Schools
U-16 Boys begin Youth Championships
July 7, 2008 | 109 views | Leave a commentAndrew Smyth’s Ireland Under-16 boys squad begins their European Youth Championships today against Austria in the Hague. The squad features nine of the Leinster side that beat Ulster to the interprovincial title and five of the Wesley side that won the under-16 schools title – Robert Fitzgerald, Neal Megarity, Shane Madeley – son of fromer […]
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GB legend Mason to lead GK camp
July 7, 2008 | 115 views | Leave a commentFollowing the success of last year, the IHA has announced its third annual Goalkeeping Course, in association with Mercian, will take place in UCD on August 30 and 31 2008. The Mercian Schools of Hockey have designed this course to cater for the needs of the modern goalkeeper involved at school, club, county and international […]
Passmore names squad
June 5, 2008 | 83 views | Leave a commentIt’s all change in David Passmore’s squad as Ireland begin a new cycle in their development following thier third place finish in the OQT. As the side now turns it’s eyes to the 2009 Europeans, Passmore has to plan without the services of a quartet of experienced internationals – Mark Irwin, Jason Black, Andy Barbour […]
Jenny Robinson Cup
April 24, 2008 | 194 views | Leave a commentIn memory of the late Jenny Robinson, 16 predominantly boy’s teams from Primary Schools in Leinster took part in an 8-a-side tournament at TRR yesterday played on a round robin basis. All competitors, many of whom had been coached by Jenny either at Taney NS or YMCA, played with great spirit in a lively atmosphere. […]
Wesley finish fifth in Europe
March 26, 2008 | 90 views | Leave a commentLeinster schools senior chmapions, Wesley College finished fifth in their European Competition in HDM, the Hague, Holland over the Easter weekend. They finished the tournament with an impressive 8-3 win over Wellington school in the fifth/sixth place playoff with Jamie Tobin’s hat-trick bringing his tournament total to six. Wesley beat Millfield School twice and drew […]
Hockey on tv
March 22, 2008 | 86 views | Leave a comment* Eurosport will be showing some of the European hockey action today from 4pm today (Saturday). * Setanta will be showing the recent Kate Russell All-Ireland schools competition all this week with the final on March 25. Check out www.setanta.com and check the Setanta Ireland tv listings.
Sutton Park win under-12 league
March 14, 2008 | 163 views | Leave a commentSutton Park School beat Whitechurch 3 – 0 to claim the under-12 schools league with two goals from Keith O’Hare and Elvis Acheson Mullen, with O’Hare getting the man of the match award. In division 2, Dalkey School Project beat Kill-o-the-Grange in a penalty shoot-out both teams locked in a tight tie after extra time. […]
Wesley claim quadruple – Under 13 and Junior Final
March 13, 2008 | 83 views | Leave a commentWesley completed a clean sweep of the boy’s schools titles today as they claimed the under 13 and junior cups. They were made to work hard, though, coming from behind in both matches. In the under 13 final, Stephen Keenan opened the scoring for St Andrews with a piledriver before Wesley equalised from a penalty […]
News in brief
March 13, 2008 | 86 views | Leave a comment*Amy Stewart was honoured as one of Ireland’s most promising sporting prospects at the Irish Examiner National Junior Sports Stars Awards 2007 at a ceremony in Dublin. * Great Britain qualify for the Olympics ahead of India. India miss out for the first time in 70 years in their national game and the people are […]
Schools Update
March 5, 2008 | 79 views | Leave a commentAlexandra beat Loreto, Beaufort 2-0 yesterday afternoon to go into the Junior Cup final on Friday at Grnage Road at 12pm. They will play league winners St Andrews On Monday, Mount Anville claimed the Senior 3 title, beating Beaufort 3-0. This afternoon, there is a double header up at Grange Road with Wesley looking for […]
News in brief…
March 3, 2008 | 67 views | Leave a comment*Aertel changed its hockey results page from 218 to page 248 *Just to plug some of my own work but the Gazette will have pictures and match reports from this week’s Girls Schools Senior Cup final and last Thursday’s Monkstown against Fingal match. Papers are available from Wednesday afternoon in Dundrum, Dun Laoghaire, Clondalkin, Blanch, […]
Senior Cup Semi: Wesley 2 St Andrews 1
February 29, 2008 | 123 views | Leave a commentWesley made it through to the Schools Senior Cup final this afternoon, beating arch rivals St Andrews 2-1. Mark English opened the scoring, latching onto a loose cross on the left-hand side of the circle to bury his shot. Andrews equalised early in the second half from a short corner before Wesley retook the lead. […]
Schools Update
February 21, 2008 | 114 views | Leave a commentWesley managed to scrape through to the Senior Cup semi-final as they snuck past King’s Hospital. They trailed 3-1 after goals from Conor Treacy, Nick Foster and Richie Bagnall before a late fight-back saw them pull through 4-3 – Kyle Goode scoring a stunning reverse-stick shot as the game looked set to go to strokes. […]
Men's weekend round-up
February 10, 2008 | 94 views | Leave a commentCorinthian 2 (Garth Ancher, Robbie Byrnes) Pembroke 2 (Alan Sothern 2) In Pembroke’s first major test without their international quartet, they came up against a rejuvenated Corinthian side who were unlucky not to win the game in the end. Pembroke dropped their first points of the season and, at times, looked overly complacent. They led […]
Schools Update
February 8, 2008 | 108 views | Leave a commentThe schools cups are reaching the business end right about now with St Andrews fighting for the four major titles – the boys and girls junior and senior cups. The big match sees Wesley face St Andrews in the Senior semi-final after the half-term break while Andrews juniors were in action today against Sutton Park […]
Metchette to represent Ireland at Olympics
January 23, 2008 | 328 views | Leave a commentContinuing the strong tradition of Irish umpiring, Carole Metchette was today notified of her appointment to the Beijing Olympics, 2008. This is the first time Ireland has ever had a female hockey umpire appointed to the Olympics. Dublin born Metchette had a good introduction to hockey when she attended Wesley College where she won the […]
Loreto and Muckross to contest schools final…
December 7, 2007 | 194 views | Leave a commentReigning Loreto Beaufort will defend their Leinster league crown next Friday after beating St Andrew’s 1-0 in yesterday’s semi-finals. They will play Muckross Park, who beat Wesley 2-0. Hermes’ Irish under 18 international Anna O’Flanagan was central to everything Muckross put together. She opened the scoring after 10 minutes, getting on the end of a […]
EHF Club awards
December 6, 2007 | 102 views | Leave a commentThe EHF has launched a new programme to honour clubs that are doing great work to promote the “Hockey Family” in Europe. For me, though, there is quite a few points on the list of criteria below that clubs can take on board and develop upon. Recently, the IHA has started running a number of […]
Connacht claim U16 title…
December 2, 2007 | 179 views | Leave a commentConnacht have won their first ever Inteprovincial title at underage level in Galway today. Connacht, Leinster and Ulster all finished on 9 points but Connacht with a better goal difference were crowned ESB U16 champions for the first time in their province’s history. The result denies Leinster a clean sweep of the schools interprovincial title. […]
News in Brief
October 28, 2007 | 111 views | Leave a comment* Cookstown High School bag their first boys All-Ireland schools title. They beat defending champions Banbridge Academy in the final 4-2. * Australian legend Ric Charlesworth will head up the coaching side of the annual ‘Hooked!’ conference to take place on January 5th and 6th. * Ireland is guaranteed three representatives in the second round […]