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• The Hook begins 2011/12 preparations

  

  With the release of the Leinster men’s early season fixtures, The Hook’s preparations for the new season are also getting underway; we’re hoping you can help support the site as it enters it’s fifth season

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• The Hook celebrates first Awards Night

  

  The Hook celebrated its first Awards Night in Kobra on Leeson Street on Grafton Street, honouring its first seven official award winners at what is hoped to become an annual event

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• Have your say in the Hook Awards!

  

  The nominations are in and now it is your chance to have a say in who wins the first Hook Awards as the public vote for Umpire, Coach and Senior men’s and women’s player of the year went live this morning.

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• UCD women take Varsities while CIT celebrate first win

  

  UCD and CIT won today’s finals at the Chilean and Mauritius Cups, respectively, this afternoon with wins over UU and DCU. The nature of the competition, though, means the men’s title will reside with DCU for the upcoming year as CIT enter the competition as a guest team due to their non-University status.

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• Chilean and Mauritius Cups Belfield-bound

  

  UCD will hope to make full use of home advantage as they host the annual Mauritius and Chilean intervarsity cups at Belfield, the respective three-day tournaments tipping off on Sunday in Belfield.

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• Elks claim Intervarsity double

  

  University of Ulster Elks completed the Chilean and Mauritius Cup double in Jordanstown this afternoon as both their men’s and women’s teams overcame UCD in the finals. On the men’s side of the draw, UU trounced UCC 8-0 in the semi-final to set up a repeat of last year’s final showdown with UCD. They beat [...]

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• Hosts Elks hoping for Varsity double

  

  The annual intervarsities gets underway this morning with 20 teams duking it out for the Mauritius and Chilean Cups with NUI Maynooth making their tournament debut in the men’s competition. In the men’s competition, defending champions University of Ulster – under the moniker of the Ulster Elks – will hope that a combination of home [...]

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• UCD draw first blood in Colours showdown

  

  Women’s Division One:Trinity 0 UCD 1 (Fiona Bradish)Fiona Braddish scored her second goal in five days to give UCD their first win of the season and gain early bragging rights over Trinity ahead of this month’s Intervarsities – this year hosted by UUJ. She netted a 20th minute penalty corner for the only goal of [...]

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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.