Considerable interest in Women's Beginners Tournament

Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae Wexford Handball Board’s decision to organise a tournament for women who had not previously played handball competitively has generated considerable interest amongst the general population in the county with several people coming forward to enter. It has therefore been decided to hold an Open Night at St. Josephs […]

GAA Handball 60×30 All Ireland Juvenile Finals

GAA Handball 60×30 All Ireland Juvenile Finals – Fixtures Friday 10th October 2014 At Talbot’s Inch, Co. Kilkenny at 7pm OIC Martin Lawlor 086-8184598 BU15D Kilkenny (Cathal Barry/Eoin Regan) v Cork (David Walsh/Tadgh O’Neill) BU16S Kilkenny (Shane Dunne) v Tipperary (Jerome Cahill) BU16D Kilkenny (Roy Cullen/Dion Bourke) v Tipperary (Jason English/Colin Ryan) Sunday 12th October […]

County 40×20 championship update

Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnai Contae The league section of the 2015 county 40×20 championship is well underway with games in all grades taking place around the county. Suprise results are the order of the day and these will be reviewed in the coming days. Fixture 3 can be accessed under the Fixtures tab […]

New 'Legends in their Lifetime' Tournament

Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Runai Contae GAA Handball Wexford are delighted to announce details of our new ‘Legends in their Lifetime’ 40×20 Doubles Tournament. Specially created for players who are over 65 years of age and who have not won an All Ireland singles championship, it is designed to recognize the contribution and longevity of […]

Leinster Post Primary Schools 60 X 30 Handball 2014-2015

Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae See below message from Tadhg O’Deorain, Aras Laighean, Portlaoise. The entry forms have been mailed directly to all club secretaries and those on our email list. We advise all concerned to become proactive in the matter immediately. Please see attached the Application Forms for this year’s Leinster Post Primary […]

New Links

Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae Two new links have been added to our website and can be seen at the bottom of the homepage. One is Leinster GAA Handball and the other is Collooney Handball Club in Sligo. Both have added a link to gaahandballwexford.ie so we will be able to ‘keep an […]

D Day for Hynes and Buggy

Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae All roads lead to Talbots Inch today for the M. Donnelly Senior Open Doubles clash of Wexford and Dublin which gets underway at 3pm. It is a huge moment in the careers of the Wexford players as they attempt to build on the terrific performance of 2013 when […]

Taghmon secure Gold in the Games

Report by Helen Doyle / Padhraic Roberts Taghmon represented Wexford/Leinster in the boys U13 One Wall Community Games National Finals in Athlone on the Weekend of the 15/16 August, where they brought back Gold to their Parish and County.   The finals of this competition consisted of three teams where a round robin system was […]

Wexford Completely Dominate Garda 60X30 National Championship

Report by Padhraic Roberts   Wexford handball had a great representation at the Garda National 60×30 championships finals held at Garda Headquarters, Phoenix Park, Dublin last Wednesday with current players Robert Byrne, Michael O’Neill, Niall Maher , Padhraic Roberts and past players Mark Maher and Brendan O’Toole doing Wexford proud it the competition. Niall Maher […]

GAA Handball Ireland – Policy on Fixtures and Postponements

Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae GAA Handball Ireland have updated their policy on Fixtures and Postponements and this can be viewed under Resources – Rules and Regulations. All players who compete at adult intercounty level should make themselves aware of what this important document contains. Parents of children taking part should also familiarise […]

Over 6000 Have Viewed GAA Handball Wexford

Written by Antóin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae The early viewing figures for GAA Handball Wexford make for very encouraging reading with a total of 6028 logging on in the 18 days since our launch night. This represents an average of 334 per day and are the kind of figures any business website could only dream […]

Archive News

Written by Antóin Ó Braoin, Runaí Contae We have begun the process of updating our list of County, Leinster and All Ireland champions in the Archive section and would be grateful if any errors spotted are brought to our attention. We are starting with the county juvenile championships and will build up to the others […]

Court Construction Equipment

Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae Will any club interested in acquiring the glass back wall, court flooring or court lights for a 40×20 court please get in touch with GAA Handball office in Croke Park immediately. With at least two of our clubs moving towards having a 40×20 court in the not to […]

Robert Doyle is Leinster Silver Master's B Singles Champion

Written by Antoin Ó Braoin Robert Doyle took Wexford’s first Leinster title in this year’s provincial 60×30 championship when he produced a polished performance to see off the challenge of Gary Bolger, Kildare in the Silver Masters B Singles final at Garryhill last night. Ahead of the match there were real fears that a persistent […]

Wexford GAA Supporters Club Race Night

Written by Antoin Ó Braoin Note that tickets for Wexford Supporters Club Greyhound Race Night have this evening been posted to all handball clubs in the county. There are only a small number of tickets per club and it is imperative we make a contribution to the Supporters Club by selling these in the next week or so. […]