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Sinéad Moriarty (Spa), Síle Kelliher (Fossa) and Niamh Faulds (Glenflesk) who will be competing at the Spa Killarney Handball Tournament on Saturday.

By Con Dennehy

Handball is set to be off the wall in Killarney this weekend when some of the leading up and coming stars of Irish handball fight it out for top honours at the Spa 1 Wall Slam competition.

Hosted by the progressive Spa Killarney Handball Club, this national tournament takes place at the magnificent Spa GAA facility. The action will get underway today (Saturday) at 11.30am.

“We are delighted with the response and will have 40 players in various grades competing in 50 games during the day,” said Eoin O’Donoghue, Tournament Director and PRO of the Spa Killarney Handball Club. “There will be plate and cup competitions for five grades including Men’s B, Men’s C, Ladies’ B, Ladies’ C and Masters 45-plus.”

The tournament has attracted players from Kerry, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Mayo, Roscommon, Galway and Dublin. Killarney players are expected to feature prominently on the winner’s podium with Brendan O’Donoghue tipped for honours in the Masters category. In the 2019 Munster Master A competition, O’Donoghue became the first Spa/Killarney man to win a Munster championship silver medal and an All-Ireland handball silver in the highly ranked Master's 55 B final.

In the Ladies B competition, Aoife Walsh (Spa Killarney), a winner at the ‘She’s Ace’ Tournament in Northern Ireland earlier this year, is also tipped for success along with her club colleagues Sinead Moriarty and Niamh Faulds in the Ladies C tournament.

Other Killarney competitors expect to challenge for top honours include Sarah Dineen, Neill Horgan, David Gillespie, Kieran O’Brien, Sheila Kelliher, Bríd Horgan and Laura Sweeney.

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