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• Women’s Interpros: Day Three

  

  Ulster produced a lively performance against Connacht in the day’s early game to pile the pressure onto Leinster in the final game of the Interpros. Their 7-2 victory – earmarked by Shirley McCay’s hat-trick – meant Leinster needed to win by at least three clear goals against Munster and end the northern province’s three year [...]

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• Men’s Interpros: Leinster 1 Ulster 3

  

  Leinster 1 (Stephen Butler) Ulster 3 (Eugene Magee, Timmy Cockram, Chris Cargo)Leinster blew a golden chance to wrap up the interpros this afternoon as they let a 1-0 half-time lead slip in the face of an impressive Ulster second half performance. The first period saw Andy McConnell and Stephen Butler boss proceedings in midfield while [...]

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• Women’s Interpros: Day Two

  

  Leinster 4 (Roisin Flinn, Cathy McKean, Nikki Symmons, Nikki Keegan) Connacht 0Leinster added a comfortable win over Connacht to last night’s draw with Ulster to maintain their interprovincial title charge. They dominated proceedings against the Western province, taking the lead early on through Roisin Flinn’s deflection at short corner time. Emma Smyth – who worked [...]

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• Men’s Interpros: Leinster 4 Munster 2

  

  Leinster took a large step toward retaining the Interprovincial title with a 4-2 win at Garryduff, based around a three-goal blitz before half-time. The blues started the better but were rocked by John Jermyn’s drag-flick in the 12th minute. But Gareth Watkins had the visitors level inside a minute when Stephen Butler cleverly auto-passed and [...]

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• Women’s Interpros: Day One

  

  Munster took the initiative in the women’s interpros as they recovered from a goal down to beat Connacht 3-1 and lead the group after the first round of games. Leinster and Ulster opened the tournament with a scoreless draw which saw chances at an absolute premium in a feisty affair that saw Cathy McKean sin-binned. [...]

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• Stewart backs Leinster to excite

  

  Leinster co-coach Colin Stewart has backed his side – with whom he shares the coaching role with Noel Keogh – to produce some fireworks at the interpos this weekend in Cork. Speaking to the Hook this week, he said “it’s probably the most attacking squad I’ve seen in Irish interprovincial hockey. We played on Tuesday [...]

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• Just five remain for Leinster women

  

  Only five names from 2008′s Leinster women’s roster stay in the set-up for this weekend’s Interprovincial tournament in Cork as coach Rudi Woortman draws largely on the form of Railway Union and Loreto. Six players from the Beaufort club and five from Railway are included in the line-up which sees only Linda O’Neill, Jean McDonnell, [...]

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• Leinster senior squad named

  

  The 18-player Leinster side named this morning by the team’s brain-trust of Noel Keogh, Colin Stewart, Arul Anthoni and Ronan Walsh shows nine changes from the interpro winning side of 2008. Monkstown’s Dave Fitzgerald and Corinthian’s Chris Pelow are the two debutants, the former coming in ahead of Steven Doran, who himself was a late [...]

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• Interpros to use ‘auto-pass’ rule

  

  The IHA announced they will implement the ‘auto-pass’ rule for the senior interprovincials in March. It follows the recent announcement by the FIH that, from May, the ruling will be introduced for all international hockey. The Competitions Committee approved the recommendation which came from David Passmore, Gene Muller and Paul Revington following the successful integration [...]

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• Noel Keogh to lead Leinster

  

  Noel Keogh will lead Leinster’s senior squad for the tenth time as the Blues look to retain the Interprovincial title, won in stunning fashion last year at Grange Road. Needing to win by five clear goals, Alan Sothern and Mitch Darling to net three goals in three minutes in the latter stages of their game [...]

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