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Contents 1 top handballers 2 Name 3 Broken link 4 Some more modalities 5 Origins

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] Broken link

A supossed webpage about Irish Handball, [1], leads nowhere.

[edit] Some more modalities

http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joc_de_pilota

[edit] 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)