After over 20 months preparing in the background, the Irish women’s hockey team is looking to hit the ground running at June’s EuroHockey Championships in the Netherlands.
UCD Ladies Hockey Club have announced Lisa Jacob as their new women’s first team Head Coach, taking over from Miles Warren who stepped down last month.
Putting together a similar goalscoring sequence to game one, Ireland beat Scotland 4-1 in game two of their series at Queen’s to complete an upbeat weekend against one of their European Championship rivals.
With some light at the end of the Covid tunnel. Irish men’s coach Mark Tumilty is looking forward to finally unleashing some young guns onto the international stage following almost a 20-month wait.
Ireland will no longer be sending Under-19 teams to this summer’s European Championships in Valencia following the decision to withdraw on Thursday evening.
Ayeisha McFerran and Megan Frazer will both return to the Irish line-up as they take on Scotland at Queen’s next weekend in two test matches that act as a final curtain call for European Championship selection.
Ireland’s four game uncapped series against Great Britain at Bisham Abbey provided plenty of food for thought for coach Sean Dancer as they ended with three defeats and one draw for their week’s work.
Inez Cooper is looking to put the FIH’s focus on the sport’s grassroots should she be successful at the world body’s elections on May 22 where she is in the running for a place on the FIH executive board.
Kilkenny’s Donal Cadogan has been awarded the Leinster Hockey Association’s March 2021 Volunteer of the Month Award.
The Irish hockey community joined the wider world of Dutch sport to remember Cees Koppelaar this week following his death on Monday at the age of 81.
Caoimhe Perdue and Ellen Curran have a chance to push their claims for a place in the Irish women’s summer plans next week as the Green Army head to Bisham Abbey for a four-game series against Great Britain.
Sitting on Anna O’Flanagan’s desk are a set of pens that have remained in the packet for almost six years now.
Armagh Hockey Club have announced Greg Thompson as their new long-term head coach, starting in the 2021/22 season in a major coup for the Orchard County club.
The Irish women’s Olympic preparations have suffered a frustrating speed-bump as their hastily arranged warm-weather trip to Malaysia was called off on the day of departure.
Chloe Watkins says Ireland’s recent victory over reigning Olympic gold medalists Great Britain is both hugely important and unimportant at the same time as the Green Army mount up for a big summer ahead.
Having never beaten Great Britain before Sunday, Ireland’s women came within four minutes of repeating the trick two days later only for Izzy Petter to intervene and cancel out yet another Roisin Upton penalty stroke.
Anna Richardson has been appointed Leinster Hockey's first Development Programme Manager (DPM) as part of the Player Development and High Performance programme.
With two games gone in the Softco Series, it is a 2-1 win a piece for Ireland and GB at Queen's with game three on Tuesday at 3pm
BBC NI and RTE are both on hand to broadcast Ireland's first meeting with GB on home turf in 13 years, it offers a great challenge for the Green Army to ramp up their Tokyo preparations
Zoe Wilson is set to miss this summer’s Olympic Games following an ACL injury sustained in Ireland’s last challenge match in Spain in January.
Ireland will face Great Britain on home turf for the first time in 13 years with three uncapped international matches given the go ahead for Queen’s University next week.
March 2, 2021 marks the 125th anniversary of the first ever women’s international hockey match in 1896 as Ireland beat England 2-0.
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