All Ireland Title for Kells Handball

12 July 2014


On the 12th July Kells Junior Handball team travelled to Kingscourt, Co Cavan to compete in the All Ireland series of the 60x30 Interclub championships having beaten Crinkle of Offaly in the Leinster final. The team was made up of Brendan Burke, Diarmuid Burke, Dan Breen, Anthony Martin and Ger McGrath.
In the semi final the Kilkenny team met Brackey of Tyrone who had recent Irish Open One Wall champion Conor McElduff on board. Incidentally Brackey beat the Kells lads in the 40x20 All Ireland final six months previously. A strong performance throughout saw Kells beat Brackey on a comprehensive scoreline of 105-53 to qualify for the final later that day. Their opponents were Fenagh from Leitrim who had received a walkover from Mallow in the other semi final. Another great performance from the Kells lads saw them overcome the Connacht champions 87-56 to claim the All Ireland Junior title.
Following on from their double Junior B All Ireland success of 2013 this was a fantastic result for the lads and the club in the highly competitive Junior grade and gives them their 3rd club All Ireland title in two seasons and next season sees them move on to compete in the Intermediate grade.
Photo attached - from left to right ( Dan Breen, Brendan Burke, Anthony Martin, Diarmuid Burke and absent from photo is Ger McGrath )