Congratulations again to Irish Men’s Hockey on winning their World League 2 competition and who can now look forward to a shot at Olympic qualification in Argentina where they will be part of a ten-team tournament with potentially six tickets to Rio de Janeiro on the line. Player of the tournament Shane O’Donoghue was once again […]
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Congratulations to Ireland who made it two wins from two at the World League Round Two at a rain-soaked Chula Vista in San Diego, seeing off a tricky Austrian opponent to add to Saturday’s 8-0 win over Chile. It was hard work as the incessant rain made the pitch slow and tough to negotiate
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The women’s senior World League 2 hockey squad has been announced by Coach Darren Smith. The squad is made up of a panel of 18, with Ali Meeke and Yvonne O’Byrne bracketed as we assess the recovery of Ali Meeke’s broken hand that she sustained in Valencia and impending return to hockey over late February/early
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Ireland concluded their six match tour of South African tour with a pair of losses against world number five side Belgium, falling 3-0 on Saturday and 7-2 on Sunday in Cape Town. Its the start a big year with the pursuit of a first ever Olympic qualification the goal. The first phase of that begins
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The Irish men’s team are currently in South Africa preparing for the first of their Olympic qualifiers and are ranked 15th in the world. The South African men, who are ranked two places above Ireland at 13, have in the first two matches drawn and lost 5-4 to Ireland. The first Olympic hurdle for Ireland men begins on
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Ireland’s National Men’s Coach Craig Fulton has selected a squad of 22 for the South African Training Camp as they fine tune preparation for World League 2 in San Diego which starts on February 28th. In South Africa they will play 6 tests against South Africa, Netherlands & Belgium. Fulton said “this is a really
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The Senior Women’s Hockey Team will fly out to Valencia on Friday the 9th of January and return on Tuesday the 20th of January. The team will have an intensive training camp before facing Spain in a 3 match series in Valencia on the 17th, 18th and 20th of January. Ireland and Spain currently sit
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Ireland will host the World League 2 competition for Women between 14th – 22nd March 2015 at the National Hockey Stadium, in UCD. The league which serves as part of the Olympic Qualification process for Rio 2016 pits Ireland (15th) in Pool A against Canada (22nd) , Ukraine (24th) and Turkey (39th). Pool B is
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National Hockey Coach Darren Smith has named his squads for the upcoming Scottish and Italian series. The squads of 21 and 20 athletes are selected from Smith’s national panel of 25 athletes and is the start of a busy summer period for the team as they continue preparations for the World League 2 set for
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Congratulations again to Ireland’s women’s hockey team who secured silver in the Champions Challenge I tournament after they were defeated 3-1 by USA who secured gold. Ireland went into this tournament ranked 7th, competed against 4 world cup teams and secured 2nd place, a testament to the skill and talent of this team. Ireland competed
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It was someday for Irish Hockey. Both the National Men and National Women’s teams won their quarter finals of their world ranking Champions Challenge I Tournament today. Ireland’s women beat world number 8’s Korea 2-1 to cause the biggest upset of the tournament while the men took it all the way to extra time against France where
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Irish hockey have announced Craig Fulton as the National Men’s Hockey Coach. Fulton who is no stranger to Ireland will commence his role at the start of April before leading the side to Malaysia for the Champions Challenge I Tournament taking place 26th April – 4th May. Fulton, who will be based in Ireland, previously lived and coached
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