Alan Good
The mid-term report card
With hockey taking a backseat to the seasonal festivities for a few more days at least, Southern Fried takes a break from the Roses and the turkey sandwiches to take the pulse of the season so far and hand out some mid-season gongs The Having Trouble Carving the Turkey Award: The loss of Gash brothers [...]
Quins leave it late to deny battling Bandon
Dan Hobbs broke brave Bandon’s resistance two minutes from time to help Cork Harlequins retain the Peard Cup with a 1-0 win in an intriguing final at Harlequin Park yesterday. The hosts’ profligacy had looked set to condemn this tie to golden-goal extra time, as they spurned a series of chances from play in a [...]
Injury-hit Bandon seek Christmas bonus
Bandon will be looking to give defending champions Cork Harlequins a Christmas hangover as they travel to Farmer’s Cross in hope of causing a Peard Cup final upset on St Stephen’s Day (2pm). The west Cork men are practically unbackable on paper, given they needed an Alastair Smith golden goal to see off Quins’ seconds [...]
C of I continue hoodoo over UCC
Melanie Ryan capped a memorable week that saw her called up to the Ireland A squad by bagging a double that propelled Cork Church of Ireland back into the title race with a 3-2 win over rivals UCC on Saturday. Ryan fired home off a short corner switch early on before Julie O’Sullivan deflected the [...]
One-day blitz to solve U16 interpros conundrum
A compromise appears to have been reached over the rescheduling of the cancelled U16 girls interprovincial tournament, with a blitz planned for early next month. Tensions ran high as frozen pitches in Kilkenny caused the cancellation of the tournament a couple of weeks ago, with Munster and Ulster choosing to officially recognise their players by [...]
Ryan and O’Flynn included in Ireland A squad
Ireland women’s coach Gene Muller will look at the credentials of 31 players in a five-game series against Canada in Dublin next month, having named three senior squads and two Ireland A squads. Bray goalkeeper Mary Goode returns to a familiar-looking senior set-up after a few months on sabbatical, while UCC playmaker Julia O’Halloran, who [...]
College to lock horns with Railway
Young pretenders UCC will face a massive test of their credentials on the national stage when they host Ireland’s in-form team Railway Union in the first round of the revamped ESB Women’s Irish Senior Cup next month. College, replete with four Irish internationals, are threatening to break Cork Harlequins’ 13-year stranglehold in Munster this season, [...]
Rovers rocked by two defeats while Lynch lifts Garvey
Having lost just once in top-level competition the previous 14 months, national champions Three Rock Rovers spectacularly crashed to two shock defeats this weekend. Mick McGuinness fired drag-flicks in the fifth and 69th minutes to give Fingal a famous 2-0 victory in yesterday’s refixed Irish Hockey League clash, a result which leaves Pool B wide [...]
Weather wreaks havoc once again
The cold weather has played havoc with hockey fixtures around the country once again this weekend, with UCC’s top-of-the-table clash with Cork Harlequins in the women’s Division one the highest-profile game to fall by the wayside so far. A frozen Harlequin Park pitch meant the match was called off just 40 minutes before the scheduled [...]
Ireland’s call for hockey veterans
Ireland’s veterans are on the lookout for players after they received an invitation to take part in the 2009 International Masters Hockey Tournament in Hong Kong next October. In recent years, the squad has been mainly Ulster-based, led by experienced players such as Marty Sloan, though the likes of Bandon’s Ger Burns and Cork Harlequins’ [...]
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