A great weekend of racquetball was had for the 60X30 All-Ireland Singles Championships which took place at the Wexford venues.
Paddy Boland from the Templeudigan club won his first 60X30 All-Ireland Singles title defeating his club-mate Sean O’Neill in an excellent final at Gusserane. 
Niamh Murphy(Templeudigan) claimed her third 60x30 senior title against an impressive and skilful Hannah Keating from Cloughbawn. 
Don Lawlor  from Clogh took the Men’s B final title this year in an outstanding final and impressive display against club-mate Enda Gannon. 
Well done to Noelie Kehoe who produced an impressive display in the Men's C Singles final against Paddy Whelan (Gusserane) in another great final at Gusserane. 
Bob Whitty(Cloughbawn) had an excellent 3-1 win against Jack Carroll from Clogh in the D Singles Final.
The Men's Novice singles was won by Jason O’Grady (Gusserane) who defeated Michael Kelly (Templeudigan) in a close final by 3 games to 2.
In the Women's competitions,  Annie Greene (Templeudigan) and Fiona Kyne played a thrilling final at Templeudigan with Annie taking the Ladies Intermediate title  on a scoreline of 3-1. 
The Novice Singles ladies final was very entertaining with sisters Amanda & Tracey Power, both from the Gusserane club involved. An excellent tie-breaker again with Tracey winning the title.  
Shane O’Dowd from Clogh who took the boys U16 title in a superb final at Ballyanne with a nail biting 12-10 tie-breaker against Joey Gaffney. 
Congratulations also to Sophie Kehoe(Ballyanne) on winning the U16 girls final against her cousin Aoife Ryan. 
45 players participated in the 60X30 All-Irelands over the weekend. Well done to all involved! 

Photo: 60x30 All Ireland Senior Singles Champions 2026 - Niamh Murphy(Templeudigan) & Paddy Boland(Templeudigan)

Double joy for Joseph Farrell

Rossmore's Aisling Hickey captured her 14th National Open Singles title at the 2026 All Ireland Singles & Doubles Championships held in Kingscourt Handball & Racquetball Club. The record breaking Tipperary woman defeated Antonia Neary of Arklow in the final.

The Men's Singles title was retained by Joe Dillon of Kingscourt. Playing at his home venue, Dillon defeated Kilkenny's Mark Murphy in a close final by 3 games to 2.

The only player to win two singles title was Joseph Farrell. The seventeen year old Arklow student won both the C Singles title and the B Singles title. He now becomes one of the youngest players to join the top ranks in Irish Racquetball.

The Women's B Singles won by Niamh Murphy(Templeudigan) who will play in the Open ranks next season. Promoted to the B  grade for her win the Women's C Singles is Abbie O'Meara from Fermoy.

​In the other Singles divisions, there were wins for Billy Nolan(Clogh/Moneenroe) in Men's D Singles while Fiona Kyne from Castlebar was the winner of the Women's D Singles.
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​The Novice divisions were highly competitive with Dan Coogan from the Clogh/Moneenroe club winning the title. Sophie O'Flynn (Fermoy) made up for her loss in the Novice Singles at last years Championships defeating the youngest competitor at the Championships 13-yerar-old Lucy Murphy(Castlebar)
All the Doubles division saw competitive matches and the full results of the championships can be viewed on R2Sports