The Ireland national handball team is controlled by the Irish Olympic Handball Association (IOHA) and represents Ireland in international

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

matches.

History

Liverpool Airport 4-Nations Championship 1984

In 1984 the team played a 4-Nations Championship in

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. They lost the first game against England 1 to 12, the game against Scotland was lost by 5 to 20 and the final game against Wales they lost 14 to 16. They finished last place in the tournament.

EHF Challenge Trophy 2009

The Irish Men's team finished in 3rd place of the group G2 in the

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trophy in

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. The 3rd place finish was the best result an Irish team achieved in the prior 10 years of the competition. Ireland played the hosts

in the first match at the University Sports Hall. In front of a home Maltese crowd, the Irish were down at half time by 20:7. In the second half, Ireland ended up being beaten by a 36 to 20 score line. During the game, a foul on

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's Brian Campion resulted in a straight

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for a Maltese player. The second game of the tournament for the Irish saw them taking on the eventual winners

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. The Finns won by 38 goals to 19. Ireland's third game was against Scotland. The Scottish team, which had 4 players from the Great Britain Olympic Program, led 15:14 at halftime. However, the Irish ultimately won by 35:29. In addition to winning the bronze medal at the tournament, middle-back player Oisin O'Brannagain was voted onto the tournament's all-star team.

EHF Challenge Trophy 2011

The 2011 edition of the EHF Challenge Trophy took place at the University of Limerick. The first game with eventual champions, the Faroe Islands, ended in a 30–20 defeat. In the second match, Georgia defeated Ireland by 37–21. The final game was against England and, while Ireland took a 15–11 lead in the first half, the game ended 29–24 to England.

2012

The team competed in the 2014 European qualifiers for the first time in June 2012. All three matches, however, resulted in significant losses.

IHF Emerging Nations Championship record

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

– 13th place *

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

– 12th place *

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

– 11th place

References

External links

Official websiteIHF profile
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