Hook Hockey

• January’s Best of Facebook

  

  A lively month on The Hook’s facebook site, perhaps with Leinster’s hockey public having to endure a couple of extra nights off training due to the recent cold conditions. Here are the pick of the stories submitted to the site.

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• Best of Facebook: November

  

  A busy month on the Facebook page, there’s a wide variety of clips to help with the ‘cabin fever’ setting in for many without training and matches to fill the evenings including the recent FIH World Player of the Year awards!

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• Best of Facebook: October

  

  The Hook’s monthly round-up of the best clips, news and pics relating to Irish hockey and beyond posted on the site’s Facebook page. October is all about the EHL while there are bits from the Guardian, the BBC, the Examiner as well as plenty from Holland.

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• The Hook’s September “Best of Facebook”

  

  Bored in work? Free period from school. To help you through the hump days, The Hook will this season be publishing a “Best of Facebook” post once a month with the best clips, interviews, websites and everything besides that we have witnessed or been sent from around the hockey world to our Facebook page.

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• Bloemendaal claim Dutch national title – highlights

  

  Suffering from hockey withdrawal symptoms? Bloemendaal began the Dutch national championships last weekend, getting the better of HGC 2-1 in the first match of the three game grand final. Here’s edited highlights of the game. * If you have seen any other good Youtube/Vimeo clips in recent times, especially ones from the Irish season gone [...]

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• Leinster Hockey on Youtube

  

  With most Leinster clubs becoming more technologically-minded, The Hook is hoping to use the fact that most division one side’s record their game to help promote our game further. To this end, The Hook invites you and your clubs to send in your video links so that we can start getting regular live action from [...]

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• Youtube Blog 2

  

  There’s a ton of ways to kill a day at work: take up smoking, take up working, play Stick Cricket, read the Guardian’s blog (which, let’s face it is directly where I ripped this off from). YouTube trumps them all. So here, to save you searching, are my favourite hockey clips. (To see part one, [...]

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• Best Youtube Hockey clips

  

  There’s a ton of ways to kill a day at work: take up smoking, take up working, play Stick Cricket, read the Guardian’s blog (which, let’s face it is directly where I ripped this off from). YouTube trumps them all. So here, to save you searching, are my favourite hockey clips. Add your own in [...]

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About the Blog

Launched in August 2007, The Hook has set out to provide news and information for hockey in Leinster. The site has developed since then to cover all levels of the sport in Ireland and beyond, providing stories on schools, club, interprovincial and international. Working in tandem with the superb Irish Hockey Photographers, The Hook aims to offer the best coverage of the sport in the province. Should you have any queries or suggestions, please email founder, Stephen Findlater, at stevie_findlats@yahoo.com.