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.
Another year is over. Thank you all for having been part of the Ireland Handball Family.
Looking forward to the new year!
NOLLAIG SHONA AGUS ATHBHLIAIN FAOI MHAISE
Notice on the left sidebar links to the result for Senior and Junior Leagues.
More about the Junior first round at the link http://www.sligohandball.org/news.html.
The senior League enters now the third weekend of games. See on the left sidebar the results and league table. Schedule is in the calendar on the right sidebar.
Here the schedule for the weekend 5th-6th December is.
*As far as I know DCU doesn't have a hall, so match will be re-scheduled.
**Also Lughnasa ladies have been removed from the schedule, So St.Pats' is free to schedule vs Meath if suit both team
Also, very likely a fifth team will join the senior men league. This team will take Lughnasa place in the schedule. Check this blog for updates.
Sat Dec 5, 2009
SM DCU-Astra - TBC *
SF Pat's-xxx - **
Sun Dec 6, 2009
SF 10:30am – 1:30pm Terenure-UCD - Tallaght, Dublin
Senior League started officially last weekend with the clash in the Ladies category between last year finalists, St.Pat’s and UCD.
St.Pat’s turn out to be the winner once more against a UCD team decimated by flu and injuries.
This weekend it is going to be the Men League to do its debut.
Here this Sunday 22nd matches:
10:45 – 12:30 SM UCD - DI – Venue UCD
12:45 – 14:30 SM Astra - DCU - Venue UCD
14:45 – 16:30 SF Terenure -Meath - Venue UCD
It is the privilege of the UCC Olympic Handball Club to inform you that the Cork Handball Tournament will take place on Saturday 5th December 2009 in the UCC Mardyke Arena, Western Rd,Cork, Ireland.
The format of the tournament will be based on a round-robin format, with the top two teams progressing to the final. The entry fee is €40 per team.
UCC Olympic Handball Club will be organising a party for the Saturday night (December 5th) somewhere in Cork City.
If you want to find out more leave a post and Mélanie or Benny will get back to you.
Or contact Ireland Handball via mail with "Cork Handball Tournament" in the subject and we will forward the mail to them.
Looking forward to seeing you during this Great Hand Ball Day !
Sincerely Yours in Handball,Mélanie Masson, Secretary of the UCC Olympic Handball Club.
The new season is about to start and teams are recruiting players.
If you are living in Ireland and want to play Handball, get in touch Irelandhandball (see contributors) and we will help you to find the team for you.
If you were playing in the open hadball sessions in UCD last summer....what are you waiting to get back into the game??
Men's and Women's league are friendly and good fun!
Source and more information: http://www.sligohandball.org/news.html
For a full week a team from SKG Rossdorf (Germany) stayed in Sligo during their autumn holidays. 15 boys in the age of 11 - 16 found a 'new home' during their stay with families of players of our club.
A program of great diversity was organised and it can be safely said there was no chance for the guests to be bored at any time.Summerhill College provided the opportunity for the handball players to get a sniff of gaelic football in a workshop specifically organised for them. A 'town treasure hunt' in Sligo made them familiar with the area (and the fact that nearly every person would know the melody of "oro se do beatha bhaille").
They took part in a tournament with secondary schools from Sligo, Ballisodare, Galway and Ros Muc. A family day provided opportunities for a range of activities in the wider surroundings of Sligo. Handball dominated the weekend when Astra (Terenure), Sligo and Rossdorf played club v club matches - and the U-17's got involved in a challenge match with the adults from Sligo and Rossdorf. Surfing in Strandhill was a particularly unique experience for the German boys whose home town is located near Frankfurt with the sea some 600 km away.
A day in the local schools with their hosts gave an impression of the differences in the school settings in Ireland and Germany. And last not least a small court jamboree in Collooney brought together all players from Sligo and Rossdorf for a wonderful 'farewell party' ... with incredible food supplied by parents of our club.
The entire week was extremely enjoyable for all involved. The feedback from the German boys and also from their six coaches/parents was overwhelmingly positive with a specific note on the hospitality on the side of the host families.Without the support of so many individuals in the club, all contributing within their own area and as good as they could, such an exchange program would be simply impossible.
Looking at it from another angle, where it is possible to provide such opportunities to our children (and ourselves) it is a demonstration of simple cooperation beyond the realms of profit and personal gains - and this in itself is worth probably hundreds of times more than any old trophy.
So: a great thanks to all parents, players, helpers, teachers, family members - who all contributed to make the exchange a huge success.
Find in the comment area a note from Tom to all senior players and some reply. Feel free to add your contribution. Help open discussion is actually the purpose of this blog!
The month of October will see three Irish teams representing Ireland in three European competitions.
Ireland never had such a large representation in Europe.
Dublin International will play in the men's Challenge Cup in Siscia (CRO) on the 9-11 October week end
http://www.eurohandball.com/ec/chc/men/2009-10/round/2/Round+2
Astra Handball will travel to Prilep (MKD) to play in the women's Challenge Cup on the 2-4 October week end
http://www.eurohandball.com/ec/chc/women/2009-10/round/2/Round+2
-SHORT ARTICLE IN COMMENTS-
The Irish squad instead will go to sunny Malta to play in an almost fully english speaking group on the halloween weekend 30 Oct-1 Nov
http://www.eurohandball.com/trophy/men/2009/round/2/Group+Matches
To make it easier to check all recent and summer news, all summer news will be added to this one Post. This because usualy older posts get burried down down in the blog. Instead, collecting them in one post all news should be move visible
5th September '09 - Anglo-Irish Cup 2009. Great Dane wins the first edition of the Anglo-Irish Cup (35-32 final score). In a very intense match, with constant overtaking between the two sides, the current English champions managed to keep their coolness and win in the last few minute over the equally strong Dublin International team. Chris O'Reilly deserve a special mention. This young player, recently moved from North Kildare to DI, showed already to benefit from the summer training with DI's experienced players. We hope that this competition, born as an initiative of the Dublin International Club and with the support of the English Handball Association, will see continuation in the coming years. -DVD of the match is available on request.
30th August '09 - International handball in Dublin, Anglo Irish Cup 2009 Dublin International are honoured to be the first host nation of the Anglo Irish Cup. The tournament, to be held in St Columba's College, Co Dublin on the 5th of September at 17.30 will hopefully be the first of many in years to come. The tournament showcases the National Champions from England and Ireland to play for the title "Best Club of England and Ireland". This years teams are, Dublin International, 2 time All Ireland National Champions, and Great Dane, 5 time National League Champions and 6 time Cup Champions of England. England Handball Federations General Secretary Stephen Jones has confirmed he will be attending the game after receiving an invitation from Dublin Internationals President Magnus Clarke. Dublin International would like to invite everyone to come and support the Irish team in this International tournament. Entry is free and everyone is welcome to attend.
Check the links for the upcoming champions league handballfinals.
http://www.ehftv.com/ec/cl/men/2008-09/live/high/000607
Season is over, and the blog might be quite for a while, so it is time to count... YOU.
I would like to know how is checking this site.
So please put a note in the comment saying...how you are (if you wish), what were you looking for (even if you ended up here by mistake), where are you in this planet, and any info you want.
I know you are shy and have no time to waste, but I left you alone for 3 years...so please leave a note
Sorry for the delay, but.....believe it or not....I've been busy
U15 Boys Final
Terenure - Lughnasa 18 - 20
Senior Ladies Final
St.Pat's - UCD 19 - 18
Senior Men Final
Dublin Interna
tional - Lughnasa 34 - 27
UCD won the Women's semifinal and have access to the 2008/2009 Finals where they will play St.Pat's for the title.
UCD - Terenure 25-11
U15 Finals will be played in UCD on the 10th of May at 10.45am.
Terenure - Lughnasa
Women's Final will be played in UCD on the 10th of May at 1.30pm
St.Pat's - UCD
Men's Finals will be played in UCD on the 10th of May at 3.30pm.
Dublin International - Lughnasa
Isn't a great sport??
thanks to Emiliano for this Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEqh4DygD60
Lughnasa won the Men's semifinal and have access to the 2008/2009 Finals where they will play Dublin International for the title.
DCU - Lughnasa 32-41
Final will be played in UCD on the 10th of May at 3.30pm.
Women's Final will be played also in UCD on the 10th of May at 1.30pm
(St.Pat's vs winner of UCD-Terenure)
See on the left sidebar the latest results. So here the semifinals
Men's
Dublin International --> 1st place, straight to Final
Semifinal is Lughnasa vs DCU
Women's
St.Pat's --> 1st place, straight to Final
Semifinal is UCD vs Terenure
SM Dublin International - UCD, Saturday 18th April, 2 pm, St. Columbas (not 4pm as announced previously)
SF St.Pat's - UCD, Saturday 18th April, 12pm, Collinstown Sport CC
Andrea Ongaro resigned as IOHA executive board member, as IOHA company director, as Competition Committe chair and Senior leagues organiser.
Got message that Lifestyle Sports are selling blue Adidas Stabil Handball shoes for €70. Kind of historic event for Ireland!!
All results from the Senior, Junior and School leagues are available in the FILES FOLDER box on the left sidebar. It is an excel file to be downloaded...might have to scroll down a bit to see it.
Andres Eiriksson coach of Ireland U15 and head coach of Terenure Handball Club organised this week end Ireland and Scotland joined training camp and set of friendly matches.
These will take place Tallaght on Saturday and UCD-Belfield on Sunday.
Here the Schedule
Saturday
tournmanent in Col, hIde in Tallagth, 12pm-6pm, 2 Scottish teams, 2 Lughnasa teams and Terenure.
Sunday
matches in UCD sport hall.
12:00 Scotland U15 vs. Irish Schools U15 B
13:15 Scotalnd U13 vs. Muslim NS
14:30 Scotland U15 vs. Irish Schools U15 A
15:35 Scotland U13 vs. Irish Schools U13
Added to the left sidebar links to some sport hall where handball games and training are on. Leave a comment if you want me to add some other hall....and may be direction or google link... as I might not know which hall you are talking about. Hope you find it useful.
Sorry, have to put the original version:
Gara nr 143: 3092 GSA Povegliano – 3100 Pall. CamisanoMICHELETTI Milko (3092 GSA Povegliano) SQUALIFICA PER TRE GIORNATE EFFETTIVE DI GARA inquanto dopo una esclusione a qualche secondo dalla fine del 1^ tempo protestavaavvicinandosi all' arbitro con fare minaccioso; si è evitato il contatto fisico per l' intervento deipropri compagni i quali, l' hanno trattenuto; successivamente è stato espulso e dalle tribune pertutta la durata del 2^ tempo proferiva frasi blasfeme e irriguardose nei confronti dello stessodirettore di gara.G.S.A. POVEGLIANO: AMMENDA DI EURO 80,00 (Ottanta) in quanto la Società ha consentito alproprio tesserato di proferire reiterate frasi offensive, dalla tribuna, all' indirizzo dell' arbitro.
Basically this guy (good friend of mine) got three matches suspension for insulting the ref, walking toward them and only being stop by team mates. Hence he got sent off. He kept insulting the ref from the stands for the entire 2nd half. The team got fines €80 because let the players keep going with the insults.
Ah, this is good stuff, good handball!! Missing it a bit.....
I think I should publish more of this.....just to relax a bit....
Find on the left sidebar latest results and the league table.
All results will soon be available on the IOHA official website.
Thanks for the patience
Please look on the Events calendar on the right sidebar for the upcoming January matches.
This calendar is fairly updated. You can access the entire calendar through the icon on the bottom of the box.
MEN
3 Dublin Intern-Kildare , TBD , 17/18 Jan
6 UCD-Kildare , UCD, 15.00, Sunday 25 Jan
17 Dublin Intern-Lughnasa , TBD, 24/25 Jan
WOMEN
10 Lughnasa-St.Pats , St Columbas, 1130. saturday 17 Jan
19 St.Pats-Lughnasa , TBD,24/25 Jan
12 UCD-Terenure ,UCD ,12.00, Sunday 25 Jan
Senior Leagues due to resume with the week end of 17th-18th of January 2009.
The skipped three rounds of matches have been rescheduled.
Round Original Date Re-scheduled date
1 19th Oct 08 18th Jan 09
2 2nd Nov 08 1st Feb 09
3 8th Nov 08 22nd Feb 09
4 6th Dec 08 5th Apr 09
and......
NOLLAIG SHONA AGUS ATHBHLIAIN FAOI MHAISE
Sligo Olympic Handball Association present the Internation Handball Tournament - Boys U15
FOCUS ON EUROPE
"Focus Europe 2009"Handball Tournament
Sligo – Ireland
30. 5. – 1. 6. 2009
for Boys born 1994 and younger
www.sligohandball.org/focus europe 2009.html
Some of you migth have noticed that many of the red spot in the Visitor Map have disappeared.
Dear all, It is my privilege to inform you that the inaugural Cork Handball Tournamentshall commence on 29th/30th November 2008 in the UCC Mardyke Arena, Western Rd.,Cork, Ireland. It is located near UCC on the south-west side of the city. Andit will be played on a proper full size handball court!!!
The format of the tournament will be based on a round-robin format, with thetop two teams progressing to the final. The entry fee is 60 Euro per team.
It would be advisable that you stay in Cork on Friday night if your team arebad morning travellers as we have the hall on both days at 12.00h until 18.00h.
If you are interested put a comment here, with your contact and UCC will get back to you.
ALL,
before telling about the suspension of the senior league, let me remind you one important thing!
Two Clubs haven't registered anybody yet!! Lughnasa F and Dublin International have 0 (zero) players registered.
Let me stress one point. It is not only that I want a record of all players, but the IOHA insurance will cover only the registered players. Do not rely on last year registration as we have a seasonal membership, so last year membership is expired! If you are not registered for the season 2008/2009, you are not insured!! IOHA will not permit to any not-insured players to play in any IOHA competition. Most of you have access to the list of registered players on google documents.
Same apply to all junior players.
League suspension.
After the dark facts of the tri-nation (I wasn't there, I heard the two bells and only feeling I got is that it wasn't pleasant for anybody) the IOHA decided that players and all stakeolder must sign a code of conduct. Certain behaviours are not acceptable. IOHA understand that improvement must be achieved in many areas (such as refereeing/officials.) and will try to focus on these needs, but despite this, in a sport environment (expecially one with a small population like ours), unrespectful and violent behaviour is totally unjustified and not acceptable.
So, the board set up a working group which has the task to prepare the code of conduct that all IOHA members will be required to sign. Understanding that the league schedule preparation is full of limitations (hall availability and time) the working group will try to work on a resonable short timeframe and resume the league after Nov 8th.
M&F Senior Leagues schedule have been finalised and it is available to download (with other useful documents) in the "document box" in the right sidebar
Please note that IOHA continues in its effort in palying only in suitable sizes hall (20x32).
In this vision matches shall not be played in Maynooth (Kildare) , Col de hÍde (Lughnasa F), Collinstown (St.Pat's-Dub Int).
Sorry for late notice in publishing this.
International Handball in Dublin.
Friday 3rd October
Scotland - Dublin Selection 26-25
DCU 6pm
Saturday 4th October
IRELAND - Scotland 22-21
DCU 5pm
Sunday 5th October
IRELAND - Dublin Selection 24-23
DCU 10am
IRELAND wins the three nation for the second time.
Find in the download box the REV 1 of the men's and women's 2008/2009 league schedule.
Final schedule should be published by end of the week, upon revision of team feed-back.
Club is looking for a coach in the Kildare area. If you are interested please leave contact in the comment area or contact the site admin.
Little change in the right navigation bar. A File download box is not available.
There it is possible to find and download various files like:
-League Rules and Regulation
-Entry and Registration forms
-Match Score Sheets
-And more......like coaching courses brochures (see below)
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Here the dates for the Senior and Junior competitions 2008/2009. Also see the IOHA calendar on the right.
Senior league dates
18/Oct/2008, 1,8,22/Nov/2008, 6/Dec/2008, 24/Jan/2009, 7,14,28/Feb/2009, 7,21,28/Mar/2009
Junior League dates
15,29/Nov/2008, 31/Jan/2009, 21/Feb/2009, 4,18/Apr/2009
National Semifinal
18/Apr/2009
National Finals
2/May/2009
Tri Nation Men's
3-5/Oct/2008
Tri Nation Women's
9-11/Apr/2009
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Training camps
Senior Men's
Sept 10-14 Germany
Senior Ladies
Aug 16 UCD
Sept 14 Meath
Oct 24-27 Germany
Boys Under 15
Jul 19Aug 2, 16, 31
Oct 4,24 Nov 21, Dec 12
Jan 30Mar 6, 23May 8,22,30
Boys Under 17
Oct 24 Nov 1, Dec 12
Mar 13
Girls U15
Aug 31
on Sunday the 11th of May UCD hosted the inaugural East Coast Championships.
In all six clubs took part.
Dagda HC won the title at under 16 Level
Lughnasa won at u-14 level.
Results:
Lughnasa 4 - 8 Terenure
Astras 9 - 8 Terenure
Ballinteer 10 - 14 Dagda
Lughnasa 9 - 7Ballinteer
Astras 7 - 15 Dagda
Ballinteer 8 - 8 Terenure
Astras 8 - 9 Kildare
Lughnasa 14 - 11 Dagda
Ballinteer 14 - 7 Kildare
Dagda 16 - 9 Terenure
Lughnasa 8 - 7 Kildare
Astras 8 - 7 Ballinteer
Dagda 13 - 5 Kildare
Astras 8 - 8 Lughnasa
Terenure 9-9 Kildare
National Leagues Finals
Sunday 4th of May 2008, DCU Sport Hall (http://www.dcu.ie/info/get_to.shtml)
Admission is free
Women's
St.Pat's - UCD 10.30 am
Referees Monika Urbanska- Iannik Pomorski . Table Terenure
Boys U14
Terenure - Lughnasa 12.30
Referees UCD .Table Kildare
Boys U16
Lughnasa - Kildare 14.00
Referees Maros Hruska- Peter Hassler. Table DCU
Men's
Lughnasa - DIT 15.30
Referees Maros Hruska- Peter Hassler. Table DCU
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Senior Leagues Semifinals
Sunday 20th of April 2008, DCU Sport Hall
Women's
Terenure - UCD 22 - 24
Men's
DIT - DCU 31 - 22
Check out Lughnasa's new web site.
http://connect.southdublin.ie/lughnasahandballteam
A great prize is there to catch, just visit the site.
-please update your links-
Round 13 Men's March 29th/30th
18 NFR-UCD Clifden, 13:00, Saturday. Referee Peter H(?)
22 DIT-LUGHNASA, TBD
50 KILDARE-ST.PAT'S, Maynooth, 15:00, Sunday. Referee DCU
Round 14 Men's April 5th/6th
42 UCD-ST.PAT'S, UCD, 15:00, Sunday. Referee Lughnasa
4 DCU-NFR, DCU, 10:45, Saturday. Referee DIT
48 LUGHNASA-KILDARE, St.Columba's, 17:30, Saturday. Referee UCD
Round 13 Women's March 29th/30th
18F NFR-UCD Clifden, 14:30, Saturday. Referee Peter H(?)
50F TERENURE-ST.PAT'S, Tallaght, 10:30, Sunday Referee Kildare
Round 14 Women's April 5th/6th
42F UCD-ST.PAT'S, UCD, 13:00, Sunday. Referee UCD
4F DCU-NFR, DCU, 9.30, Saturday. Referee DCU
51F TERENURE-LUGHNASA, Tallaght, 10:30, Sunday. Referee Lughnasa
SemiFinals April 20th in UCD
Finals May 4th in UCD
Senior Men’s
10 UCD - DCU , UCD, 15.20, Sunday, 24 Feb. referee St.Pat's
36 St.Pat's - Lughnasa , Collinstown CC, TBD, TBD, TBD. referee DCU
12 NFR - DIT Clifden, 1pm, Saturday, 23 Feb referee Peter H
Senior Women’s
10F UCD - DCU , UCD, 13.30, Sunday, 24 Feb. referee UCD
17F St.Pat's - Lughnasa , Tallaght CC, 21.00, Friday, 22 Feb. referee Terenure
Senior Men’s
45 DCU - Kildare , DCU, 10.45am, Sunday, 17 Feb. referee DCU L
17 DIT - UCD , St. Columba's 11:30am Sundays 17 Feb. referee Lughnasa
39 NFR - ST.PAT'S Clifden, 1pm, Saturday, 16 Feb referee Peter H
Senior Women’s
39F NFR - ST.PAT'S Clifden, 3pm, Saturday, 16 Feb referee Peter H
Dublin Secondary schools league
1st year Boys
Tallaght CS 19 - Drimnagh castle 6
Top Scorer
Craig Palmer Tallaght 12 Goals
2nd Year boys
Drimnagh Castle 29- Tallaght CS 12
Top Scorer
Jason Germaine Drimnagh Castle 18 Goals
Apologies for last week big mess.
This week end Senior National Selection Training Camp is on, so it will not be easy to find ref. Please help!
Senior Men’s
40 DCU - ST.PAT'S, Collinstown CC, TBD, Saturday, 10 Feb. referee DIT
56 KILDARE - UCD , Maynooth 15:00 Sundays 10 Feb. referee DCU
32 ST.PAT'S - DIT, Collinstown CC, TBD, Sunday, 10 Feb referee Lughnasa
Senior Women’s
56F TERENURE - UCD, Tallaght, 10:30, Sunday, 10 Feb. referee St.Pat’s
28F LUGHNASA - DCU, Col de hÍde, 19:30, Friday, 8 Feb. referee Lughnasa
Also
4 Nations Tournament.
We are organising a tournament over the St.Patrick week end (March 15th and 16th) for both men's and women's. in St.Columba's College. If you are interested just add a comment below or contact either Tom or My self. Please state your Nationality as we will form teams based or contry of origin.
Apologies for last week big mess. Here the schedule for this week end.
A bit of pressure on DCU referees. This is caused by the Senior Selection Teams Trainin Camp which involve most of the available referees.
Senior Men's
40 DCU - ST.PAT'S Collinstown CC TBD Saturday,10 Feb. referee DIT
56 KILDARE - UCD Maynooth 15:00 Sundays, 10 Feb. referee DCU
32 ST.PAT'S - DIT Collinstown CC, TBD, Sunday, 10 Feb. referee DCU
28 LUGHNASA - DCU St.Columba's, 17:30, Saturday, 9 Feb. referee UCD
Senior Women's
56F TERENURE - UCD, Tallaght, 10:30, Sunday, 10 Feb. referee LUGHNASA
28F LUGHNASA - DCU, Col de hÍde, 19:30, Friday, 8 Feb. referee DCU
Result from re-scheduled Match N29.
Lughnasa - DIT 32-23
Disciplinary and other
Seen the Referee reports from the Matches N29 Lughnasa-DIT:
Paul Gray Lughnasa has been suspended for one match for verbally abusing the referee.
To all viewer of http://ireland-handball.blogspot.com/ we wish a very happy and brillant 2008.
Business now. Before Christmas a number of matches were postponed. These matches need to be played as soon as possible. Please have a look at the table below.
Men's League
41 DIT - ST.PAT'S
53 KILDARE - NFR
2 DIT - NFR
37 LUGHNASA - ST.PAT'S
8 UCD - NFR
29 LUGHNASA - DIT
Women's
33F ST.PAT'S - DCU
53F TERENURE - NFR
9F DCU - UCD
31F ST.PAT'S - UCD
8F UCD - NFR
49F ST.PAT'S - TERENURE
1st Years
Tallaght CS Vs Greenhills College 5-0
St Tiernans Vs Coolmine A 3-2
St Kilian's Vs Coolmine B 2-0
Drimnagh Castle Vs Eurocampus 5-0
Semi-final 1
St Kilian's Vs Tallaght CS 3-9
Semi final 2
St Tiernan's Vs Drimnagh Castle 2-6
Final
Tallaght CS Vs Drimnagh Castle 8-0
2nd years
Greenhills College Vs St Tiernan's 9-2
Eurocampus Vs Drimnagh castle 1-9
Ballinteer CS Bye
Tallaght CS Bye
Semi final 1
Drimnagh castle Vs Ballinteer 8-7
Semi-Final 2
Greenhills College Vs Tallaght CS 3-4
Final
Drimnagh castle Vs Tallaght CS 13-3
Final 4th year boys
Eurocampus Vs Coolmine 6-4
Dublin open champions Boys section
1st year Tallaght CS
2nd year Drimnagh castle
4th year Eurocampus
Top scorers
1st years
Craig palmer Tallaght CS 10
2nd Years
Jason Germaine Drimnagh castle 22
Luke Moran Ballinteer CS 6
Craig Foy Greenhills College
The boys section of the Dublin Open Olympic handball championships took place in Inchicore VEC on Wed 12th December. In all seven schools were represented at the event. Tallaght CS, Ballinteer CS, St Tiernan's, Drimnagh Castle, Greenhills College, Coolmine CS and Eurocampus, Clonskeagh ( an amalgamation of the German and french schools) This was a knock out competition from the strat. There were no seedings and the luck of the draw was all that kept you away from some really good teams. The competition was divided into 3 sections 1st year, second year and 3rd/4th year. The idea was that young boys would be able to play with their own class mates as opposed to other sports whereby 1 day either side of a date can put you in another age bracket. The games were fast and furious as each team knew that a loss meant an early shower. Coolmine hedged their bets with two 1st year teams but only their A-squad came close to winning eventually losing on the tightest of margins to St Tiernan's who had un earthed a gem of a player in Hungarian Fazekus, his shooting was unstoppable. in the other first round matches Tallaght St kilian's and Drimnagh castle all progressed. In the semi finals Tallaght easily brushed aside St kilians due to some fantastic team play from seasoned handballers from Lughnasa HC and a new find in craig Palmer who has been signed up by the Tallaght club. unfortunately for St tiernan's although they came up against a relatively new team in Drimnagh castle the castle had an ace up their sleeve. Ireland u-14 goalkeeper darragh Hallows played a personal duel against Fazekus with the Irish keeper coming out on top and his team scoring at will against the St Tiernan's keeper. However in the final a team of seasoned handballers from tallaght CS easily swept aside the Castle to win at 1st year level again in Olympic handball. the school that brought us handball in 1973 is rising again. The second years competition was a fantastic affair. Almost all teams had members of the u-15 Irish squad and the duels on the court made for breath taking games. Greenhills easily swept aside St Tiernan's, castle easily beat Eurocampus. But the match between Ballinteer and Castle was the best match of the day. Speed, jump-shooting, full contact defending the game had everything. Luke Moran with 6 goals and Jason Germaine also with 6 were the stars of the game. At the end they shook hands but in truth this was a war of attrition. Castle had some Irish squad players after this game some of the Ballinteer boys will be asked to join. In truth this was the final and even though Tallaght beat Greenhills by the 1 goal they were annihilated in the final. In the final of the 4th years the boys of Eurocampus beat Coolmine in what was Coolmine's worst display of the season. They never really got going but that was in large part to Julien eberle and his team mates, they kept the pressure on Coolmine all the time and when they eventually thought to mark Julien out of the game his team mates rowed in with some great goals. If you ever wanted your schol to try a different sport this is the time to do it. Boys and girls from Dublin, Wicklow and Kildare have played each other in 5 major tournaments this year and the number is growing. With professional refs at each tournament there is no doubt that Olympic handball is on the up and schools are now deciding to "Create their own Tradition" After the new year St Joseph's Rush, Maryfield College, St Paul's, Presentation terenure will all be joining the competition along with schools from Kildare, Wicklow, Meath, Galway, Mayo and Sligo. If you are interested in playing Olympic handball contact the IOHA on 01-6251165 or e-mail ioha@olympichandball.org or check out the website the Lughnasa Handball club website http://connect.southdublin.ie/lughnasahandballteam/
and get playing.
Tomás Ó Brannagáin (IOHA)
Disciplinary and other.
Seen the Referee reports from the Matches N 19 DCU-UCD :
Lughnasa OHC has been charged a €40 fine for missing Referee commitment.
Senior Men's
UCD - NFR, POSTPONED
DCU - UCD, 10:00 Sunday 9th Dec, DCU, referee Lughnasa
Lughnasa - DIT , POSTPONED
St.Pat's - Kildare, TBD, Collinstown, referee DIT
Senior Women's
UCD - NFR POSTPONED
DCU - UCD, POSTPONED
St.Pat's - Terenure, POSTPONED
St.Pat's - UCD, POSTPONED
Disciplinary and other.
Seen the Referee reports from the Matches N 31 St.Pat's-UCD :
Robert Hamm of UCD has been suspended for one match for being punished with a red card (Disqualification, not sum of three 2min), and the UCD OHC charged with a €20 fine.
St.Pat's OHC has been charged a €10 fine for absence of a table official present.
see new rules...
http://ireland-handball.blogspot.com/2007/11/senior-leagues-new-rules.html
To be confirmed is the communication that UCC withdraw both its teams from the Senior competitions
Senior Men's
14, NFR - DCU, referee Monika, Clifden, 13:00, Saturday, 1st Dec
3, DIT - UCC, TBD
31, St.Pat's - UCD, referee DIT, Collinstown, 12:00, Sunday, 2nd Dec
51, Kildare - Lughnasa, referee UCD, Maynooth, 15:00, Sundays, 2nd Dec
Senior Women's
14F, NFR - DCU, referee Monika, Clifden, 14:30, Saturday, 1st Dec
3F, NO GAME - UCC
31F, St.Pat's - UCD, referee St.Pat's/Kildare, TBD
48F, Lughnasa - Terenure, referee UCD, Col de hÍde, 19:30, Friday, 30th Nov
Senior Men's
Lughnasa - St.Pat's, referee DIT, Sat 5.30pm St Columbas
DIT - NFR ,referee Lughnasa, venue TBD
UCC - Kildare, referee TBD, venue Little Island
Senior Women's
Lughnasa - St.Pat's, referee St.Pat's M, Friday 7.30pm Col de Híde
UCC - Terenure, referee TBD, venue Little Island
Disciplinary and other
Seen the Referee reports from the Matches N9 Lughnasa-UCD and N30 DIT-DCU:
WBof UCD has been suspended for one match for verbally abusing the referee.
CDof UCD has been suspended for five matches for repeatedly abusing verbally the referees and table officials.
MIof DIT has been suspended for two matches for verbally abusing the referee and threatening a player of the other team.
To be confirmed is the communication that UCC withdraw the ladies team from the Senior Women competition
Senior Men's
Lughnasa - UCD referee DCU Sat 5.30pm St Columbas
DIT - DCU referee St.Pat's Sun 3pm Kildare
St.Pat's - NFR referee DIT Sat 4.30 Collinstown
Senior Women's
Lughnasa - UCD referee Lughnasa M Friday 7.30pm Col de Híde
St.Pat's - NFR referee St.Pat's M/NFR Sat 6.00 Collinstown
Disciplinary and other
Seen the Referee report from the Match N24, NFR-Lughnasa, Ciarán ÓBrannagáin of Lughnasa has been suspended for one match for abusing the referee after the final whistle.
The following Rules have been added to the 2007/2008 Competition Rules. These Rules shall be effective form 1st December 2007.
Rescheduling of a Match
And administrative fine will be applied to the responsible team for the re-scheduling of matches
- Basic fee is €20.
- And extra fine of €30 will be applied if the team asking to re-schedule is the away team. These €30 will be credited to the home team toward hall booking fees.
Transfer of Players
Non-Irish players moving to play in the Irish league will have to fill an EHF or IHF International transfer Form accordingly to EHF/IHF transfer regulation. http://home.eurohandball.com/ehf_files/generalHBI/E_EHFRulesofProcedure.pdf http://home.eurohandball.com/ehf_files/generalHBI/E_TransferProcedure.pdf
Fines
A fine of €10 will be applied to the home team if NO Table officials are present at the match.
A fine of €40 will be applied for missing referee commitment.
A fine 0f €20 and one match ban will be applied to player sanctioned with a red card (excluding 3X2min).
Semi-F. and Finalist team must pay all outstanding fees 10 days before the Semi-Finals.
2007/2008 Competition Rules have been sent out to all teams. These new rules are highlighted in bold characters.
Men's
NFR-Lughnasa 33-49
St.Pat's-DCU 32-33
DIT-Kildare 31-21
Women's
NFR-Lughnasa 18-12
UCC -UCC matches (M&W) have been both postponed by UCC request.
St.Pat's -DCU match (W) postponed by St.Pat's request.
As part of a Long Term Players Pevelopment Plan the IOHA entered an women's U20 team in the IHF U20 World Cup.
This is the first time Ireland participate in an IHF top competition.
Qualification matches for the final stage will be played in Iceland on March 21st-23rd 2008.
In the same group with Ireland and Iceland there is Romania, Serbia and Hungary.
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The European Handball Federation has confirmed that the EHF Challenge Trophy (senior men's) is to take place in Luxembourg in October 2007.
Originally scheduled to take place in Glasgow, Scotland, the Luxembourg Handball Federation has stepped in to organise the event following the withdrawal of the Scottish Handball
Association.
Ireland , together with teams from Luxembourg, England, Scotland, Faroe Islands and Malta will take part in the week-long event and challenge for a place in the Challenge Trophy final, which is due to take place during the European Championship in Norway in January.The event is scheduled to take place 23rd to 28th October 2007 in Luxembourg.
See results at http://www.flh.lu/news.htm
here links to the Senior Men's and Women's schedules.
http://www.olympichandball.org/competitions/seniors/Senior07-08/senior-M-07-08.xlr
http://www.olympichandball.org/competitions/seniors/Senior07-08/senior-F-07-08.xlr
Please reports errors.
....almost there...
Deadline for Club registration and Teams entry is the 28th of September
League Matches start on October 13th.
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Summer....not much happens...
Time to think about EHF tournaments. St.Pat's (M&F) and DIT (M) will play in the EHF Challenge Trophy.
Time to think about next season. The Competition commettee will meet on Sunday 24th of June to draw the competition calendar 2007/2008.
Time to enjoy handball in relax. Every Thursday in UCD at 8pm till 10pm...everybody is invited to play.
Time to....add stuff to this Blog. Check the new feature...the calendar on the right-side bar.
Have a nice summer everybody.
Finals held in Killannin co Galway - May 23rd
Senior Girls
Scoil Aine Kylemore 21 - Gairmscoil na Piarsagh Rosmuc 1
Junior Girls
Scoil Aine Kylemore 17 - Sacret Heart Westport 9
Senior Boys
Lycee Francais/St Killians 17 - Gairmscoil na Piarsach 9
Junior Boys
Lycee Francais/St Killians 10 - Gairmscoil na Piarsach 9
Second year Boys
Balinteer Community School 13 - Gairmscoil na Piarsach 7
Second year Girls
St.Paul Dublin 37 - Ursuline College Sligo 5
First Year Girls
St.Paul Dublin 15 - Ursuline College Sligo 11
Candidates to Election
Position Candidates
President Robert Hamm ; Fintan Lyons
Honorary Secretary No Candidates
Honorary Treasurer No Candidates
Rules and Refereeing Officier Monika Urbanska
Ordinary Member 1 Magnus Sean Clarke
Ordinary Member 2 Pádraig Ó Seighin
Also 4 positions are available for each of the following Subcommittee: Competition, Rules and Refereeing, Coaching.
The IOHA AGM will be held at Sport HQ, 13 Joyce Way, Park West, Dublin 12, on Saturday May 26th at 12:00
May 16th Finals
St Paul's Greenhills is 1st year girls 2nd year Dublin Girls Champions
Tallaght C.S. is 1st year Dublin Boys Champions
St Kilian's Vs Tallaght Full time 8-8 AET 8-14
Boys U 14
North Kildare - Lughnasa 20- 30
Lughnasa Irish Champion U18 Men's
Senior Men's
Dagda- St.Pat's 26 - 27
St.Pat's Irish Champion Senior Men's
More pictures at :http://ireland-handball.wetpaint.com/
National Finals
6th May, UCD, Belfield D4
10.45 Boys u14 Semi NFR - Kildare Referee Mick Moloney - Tomás ó Brannagáin
12.00 Boys U14 semi Lughnasa - Terenure Referee Peter Hassler - Flip Kostelka
13.30 Senior Men's Final St.Pat's - Dagda Referee Peter Hassler - Filip Kostelka
15.15 Boys U14 Final Referee Peter Hassler - Filip Kostelka
Dublin Seconday School Championship Finals
May 3rd Finals Results
2nd Year Boys
St.Tiernan's - Ballinteer C.S. 5-6 Ballinteer C.S. is Champion of Dublin
3rd Year Boys
St.Kilian's -Lycee Francais 20-8 St.Kilian's is Champion of Dublin
16th May, Inchicore S.C.
10.30 1st year girls St. Paul's, Greenhills Vs Maryfield College, Drumcondra.
11.30 1st year boys Tallaght Community School Vs St. Kilian's Clonskeagh
12.30 2nd year girls St. Paul's, Greenhills Vs Maryfield College, Drumcondra.
Match 20 minutes a half. 1 time out per half. Match will be decided by two periods of extra time and penalties if it should end in a draw.
Girls U 14
Lughnasa - Na Fianna Rua 12 - 8
Lughnasa Irish Champion U14 Ladies
Female Development League
Na Fianna Rua - Lughnasa 24 - 5
Na Fianna Rua Irish Champion FDL Ladies
Boys U 18
North Kildare - Na Fianna Rua 32- 29
North Kildare Irish Champion U18 Men's
Senior Women's League
DCU- St.Pat's 10 - 26
St.Pat's Irish Champion Senior Women's
Senior Men's Semifinal
DIT - Dagda 26-27
Dagda qualifies for Senior Men's Final
Semifinal A
1st Terenure vs 4th DCU 12-21
DCU qualify for the 2006/2007 Senior Women's Final
Semifinal B
2nd UCD vs 3rd St.Pat's 18 - 22
St.Pat's qualify for the 2006/2007 Senior Women's Final
Senior Women's Final, April 29th 11am in DCU
The IOHA has fixed the AGM for the 26th of May. Expect to receive in your inbox the official confirmation and invitation from the IOHA office, with all relevant details.
Welcome to the New Year
Senior Men
Senior Women
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