Table

IWPA MNL D1 2004-05	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Half Moon	5	4	0	1			12
North Dublin	5	4	0	1			12
Guinness	5	3	0	2			9
Corrib	6	2	1	3			7
Cathal Brugha	5	2	0	3			6
Sandycove	5	1	1	3			4
Setanta	5	1	0	4			3

Results & Fixtures

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
02.10.2004	Guinness	7	Setanta	6
02.10.2004	North Dublin	13	Corrib	5
02.10.2004	Sandycove	2	Cathal Brugha	11
	Week 3
16.10.2004	Cathal Brugha	7	Corrib	5
16.10.2004	Setanta	1	Half Moon	17
16.10.2004	Guinness	10	Sandycove	9
	Week 5
30.10.2004	North Dublin	12	Setanta	10
30.10.2004	Half Moon	6	Sandycove	10
31.10.2004	Cathal Brugha	8	Setanta	9
31.10.2004	Half Moon	p	North Dublin	p
	Week 6
06.11.2004	Corrib	11	Guinness	10
	Week 7
20.11.2004	Sandycove	7	Corrib	7
21.11.2004	Half Moon	16	Corrib	5
21.11.2004	Sandycove	6	North Dublin	8
21.11.2004	Guinness	8	Cathal Brugha	7
	Week 9
27.11.2004	Half Moon	13	Cathal Brugha	8
28.11.2004	North Dublin	9	Guinness	8
	Week 10
04.12.2004	Corrib	14	Setanta	4
	Week 11
08.12.2004	Half Moon	10	North Dublin	9
	Week 13
08.01.2005	Corrib		Cathal Brugha
08.01.2005	Half Moon	p	Setanta	p
08.01.2005	Sandycove	p	Guinness	p
	Week 16
29.01.2005	Guinness	p	Half Moon	p
30.01.2005	Cathal Brugha		North Dublin
30.01.2005	Setanta		Sandycove
	Week 17
05.02.2005	Guinness	p	Corrib	p
05.02.2005	Sandycove	p	Half Moon	p
06.02.2005	Setanta		North Dublin
	Week 18
12.02.2005	Corrib		North Dublin
13.02.2005	Setanta		Guinness
13.02.2005	Cathal Brugha		Sandycove
	Week 19
19.02.2005	Corrib		Half Moon

Report

By Christmas 2004 in a very competitive Irish Water Polo Association Men’s National League Division 1 2004-05 season, Half Moon and North Dublin were out in front with four wins and one loss from five games each, just ahead of Guinness with three wins from five games. Corrib (two wins and one draw from six), Cathal Brugha (two wins from five), Sandycove (one win and one draw from five) and Setanta (one win from five) made up a closely-knit bottom half of the table.

Within the leading group, Half Moon had defeated North Dublin 10-9, North Dublin won 9-8 versus Guinness, who had also lost 11-10 to Corrib of Galway. Half Moon’s loss had come against another South Dublin team, Sandycove (6-10).

References / Further Reading

Images

[1] Ireland Water Polo (2014) Ireland Water Polo Logo [Internet] Available from: https://irelandwaterpolo.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/ireland-water-polo.png [Accessed 21 February 2017]

Websites

[2] Ireland Water Polo | Wayback Machine (2005) Irish Water Polo Association National Fixtures & Results : October 2004 [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20041210230520/http://irelandwaterpolo.com/oct04.htm [Accessed 27 March 2017]

[3] Ireland Water Polo | Wayback Machine (2005) Irish Water Polo Association National Fixtures & Results : November 2004 [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20050206134945/http://irelandwaterpolo.com/nov04.htm [Accessed 27 March 2017]

[4] Ireland Water Polo | Wayback Machine (2005) Irish Water Polo Association National Fixtures & Results : December 2004 [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20050206134238/http://irelandwaterpolo.com/dec04.htm [Accessed 27 March 2017]

[5] Ireland Water Polo | Wayback Machine (2005) Irish Water Polo Association National Fixtures & Results : January 2005 [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20050206075936/http://irelandwaterpolo.com/jan05.htm [Accessed 27 March 2017]

[6] Ireland Water Polo | Wayback Machine (2005) Irish Water Polo Association National Fixtures & Results : February 2005 [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20050206134525/http://irelandwaterpolo.com/feb05.htm [Accessed 27 March 2017]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Laurence O’Toole.

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