Eamon Law
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Eamon Law was an Irish handball
Gaelic handball
Gaelic handball is a sport similar to Basque pelota, racquetball, squash and American handball . It is one of the four Gaelic games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association...

 player for Kilkenny
Kilkenny GAA
The Kilkenny County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Kilkenny. The county board has its head office and main grounds at Nowlan Park and is also responsible for Kilkenny inter-county teams...

 and Mullinavat.

Death

Eamon had just started playing a singles match at the Talbots Inch handball alley on the Freshford Road in Kilkenny, he collapsed and died on the handball court, aged 37. He was later pronounced dead when brought to St Luke's hospital in Kilkeny. He was married with two children.

Playing career

Eamon won both the 60 x 30 and 40 x 20 doubles with DJ Carey  at minor level in 1988 and 1989. He also won the All-Ireland Novice Singles title and a 60 x 30 Intermediate title with clubman Pierce O'Keefe.http://www.gaa.ie/plugins/newsfeed.cgi?rm=content&plugin_data_id=19402 In 2007, Law won the 40 x 20 doubles title with Eddie Burke and was later defeated in the all-Ireland final against Tyrone
Tyrone GAA
The Tyrone County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Tyrone GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Tyrone. The county board is also responsible for the Tyrone inter-county teams....

.http://www.tyronehandball.com/fixtures.htm Law won a junior hardball doubles champion in 1999 with Eddie Burke. He also won national league medals with Kilkenny and a 40 x 20 under-21 doubles with Graham O'Brien in 1991.http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=2594&ArticleID=2930395 Michael 'Ducksy' Walsh
Michael 'Ducksy' Walsh
Michael 'Ducksy' Walsh is an Irish handball player for Kilkenny, considered by many as the greatest player to play singles handball. He contested the 2007 M Donnelly 60 x 30 Singles Handball final against Eoin Kennedy of Dublin. Michael won all of the Senior Softball Singles title between 1985-97....

 of Kilkenny
Kilkenny GAA
The Kilkenny County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Kilkenny. The county board has its head office and main grounds at Nowlan Park and is also responsible for Kilkenny inter-county teams...

 has organised a new tournament entitled 'Eamon Law Memorial Handball Tournament' which will be held at Law's Millinavat club in his native County Kilkenny
County Kilkenny
County Kilkenny is a county in Ireland. It is part of the South-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the city of Kilkenny. The territory of the county was the core part of the ancient Irish Kingdom of Osraige which in turn was the core of the Diocese of...

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