Shirley McCay will play her eighth and last EuroHockey Championships campaign as Ireland set out on their Olympic summer, via a hopeful route to the next Hockey World Cup.
McCay, 32, is one of 12 Green Army players from the...
Sitting on Anna O’Flanagan’s desk are a set of pens that have remained in the packet for almost six years now.
In just under a hundred days, she may finally get around to chucking them out, maybe even burn them....
Great Britain women have seen Tokyo plans disrupted after their tour to Malaysia was cancelled at the last moment.
GB women were due to fly out to Kuala Lumpur on Friday to acclimatise ahead of the Tokyo Games this summer....
Ireland midfielder Chloe Watkins says that the recent friendly series win over Great Britain was the perfect temperature check ahead of the Green Army’s Tokyo Olympics campaign.
Watkins played a leading hand in Ireland’s three-match series victory over GB in...
Ireland women's captain Katie Mullan had admitted that this three-match SoftCo hockey series was as good as shaping up to "tournament intensity" before Tuesday's final game.
Indeed, the fourth quarter in Belfast of the final match had all the hallmarks...
How significant will this 2-1 win be for Ireland women? With a European Championships and Olympic Games to come this summer, in any other sport the microscope would be out on these two sides with this SoftCo series played...
Giselle Ansley, returning to the side for the first time since late 2019, missed a penalty stroke before carving Ireland's defence apart with a 50-metre pass for Great Britain's winner on Saturday. In the opening match of the series...
The Ireland v Great Britain matches over the next four days may be billed as uncapped, friendly hockey matches, but come push back they will be anything but.
"I don't think any match we have played is a friendly," joked...
Zoe Wilson, seen as a key cog in Hockey Ireland women's squad, looks set to miss the Tokyo Olympics after an ACL injury.
Wilson, 24, picked up the injury on the Green Army's trip to Spain earlier this year. With...
GB women's coach Mark Hager has taken his near-to-full national programme to Belfast for a three-match series against Ireland, which starts this weekend. Hager has 25 players at his disposal - a rare commodity since the Australian took over...
