Eugene begins his singles campaign this weekend

Eugene O'Reilly first Crossakiel player to represent Meath in a decade

Eugene O’Reilly in Leinster action this weekend

Leinster handball championships 40 x 20 Saturday January 23rd in Leixlip at 6.30 p.m

Junior B singles: Eugene O’Reily (Mh) v Daniel Fenlon (Carlow)

Crossakiel club player Eugene O’Reilly will begin his Leinster singles campaign with a fixture against Carlow’s Daniel Fenton. O’Reilly who reached the 2008 Leinster final will be eager to get to the Leinster final and that aim will start in Leixlip on Saturday evening next. Last Thursday Reilly & Peter Flanagan secured a win over Wexford’s Mick Donovan & Ronan Greene in the 1st round of the Leinster Jun B doubles.

Winning start for Eugene O'Reilly & Peter Flanagan in Leinster Handball 40 x 20 Championships

Eugene O'Reilly & Peter Flanagan Meath's Junior B Doubles 2010
Leinster 40x20 Championship
Junior B Doubles 1st Round
Thursday 14th January, Ballymore Eustace, Co.Kildare

Eugene O'Reilly/Peter Flanagan (Meath) dft Mick Donovan/Ronan Green (Wexford) 21-8, 21-10.

The Crossakiel/Kells partnership of Eugene O’Reilly and Peter Flanagan started off this year’s Leinster 40x20 doubles championship with a good win in Ballymore Eustace against Wexford pairing Mick Donovan and Ronan Green from the Barntown Handball Club, located just outside Wexford town.

The Wexford pair scored the first ace of the game to go 1-0 up, but Meath then took control and once they regained the serve they then went into the lead and dominated the first game thanks to some fine serving from Flanagan. The first game finished 21-8 in favour of Meath duo.

The second game started off slow for the Meath pair, going 5-0 down but they regained their composure and reeled in the scores to level at 5-5. From then on, this game was a much tighter affair with neither side seemingly able to find any rhythm, but then the Meath lads started to show their class. With the scores tied at 10-10 Wexford went in to serve, but with a well placed defensive shot deep into the left corner from O’Reilly and then a nice kill from him to the front right the Meath men regained the serve without dropping a single ace. This passage of play seemed to spur them on and they closed out the second game 21-10 to take the match.

Eugene O'Reilly represents Crossakiel in Leinster 40 x 20 handball Championships 2010

Hoping for more silverware in 2010. Peter Flanagan Kells & Eugene O'Reilly Crossakiel


06/01/2010
For the first time in a decade a Crossakiel player will represent the club in the Leinster 40 X 20 Championships. That distinction falls upon Eugene O'Reilly. Eugene has been knocking on the door for the last number of years. In 2008 he reached the final of the singles and last year reached the doubles with Kells man Peter Flanagan. Just last October the duo reached the Quarter-finals of the World Handball Championships before bowing narrowly out to the eventual champions.
The 28 year-old Longford based Engineer is training twice a week with the Kells handball players and with Galway's Pat Conway in Abbeylara. Eugene is looking forward to the start of the championships "We are hoping to getting back into the final and going one better."

The first round of the doubles takes place in Ballymore Eustace next Thursday evening. The Slaneysiders are relatively unknown and so the Meath team cannot take anything for granted. However the Crossakiel/Kells combination should have enough experience to see them through.

Best of luck Eugene.

Leinster 40 x 20 Champions Thursday, January 14th in Ballymore Eustace
8.00. JBD Peter Flanagan/Eugene O’Reilly (M) v Mick Donovan/Ronan Greene (Wx)

Historic wins for Gary Reilly & Sarah McDermott

Historic wins for Reilly & McDermott
For the first time in over 20 years the Crossakiel Handball Club held a Juvenile one-wall handball competition for boys & girls at Under-14 level on Sunday December 27th last.
Just 6 weeks ago the club reformed with renewed hope and vigour. There was some fantastic handball fare in evidence. Gary Reilly & Ricky Dermott both qualified for the Boys singles final with inspired wins over James Baugh & Eoghan McCabe respectively. In the final itself Gary Reilly wearing the Celtic jersey tore into Ricky McDermott in the opening exchanges. From a 5-4 lead Gary Reilly the Crossakiel Celt took complete control. And the skills on show by both players had to be seen to be believed considering these players only starting playing handball 4 weeks ago. Already Head Coach Eugene O’Reilly is doing a fantastic job in coaching the club’s young players. Gary Reilly extended his lead with pin point serving and added to some sublime aces to McDermott’s left and right side. McDermott never gave up trying but Reilly’s extra class told as he raced to an impressive 21-5 win.
There was consolation for the McDermott’s when Ricky’s sister Sarah won the girls competition winning impressively in the round robin finale. Eugene O’Reilly presented the winners & runners-up with their prizes. More competitions for the club’s younger members will take place in the next number of months.
James Baugh, Johnny Reilly, Jack Tunney, Hugh McCaffrey, Eoghan McCabe, Thomas Briody, Deborah McCabe, Aoife Tunney, Sarah McDermott, Gary Reilly & Ricky McDermott all participated in the Christmas competition.

We hope to have the club website up and running in the next 2-3 weeks and will be adding lots of old photos of the open court, players etc and adding some articles. The Club colours will be black/white and red. In the old days the playing shirts was black and white while in more recent years it changed to red and white the parish colours of Ballinlough GFC. Following a recent meeting it was agreed to change the colours back to the original club colour and still having red in it. Merging of the old and new playing shirts together.

Peter Flanagan Kells & Eugene Reilly Crossakiel Leinster Convention Winners 2008

Great to have Eugene a fully fledged Crossakiel man at last

Press Release on Crossakiel Handball Club reopening

Handball is back in Crossakiel

After a lapse of 7 years the Crossakiel Handball Club is back in business. Over 30 people from Crossakiel including past players and officials attended the historic meeting on Tuesday November 10th last. Chairing the meeting was Niamh Egan Promotion & Media Officer Irish Handball Council in Croke Park.
Chairman - Stephen Quinn
Vice Chairman - Fergal McCabe
Secretary - John Reilly
Assistant Secretary - Eugene O'Reilly
Treasurer - Eddie Brady
Assistant Treasurer - Pat Baugh
P.R.O - Michael McGee
Assistant P.R.O - Susan Farrell
First Aid Officer/Safety Officer - Stephen Quinn
Membership Officers - Eddie Brady & Pat Baugh
I.T Officers - Stephen Quinn/Michael McGee
Caretaker - Mark Farrell
Assistant caretaker - Vinny Farrell
Committee - Patrick McDonnell, Cathal Flynn, David Reilly, Robbie Farrell, Mick Geraghty, Kevin Reilly, Kevin Gaughran, John Farrell, Seamus McCafferty, Peter Tunney.
Club Trustees - Hughie Reilly, Kevin Reilly, Georgie Baugh

Taking the Chair the new Chairman Steven Quinn said “ So many years have passed without our involvement in handball, which has been a great shame, but my ambition is to see the club rise from the flames & be represented at the highest level once again. In my eyes Crossakiel will once again become a handball force to be reckoned with - The club has been re-born. A very special thanks to everyone who kept believing that we could get the game up & running again.”
“The future plan is to someday have our own 40x20 court, but for now the plan is to get the game moving again. To all in the parish who have since passed away, you will always be remembered. Thank you for the inspiration & support.”
Michael McGee
P.R.O. Crossakiel Handball Club (087) 7703432