Schools
Schools Update
February 8, 2008 | 104 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 | 315 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 | 187 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 | 100 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 | 174 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 | 107 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 […]
The Best Foreign XI (part two)
October 21, 2007 | 224 views | Leave a commentThe Leinster senior league has seen many foreign players come and go in the past ten years. Some have been good, some not so. Some came and went, others have been instrumental in Leinster hockey. Here’s my opinion on the best attackers to have graced on local soil… Right Midfield – James Benson (Australia) – […]