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Playing Handball

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Fast... skilful... fun! 

Handball is a fast-paced, highly skilful, hugely entertaining, and fully inclusive sport. The fitness benefits of the game are vast. Speed, agility, endurance, flexibility, and bilateral coordination all come in to play in the sport that once you play for the first time, you wont ever want to stop. But what makes this game so great is that all you require to play is a ball and a wall…..it’s really that simple! 

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There are four codes of handball: 4-Wall, Wallball, 60×30 (Softball and Hardball).

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Discover the fast‑paced, skillful, and inclusive world of GAA Handball.