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\nRobbie McCarthy added another honour to his decorated career<\/p>\n
Roscommon’s Fiona Tully claimed the oneills.com All-Ireland Ladies 4-Wall Senior Singles title for the first time on Saturday while Westmeath’s Robbie McCarthy claimed his eighth title at the National Handball Centre, Croke Park.<\/p>\n
McCarthy was in superb form as he defeated Clare\u2019s Diarmaid Nash 21-19, 21-7, with Tully seeing off Galway\u2019s world champion Ciana N\u00ed Churraoin 21-17, 21-14.<\/p>\n
McCarthy looked comfortable in game one, serving powerfully and taking his chances up front, before Nash found his range and threatened to take the opener, leading 19-18. The Mullingar man, though, found another gear and closed it out with a pass shot down the left which Nash protested should have been called a replay.<\/p>\n
The second game was one-way traffic as McCarthy got on top early and drove on. McCarthy had intimated he was retiring after the Senior Softball Singles final last August but had a change of heart and played as well as ever here.<\/p>\n
“I’d say there’s a lot of people raging I did come back but it’s their fault, a couple of people brought me back to be honest and I just want to say thanks to them people, they know who they are,” said McCarthy.<\/p>\n
“It feels great to be back and pick up another one. I’m just playing for fun now, no pressure, I’m just enjoying myself and it seems to be working. I really appreciate everything everyone did for me this year.<\/p>\n
“I’m not going to say whether I will or whether I won’t (continue to play) because I made that mistake already.<\/p>\n
“I’m just going to play and enjoy myself and if I feel like I’m able to compete and stick with the younger lads, I’m happy. Just enjoying myself and still being around the game is really nice.”<\/p>\n
\nRobbie McCarthy added another honour to his decorated career<\/p>\n
Tully, meanwhile, brought the Ladies Senior Singles title back to the famous St Coman\u2019s club in Roscommon Town for the first time after the first ever all-Connacht Ladies decider.<\/p>\n
Both players looked nervous early on but Tully was able to push on at key moments, including impressively serving three successive aces in one blistering spell in the second game.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know if I thought it was ever going to happen. I’m delighted, finally getting over the line in a big final,” she said.<\/p>\n
“If you had told me last October that I would win two of the big events this year, the Nationals and the All-Ireland, I really don’t think that I would have believed you.<\/p>\n
“Last October, it was so tough to get back into the court. But I got a lot of help from people around me, I haven’t done this by myself throughout the years.”<\/p>\n
The former Roscommon footballer\u2019s journey to the top wasn\u2019t easy, she said.<\/p>\n
“I think I came up to senior when I was 19, Aisling Reilly, Catriona Casey, Martina McMahon were all there… Ciana had been out for a bit because of injury and then she came back. I wasn’t training as I should have been but because I had won stuff when I was younger, I thought ‘oh, the jump up won’t be too bad\u2019. But oh God, it was a lot.<\/p>\n
“I got 21-0 losses off them all, I played in the Golden Gloves and the two games lasted 11 minutes, it was bad\u2026<\/p>\n
“Last year in Clare, Ciana beat me to single figures. But this year I enjoyed my handball a lot more and I think that kind of paid off.<\/p>\n
“This was the fourth time we played this year, she had beaten me in two tiebreakers – I won the first game in both and it was 11-all in the second before she took off and then won the tiebreaker – so I knew I couldn’t let it go to a tiebreaker today if I won the first game.<\/p>\n
“I’m pretty delighted with how I figured out the game today and happy with how I played.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roscommon’s Fiona Tully claimed the oneills.com All-Ireland Ladies 4-Wall Senior Singles title for the first time on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-347766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}