County Handball Notes (03/01/2023)

Monaghan County Handball Table Quiz:

The 2023 Monaghan County Handball Table Quiz will be taking place this Friday evening (6^th Jan) at 8.30pm in Terry’s Bar, Monaghan Town. All Welcome. We encourage you to invite your friends and family to attend what will undoubtedly be a great night’s craic. A fantastic range of questions and indeed prizes will be on offer. Table of 4 – €40. All proceeds raised will go towards the development and promotion of handball in County Monaghan.

Club Notes:

Emyvale Handball Club

Juvenile County Championships Best wishes to Dylan McKenna who will be playing Monaghan Harps’ Ethan McCarron in the U17 Boys County Final this Sunday, January 8^th in St Mellans HC. The County Juvenile Finals start at 12 noon on Sunday, beginning with the U12 Finals.

Adult County Championships Best wishes to Callum Gallagher who has reached the U21 County Final. Callum will be playing either David Connolly or Conor Ruxton in the Final. Dates and times of both the Semi-Final and Final have yet to be confirmed at time of going to press.

New One-Wall/Wallball Court for Emyvale Good progress is being made behind the scenes to make our new indoor One-wall court a reality. With confirmation just before Christmas that we were successful in our Youth Fund Grant application, funded by the EU Peace (Northern Ireland – Ireland) programme, we are delighted that we have finances secured to proceed with the project. There are just a few more hurdles to clear before the new court is installed and we hope to have the new facility installed hopefully by the end of January.

Club Gear We should hopefully be receiving our Club Gear order from Playr-Fit in the next week or two. We will share updates on this in the Club WhatsApp group.

St.Mellans Handball Club

Juvenile County Championships. We are hosting the juvenile single county championship finals on Sunday in St.Mellans, we have 8 club players in action representing the club, in the girls U12’s is Beibhinn Mc Cluskey, in the U12 boys is Shay Mc Kenna, in the U13 boys is Odhran Mc Meel, the girls U14’s is an all club affair with Leah Mc Carron & Fionnuala Mohan, in the boys U14’s is Harry Treanor, in the U15 boys is Myles Mc Meel and in the boys U16 final is Donnacha Mc Cluskey, all have put in a great effort to get there so let’s hope for big final push to the summit, good luck to all from all in the club, full report next week.

Adult County Championships. The adult county championships will resume now in the new year, so please double check and make sure all know the time & place, good luck to all taking part, all players must wear “club colours” when playing in county games, also county doubles only around the corner, so get teamed up and practising.

Mono League. The Mono league knock out games will be sorted out this week, good luck to all teams that made it!

Adult Club Singles & Doubles. We will be soon starting the adult singles & doubles in the club, so when a message goes out please reply to Eoin ASAP with an answer, and anyone that couldn’t commit to the league but wants to play singles or doubles get your name into Eoin ASAP.

Juvenile Coaching & Leagues. We be resuming juvenile leagues and coaching next week, so messages will be sent out, we also hope to set up a new league structure to bring us up the end of the handball season and to end on an exciting conclusion!!!!!!!

Registration. If any member still hasn’t paid their “club Membership” can do so through Foireann,, so go to www.foireann.ie and get registered and paid up, any issues contact a member of the committee, NB players are not eligible to play in county, provincial or All Ireland events if not registered with Croke Park.

County Table Quiz. Monaghan County Handball will be holding a table quiz in “Terrys Bar” Monaghan town this Friday evening January the 6th @ 8:30pm, so keep the date free!!!!, blow a few feathers off after Christmas.

Meetings. Our next club meeting is on Monday evening January the 9th.