At one time, there were anything up to 1,500 of them, dotted around the country.

Mallow star Killian Carroll picked up the biggest win of his career on Saturday when he won the Canadian Nationals Open Singles title with a hugely-impressive straight games final win over American No 1 Luis Moreno.

The eagerly-awaited first round of the men’s Open Singles serves off today at the World Handball Championships in CityWest, with the meeting of Cork’s Tony Healy and rising New York star Tyree Bastidas arguably the tie of the round.