Reilly and Brady add US to World handball titles
Recently crowned World Handball Open singles champions, Paul Brady and Aisling Reilly, have followed up their Citywest success with impressive US Open title wins this week.
Recently crowned World Handball Open singles champions, Paul Brady and Aisling Reilly, have followed up their Citywest success with impressive US Open title wins this week.
World Handball Champion Aisling Reilly tells Brian Carthy that she 'climbed a mountain' to win the title
Brian Carthy reports on Paul Brady's fourth men's handball world title and Aisling Reilly's women's final success
Aisling Reilly won the Women's Singles World Championship with a tie-break victory over her St Paul's club-mate Fiona Shannon.
Aisling Reilly and Fiona Shannon, two of Antrim's best hanball exponents, will go head to head this weekend for a place in the 2012 GAA Handball senior final in early April.
Following her Ladies Open victory at the Golden Gloves in Belfast last weekend, Antrim's Aisling Reilly has moved to the top of the Irish rankings for the first time.
Antrim's Aisling Reilly goes in search of a first GAA Handball All-Ireland Senior Singles title on Saturday next when she takes on Kerry ace Maria Daly at St Coman's, Roscommon.
The top four female handballers in the country will battle it out this weekend in the GAA Handball All-Ireland Senior Singles semi-finals, with Antrim's Aisling Reilly facing a tough battle in Kingscourt (Cavan) against the in-form, Anna Wrynn from Kildare.
Antrim's Fiona Shannon defeated fellow Belfast handballer, Aisling Reilly in the Ladies Open Final at the World Handball Championships in Portland, Oregon.