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• Frank Byrne takes on Suttonians job

  

  Frank Byrne has followed former Glenanne team mate mate Alan Browne into a coaching role in division two after he was confirmed as the new Suttonians‘ men’s coach for the upcoming season. Byrne takes on the role after cutting his teeth last year as assistant to Arul Anthoni at Glenanne Park, frequently taking over first [...]

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• Sothern tops goalscorer list

  

  With just one round of matches left to go in the regular season, it would take a minor miracle for Alan Sothern to be denied the Hennessy Cup for division one’s top scorer. The Pembroke hitman currently leads the way with 31 league goals, nine clear of Monkstown’s Gareth Watkins on 22. Ireland’s top goalscorer, [...]

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• Leinster Men's weekend preview

  

  Pembroke’s title bid faces a tough battle as they look to overturn their Mills Cup final defeat at the hands of Corinthian last week. Three Rock’s recent draws with YMCA mean that Pembroke’s destiny is back in their own hands, though any slip up and Glenanne are likely to pounce. They face the terminally injury-ravaged [...]

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• Clontarf crowned Division Two champions

  

  Navan 0 Clontarf 3 (Rob Abbott, Luke Hayden, Dan Tracey)Clontarf completed the division two title with three games remaining at Sportlink on Saturday, ousting a gritty Navan 3-0. There was no repeat of the double-figure win the last time the two sides met in the league as the Bulls came up against a side determined [...]

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• Men's Irish Senior Cup preview

  

  Six more ISC quarter-finalists and one second round place will be confirmed on Saturday afternoon as this season’s stop/start competition will hope to tidy up the draw made last Monday. A potentially tasty local derby could occur should Three Rock and Glenanne win their respective ties against Northern opposition. The Glens will have to do [...]

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• Men's Division Two: Week Ten results

  

  Weston 2 (Shane O’Hare, Peter Barron) Avoca 3 (Enda Gallanagh, Fergal McGuinness, Stephen Brownlow) In the absence of a Clontarf game this weekend, the race for the playoff spot took centre-stage and looks like it could go right down to the wire. A third successive single-goal win for Avoca has moved them into the mix. [...]

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• Irish underage coaching tickets confirmed

  

  The IHA this week confirmed the new management teams for each boy’s and girls underage national sides for 2009 which will lead the sides, in most cases, to European competition in the summer. Railway Union senior coach Paul Cooke adds the U-16 coaching brief to his U-15 responsibilities while Fraser Mills takes on the managerial [...]

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• Men's IHL: Round Three, Saturday round-up

  

  Blakeney’s Goal vs. Garvey from Threerockroversones on Vimeo. Group ACookstown 0 Pembroke 0Pembroke and Cookstown shared the spoils after a scrappy nil-all at Coolnafranky. Ivan Steen missed the most gilt-edged chance, failing to convert a penalty stroke. Alan Sothern and Gordon Elliott had the better open play chances in the first quarter before the second [...]

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• Men's IHL preview – Round Three

  

  Group 1Cork Harlequins v Annadale (Saturday), 1pm, Farmer’s CrossTwo sides without yet in the competition, the hosts prop up the table after a narrow reverse in Pembroke and a chastening turnover at home last time out against Glenanne. In recent weeks a number of top players returned to the fold, including the Lombard brothers Paul [...]

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• Men's Division One: Week Thirteen results

  

  Glenanne 4 (Stephen Butler 2, Shane O’Donoghue, Graham Shaw) Monkstown 3 (Andrew Ward 2, Stephen Cole) Glenanne denied former centre-back Rory O’Donoghue a point at Rathdown as the Town edged the second-half but were undone in the first by a four-goal Glens salvo. Stephen Butler made it 2-0, one from play and one from a [...]

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