GAA Handball

Handball is a fast paced, highly skillful, hugely entertaining, and fully inclusive sport. The fitness benefits of the game are vast. Speed, agility, endurance, flexibility, and bilateral coordination all come in to play in the sport that once you play for the first time, you wont ever want to stop. But what makes this game so great is that all you require to play is a ball and a wall. It’s really that simple!

In Ireland, there are four codes of Handball; 40×20, One-Wall, 60×30 and Hardball. The 40×20 and One-Wall codes are the two international codes, whilst the 60×30 and Hardball codes are traditional Irish games. Up coming fixtures and competitions in handball can be found here.

The primary aim of any Handball match is to make the ball hit the front wall and bounce once before your opponent can return it. What varies between the four codes is the number of walls in the court, the size of the court and the type of ball used. Click on the link to find out more on the rules of handball.

Juvenile Training and Achievements

Juvenile Training currently takes place every Wednesday evening from 6pm to 7pm and is conducted by David Tobin. All juveniles of all ages, both boys and girls attend this training. New juveniles are very welcome to attend this training. Gloves, goggles and a ball are provided during the training.

Stefan Tobin has won the school Munster Handball competition against Cork in the final, representing the Gaelschoil and Carrick-on-Suir Handball club in 2017. From this, Stefan went on to represent Munster in schools handball finals. Stefan won the U11s school's singles handball county final in 2017 and the U10s Tipperary county singles handball 40x20 final in 2017. He has also won the Tipperary County Final U10s in the 60x30 handball in 2016.

Tadgh Quinlan has played in U12s 40x20 Tipperary county final in 2017 and again in the U11s 60x30 Tipperary county Final in 2016. Henry Kirby and Rian Power played in the U10s doubles Tipperary county 40x20 final in 2017. Stefan Tobin and Tadgh Quinlan also won the south Tipperary finals doubles in U10s and U11s in the 60x30 handball in 2016.

Adult Achievements of the Club

In 2003, Jason Tobin won the All-Ireland Junior B 40x20 singles championship and got to the world handball final that year. Derek Tobin and David Butler won the U15 doubles All-Ireland in 1995. David Tobin has won the over 40's doubles Munster title in 2012. In 2015, he won the All-Ireland 60x30 Masters B Singles and the doubles All-Ireland with Eddie Farrell in the same year, as seen in the photograph on the right. The president of the club, Patsy Tobin won a Munster title in his younger years. In 2011, Stephen Moroney won the Team of Six All-Ireland U16/17.

The club has also won many (to many to count) Tipperary county 40x20 final medals with various people, some of these include: Paul Tobin, Christopher Mcgrath, Gerard Tobin, Paul Casey and also the people named above who won county and Munster finals in order to get to the All-Ireland finals.