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All Ireland Schoolboys Championship: Day 3
The Group matches were played over Day 1 and Day 2 with the Semi Finals and Finals of the Tasmanian Shield and the Herbie Sharman Perpetual Shield played on Day 3. group sTANDINGS The group winners progress to the semi finals of the Tasmanian Shield and the group runners up progress to the semi finals…
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All Ireland Schoolboys Championship: Day 2
The group stages of the All Ireland Schoolboys Championship continued with the Group games on Day 2. Once again we focused our coverage on our Featured Schools in Group 3 and Group 4 whose matches were played at Banbridge Academy and Havelock Park. GROUP 1 GROUP 2 GROUP 3 GROUP 4 Bandon Grammar Cookstown High…
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Junior Cup: Royal School Armagh 4 Antrim Grammar 0
I took a break from the All Ireland Irish Schoolboys Championship to scoot over to College Hill, Armagh for the Junior Cup match between The Royal School and Antrim Grammar on Thursday afternoon. As one of our featured schools I’ve been enjoying the progress of this group of young players this season and they produced…
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All Ireland Schoolboys Championship: Day 1
We caught up some of the games in the Irish Hockey Schoolboys Championship hosted by Banbridge Academy on Wednesday,Thursday and Friday of this week. Apologies: We miscategorised one of the schools when we first published this article which may have caused access issues for Hockey Subscribers. This has now been fixed. If you are a…
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U18 Interprovincial: Ulster 4 Leinster East 2
We caught up with the tremendously talented Ulster U18 Hockey team on Sunday afternoon as they took on Leinster East U18 Hockey in the third round of the Interprovincial series at Havelock Park. The Ulster U18 side faced their toughest test to date against a determined Leinster East. It looked as though the Ulster were…
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U16 Interprovincial: Ulster 5 Leinster East 0
We caught up with the fantastically fabulous Ulster U16 Hockey team on Sunday afternoon as they took on Leinster East U16 Hockey in the third round of the Interprovincial series at Havelock Park. Despite big effort from Leinster East, who made a full contribution to a lively game, Ulster were in charge of this one…
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Women AIL: Cooke 0 Suttonians 44
I finished off my Saturday with a trip to Shaw’s Bridge for the All Ireland Women’s match between Cooke and Suttonians. Unfortunately for the home team it was pretty much one way traffic on the scoreboard as Suttonians wrapped up the bonus point before half time. The visitors went over for the first try after…
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Championship 1: CIYMS 29 Dromore 16
I caught up with the Championship 1 match between CIYMs and Dromore at Belmont Park on Saturday afternoon. Dromore applied the early pressure in the first ten minutes but CIYMS gradually worked their way into the game and it was the home team that opened the scoring 16 minutes in with Max Shannon stretching for…
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Junior 1: Annadale II 0 Banbridge II 6
I caught up with Annadale and Banbridge 2nd XI’s at Campbell College on Saturday lunchtime in a Junior 1 clash. It’s the first time I’ve covered hockey at Campbell, it’s a nice tidy setting and I’m sure I’ll be back. As it was early Saturday afternoon I was only able to cover the first three…
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U14 Superleague: Belfast Royal Academy 0 Royal School Armagh 3
I caught the U14 Superleague Quarter Final at Roughfort on Saturday morning as Belfast Royal Academy hosted The Royal School Armagh. It was a tense game from the start with both teams battling it out in midfield for the first 15 minutes. Armagh got the breakthrough at the end of the first quarter with a…