Hockey League

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Sean Dancer: Ireland’s head coach faces a busy year after the women’s team’s qualification for the Olympics in Tokyo. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
Women’s Hockey: Incentive never greater for contenders to impress

If all concerned can come down off Cloud Nine in time then the new Hockey League campaign will get under way on Saturday, and for players with interna(...)

Railway’s Sarah Hawkshaw: included in the Ireland panel earlier this week. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho
Women’s Hockey: Loreto and Pegasus continue to set a hot pace

Saturday sees the eighth and final round of Hockey League matches before the winter break, the competition not resuming until February. While most of(...)

Railway Unions’s Kate McKenna created a goal in each half for Cecelia Joyce and Kate Dillon to secure Junior Cup success. Photograph: Inpho
Railway Union retain Irish Junior Cup with victory over UCD

For the second week running Railway Union got the better of UCD in a cup final, beating them 2-0 at Belfield on Sunday to retain the Irish Junior Cup(...)

Lena Tice’s third-quarter penalty ensured a UCD victory over Railway Union. Photograph: Inpho
UCD remain top after ending Railway Union’s unbeaten run

There’s no change at the top of the Hockey League with UCD, Cork Harlequins and Pegasus all picking up wins over the weekend, Loreto the only one of (...)

Former Monkstown player Ellen Curran who has joined UCD this year
UCD host a strengthened Cork Harlequins in Hockey League opener

The Hockey League finally gets under way on Saturday after a two-week delay, caused by the impasse between Irish Hockey and the Umpires’ Association, (...)

It promises to be a very busy 2017 for Graham Shaw’s Ireland women’s international squad. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho
Graham Shaw includes five uncapped players in Ireland squad

Two games away to Belgium later this month and another three against Scotland in Glasgow in November signal the start of the build-up to what will be(...)