GAA Handball All Ireland 60×30 Semi Final Fixtures
Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae Note that fixtures for next weekend’s GAA Handball All Ireland 60×30 Semi Finals are now available for viewing under the Fixtures tab.
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 […]
Collooney Opening Was A Special Event
Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae It was great to be present at the official opening of the new 40×20 handball court at Collooney, Co. Sligo yesterday evening as players from a number of adjoining clubs and counties mingled with the locals on this very special occasion. Having been in the area earlier in […]
Rules & Regulations for Leinster 60×30 Juvenile Championships
Summarised Juvenile Rules for 60×30 Leinster Championship 2014 U12 Girls Doubles and Singles first line is the short line and the back wall is in play in serve. Full playing rules apply there on. Full playing rules apply to all other Juvenile games. U12/U13 Boys & Girls two games of 15 aces […]
Wexford juveniles in Leinster action
Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae The first two members of the Wexford juvenile team taking part in the Leinster 60×30 championship went into action at Coolgreany tonight. Glen Murphy made a winning start at boys U13 singles with a comfortable win over a game Jamie Muddiman, Kildare while Lauren Flanagan found the […]
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 […]
Leinster 60×30 Juvenile Semi Finals
Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae Fixtures for the Leinster 60×30 Juvenile championships are available by clicking on the Fixtures tab. Several Wexford players are in action between now and the weekend. A report on this evenings matches at Coolgreany will be posted here tonight or tomorrow morning.
Gavin Buggy downs Lynch in Limerick
Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae Gavin Buggy, Wexford confirmed his status as a top eight player in the GAA Handball M. Donnelly 60×30 Open Senior Singles championship by defeating perennial rival Dominick Lynch, Kerry 21-17, 21-12 in a R16 tie at Hospital, Limerick last night. This was a real potential banana skin for […]
New Handball Court is a credit to Collooney
Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae As Secretary of a county with a vested interest in seeing the game thriving nationally it was terrific to see another positive development for the sport nearing completion at Collooney, County Sligo this week with the official opening of a magnificent new 40×20 court due to take place on […]
Hynes and Buggy fail ultimate test as Kennedy and Browne stake their claim
Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnai Contae In the end it was probably a fair enough outcome based on what had happened over the entire match but few Wexford supporters at Talbots Inch this afternoon left with anything other than a sense of Tommy Hynes and Gavin Buggy missing an opportunity to pull off a surprise […]
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 […]
Wexford U9 and U11 Wall Ball Finals
Boys Under 9 (Challenger 1 Ball) Thursday, 21st August Ballymitty (6.30pm) R4 F. 7.00 Bobby Doyle (STJ) v Eoin Roche (BAM G. 7.15 Shane Kehoe (STY) v Joshua Roche (CAB) Final H. 8.15 F v G Boys Under 11 (1-Wall Ball) Thursday, 21st […]
Hynes 'fresh & ready' for Saturday
Report by Padhraic Roberts Interview with 60 x 30 County Senior Champion Tommy Hynes of the St Mary’s club, Wexford Town, ahead of his Senior Open Doubles All Ireland quarter final this coming Saturday at Talbots Inch, Kilkenny at 3pm. Tommy is partnered by Gavin Buggy from the St Joseph’s club and they take on Dublin’s […]
Preparation for Buggy big part
Report by Padhraic Roberts Interview with 60 x 30 County Senior finalist Gavin Buggy from the St Joseph’s club, Wexford Town, ahead of his Senior Open Doubles All Ireland quarter final this coming Saturday at Talbots Inch, Kilkenny at 3pm. Gavin is partnered by Tommy Hynes of the St Mary’s club and they take on Dublin’s Eoin Kennedy and Carl Browne. Q : Gavin can you […]
Young Stars Of The Future Display Wall Ball Skills
Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae Looking at the way they served and returned the ball and the length of some of the rallies it was easy to forget some of them were only eight years of age! How much the game has changed over the years and how talented our young handballers have […]
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 […]
County Wall Ball Juvenile Championships
Boys Under 9 Tuesday, 19th August Ballymitty (6.30pm) R16 A. 6.30 Joshua Roche (CAB) v Tadhg Moore (STJ) R8 B. 6.45 Bobby Doyle (STJ) v Ryan Moran (BAM) C. 7.00 Eoin Roche (BAM) v Rory Gilbert (STJ) D. […]
2015 County 40×20 Adult Championships
Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnai Contae All members and intending members of GAA Handball Wexford should note that entry forms for the 2015 county 40×20 singles and doubles championships are now with club secretaries and those intending taking part should get in touch with their clubs immediately. This is in line with the recent decision […]
Terrific action in Wexford Wall Ball championships
Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae The 2nd Annual Wexford Wall Ball Adult singles championships provided plenty of action at St. Josephs Community Centre, Wexford this morning as players in three grades battled for the right to be called county champions. Keith Armstrong, Kilmyshall and Darren O’Toole, Coolgreany were the standout players in the […]
Sun, Sand, Sea and Handball on Cullenstown Beach
Written by Antoin Ó Braoin, Rúnaí Contae For years it was just there on the strand, a run down relic of forgotten times. A place where people from another, older world, had beaten a ball against the single wall which had been constructed with painstaking care by the locals of Cullenstown village back in 1912. […]