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• News in brief: Navan seek new coach

  

  Navan seek new coach; Pembroke on lookout for second team coach; Railway host mixed event on September 17

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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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• Fingal III bounce back to claim Inter title

  

  Men’s Intermediate Cup final Fingal III 3 (Tim Allcut, Damian Wheeler, Marcus O’Brien) Navan II 0 Fingal III bounced back from their 2009 Inter Cup final defeat to claim the title with an impressive 3-0 win over Navan II at a sun-baked Serpentine Avenue last Sunday. Fingal shaded the major battles early on and took [...]

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• Weston in pole position; Avoca playoff bound

  

  Enda Tucker’s goal put Weston on course for a spot in division one in 2010/11 as his strike was all that was required to get the better of Navan last Saturday at Griffeen Valley Park. They move into a tie for first place with Avoca whose regular season finished with the decision by the Leinster [...]

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• Reds half-dozen forces final day decider

  

  Men’s Division One Glenanne 0 Corinthian 6 (Brian Doherty 2, Conor Motyer, Chris Pelow, Andrew Cronje, Rowland Rixon-Fuller) Corinthian picked up a surprisingly simple win at St Mark’s this afternoon to make sure they stay in the mixer for a maiden title on Sunday afternoon when they travel to Clontarf. In the absence of Steven [...]

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• Town breach top four; Trin hit nine again

  

  Men’s Division One: Monkstown 1 (Andy Ewington) Railway Union 0 Andy Ewington’s (pictured) low drag-flick inside 100 seconds proved the only goal of a freezing night at Rathdown on a pitch that looked to be scarcely playable given the number of slips and slides both teams endured. The three points were invaluable for Monkstown in [...]

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• Wong rescues point for Railway

  

  Men’s Division One: Railway Union 2 (Peter English, Kevin Wong) Fingal 2 (Brian Gray, Eamon Bane) Railway struck late for what could prove an invaluable draw in the race to escape ninth place in the league standings, Kevin Wong’s slightly deflected shot two minutes from time garnering a point at Park Avenue. Brian Gray had [...]

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• Avoca close in on top two

  

  Men’s Division Two: Weston 1 (Phil Barron) Dublin University 1 (Sean Flynn) Weston ground out a point at Griffeen Valley Park against a bouyant Trinity side who enjoyed plenty of possession and territorial advantage but were unable to break down the Lucan side’s defences further than Sean Flynn’s strike. Phil Barron’s drag-flick had given Weston [...]

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• YM put major dent in Pembroke plans

  

  Men’s Division One: Pembroke 0 YMCA 0 YMCA took Pembroke’s Leinster league destiny out of their own hands as Iain Walker produced a masterful performance between the posts, notably denying a 58th minute Craig Fulton stroke. Perhaps struggling from the after effects of two tough games last weekend and an early morning Irish team gym [...]

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• Suttonians back on top of Div Two pile

  

  Men’s Division Two: Navan 3 (Simon Clarke, Ruairi Clarke) Suttonians 4 (Conor Gillett 2, Simon Walsh 2) For a third time this season, Suttonians were made to work extremely hard for their points against the Navan badgers, this time Conor Gillett’s stunning, top-corner reverse the highlight of a lively fixture. Simon Clarke’s deflected corner strike [...]

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