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 [...]
New Ireland senior men’s hockey coach Paul Revington gets his first chance to see his new charges in action later this month as Scotland arrive for a three-game series. While the South African doesn’t officially take up his new post until January, he will arrive in Ireland for a ten-day reconnaissance mission that includes taking [...]
A new three-day Irish hockey camp aimed specifically at addressing the psychological and nutritional needs of elite players is to get underway this weekend at Jordanstown in Belfast. It is hoped the ‘super camp’ venture will be accommodated on a four-monthly basis into the national programme, with the Irish women’s squad the first to try it [...]
Áine Connery showed Ireland senior coach Gene Muller what he’s been missing as she fired Ireland A to a thrilling 5-4 win over Wales in Cardiff yesterday. The 21-year-old UCC hotshot, who has been overlooked by Muller since last December, struck twice and set up another for Katherine Elkin, as the girls in green overturned [...]
Cork prodigy Jason Lynch announced his arrival on the international hockey stage earlier today, netting two strikes as an experimental Ireland side went down 3-2 to Wales in Cardiff. The former Cork Church of Ireland hotshot, who now stars for Ulster giants Lisnagarvey, banged in two quickfire strikes just after the break, but his goals [...]
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