TIFAM 49 PDF

TIFAM Issue 49 (Dec 2025) mixes club news, interviews, competition coverage, photo specials, and seasonal fiction: it opens with a Christmas message from the team and features editor Shelly Mooney (historian/artist/writer and longbow archer with Dunbrody Archers, Wexford) plus her report from the Samhain Fire Festival at the Hill of Uisneach; it marks Laois Archery’s 10th anniversary with an anniversary shoot pictorial and club photos; includes an “In Memoriam” for Liam Irwin (Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny); runs James Byrne’s Blackbird column with notes on practice at SETU Arena ahead of the European Indoors in March (at the same venue); carries Andrew Wayland’s “20 Questions” interview with Chris Kilroe (White Wolf/IFAF committee); covers shoots and events including “Return to the Foxes” (UAR shoot, 9 Nov 2025), an “Indoor Test and a Half” (15 Nov 2025), and multiple indoor coverage/photo roundups (SETU indoor competition, Red Fox shoot, Wexford Archery, Drumquin indoor 3D); highlights Drumquin’s December charity indoor 3D raising £1,000 for Care for Cancer; and finishes with festive extras including a “Who are they?” picture quiz and a Christmas word maze by Aoibhinn Cowley (TIFAM Youth), alongside fiction serial content (The Phoenix Archer – Orion’s Legacy, Chapter XVI) and the Christmas special “Saint Brigid’s Fields of Winter Blood” set in medieval Kildare. And lots more…