Another busy weekend for Dublin International, but this time it’s for the Irish cup.
This season, the Irish cup will be played in two rounds, one in November (this weekend, 28th and 29th of november) as group stages and one in the last week end of February (the 27th and 28th) as play offs. Both events will be hosted in Gormanstown college. Read More
Dear Club Members,
DIHC is pleased to invite you and 
your partner to DIHC’s 2015 Christmas Party (1 partner max per club member! But you can bring a couple of friends assuming they can speak Handball…). Starting at 7.30 pm at The Grafton Lounge on the 5th of December 2015 – Link to Map. Read More
Sat 7th of November: Astra HC vs DIHC in Loughlinstown Community Centre at 18.30
Dublin International HC Ladies get an important victory against big rival – Astra HC. Read More
Sun 1st of November: UCD vs DIHC in UCD sports centre at 10.30 am
Only a week after winning the Edinburgh International Handball Tournament, DI ladies were impatient to start the IOHA league. Unfortunately a lot of the players were sick or unavailable for this first match… Read More
Dublin International secured their 4th All Ireland Championship in a row with a convincing 26-18 win over a gutsy DCU. DI HC took the lead from the start and never looked back. DCU had DI on the ropes narrowing the lead down to 3 goals, 19-16 but the experience of DI HC showed in the end. This means DI HC are undefeated for the last 4 years.
The win secured DI HC ticket to European handball in October. The only question is, will they participate in the EHF Cup or the EHF Challenge Cup.
Finally IOHA Cup Winners!!!
Dublin International added to their impressive medal haul by taking the IOHA Cup, beating UCC 22 – 21 in a hard fought match. The win cements DI HC’s dominence of Irish handball and qualifies the cup to the EHF Cup Winners Cup next autum.
The win marks a historic day in DI HC’s history as Irelands most prolific team in recent years.
Sunday 23rd of October 2011 saw a start of DI HC campaign in 2011/2012 Irish Handball Premier League. Astra HC was the opponent and Belfield was the venue.
With a heavy hearts for the prematurely lost handball great Iztok Puc, teams lined up hoping for a good launch of the league campaign. Strong defending from the start was the reason for unusual 0-0 score after more than four minutes. Kari Andresson then broke the deadlock and Dublin International boys took the matters under their control. Ten minutes later the score showed 7 – 3 to The Internationals. Astra HC fought well with their mix of experience and youth on the roster. Their chance came towards the end of the first half when Andresson a young Irish international earned himself two 2 minute suspensions in quick succession. Astra not only failed to capitalize, but went another goal down. DI HC went on a break with six goals lead. Second half was much of a same affair. Rhythm of the game dropped a bit and DI HC controlled the game till the end.
After 60 minutes the score board showed DI HC 33 – 21 Astra HC.
Andresson 12, Martinonis 8, Celko 5, Ciba 3, Grassl 3, Donner 2, Selak, Fredin (9)
Man of the Match: Kari Andresson
Dublin International where drawn in the first round of this years Challenge Cup against 3 english teams and 1 maltese. The tournament will allow only 1 team to progress to the knock out stage. The venue of the knock-out tournament is not yet set but should be published very soon.
Dublin International HC
Great Dane HC (ENG)
Aloysians ProMinent (MLT)
Ruislip Eagles HC (ENG)
EHF Club Competition Draws
The first draw of the new season for the remaining EHF club competitions, such as the EHF Cup, Cup Winners’ Cup and Challenge Cup (Men and Women) will take place on Tuesday, 26 July 2011 at 11.00 hrs at the EHF Office in Vienna.
Dublin International Handball Club started the preparation for the next season with mix of old and new players on this season’s roster. The team again gained some great players and some talents for the future and everyone is excited to see them in action. Only losses to the team are Jasmin Nukic whose work took him to Kuwait and Chris O’Reilly, whom we expected to rejoin the team after spending a year in UCD HC. Instead Chris accepted an offer of contract in Germany. Good Luck Chris and Jasmin! Back bone to the team remained mostly unchanged and the roster is almost finalized. Another keeper is a must and a lefty or two would not come astray. Read More