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• Railway and Hermes set for stellar showdown

  

  No doubt where the tastiest of the ESB Senior Cup second round ties as St Andrew’s hosts Hermes and Railway Union as two of the competition’s big guns face off. Mick McKinnon’s side have been flying thus far and showed the depth of their squad in last week’s win over Glenanne as a number of [...]

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• Leinster and Ulster take Interpro initiative

  

  After day one of the boy’s interprovincials, Leinster and Ulster look set for a straight duel for the U-16 and U-18 honours after they picked up a quartet of comfortable wins over Munster at Belfield this afternoon Ulster’s U-16s opened the weekend’s action with a comprehensive 5-0 win over Munster, building up a 3-0 half-time [...]

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• Trinity College

  

  Last Season: 9th Coach: David BaneCaptain: Caroline Murphy Players In: Eanna Horan (Wexford), Deirdre Hatton (Galway), Katie Grehan (Loreto), Laura O’Connor (Erasmus), Orla Callanan (Col Iognaid), Kylie Deverall (Kilkenny), Laura Carey (UCC)Players Out: Danielle Costigan (Old Alex), Vanessa Buckley, Claire Hearnden Summary: Of the bottom four, Trinity were always likely to make the biggest signings [...]

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• Fingal

  

  Last Season: 6th; IHL group stages Coach: Gerry Wheeler (1st season, second spell)Captain: David Bane Players In: Gary Sharman, Tom Manning, Stephen Thompson, Hugh Kelly, Mark Sandell (all Kilkenny)Players Out: Mick McGuinness (Glenanne), Brian Scully (Weston), Keith Crawford Summary: Like Corinthian, the first three games should paint the picture of what lies in store for [...]

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• Avoca and Trinity raise curtain on slimline division two

  

  The withdrawals of Skerries and Naas, combined with Kilkenny’s decision to drop their first side down to division four leaves division two with a bare look for the opening weekend of the season. The six remaining teams will play each other three times with the side due to have a bye according to the ‘Blue [...]

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• Leinster Schoolboy leagues announced

  

  With the first series of schoolboy’s hockey fixtures getting underway this week, the Leinster school’s have released the divisions for 2009/10 and the format each respective league will take. Senior A involves the five All-Ireland qualifiers playing on a home and away basis. Senior B sees each team play each other once with the top [...]

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• Blues U-16 and U-18 panels named

  

  Gareth Borland and Rory O’Donoghue have announced their respective U-16 and U-18 panels for the upcoming interprovincial series which will be played in UCD on October 2-4. Borland includes the first player from famed GAA academy St Declan’s, Cabra, Shane Dempsey, in the panel. Dempsey is a product of the St Brendan’s/PP youth system and [...]

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• Corinthian sweep past threadbare ‘Broke

  

  Neville Cup quarter-finals Corinthian 4 (Lucas Piccioli 2, Davy Carson, Glenn Holmes) Pembroke 2 (Justin Sherriff 2) Corinthian comfortably got past Pembroke to reach the Neville Cup semi-finals, building up a 4-1 lead by half-time, inspired once again by Lucas Piccioli’s trickery. Davy Carson scored against his former club inside two minutes, tapping in after [...]

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• Boyne and Athy join Leinster hockey landscape

  

  A new club for the North Meath/Louth area will open its doors this weekend, the Drogheda Independent reported, as Boyne hockey club opens its doors for the first time on Saturday. The club has appointed officers and will loan equipment from the IHA and Drogheda Grammar School until members get the chance to get their [...]

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• News in brief: Schools qualifier cancelled

  

  * The schooboy’s All-Ireland qualifiers, scheduled for this afternoon, have been cancelled after High School and Dundalk pulled out of the competition. The upshot means that Mount Temple and Sutton Park qualify for the tournament proper which takes place on October 22-24. They join Wesley, St Andrew’s and Kilkenny who had pre-qualified. * Hockey players [...]

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