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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

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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

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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

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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-

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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)

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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