Results
| Winner | Runner-Up | ||
| Last 16 | |||
| Armagh (Charly Shanks) | w/o | Mayo (Vinnie Moran) | scr |
| Cork (Tadgh Carroll) | w/o | Tyrone (Darragh Daly) | scr |
| Clare (Colin Creehan) | dft. | Roscommon (Rikki O’Gara) | 21-13 21-15 |
| Clare (Diamuid Nash) | dft. | Kerry (Dominic Lynch) | 21-15 21-8 |
| Galway (Martin Mulkerrins) | dft. | Tyrone (Johnny woods) | 21-9 21-0 |
| Wexford (Gavin Buggy) | dft. | Antrim (Owen McKenna) | 21-18 18-21 21-19 |
| Cork (Brendan Fleming) | dft. | Dublin (Eoin Kennedy) | 18-21 21-10 21-19 |
| Westmeath (Robbie McCarthy) | w/o. | Dublin (Carl Browne) | scr |
| Quarter-Finals | |||
| Armagh (Charly Shanks) | dft. | Cork (Tadgh Carroll) | 21-12 21-10 |
| Clare (Diarmuid Nash) | dft. | Clare (Colin Creehan) | 21-16 21-8 |
| Galway (Martin Mulkerrins) | w/o | Wexford (Gavin Buggy) | inj. |
| Cork (Brendan Flemming) | dft. | Westmeath (Robbie McCarthy) | 21-19 21-15 |
| Semi-Finals | |||
| Armagh (Charly Shanks) | dft. | Clare (Diarmuid Nash) | 11-21 21-16 21-16 |
| Galway (Martin Mulkerrins) | dft. | Cork (Brendan Flemming) | 21-11 21-2 |
| Final | |||
| Galway (Martin Mulkerrins) | dft. | Armagh (Charly Shanks) | 21-9 21-11 |
Report
Galway’s Martin Mulkerrins won the GAA Handball 40×20 Men’s Senior Singles in 2018, defeating Armagh’s Charly Shanks in the Final by two sets (21-9 and 21-11). Mulkerrins was a convincing Champion, having won all his matches in two sets, dropping no more shots in any set than the 11 he dropped in the Final Set against Shanks in the Final.
References
Logos
[1] GAA Handball (2017) GAA Handball Logo Square [Internet] Available from: https://cache.gaahandball.ie/images/made/images/remote/http_gaahandball-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1470913550-GAA-Handball-Logo-Square_394_394_85_c1.jpg [Accessed 11 December 2017]
Websites
[2] GAA Handball (2018) Results | 2018 | 40×20 Mens Senior Singles[Internet] Available from: https://www.gaahandball.ie/competitions/results [Accessed 22 April 2018]
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Luke Kelly
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Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the
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Last Updated: 12 November 2020
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