Five Uncapped Players Set To Make Debut in a Fresh Faced Side

The Ireland Women Hockey coach, Sean Dancer has named his panel for July’s World Cup campaign which gets under way on July 2nd at Amsterdam’s Wagener Stadium.  It is a fresh-faced side with five uncapped players set to make their official debuts in the competition as the post-Olympic evolution of the Green Army continues apace. Irish Under-21 captain Caoimhe Perdue, …

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Women’s Hockey: Brilliant Pembroke land first ever EY Champions Trophy title

Women’s EY Champions Trophy final Pembroke 4 (S Loughran, A Griffin, E Horan, M McCready) Catholic Institute 1 (N Carroll) Pembroke produced a perfect all-round team performance to add a first EY Champions Trophy title to the regular season crown to the regular season league title won a month ago. Again, the season’s other breakout club Catholic Institute were runners-up …

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Women’s Hockey: Final four lock horns for EY Champions Trophy finals

The line-up for the women’s EY Champions Trophy semi-finals was completed on Wednesday evening with Loreto and UCD both landing 1-0 wins in their respective quarter-finals. They go through to face Pembroke and Catholic Institute in the semi-finals with the question now how well the sides have coped with their contrasting preparations. For the two sides already assured of semi-final …

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Women’s hockey: Ards win women’s EYHL2 with Monkstown promoted too

Zara Malseed shone as Ards won promotion and the EY Hockey League Division 2 title in style at Whitechurch Park over the weekend, netting three times for the Oranges. On Saturday, she cracked home a vital penalty corner hit to level their semi-final against Queen’s University, canceling out Madison Bowyer’s early effort. Ellen Robinson popped up with the winner in …

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Women’s Hockey: Pembroke taken to the wire before landing maiden EYHL crown

Aisling Naughton’s spectacular second minute goal was enough to get Pembroke the 1-0 win against Muckross they needed win the women’s EY Hockey League for the first time. Earlier in the day, Catholic Institute beat Belfast Harlequins 2-1 at Deramore Park to take the league down to the last fixture to determine the destination of the title. It meant Pembroke had to …

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Hockey: Irish Junior World Cup team finally all set for South African adventure

Ireland’s Under-21 women’s side have finally departed this week for the refixed Junior World Cup in Potchefstroom in South Africa with the tournament getting under way on Friday at the Northwest University.  It has been quite a journey to get the tournament played. The competition was originally set to be played in December until the discovery of the Omicron variant saw it …

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Women’s EYHL: Pembroke move within touching distance of title

Pembroke moved within touching distance of the women’s EY Hockey League title as they bided their time before beating Belfast Harlequins on Saturday to move five points clear at the top. That 3-0 success combined with Catholic Institute’s 4-2 defeat to Loreto puts them in prime position with two rounds of fixtures to go to win the title for the …

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EYHL: Pembroke Grind Out 4-Point Lead

Pembroke ended the weekend extending their lead at the top of the women’s EY Hockey League as they secured four points from the six on offer to them. On Saturday, they drew 1-1 in a high quality contest with Old Alex with World Cup silver medalists Gillian Pinder and Nikki Evans exchanging goals. Evans was first to strike with another …

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