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Fox & McGinnity seal Minor titles

Tyrone's Mairead Fox & Monaghan's Eoghan McGinnity secured the delayed 2020 All-Ireland Minor 4-Wall titles at the weekend, both seeing off their Kilkenny opponents at Kingscourt.

Fox's fast tempo style combined with her attacking power play saw her oust Noelle Dowling 21-11, 21-7 to become the first winner of the new Julie Long Cup, in memory of the former St Brigid's (Dublin) handball star.

In the Men's Minor Final, McGinnity cruised to the first 21-3 before Kilkenny's Billy Drennan responded to force a tiebreaker 21-16. McGinnity took an early 5-0 lead in the third game, and always held a small cushion of a lead throughout the tiebreak as he ran out victorious 21-13. In doing do he became the first player since Robbie McCarthy in 2005 to retain the Minor 4-Wall Singles title.

In other Finals, Shane Dunne (Kilkenny) and Eilise McCrory (Tyrone) sealed their Senior status' by winning their respective Intermediate Finals. Check out the full list of winners below.

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Weekend Results:

  • Minor: Monaghan (Eoghan McGinnity) dft Kilkenny (Billy Drennan) 21-3, 16-21, 21-13
  • U21: Cork (Cian O’Driscoll) dft Louth (Ben Devlin) 21-20, 14-8 ret. inj.
  • Intermediate: Kilkenny (Shane Dunne) dft Monaghan (Gavin Coyle) 21-15, 21-12
  • Junior: Kilkenny (Brian Mahon) dft Tyrone (Gabhain McCrystall) 16-21, 21-12, 21-9
  • 35+: Gavin Buggy (Wexford) dft Shane O'Neill (Tyrone) 21-11, 21-18
  • 45+: Tommy Hynes (Wexford) dft Paul Graham (Antrim) 11-21, 21-17, 21-6
  • 55+: John Herlihy (Cork) dft Frank Daly (Dublin) 21-1, 21-17
  • 60+: Mick Dowling (Kildare) dft Thomas Maguire (Antrim) 21-3, 21-3
  • 70+: Eugene Kennedy (Dublin) dft Seamus Graham (Antrim) 21-5, 21-3
  • Ladies Minor: Tyrone (Mairead Fox) dft Kilkenny (Noelle Dowling) 21-11, 21-7
  • Ladies Intermediate: Tyrone (Eilise McCrory) dft Galway (Ashling Mullin) 21-7, 21-2