Hopes are high that One Wall handball could yet be included as a demonstration event at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Cavan’s Paul Brady and Michael Finnegan won their eighth O’Neill’s All Ireland 40x20 Senior Doubles title on Saturday in Cappagh, Co Limerick.

The fixing of the Dalkia All-Ireland Handball championship finals for O'Loughlin Gaels in Kilkenny this weekend has led to anger among Ulster Council handball officials and players.

CORK’S Tony Healy cemented his place as top seed when defeating Dublin’s Eoin Kennedy to take his third consecutive senior men’s crown at the Envirogreen Resource Nationals in Kilkenny yesterday.

THE courts of Kilkenny and Carlow come alive today when the top handballers go to battle in the Envirogreen Resource Irish National Finals.

IRELAND’S chances of keeping the men’s world handball singles title will become clearer in Canada tonight as the quarter-finals get under way in Edmonton.

WORLD and US Open singles and doubles champion Paul Brady and Tony Healy of Cork will lead the Irish handball team in the forthcoming Waterford Crystal World Handball Championships in Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, from August 4-13.

Cavan man Paul Brady is well used to blazing a trail in the handball world, but he could notch another milestone at the 2006 Waterford World Handball Championships in Edmonton next month.

ALL but one of the Irish competitors were victorious on the first day of the Men's and Women's Open events in the World Handball Championships.

OVER 1,000 competitors from eight countries are gathering in Kilkenny for the 2003 World handball championships which begin this Friday.