Welsh schoolboy came, saw and conkered at championship

IT was a world championship qualifying match that proved to be child’s play for one of the contestants.

Nutcrackers got a shock when a schoolboy visitor from Wales, 12-year-old Conor Miller, came to Freshford, Co Kilkenny and soundly walloped the Irish adults at the weekend decider to become our national senior conker champion.

His prize included a €1,000 travel voucher to New York.

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