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• Leinster stars feature heavily on Awards night

  

  Railway Union’s ladies, the Watkins family and Glenanne were the big winners at last night’s Irish Hockey Awards, held in the Burlington Hotel with nearly 400 people in attendance, including former world super-bantamweight champion boxer Bernard Dunne, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport Mary Hanafin and compered by RTE’s Darragh Maloney. Brother and sister Gareth [...]

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• Monks eye U-21 Cup three in-a-row

  

  Avoca U-21 Cup final: Monkstown 7 TRR 0 Monkstown retained the Avoca Cup at Whitechurch with an emphatic win over Three Rock Rovers on IHL Sunday. The game was effectively over in the first four minutes when an attacking blitz saw the Town put three past Stephen West. Strikes from a solo run by Frank [...]

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• Shaw carves out unique place in history

  

  Graham Shaw carved out a unique place in history on Sunday, becoming the first player to play and coach separate teams to Irish Senior Cup glory on the same day, throwing in a man-of-the-match performance to boot. Indeed, the achievement was heightened by further time constraints on his regular pre-match routine following Loreto’s epic penalties [...]

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• Glens' legends add to ISC legacy

  

  Men’s Irish Senior Cup final: Glenanne 4 (Stephen Butler 2, Shane O’Donoghue, Richie Shaw) Monkstown 1 (Ian Allen) Arul Anthoni admitted his tactical machinations did not go exactly to plan but saw his Glenanne side record their third Irish Senior Cup win, taking the laurels in a relentless end-to-end tussle with Monkstown, played out in [...]

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• O'Leary double secures Galtrim glory

  

  Galtrim Cup Final Glenanne 1 Monkstown 2 (Sam O’Leary 2) Monsktown added the Galtrim Cup to their list of honours this season as they beat a tough Glenanne outfit by a single goal at Grange Road last Thursday night. The nature of the Galtrim cup always makes for a compelling competition and this proved no [...]

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• Corinthian join Pembroke and Glens in final four

  

  Men’s Irish Hockey League – round five Pool A: Corinthian 4 (Andrew Cronje, Conor Motyer, Darren Kimfley 2) Instonians 2 (Mark Irwin, Chris Kirk) Corinthian claimed the second semi-final berth in Pool A behind Pembroke as they took the spoils at Whitechurch Park this afternoon to leap-frog Instonians and make it three Leinster side’s in [...]

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• Town twos take home the treble

  

  Monkstown II completed a remarkable season on Sunday when they added the Leinster division three title to the Irish Junior and Railway Cups. They did so by beating league rivals, Pembroke, 2-1 in a close-fought encounter at Rathdown. Pembroke made sure the title went to the wire when they dispatched Fingal II 2-1 on Saturday [...]

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• Monks and Glens to contest all-Leinster affair

  

  Men’s Irish Senior Cup semi-finals: Monkstown and Glenanne will make it an All-Leinster Irish Senior Cup final after they got the better of Annadale and Three Rock Rovers, respectively, this afternoon. Indeed, the Town remain on course for an incredible Senior and Junior double after they produced yet another of their now trademark wins, Andrew [...]

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• Glens have final four ISC pedigree

  

  Glenanne look the pedigree outfit going into the final four stage of the Irish Senior Cup – the world’s oldest knock-out hockey competition – as they travel to Grange Road on Saturday in the all-Leinster tie against Three Rock Rovers. Three wins over the Rathfarnham side in 2009/10 should have them firmly in the box-seat [...]

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• Hermes take U-16 title: cup final wrap

  

  Hermes U-16 bounced back from initial elimination to claim the Jacqui Potter U-16 cup title at Grange Road last Saturday, getting the better of Old Alex 2-1 in a tense final. They lost at the first time of asking to Railway Union but were reinstated due to a player eligibility issue and replayed against the [...]

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