Year
1970
3 dated items in the record for 1970, and 6 championship result rows.
Dated items
- 1970-1972: The Irish Handball Council opens an indoor alley with three glass walls at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland's first, and recommends glass walls for all alleys (conflicting) An Irish Handball Council note of 1972 says the three-glass-wall alley opened 'a year ago', while 1971 magazine reports place the court in use in the autumn of 1970, so the date is given as 1970 to 1972. Source: Handball (USHA), October 1972
- 1970: Ray Doherty's 'Handball', printed in Ireland in 1970, is reviewed by the USHA as the first instructional book on the game to come out of Ireland Source: Handball (USHA), October 1971, PDF p. 67
- October 1970: The 1970 world handball championships are held in Dublin, where Pat Kirby takes the world title (the issues do not say in which code) Source: Handball (USHA), October 1971, PDF p. 55