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Ireland’s Best To Battle For Glory As EY Champions Trophy Finals Loom

This Saturday and Sunday, May 3 & 4, eight of the top club hockey sides from across Ireland will descend on Havelock Park, Banbridge, as they battle it out in the EY Champions Trophy Finals.   In the Women’s EY Champions Trophy, back-to-back EY Hockey League Champions Loreto face off against fellow Leinster side Old Alex in the first Semi-Final …

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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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Loreto Hockey Team To Make EHL Final 8 tournament Comeback After A Five-year Hiatus

Easter weekend is traditionally a quiet time for hockey on the home front but for two of the country’s best teams it will be a busy period as both Loreto’s women and Lisnagarvey’s men represent Irish hockey at the European club level. Loreto will be in the EHL Final 8 tournament in the Netherlands while Lisnagarvey are in Portugal to …

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EYHL Women’s Division 1: Round 3 Results

UCD 2-0 MONKSTOWN The defending EYHL Women’s Division 1 Champions UCD wearing their breast cancer awareness pink outfits took on Monkstown in their EYHL Division 1 game at the national stadium in Belfield. It was a fairly lively tight first quarter which ended scoreless. Sophia Cole got a green card in the 14th minute, which was 2 minutes on the …

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EYHL Women’s Division 1: Round 2 Results

LORETO 2 (Hannah McLoughlin, Rachel Kelly) CATHOLIC INSTITUTE 0 CORINTHIAN 0 UCD 1 (Mikayla Power) OLD ALEX 1 (Aoife Taaffe) ULSTER ELKS 1 (Gabriella Scott) RAILWAY UNION 6 (Ailish Long, Niamh Carey 2, Michelle Carey, Kate Dillon, Orla Fox) PEGASUS 1 (Zara Malseed) MONKSTOWN 1 (Jennifer Hamill ) PEMBROKE WANDERERS 3 (Milla Fulton, Sally Campbell, Orla Macken) Loreto played Catholic Institute in Beaufort and in the first quarter …

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EYHL Women’s Division 1 2023-2024 season gets underway

The first round of the EYHL Women’s Division 1 2023-2024 season got underway at Queen’s University where Pegasus hosted Loreto. It was the visitors that struck first, Rachel Kelly scoring from open play in only the fourth minute. She grabbed her second of the game in the 10th minute. It was 2-0 at the end of the first quarter and …

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