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• Doherty adds to Belgian brigade

  

  Brian Doherty has swelled the numbers of Irishmen in Belgium for the coming season, confirming last night that he will link up with Antwerp-based Braxgata.

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• Glens return to Barca; Pembroke go Dutch

  

  Pembroke Wanderers and Glenanne found out their EHL fate tonight with the former visiting Oranje Zwart’s Eindhoven base while the Glens travel to Barcelona for the second year of information.

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• German-bound Lewis out of tasty curtain-raiser

  

  Tim Lewis confirmed his move to Crefelder HTC in Germany this morning to The Hook, meaning Pembroke’s opening Leinster senior league tie with Glenanne will have an ever more new-look. Meanwhile, the Leinster Branch released the early season fixtures with all the details here

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• Sothern joins Irish exodus to Europe

  

  Alan Sothern has become the latest Irish international player to make the move to the Netherlands to play in the Hoofdklasse, confirming his move from Pembroke to Den Bosch to The Hook last Friday. While there, Sothern will link up with Mitch Darling who moved across the Belgian border from KHC Leuven as well as [...]

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• Pembroke to Portugal; Railway in Slovakia

  

  Pembroke face a trip to Portugal while Railway Union ladies European debut is set for Bratislava in Slovakia following the announcement yesterday of the pools for the European indoor club championships. Pembroke will compete in the Men’s Challenge I event – the third tier of competition – and are provisionally named in a group of [...]

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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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• Students denied by extra French goal

  

  EuroHockey Club Champion’s Challenge I – Day Three UCD 0 Cambrai 1 (Gwenaelle Dutel) UCD fell to a second defeat in two days to miss out on a final shot as Cambrai grabbed the only goal through Gwenaelle Dutel struck from play in the 19th minute. In combination with Royal Uccle’s win over Rottweiss Wettingen, [...]

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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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• UCD undone by Uccle double

  

  EuroHockey Champions Challenge I UCD 0 Royal Uccle 2 (Magali Demeyere, Sofia Ambrosoni) UCD remain in second in Pool A of the EuroHockey Champions Challenge as they failed to augment their 1-0 win yesterday with victory today against Belgian’s second ranked side; goals from Magali Demeyre and Sofia Ambrosoni giving the Belgian outfit Royal Uccle [...]

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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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