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Posted by 53 at 3:15 pm 5 comments  

Last round before Christmas - 18th December

Seems that a few matches will be cancelled.
DIT and DIT2 willl not be able to field a team.

So far the schedule in DCU is:

10.30 DCU-Meath Ladies
12.30 Pats-Terenure Ladies
14.30 DCU-St Pats Mens (friendly?)

Posted by 53 at 4:05 pm 10 comments  

Sunday 27 Nov '05 results

UCD- St. Pat's 25-26

Posted by 53 at 8:10 am 8 comments  

19-20 November Matches

No Team A Team B Venue Time Date Month Referees TBC
9 DIT St. Pat's St. Columba's 11:30 19 Nov UCD
10 DIT 2 Lughnasa St. Columba's 17:30 19 Nov DCU
11 Dagda UCD UCD 14:20 20 Nov St Pat's
12 UCC DCU Cork 11:30 20 Nov

Posted by 53 at 10:09 pm 5 comments  

Matches in Cork...

I report key information from an e-mail conversation between Eoin from DCU and David from UCC regarding UCC home matches. As you should know matches in Cork are at 11.30 am on Sundays. No Choice!

Matches will be played in the Mardyke Arena in Cork
On the following web site there is a bus that may bring you there on time http://www.aircoach.ie/table.routes.cork.php

Posted by 53 at 10:30 pm 3 comments  

Second Round, 13 November Matches

Men's
DIT-Lughnasa 22-21
Dagda-St.Pat's 0-5 for absence of referees. To be confirmed
DCU-UCD 22-21

Women's
St.Pat's - UCD 5 - 25

If you have comments and other information, please post!

Posted by 53 at 10:29 am 4 comments  

Second Referee meeting

It has been asked to organise a second meeting for all referees in order to discuss again new rules and coduct.
The proposed date is the Friday the 18th of November, 19:30 at the IOHA office in Parkwest.
Please put stuff in Comments if you have suggestion for topics, or ...whatever you want!

Posted by 53 at 5:58 pm 15 comments  

Results and Fixture from the IOHA web site

See links...

Aslo:
match times in DCU this sunday the 13th nov:
10.30 - Ladies DCU-DIT
12.30 - Mens Lughnasa-DIT
14.30 - Ladies Pats-UCD
16.30 - Mens DCU-UCD
Please be there early! DCU has the hall till 6ish but that includes puttingthe boards back up... so we need all the games to start on time!

Posted by 53 at 11:51 am 9 comments  

Results from day 1 Senior men's.

DIT - Dagda 51-20
Lughnasa - DCU 38-26

Please communicate result from St. Pat's - UCC and put comments to matches

Posted by 53 at 10:16 am 1 comments  

UCC take the first trophy of the season.
UCC won the CUP (which is actually a Plate) after the second extra time in a match fought till the last minute with DIT. The final result was 35-32 for the Cork team. In my opinion it was was of thge most interesting matches I have seen in the last few years. Both teams have stong and skillfull players. A special mention is due to Emiliano Guevara, who step in gaol when UCC keeper was sent out with a red card. Emiliano saved two penalties and few shot in the final and hottest minutes of the match.

Posted by 53 at 1:27 pm 3 comments  

SEMIFINALS

Unfortunately Lughnasa was not able to field a team for this week end, and unfortunately it was not possible to find an alternative date and location, so Lughnasa had to forfait the macth in favour of DIT who pass directly to the final.

The Second semifinal was played between UCC and St. Pat's.
UCC came out as the winner, and they will play an Interesting final Vs DIT next sunday the 23rd of October in UCD at 3.30pm. All welcome to attend.

(please post comments to the match)

Posted by 53 at 11:43 am 6 comments  

National CUP. Second Group.

UCC - DCU ?? anybody knows?? I believe UCC won.
St. Pat's - Ireland ?? as above??? Ireland won...right? can somebody put a comment?? and the results? and may be scorer ect??

Posted by 53 at 9:48 pm 19 comments  

National CUP. First round. results and comments.

Lughasa wins the first match of the season beating UCD 31-25.
Lughnasa shall be pleased by the performances of Marco Volta and Tim Hofmann who score 60% of their goals, however it would be not fair toward
all the good work from Allar Porter (together with the two above scored 29 of the 31 goals) and Peter Bister.
Also need to mention the excellent performance by Andre Weinsfort, who started slow, but saved many crucial shots during the 2nd half.
UCD looked more like a group of friends meeting up for a match than a team, and this is actually the truth.
only few UCD players managed to see each other in the eye a couple of days before this match. However good signal came from some individual action, especially by the reliable Ahmed Shimi and Tor Austad.

DIT got an easy walk over Dagda, in a horrible match where only some Dagda future star shined. 44-20.
There was not much to see in these 60 min. DIT felt in a lot of embarrassing mistakes due to excess of confidence.
Dagda lads simply showed their young age and lack of skills, except Brian Campion who showed extraordinary class and talent. Also need to be mentioned
the performance of Yannic Niermeier who showed smart, fast, and precise movement
intone with Brian. This is a duo to watch...probably the best duo in Irish handball.

Posted by 53 at 5:17 pm 0 comments  

NATIONAL CUP SCHEDULE
Ireland, DIT, DCU, UCD are in group 1
UCC, Lughnasa, Dagda, St. Pat's in Group 2

Sunday 25th September, UCD
2.10 pm UCD - Lughnasa referee DIT (A)
3.40 pm DIT - Dagda referee UCD (B)

Sunday 9th October UCD
2.10 pm UCC - DCU referee Ireland (C)
3.40 pm Ireland - St.Pat's referee DCU (D)

Semi-final 16th October UCD
A - B
C - D

Final 23rd October UCD

Posted by 53 at 1:34 pm 6 comments  

The Teams registered for the National Cup are:
St. Pat's, DIT, UCD, Lughnasa, Dagda, DCU, UCC, Ireland.
List of players is the the comments box.
Schedule will be posted soon.

Posted by 53 at 10:26 pm 5 comments  

Rules are Rules!

To all Club representatives.

As you all know this year competitions formula and dates were decided in a committee composed by representative of 5 clubs (DCU, UCD, DIT, St. Pat’s and Lughnasa). This committee was created in order to ensure that issues and opinions of all teams were respected and represented.
Format of the competitions, rules, deadlines and other details were decided by this committee, and were found satisfactory for all clubs.
Personally and not really happily I also agreed to assume the role of “point of contact”!! This does NOT mean that I’m the organiser of the league, but only that I’ll be the reference for the receiving and distributing of information. For this purpose and in order to save my private live I create the web site http://ireland-handball.blogspot.com, where all information can be found and posted.

Also teams representatives should bear in mind that the scheduling of matches require time, and more time is necessary in order to be able to made eventual changes.
15 days before the start of the competitions is considered an amount of time below the minimum acceptable for receiving the registration of teams, preparing and releasing the Competition schedule. In fact the IOHA decided that the final schedule should be distributed 14 days before the first match.

I must call to your attention that the fixed deadline for the registration on teams WAS Sunday the 11th (15 days before the first match). ONLY one club managed to communicate its entry and to submit a list of name. This is St. Pat’s.
If rules were applied St. Pat’s would have been the only team competing, hence the winner of the National CUP.
A stretch to the rules was made in order to accept entries pass the deadline, this despite the obvious complications that will follow: late match planning, late publication of schedule, not enough time given to teams for eventual complaining or internal organization.

The deadline for the submission of all official documents to the IOHA is now moved to Thursday the 15th of September.
The deadline for the communication of the competing teams through the website above was moved to this Monday at 12-noon.

No concessions will be made for matter concerning the National League, deadlines will be enforced and all complaining will have to be submitted to the IOHA via the standard IOHA procedure.

Personally, I find unacceptable that I had to use my mobile to remind clubs to communicate list of teams competing and names.
Since the organization of the CUP was decided within the above mentioned committee, and since this committee is formed by representative from DCU, UCD, DIT, St. Pat’s and Lughnasa, and the Irish National squad, I find unacceptable that these clubs request changed, amend, or other type of modification to the approved and already divulgated rules!!
I want to remind that the National CUP was created after the request of the National squad to do not play any type of senior competition, before the Challenge Trophy. This CUP was hence planned for all players not involved with the National squad, and eager to play handball. The role of this CUP in the years to come will be the one expand the time of official competition behind standard Colleges terms.

Please submit all your comments and feed back through the site http://ireland-handball.blogspot.com, and keep in mind that all decisions will be discussed within the mentioned committee.

Regards,

Andrea Ongaro

Posted by 53 at 10:12 pm 0 comments  

Heads Up for teams and players Registration.

The deadline for teams and players registration for the National CUP is this week end the 11th of September.
So far only one Club sent some sort of information to me!
I'll Close Registrations Sunday at Midnightnight.
because I am very very understanding I accept that the minimum thing I required you to do is to post a comment with te Name of the Teams and the list of Players.
Then you will have to properly register Club and palyers as soon as possible, but not later than 7 days before the first match.
Good luch with that!

Posted by 53 at 10:05 am 6 comments  

2005-2006 Senior Handball. Important dates

September 11th
Clubs to Submit Hall availability for the 2005-2006 season
National Cup teams and Players Registration
National League teams Pre-registration
September 21st
Referee refresh meeting
September 25th
National Cup opening matches.
October 8th
Beginning of Women's League
October 12th
Proposed date for National. League scheduling
October 11th
National League Teams Registration, Division 1
October 23rd
National League Players Registration, Division 1
National League teams Registration, Division 2
November 1st
National League Players registration, Division 2
November 6th
National League Opening Matches

Posted by 53 at 5:06 pm 4 comments  

Senior League-preseason club meeting.
Yesterday, Monday the 22nd, a meeting was held with representative from Lughnasa, DIT, UCD, DCU.
With this meeting it has been decided to propose the following schedule for the 2005-2006 handball season.

Here the main topics discussed, full rule and regulation handbook will be available at the official IOHA web site.

League will start the 6th of November. Round robin matches home and away.
The winner will be the team that at the end of the two round robins will have the highest number of points. (Eventual final in case of equal number of points)
Club shall communicate to the IOHA point of contact (ME!!) the number of teams participating at the League by the 11th of October. Communication shall occur through this web site.
Team registration deadline is October 16th send forms to IOHA, and public communication through this web site
Players registration deadline is October 23rd send forms to IOHA, and public communication through this web site
A Draw of the league table will occur on Monday October the 12th Representative from all teams are invited and strongly encouraged to participate.

A National Cup will be played before the beginning of the League with knock out.
Starting with the week end of 25th of September
Club shall communicate to the IOHA point of contact (ME!!) the number of teams participating at the National Cup . Communication shall occur through this web site.
Team and Players registration deadline is September 11th send forms to IOHA, and public communication through this web site

Other Rule and Regulation briefly discussed:
-all teams will have to provide two referees
-referees table will be schedule by the organizing committee
-Referee will provide match report sheet
-Home Team will have to guarantee the presence of Table officials
-communication of results and scorers will occur through this web site (anyone), also via SMS to IOHA (result only- Home team), match report sheet will be sent to the IOHA for confirmation of results (Referees).


A meeting with the IOHA competition committee is schedule for Wednesday the 24th of August. At this meeting the above format will be proposed and eventually confirmed.

Posted by 53 at 5:06 pm 14 comments  

2005/2006 Senior League
A few weeks ago the senior competition committee met for the first time this year to discuss the organization of the 2005/2006 senior league.
It has been asked to the committee to suspend any competition till the end of the Challenge Trophy were the Irish National squad is called to participate next November.
Personally I refused such idea because I could not see how this would be beneficial to the Irish players, and I find it quite damaging for all the other players not involved in the competition.

The senior league should regularly start late September early October.

The structure is still under discussion and any idea is welcome.

Even better would be if people are taking responsibility and decide to participate in the organization and running of the league.....Put your name down!

You are welcome to add your comment

Posted by 53 at 9:51 pm 12 comments  

Welcome to this big discussion board.

Hi All.
I hope this will give new life to the Senior Handball in Ireland.
You are all welcome to put your note and suggest the best way to use this space

Posted by 53 at 5:43 pm 1 comments