know them. I actually won a world title with the girl I played against in the last world. So it was nice to play against her and look, it's great. It was great to win. It's always nice to compete, but it's sweeter to win. Yeah. And I suppose, I was listening to your dad, he was in clear FM and he was saying that I suppose the doubles, when you're playing doubles, if things are going dead, your partner will give you a job. But when you're in the court in your own and you're going dead, you're depending on yourself. I've had Manahin alone, lady, in the court, you know, that kind of a way. But no, it is great to play in doubles because you have the other player to rely on if you're going bad or they have you to rely on. I have just been very fortunate, like dad and my family have been very supportive. You know, my brother, Christopher, played for years and I was small. I would have went in and played a boost with him and I would have went to matters with him. So I'm very grateful to my family. It just seems strange or unusual, I suppose. Presumably it's a fairly small community, the handball community. And you know all the other players very well and you can play doubles with somebody and then you could find yourself playing against them. Is that, can that be difficult if you're playing against someone who might be a friend of yours? Yeah, well, that was actually the particular case last Friday evening. The two girls from Manahin, like they would be, I would be very close with them. They would be my handball friends, like, but it was great to play them. I was me and dad were having a talk in the car. Like I was like, if I lose to them, I would rather lose to someone to know like them. But it was great to get the win over them. And is it hard to psych yourself up for to play against someone that you know well? No, you know what? I actually wasn't nervous. Our game was meant to be a two o'clock in games, Renleigh. So we weren't until six. And dad was like, well, you just go in and give it your best shot. I'm only back after COVID, after playing for years and years. But so it was great. I was like, I'm not going to put any pressure on myself. Once I got in there then a few, I let a few roars out and I got going. So no, it was great. I did. So I actually lost out to the ranked number one, Tiffany Leanu. She was from America. She won it out. I went over to her after the game. I was like, look, fair play to you. And she was like, how many days do you train? And she was like, oh, every day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like the scale of the American player is phenomenal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They play for money out there on the street. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was it's lovely to watch them, but it yeah. It was hard enough to be in the court playing against her. So they wouldn't be amateurs, Coe, in the strict sense of the world. Would it be full time? Oh, yeah. Like there was two boys playing in the senior, two men, I should say. One was sponsored by Nike and the other one was sponsored by Red Bull. But they like they play every day. They play for money or someone could come along and yeah. And some of the Irish players go over there to end there. They go on the circuit over and in the factor between these sectors. Yeah. In the States. Yeah. Like the Killian Caron was, we'll see, from Cocktail. He was over there. Yeah, Dermotville-Croom. And I think, what you call it, Brady, the men Brady. Paul Brady. Paul Brady was over there as well. Yeah. Yeah. They were on the circuit over there. They made the championships over there. Paul Walsh, from Moquere Hans Mitzner, who was back home, Paul. One in Ireland Minor and Jonah and all the 21. And he was over there for a while as well, but he helped it. He was here to conform, you know. Yeah. No, it's great. So it was, just now, of course, here in the, in the, in the, here in the, in the parish, you have the two alleys now and also great, it was a great handball, committee in charge, Chloe. Oh, there is. Yeah. And it's great. And now they, the children involved as well. But that is like, I'm actually serving in the local school this week, doing a bit of S&A. And all the kids are coming up congratulating me. It's just great to see. And hopefully in a few years that they can look up and pursue their dreams that you can, you can win anything. The committee is fabulous. We have a great, great two alleys in O'Hailans Mills and Calcasson. So you can go between the two, but like that. Yeah, I see the, the, the O'Hailans media, you know, has been completely covered with the, the insulation and the, and the tent. Yeah. And the, the floor actually was done this week in Calcasson, which will be great as the 40 by 20 world championships are coming up in October. Oh yeah. And they'll come up in, in the, in the, in the Instagram day. Yes. So they're around Kilkenny, Carroll, O'Lish and Dublin. Yeah. I'd say the main events will be held in Dublin. So I'll take a week off and I'll go back. Yes. Maybe. Yeah. Again, go on for that again. I shall read the, I will show up in less, it was the less winter, less not October or November, the other one. Yeah. Which was great. Yeah. All the courts. The courts. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Irish National. The Irish National. The Irish National. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've often read about you obviously playing down the years. Yeah. Yeah. You were an underage player, but I actually didn't realize as we were talking before we command that you're involved in school and that you're an SNA. Yeah. How is that? Do you enjoy that work? I absolutely love it. A big shout out to all the principals who have had me in Sorbonne. I'm at the Sorbonne stage, but I genuinely, I love it. It's great to make the kids happy and to just be there to comfort them when they need that extra bit of helper. To go to the playground and play with them or play jigsaw and do what they need to do and to make them happy coming into school every day. Yes. Of course. And if they're not happy, they're not learning and they're not making progress. Yeah. But that's it. It's the small things to kids with needs who need, who needs you to be there and to help them and to comfort them when they're struggling, like what I love it. I actually love it. Yeah. Well, it's brilliant to engage. It's a job that if you enjoy it, it's fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. For some anyway, good luck with that. Thanks a million. Do you know? And hopefully you'll get a permanent job. Hopefully I will. So you'll see him teaching at the present time. I'm stopping him. Yes. I actually was there Thursday and Friday. I couldn't go on here with Dad yesterday, so he's subbed in for me. But no. Like I'm very grateful for the teachers and to Connerhurst and the principal in Caucasian. He's phenomenal. Like he's great. And you're looking out for an out there, you're looking out for a permanent job. But that is. Yeah. So it will eventually all fall into place so that everything happens for a reason, yeah. So Chloe, I'll just go back to the handball there, Chloe. It was in the first between the game now, we'll say, of the one-wall game. Yeah. As for us, it can be played maybe in a sports center, in a wall and it's going to be easier to get maybe a key change while you're on to the building a new handball course. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you literally do play up against a timber wall and you need, obviously, a sports facility, a timber floor. Yeah. Yeah. It will be great to get one locally, and maybe it wouldn't cost as much to be put in facilities. No, it wouldn't. But couldn't lose it in a sports facility. In a sports facility, it would be great because it would be great for the kids. And he's now said this first as well, it could be played outside as well. 100%. Yeah. It could be a lovely weather. It could be good. Yeah. Well, I remember in my time in St. Flannens, back in the late '60s, early '70s, there was a one-wall. Yeah. And there were four alleys back-to-back. Back-to-back. And then on the side. The one-wall, yeah. You know, and it was just, it was brilliant enough that people used it at the time. Yeah. Yeah. I know it would be great. But like I said, New American and Fergus, they were brilliant. Yeah. They have the... One-wall set up of it. Yes, in their hall. Three-one-wall. So... At the end of the hall. It was great. Oh, yeah. Just give a text to Paula. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it was great. So probably the best to look in October, when you head up, she takes a kick in, you can go and double down and all that, and we hope you'll be up there for the week. Hopefully, yeah. And we'll just win it out. It will be great. Like, 40 by 20 is my game, as you'd say. Like... Yeah. That's just marvelous. I got myself on time when it was a year ago. I wasn't winning any-wall titles. Oh, I don't know. Too many walls. Yeah. It will be great to end this year on a high. But you know what? It's all about competing at a high level. And like I said, like my dad and my brother done years of hours of... Yeah, at least they don't know how to coach and all of it. So I appreciate everything, and my mum is our backbone. She never really does come to my matters, because she'd be at home, she'd be going to the grave, she'd be out for a walk, just waiting for that text, what I appreciate them all. And for giving me the opportunities, like being young and going out to Canada and out to Minnesota at 11 and 30. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm very grateful for everyone. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's great. Yeah. So, Troy, thanks for coming into us this morning. Yeah. Thanks, everyone. Have a nice day. Have a nice day. Have a nice day. Have a nice day. Have a nice day. Have a nice day. And best to look in your future competition. Maybe, maybe we'll get you on again, maybe, if we'll be on another medal day from the 40 by 20s. Oh, thanks. Okay, thanks, Troy.
