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• Evans and Shaw team up at Loreto

  

  Gareth Evans and Graham Shaw will team up to take care of Loreto for the upcoming season as they bid to retain their Irish Senior Cup and prepare for a second successive European campaign.

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• Loreto seeking new coaches

  

  Loreto hockey club are looking for coaches of all levels to join them for the 2010/11 season. The club are the reigning women’s Irish Senior Cup holders and currently have six teams competing at all levels in the Leinster leagues as well as a large junior section. If you are interested in taking on a [...]

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• Ireland clubs demoted despite Loreto fifth

  

  The myriad machinations of women’s European club competition has seen Ireland’s two representatives drop a division despite Loreto’s fifth place finish in Rome earlier this week. Ireland’s second seed, UCD, were relegated from the third tier European Champion’s Challenge I competition on Monday following a 2-1 defeat to Czech hosts Slavia Praha. Rachel Burke got [...]

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• Loreto finding magic touch for fifth

  

  EuroHockey Club Champion’s Trophy – fifth/sixth playoff Loreto 3 (Nikki Keegan, Lizzie Colvin, Nicci Daly) Alta Boryspol (Ukraine) 1 Loreto finally found their scoring sticks in the second half of their fourth EuroHockey Club Champion’s Trophy to end their campaign on a high, finishing fifth with an impressive win over Ukraine’s Alta Boryspol, outdoing their [...]

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• Loreto claim third in dramatic fashion

  

  EuroHockey Club Champion’s Trophy Loreto 0 Izmaylova Moscow 3 Loreto again struggled to convert possession into goals but managed to take third place in the group – meaning they will finish above their pre-tournament ranking of eighth seed – courtesy of an amazing late three goal from La Gantoise in the group’s other game. Moscow [...]

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• Loreto stung by Belgian counter strikes

  

  EuroHockey Club Champions’s Trophy Loreto 1 (Niamh Small) La Gantoise 4 Loreto chances of reaching Sunday’s final in Rome are all but mathematically over as they fell to a 4-1 defeat to Belgian champions La Gantoise – who featured former Alex and Trinity woman Ciara Murphy – this morning. They got off to a nightmare [...]

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• Loreto begin Euro campaign with draw

  

  Women’s EuroHockey Club Champion’s Trophy Loreto 2 (Nicci Daly, Nikki Symmons) Kelburne 2 Loreto began their European campaign with a draw to leave things all tied up in Group A after day one – the Beaufort’s club’s Russian and Belgian rivals playing out a 3-3 draw earlier – as Nikki Symmons penalty stroke earned her [...]

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• Humphries on hockey

  

  The aftermath of the Hunky Dory’s affair evidently has provided an excellent showcase for hockey in Ireland. Famed Irish Times writer Tom Humphries’ piece on the issue a week ago, concerning sponsorship and media coverage of women’s sport, drew praise from Railway manager Helen Johnston and prompted her to invite the Locker Room columnist to Belfield [...]

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• Loreto strike gold in stellar encounter

  

  ESB Women’s Irish Senior Cup final Loreto 2 (Nikki Symmons 2) Railway Union 2 (Jean McDonnell, Trish O’Dwyer); Loreto win 4-2 on penalties Hannah Matthews showed composure beyond her tender years to plant home the winning penalty stroke to secure Loreto’s ninth Irish Senior Cup title, denying Railway Union a debut title in a stellar [...]

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• Shaw binds Senior finals on Super Sunday

  

  Irish Senior Cup finals: Sunday The Glenanne connection will be out in force on Senior Cup Sunday as a week of national titles tips off at Belfield with the finals the men’s and women’s knock-out competition throwing up a pair of Leinster derbies. Graham Shaw is the man to link the two fixtures as he [...]

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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.