Hope that World successes will lead to Handball revival
By Thomas Conway
Six months after Minneapolis glittered in the pomp and pageantry of the Super Bowl, the Minnesota city played host to the somewhat tamer affair of the World Handball Championships, the 16th instalment of a competition which has taken place on Irish, American, Australian, and Canadian soil.
The city boasts the status of being the northernmost location in the US to host a Super Bowl, and now it can add handball’s showpiece event to that list, after a successful two weeks for Irish athletes in Minnesota State University.
By the end of the tournament on August 19th, 12 medals hung around the necks of Tipperary handballers, six of whom came from the north of the county. That contingent included Ballina man James Prentice, Lahorna's Jerome Cahill & Rory Grace, Nenagh's Sinéad Meagher, as well as the Silvermines duo of Brian O’Brien and John Kennedy.
To read more, pick up a copy of this weeks Nenagh Guardian locally or subscribe to our e-paper to access it online each Wednesday.