• The Festival that turns children on to a lifetime of sport

    June 24, 2011 at 10:04 am

    FÉILE – even the word brings back brilliant memories.
    The largest youth festival on this island takes place at venues throughout Galway over the course of the coming weekend as the cream of club under 14 talent in handball, hurling and camogie converge on the west for another fantastic Féile na nGael.

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  • Chief appeals for calm in Handball row

    May 19, 2011 at 8:36 am

    One of the key figures in Handball has called on all parties involved in the ongoing objections to the proposed new National Handball Complex at Croke Park to set their differences aside for the good of the sport.

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  • Brady to focus attentions on handball

    April 21, 2011 at 9:48 am Brady to focus attentions on handball

    Following his dramatic Ulster senior handball final win over Charly Shanks last weekend, Cavan’s three-time world champion Paul Brady is expected to be ruled out of football action for Mullahoran until the Championship.

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  • Masters final fixed for Sunday

    April 14, 2011 at 11:21 am

    Gort na Mona’s Paddy Crothers and John McGarry play Stephen Palmer and Kevin Buckley in the All Ireland Handball Masters A final this Saturday. The game will be played in Leixlip, county Kildare at 4pm.

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  • Brady in appeal for time

    April 14, 2011 at 9:36 am

    Preparations for the eagerly-awaited All Ireland 40x20 Senior Singles final between world champion Paul Brady and Armagh's Charly Shanks have been thrown into disarray after Brady sustained a broken finger.

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  • Dream final awaits

    April 13, 2011 at 1:26 pm

    We've got the dream final in this year’s All Ireland 40x20 Senior Singles championship – Brady v Shanks.

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  • Olympic dream becoming a reality

    March 3, 2011 at 9:58 am Olympic dream becoming a reality

    The past week has been a busy one for GAA Handball, with the start of the All-Ireland 40x20 Senior Championship, the World Handball Collegiates in Arizona and the announcement that One-Wall Handball will be an exhibition sport at the World Games in Cali, Columbia, in 2012. It is indeed exciting times for the Gaelic sport.

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  • Handball puts forward Olympic Bid

    March 2, 2011 at 9:17 am Handball puts forward Olympic Bid

    GAA Handball attended and played an integral part in what could prove to be one of the most historic International [...]

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  • You’d watch darts, why not handball?

    February 13, 2011 at 10:59 pm You’d watch darts, why not handball?

    YOU’RE getting Brollyesque this past couple of weeks,” GL’s editor snapped last Thursday as my column dropped into his inbox one minute before deadline; the sharpening of that Fermanagh drawl should have warned me that this wasn’t a compliment.

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