Talk:Gaelic handball

top handballers
The top handballers play on a Pro tour in the US. At the moment the top players include the likes of Ireland's Paul Brady, Tony Healy and America's Dave Chapman and Naty Alavarado Jnr.

The game requires unrivalled skill and dexterity and it's "perpetual motion" type action is used to train US astronauts.

Name
I have never, ever heard it called "Gaelic Handball". Always 'Handball' in English, or 'Liathróid Láimhe' in the Irish. Perhaps 'Handball (GAA)' would be a better title? 193.1.172.163 12:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe "Gaelic Handball" is required in order to avoid confusion with other handball sports.--Casaforra 09:42, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Broken link
A supossed webpage about Irish Handball,, leads nowhere.

Some more modalities
http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joc_de_pilota

Origins
Basque pilota is commonly known as deriving from the French Jeu de paume. Same for the "Gaelic Handball"? --Casaforra 09:42, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

long list of people
A large list was added. I removed it, as such lists are not usually appropriate for sport articles...possibly if there is a specific championship, they might belong there with sourcing. I can't see it here.- Sinneed  13:14, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Merger into Wall handball?
It seems to me that this article and the articles on American handball and Australian handball are all really about the same sport and that the games played in the US and Australia all originated from the Irish game when they were brought there by Irish immigrants. I think the three articles should be merged into a single article called "Wall handball". There's a precedent for using the name "wall handball" since it appears on the official site of the World Handball Council. I'm not knowledgeable enough to say for sure or not if the rules and history of the sport in the three countries are different enough to justify there being three articles for them, though. I'd like to know what everyone else thinks. Sky Blu 2 (talk) 18:35, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Info needed
The article says games are played to a set number of points. Is there a set standard? If so, how many points is it? Are the courts covered as is usual in the U.S.? Also, there is no mention of the ball. I assume it is the same as -- or nearly so -- that used in the American game. Is that so? Kdammers (talk) 06:23, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Further point of information requested: "All you have to do is hit the ball with or without fulls (depends on location)." My question is... What the heck are "fulls"? OffColfax (talk) 05:25, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

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Location of the handball alley
"Boys playing handball at a handball court in Ireland in the 1930s" is located at the old school of the Augustinians in New Ross. I attended the school in the 80s. 2001:BB6:23D:1300:3827:FC20:2FFD:1BF0 (talk) 22:53, 3 May 2024 (UTC)