Final Table

Place	Country	P	W	D	L	F	A
1	Malta	5	5	0	0	85	38
2	Denmark	5	3	0	2	62	52
3	Ireland	5	4	0	1	55	46
4	Austria	5	2	0	3	43	59
5	Switzerland	5	2	1	2	48	48
6	Scotland	5	2	0	3	51	49
7	Czech Republic	5	2	0	3	54	45
8	Wales	5	0	0	5	38	80

Finals

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	5th-8th Semi-Finals
15.03.2014	Switzerland	11	Czech Republic	8
15.03.2014	Scotland	15	Wales	9
	Semi-Finals
15.03.2014	Ireland	7	Malta	17
15.03.2014	Austria	8	Denmark	13
	7th-8th Place
16.03.2014	Czech Republic	18	Wales	7
	5th-6th Place
16.03.2014	Switzerland	10	Scotland	9
	3rd-4th Place
16.03.2014	Ireland	13	Austria	6
	Final
16.03.2014	Malta	9	Denmark	8

Group Tables

EU 8 Nations 2014	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Group A
Ireland (Q)	3	3	0	0	35	23	6
Austria (Q)	3	1	1	1	29	33	3
Scotland	3	1	0	2	27	30	2
Switzerland	3	0	1	2	27	31	1
Group B
Malta (Q)	3	3	0	0	59	23	6
Denmark (Q)	3	2	0	1	41	35	4
Czech Republic	3	1	0	2	28	27	2
Wales	3	0	0	3	22	57	0

Group Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Group A
14.03.2014	Ireland	9	Switzerland	7
14.03.2014	Austria	11	Scotland	8
14.03.2014	Switzerland	11	Austria	11
14.03.2014	Ireland	12	Scotland	9
15.03.2014	Switzerland	9	Scotland	11
15.03.2014	Ireland	14	Austria	7
	Group B
14.03.2014	Denmark	11	Czech Republic	9
14.03.2014	Wales	8	Malta	23
14.03.2014	Denmark	21	Wales	8
14.03.2014	Malta	18	Czech Republic	8
15.03.2014	Denmark	9	Malta	18
15.03.2014	Wales	6	Czech Republic	13

Report

Ireland topped their group in the EU 8 Nations Water Polo Tournament at the University of Limerick from the 14th to 16th March 2014. Having defeated Switzerland (9-7), Scotland (12-9) and then Austria (14-7) Ireland lost out to Malta (7-17) in the Semi-Finals, before recovering to defeat the Austrians again (13-6) in the Bronze Medal Game. Malta triumphed 9-8 over Denmark in the Final.

The other teams in the Tournament were Swuitzerland (5th), Scotland (6th), Czech Republic (7th) and Wales (8th).

Reference

Images

[1] Photo by Patrick Case on Pexels.com

Wayback Machine

[2] Ireland Water Polo Wayback Machine (2014) EU 8 Nations Tournament [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20150701162020/https://irelandwaterpolo.wordpress.com/ [Accessed 10 January 2018]

Newspapers

[3] Anon. (2014) “Water Polo” Irish Independent. Thursday, March 13, 2014. pg. 48-49

[4] Anon. (2014) “Water Polo” Irish Independent. Saturday, March 15, 2014. pg. 54-55

[5] Anon. (2014) “Water Polo” Irish Independent. Monday, March 17, 2014. pg. 78-79

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Laurence O’Toole.

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