‘Sport Is To Be Enjoyed’ Sarah Hawkshaw Discusses Her Career In Hockey

Following on from a successful weekend at the EuroHockey Championship Qualifiers, where the Green Army won all three matches against Poland, The Czech Republic and Turkey, we had the opportunity to sit down with Sarah Hawkshaw to talk to us about her team’s journey through the qualifiers and what lies ahead for her for the rest of the season. ‘It …

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What’s On This Weekend? We Have You Covered

This weekend is set to be an eventful one in the world of women’s sport. With everything from the Hockey World Cup to Wimbledon, here is a quick overview of what’s to come so you won’t miss anything. Morton Games On Saturday night, the Morton Games returns to Morton Stadium. This weekend marks the first ever Women’s 100m hurdles event …

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‘We’ll Have That Irish Underdog Mentality’

Ireland Hockey is gearing up for the Hockey Women’s World Cup starting July 1. The team is currently three games into the four game SoftCo series against Japan, and at the moment, the series is split—Japan winning the first game 2-0, and Ireland winning the second 1-0, and Japan winning the third 2-1. Team captain Katie Mullen, led the national …

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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: Ireland Under-21 side on cusp of World Cup debut

After four months delay, what is another day as the Junior Green Army will belatedly get their World Cup campaign up and running on Saturday afternoon against England. In this frequently adjusted tournament, David Passmore’s side had been due to play Ukraine on Friday morning but, despite their Herculean efforts to take part, this week saw those hopes formally end. …

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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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