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Gaelic Senior Hardball Singles

Gaelic Athletic Association competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ5516612 ↗
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The All-Ireland Senior Hardball Singles title is an all-Ireland Gaelic Athletic Association competition between all 32 counties of Ireland which first commenced in 1925. The first senior hardball singles title was won by W. Aldridge. The current All-Ireland Senior Hardball champion is Robbie McCarthy, who represents Westmeath and Mullingar Handball Club.

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“Gaelic Senior Hardball Singles” enters the record as gaelic Athletic Association competition. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gaelic, Senior and Hardball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gaelic Senior Hardball Singles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.