Andy McConnell’s sucker punch (above) denied Munster’s senior men a shot at interprovincial victory at Grange Road yesterday – that was the closest any of the province’s four teams got, though Leinster were denied a clean sweep of all four senior and U-21 interprovincial titles on home turf at Grange Road, as Ulster took the senior women’s title on goal difference
Irish hockey’s oft-maligned senior and U21 interprovincials get underway tonight, with Munster senior men’s manager Edward Gash extoling their virtues as 14 teams bid for bragging rights at Grange Road in Dublin.
Wesley College claimed their second All-Ireland schoolboy hockey title of the season, but Bandon Grammar and Ashton crash out at the group stage in the John Waring Super Sixes. It has also been an interesting week for the girls of St Angela’s, who bounced back from a cup final defeat to Villiers to win the Senior B league in style.
Lady luck didn’t side with Belvedere last Saturday as three Munster finals ended in defeat by the narrowest of margins for the Ballincollig club.
Audrey O’Flynn will face up to the biggest test of her fledgling international career next month after she was yesterday named in Gene Muller’s 18-strong Ireland squad for the World Cup Qualifiers in Chile.
Catholic Institute finally got their hands on some silverware by beating Greenfields in the Irish Trophy final, but there was more heartbreak for Fermoy and Limerick in their respective finals. C of I all but wrapped up the men’s league, with Bandon ousting UCC’s challenge for third place, while UCC and Quins stole a march in the women’s league.