It has been a very hard year for Handball, plenty of not resolved discussions and fights, and I'm afraid no much hope to see the end of the conflicts with the New Year.
Let’s hope I'll be proved wrong.
Nevertheless, NOLLAIG SHONA AGUS ATHBHLIAIN FAOI MHAISE
Aslo see the new poll on left sidebar
Interesting article on EHF website
http://www.eurohandball.com/article/13615
Point 1 specially:
"1.The national federations should give equal rights to men’s and women’s handball, in terms of providing the same resources to both sides."
IOHA new board killed women handball, drain out all resources and put in place a "development strategy" that will make sure no women handball will ever develop again!
DCU managed to get the minimum number of players to enter a team in the Senior Men's league and break the ice with the new season in match vs Lughnasa played in grand secret on Satuday 11th.
Matches due to be played on the 4th of Dec have been postpones as the Loughlinstown Sport Hall is not available as refurbishment is not completed.
Finally, with one month delay for the previous years, the Senior Leagues start again.
There will be 4 men's and 3 women's teams battling for the title of Irish champion.
Astra, Lughnasa, UCD have teams in both competition. Dublin International, after the very successful European performance, will defend its title of top Irish team in the men's competition only.
Shortly the full schedule will be available for download. Meantime check the calendar on the right sidebar.
Here this weekend matches. UCD sport hall, Belfield Dublin 4.
UCD – Lughnasa, Men, 12.30pm
Dub Int - Astra , Men, 2.00pm
UCD – Lughnasa, Ladies, 3.30pm
First match and first Trophy of the season.
On Sunday 31st of October UCD OHC and ASTRA HC will challenge each other for the Corn Chrothrom Féinne.
Matches are at 1.30 pm Men ; 3.30 pm Ladies in the UCD sport centre
For all those that do not speak Irish, Corn Chrothrom Féinne means Fair Play Cup.
This is the first edition of a trophy born to celebrate the unique link and friendship between the two Clubs.
EHF Champion League is shown on TV on EUROSPORT 2.
Comments are in english and not from our "friedly neighborhood".
Next Sunday there will be two matches to watch: Ladies in the afternood, men in the evening.
Check Sunday 17th schedule.
Matches are also shown on Mondays.
Worth to keep and eye on daily schedule
http://tv.eurosport.com/handball/ehf-champions-league_sto2480409/tvproduct.shtml http://tv.eurosport.com/tvschedule.shtml
The Irish Olympic Handball Association is hosting a Coaching Course later this month.
The venue for this course is St.Colomba's College, Whitechurch, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. http://www.stcolumbas.ie/location.php
Find information in the PDF document on the right sidebar-Files Folder Box-
The Coaching Course which runs from the 23rd to the 25th of October will be delivered by the IOHA Technical Director Carsten Klavehn .
The cost of the 3 day course is €200 for IOHA registered coaches and players and €250 for non members.
Credits will be awarded to attendees should they wish to sit the IOHA Level 1 Coaching Course in 2011.
IOHA affiliation, registration and transfer froms are available in the Document Box on the rigth sidebar. Just scroll down a bit.
The Irish Olympic Handball Association will held its Annual General Meeting
on Tuesday 12th October 2010 at 7.30pm
in the Meeting Room A, Sport HQ, 13 Joyce Way, Park West Dublin 12
As summer comes and handball activities are having a break, I'll list them all in here.
End of Summer handball - IHF videos and social night
On Thursday 2nd at 7pm in the UCD sport centre UCD Handball Club will host a meeting during which it will be shown an IHFs official video with the explanation of the new rules. After that the meeting will turn in a social event at the UCD Sport Bar.
Curiosity
Roberto Baggio, famous Italian football player and one of the world best football player ever, got recently nominated by the Italian Football Federation as president of the technical Sector. What shall be noted is that despite his world famous CV, Roberto had to attend a 3 weeks course and sustain examination on topic such as Football Technic and tactics, Coaching and training methodology, sport psycology, Sport medicine, and Sport administration. In contrast in Ireland people get put in executive places.....
Coaching Ireland 10th Forum. From playground to podium.
11th September 2010. Links now active.
Brochure and Info: http://www.coachingireland.com/files/EMAIL.pdf. Also available in Document Box on Right sidebar
Forum site and entry form: http://www.fromplaygroundtopodium.com/
EHF Challenge Cup Draws.
On 27 July 2010 at 11:00 hrs
Join the Top Irish team Dublin International and follow LIVE the draw of Round 2 of the EHF Challenge Cup.
http://www.eurohandball.com/article/13255
List of seeding available in Document Box on Right sidebar
Sports First Aid Course
Date: Saturday 12th June Time: 9.00am to 4.00pm
Venue: Johnstown Parish Pastoral Centre, Churchview Road, Killiney, Co. Dublin
Code Of Ethics & Good Practice for Children’s Sport - Basic Awareness Workshop
Date: Wednesday 16th June Time:6pm to 10pm
Venue: Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council’s Dundrum Sub-Office
Curiosity
http://www.eurohandball.com/article/13156
UCD Summer Handball Friendly Open Sessions
Every Thursday in UCD at 8pm. check location on map on left sidebar.
http://ireland-handball.blogspot.com/2010/05/summer-friendly-handball.html
Coaching Ireland 10th Forum
11th September 2010.
http://ireland-handball.blogspot.com/2010/05/coaching-irelands-10th-all-island-forum.html
Ireland Handball got this invitation to the next Coaching Ireland's 10th Forum to pass to all interested Clubs and Coaches.
“From Playground to Podium” 11th September 2010
Dublin Convention Centre (Spencer Dock)
The 10th Coaching Forum “From Playground to Podium” promises to be the most exciting and challenging forum to date. It will address coaching issues at all levels.
Workshops will be delivered in the following areas; Coaching Children, Club Coaching, Developing Talent, Performance Coaching, Women in Coaching, allowing each coach to select topics relevant to you and those you coach.
The keynotes and workshops will be delivered by National & International experts, with practical knowledge and experience of dealing first hand with real coaching issues.
The traditional Summer Handball starts again!
Starting with Thursday the 13th of May,
Handball Open Sessions will take place every thursday in UCD from 8 till 10pm
everybody is welcome to join!!!
Check in the left sidebar for the location of the UCD sport hall
With the finals of May 9th Dublin International SM and UCD SF were crowned Irish Champion 2009/2010.
Dublin International won a finals vs UCD that gave them the double title: Irish Champion and current holder of the Irish Perpetual Trophy.
UCD ladies overcome ASTRA in the final match and win their first Irish title after 4 finals in a row and become the Irish champions 2009/2010
----CONGRATULATION TO THE TWO WINNER AND THE TWO RUNNES UP----
Astra Handball Club is Organising a Coaching Forum on Sunday the 23rd of May in the UCD Sport Centre, from 2pm till 5 pm.
This Forum is open to everybody involved or wishing to be involved in coaching.
FORUM means a place where people meets and talks (FORUM is the Latin word for square). A chance to give everybody the possibility to express their feelings, ideas, extern problems, and put forward suggestions.
There will be discussions on the general status of technical and tactical development of players and coaches in Ireland, and try to come up with suggestions on where the focus and energy should be put for the next year and in the medium term.
A Forum as said before, not coaching course. An event where we all talk. The intent is to give as much support as possible to young coaches so they feel more supported, confident and focused.
People can Register by filling the form at the link below by May 7th.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEdOQnJydzNDclZVTzlkRHRoVThuR2c6MA
The form has a comments section where to leave a note about any topic people would like to discuss.
UCC Olympic Handball Tournament – March 20th 2010
Location: Mardyke Arena
UCC invites all available Olympic handball clubs on the 20th March for a tournament of a life time, so if you know teams that can attend please inform them!
Let us UCC OHC know if you are attending as soon as possible!
Rules and regulations will be sent after confirmation of attendance.For teams that want to stay the night we can help with accomodation!
UCC OHC will also take you out pubbing or clubbing cork style!
Lets make this happen people and have a good time!
Yours in Olympic Handball
UCC Olympic Handball Club - Captain-- Amélie Renaud
UCC Olympic Handball Club - Coach -- Junior
-leave a comment with your details-
In the effort to continue the improvement of the service and make it easier to manage and play handball , Ireland Handball leagues goes online with registration and more.
Here a set of useful links from players registration to Club and team information and results submission.
Registration of players.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGRHR1p6aGs3UWFVZktnT2oyZTBWSWc6MA
Club information sheet.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dE1pUkNWTzlFOUtTQU1KanNiRzM2S0E6MA
Senior League Results submission form to use by the home team to submit match results.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDR6VzZwM1FXb2RFM0RIVEVuTm1qNFE6MA
Junior League Results submission formto use by the home team to submit match results
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dERYRTJPZmpJT1NFZjg2czNHRkZXT1E6MA
link available on left sidebar soon!
Sunday 17th the men's league resumed with the match
Dublin International - Astra HC. DI won the match 34-27 vs an Astra team that never surrended despite DI had the match under control for the whole 60 min. To note the spectacular performance of the two referees and their table officials.
