Basketball
UL is due to host the FIBA Men’s European Championship for Small Countries in Limerick in June 2021.
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Basketball Ireland confirmed this morning that participation fees for Division 1 teams have been reduced to €250 per club for the 2020/21 season. Limerick Celtics and UL Huskies will play in the Division 1 South Conference this season, following the new Conference format that was also announced this morning. The four teams filling the Celtics’…
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The MNCC has confirmed which teams will compete in each of the Men’s Super League and Division One Conferences, with four new sides also joining Division 1 next season. Limerick clubs, Limerick Celtics and Limerick Sport Eagles will compete in the The Division 1 South Conference. They will be joined by two Killarney clubs, Scott’s Lakers…
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New dates for the Men’s European Championship for Small Countries, due to be held in Limerick have been confirmed. The 2020 tournament, which was postponed in April because of the Covid-19 pandemic, will now take place from June 28th to July 3rd 2021 at the University of Limerick. The board of FIBA Europe has also confirmed the…
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Limerick Celtics duo Sabhdh Edwards and Eve Nealon will begin their Basketball scholarships in America later this year after they were both awarded with the delas in 2019. Edwards is headed for Akron, Ohio while Nealon is headed for Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. The Division One University of Akron Ohio have awarded Sabhbh a full…
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The 2019/20 Basketball Ireland National League All Stars have been announced today. Three Limerick players were nominated to All Star teams. Those were Kevin Oberweiser (Limerick Celtics) who was selected on the Basketball Ireland Men’s 1st Division All Star First Team and Reece Dupler (Limerick Sport Eagles) who was nominated to the second team. Kendall…
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The senior men’s and women’s FIBA European Championship for Small Countries – due to be held in June 2020 – have been provisionally postponed until 2021. The University of Limerick, which was set to host this summer’s event will hold the rights for the competition in 2021. Ireland was due to compete in both the men’s and…
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Limerick Celtics celebrated double Cork Cup Wins this weekend when they won both the Under 13 and Under 12 Cork Cup Finals in dramatic style in Neptune Stadium. The Under 13 girls rallied back from a six points deficit in a thrilling game on Saturday against Mallow to win the game by 1 point in …
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Limerick Celtics mens team made it five wins in a row with a 98 to 80 win over Waterford IT Vikings in Waterford on Sunday. It was basket for basket for three quarters of this fast paced game before the Limerick side got their noses in front and never looked back to take the vital…
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Limerick Celtics made history last weekend when they took three Cork Boys Cups home from the Parochial Hall on Saturday. It was a nail-biting one-point game at the final buzzer in the Under 12 Cork Cup win for the Celtics over Blue Demons that kicked things off in capturing their first trophy of the afternoon.…
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