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Loreto Seal Women’s EY Hockey League Title

An exhilarating penultimate weekend in the EY Hockey League Division 1 wasn’t short of drama. In the Women’s EYHL, Loreto finally secured their second league title on the bounce with a well fought away win to UCC. Catholic Institute and UCD played out a thrilling 2-2 draw in Rosbrien, with the home side securing the bonus point shootout. The result …

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Shootout Heartbreak For Ireland In Nations Cup Final

IRELAND 1 2 – 1 4 NEW ZEALAND FIH Hockey Nations Cup Final Ireland Women suffer heartbreak in the FIH Hockey Nations Cup final in Santiago Chile, losing to New Zealand on Penalty Shoot-Outs. New Zealand led early in the game, scoring after five minutes. Ireland drew level with just four minutes remaining, Katie Mullan firing into the back of …

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Ireland Braced For Return To International Stage At FIH Nations Cup in Spain

Ireland Women’s national team are about to begin their FIH Nations Cup campaign in Terrassa, Spain starting on June 3rd. Interim head coach Facu Quirorga’s 18 strong squad are ready for action having played warm up matches against Italy, Belgium and India in Antwerp earlier in May before flying to Spain on Monday 27th May ahead of the Nations Cup. …

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Intense Matches In The 2023 Women’s Inter-Provincial Series Ahead Of The Final

It was an eventful weekend for the Inter-Provincial Women’s Series where the u16 and u18 teams gave it their all and much hockey talent was on display. U16 Women Leinster South hosted Munster in Loreto Kilkenny for their final league game which was effectively a 3rd/4th place playoff. In an exciting game Munster won out 2-1 against a spirited Leinster …

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Irish Gain Valuable Point In Quest To Reach Olympic Qualification Group

Ireland began their Pool C campaign with a game against Spain in Moenchengladbach earlier today. Sarah McAuley converted a penalty corner in the 14th minute to put IRL ahead with a score of 1-0. They led at the end of the first quarter. Spain equalized from a penalty corner converted by Candela Meijas in the 33rd minute. Caitlin Sherin was …

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Loreto Win The EYHL Women’s Champions Trophy Final

After a nail-biting match, Loreto emerged victorious after beating UCD at the EYHL Champions Trophy final on Sunday 23 April 2023. UCD went into the game not having beaten Loreto in either of their two EYHL Women’s Division encounters this season. The previous game in Beaufort had ended in a 2-1 win for Loreto and the return fixture had ended …

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Revealed: Winners of the Her Sport Awards

Lights, camera, action! Tonight the Her Sport Awards returned to UCD Astra Hall presented by Her Sport founder Niamh Tallon with broadcaster Gráinne McElwain as our amazing MC for the night. We were joined by some of our outstanding nominees and sports people and people from our Her Sport community, young and old, on an inspiring night full of like-minded …

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‘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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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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