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While we might not have hockey games for another while yet, this weekend sees the Olympics in Tokyo kick off, so we will have some live sport on our screens this weekend! Enniscorthy Hockey Club are running a Club fundraiser, following the Women’s Hockey Team and a great prize for 5 lucky winners! Predict the winner of each of the fixtures and how many goals are scored to be in with a chance to win big!

Here’s how it works!

1. Follow the Splink link and pay a once-off €5 charge (plus 0.41c Splink handling fee) for the entire competition. Please note you must be 18 years or older to enter. https://mysplink.com/ehcfundraise/hockeyolympics
2. Once you enter and pay, don’t forget to fill out predictions and submit. Predictions are to be submitted before push-back of first game in each round. Predictions should include who you think will win the game or if there is a draw, along with how many goals you think each team will score!
3. After all the games have been played, a leaderboard will be shared on our social media channels, so you can keep up to date with who is in with a chance to win the cash prize!
4. Once the tournament is over, the prize money will be split in half, with half of the pot divided among the overall winner and the 4 round winners and the other half going to the club.

The scoring system:

1. Predict the correct number of goals by each team = 3 points.
2. Predict the winner = 2 points.
3. Predict a draw = 1 point per team (2 points).
4. Max score if you correctly predict goals and winner correct for each game is 8 points.
5. Prizes go to the person with the most accumulated points at the end of the tournament and to the person with the most accumulated points in each round.
6. All players will be notified of table standings.

Other rules to be aware of:

1. If there is a tie for most points at end of a round, 1 winner will be picked using the tie breaker.
2. If there is a tie for most accumulated points at end of tournament, 1 winner will be picked using tie breaker.
3. If no goal is scored, the time closest to the first short corner will be used.

If you have any questions don’t be afraid to reach out on social media, or email ehc6nations@gmail.com for more information. Best of luck to everyone!!

Hockey Ireland and Enniscorthy Hockey Club announce plans to develop a Regional Centre for Excellence for Hockey in the Southeast.
 
Huge excitement greeted the weekend announcement by Enniscorthy Hockey Club of their plans to establish a regional hockey pitch in Enniscorthy town.  A formal agreement and twenty five year lease contract is due for completion this June in agreement with Enniscorthy Greyhound Track and County Showground owners. The club will commence a fundraising drive in July to raise the necessary thirty per cent of any future grant monies assigned from a joint application in conjunction with Hockey Ireland to the Sports Capital & Large Scale Sports Infrastructure Funding scheme.
 
There are currently three hockey clubs in the County and none have a home pitch.  All currently play in Enniscorthy at the Astro Active Centre but access time is limited at this multipurpose shared pitch facility. Unlike other field sports hockey cannot be played on grass so an urgent need exists to secure independent tenure of facilities and to copper fasten access to competitive hockey locally. There are plans to investigate the development of the pitch on the grounds to an International pitch standard thus attracting national teams to play in Co Wexford in the coming years.
 
Chairperson of Enniscorthy Hockey Club, Irene Doyle commented “Enniscorthy has a long association with hockey and the club’s many achievements include winning the Irish Junior Cup. The club is successful and progressive, entering teams of all ages in the Leinster leagues.  It is unique in the county because it is the only club which offers hockey for all ages and genders and is also noteworthy in Leinster as a club with no feeder schools in a town with DEIS status.  The hockey club has developed close working links with the town’s DEIS schools and in conjunction with Hockey Ireland would plan to make this facility available for schools hockey during school hours.  The hockey club is an asset of the town and draws visitors each weekend, it contributes to its social and economic standing along with the wellbeing of players. Our new facilities, when realised will raise the profile of Enniscorthy as an attractive location to live in or visit.  Without a playable pitch, the future of hockey in Enniscorthy is threatened so this agreement is the start to achieving a huge endeavour. It is an exciting undertaking and will aid kids to access another sport locally while enhancing their health and opportunities in life”.
 
Suzanne O’Leary of the club pitch working group said “The sport of hockey currently ranks fourth in terms of world sport viewing stats and second in terms of European sport participation.  The Irish Women’s Hockey team is currently ranked 8th in the world.  It is managed by an Enniscorthy local and former international player Lisa Jacob.  The team are currently preparing for this year’s Olympics and is a fast growing and high profile sport which is going from strength to strength in Ireland.  Many clubs, including Enniscorthy Hockey Club have a wait list for new members because we do not have enough access to a pitch nor club facilities.  The development of a regional centre would enable all clubs to increase participation in sport and further develop hockey in the town and county”. 
 
Jim Hendrick, Chairperson of the County Showgrounds stated “We recognise the instability of the current situation and the threat the lack of tenure on a pitch poses for the hockey club in Enniscorthy and other teams in Co Wexford. We are very happy to work together and offer space for use”.  Paddy Kavanagh of Enniscorthy Greyhound Track added “The plans to develop a regional facility in Enniscorthy, currently the heart of hockey in the County are most welcome. What was required to bring this development to town is a suitable site and the greyhound track centre on the Showgrounds is a perfect solution. With the support of the Enniscorthy greyhound community, our Chamber, County Council and local Public Representatives, we will all be enabled to assist Enniscorthy Hockey Club to bring this project to fruition”. 

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While we might not have hockey games for another while yet, this weekend sees the Six Nations Championship kick off, so we will have some live sport on our screens this weekend! Enniscorthy Hockey Club are running a Club fundraiser, following the five weekends of the 6 Nations and a great prize for one lucky winner! Predict the winner of each of the fixtures and how many tries are scored to be in with a chance to win big!

Here’s how it works! 

1. Follow the Splink link and pay a once-off €5 charge (plus 0.41c Splink handling fee) for the entire competition. Please note you must be 18 years or older to enter. https://mysplink.com/ehcfundraise/ehc6nations 
2. Once you enter and pay, don’t forget to fill out predictions and submit. Predictions are to be submitted before 12 noon each Saturday. Predictions should include who you think will win the game or if there is a draw, along with how many tries you think each team will score!​
3. After all the games have been played, a leaderboard of the top 5 highest scores will be shared on our social media channels every Tuesday, so you can keep up to date with who’s in with a chance to win the cash prize!
4. Once the tournament is over, the prize money will be split in half, with half of the pot going to the winner and the other half going to the club. 

March 17th 2018 will go down in the annals of Irish rugby as the day the historic third men's Grand Slam was secured, but a small corner of Dublin will also hold a place in the record books for Enniscorthy Hockey Club following a Saint Patrick's Day triumph over Rathfarnham side Three Rock Rovers.

Grange Road hosted Leinster Hockey's final's day, and Enniscorthy's under 16 girls – managed by the quadruple of Alan Smith, Judith Dunne, Elaine Smith and Laura O'Leary – brought the club to the promised land of provincial success in the Junior Jacqui Potter Plate final with a 2-0 win over host side Three Rock Rovers.

After being knocked out by a silver-goal sucker punch against eventual runners-up Railway Union in the Junior Jacqui Potter Cup, the Bellefield Road side entered the plate competition. Clontarf, Wexford, Naas and Boyne all fell to Enniscorthy en route to Saturday's final, which – Naas in 2016 aside – had been won by Dublin clubs since the competition's inception in 2011.

Their focus on attacking had seen 18 goals being scored in previous rounds and the side – captained by Eabha Farrell – opted to replicate this in the final. A penalty corner was won within the first five minutes and a second eight minutes later gave Enniscorthy the lead, Rebecca Ogilvie pouncing from close range.

At the other end of the pitch, Rovers' tactic of playing their forwards high was negated by Enniscorthy's well-drilled defence, which had not conceeded in the Plate competition. Instead it was Enniscorthy who struck next.

The second goal of the afternoon was a team effort right from the training manual. Enniscorthy's midfield pushed the ball forward and wide, stretching the Rovers defence. Working her way in along the end line, Emer Doyle's ball back to the top of the host's circle found centre forward Farrell. The captain, in turn, picked out Hannah Sweeney and her reverse-stick shot doubled Enniscorthy's lead. Two- nil and the Wexford minnows had one hand on the trophy.

Amy Murphy and Caoimhe Larkin both had opportunities to stretch the Slaneysiders lead in the second half, Larkin's shot missing the left post by milimetres while Murphy just missed out a deflection from a Leah Kidd shot. With ten minutes remaining Three Rock earned a penalty corner of their own but to no avail, and Enniscorthy had created their own bit of history.

Squad: Norah McGinty, Laura Smith, Aoife Mahon, Beibhin O'Brien, Hannah Graham, Niamh Ogilvie, Ciara Kelly, Leah Kidd, Caoimhe Larkin, Eabha Farrell, Hannah Sweeney, Eimear Doyle, Rebecca Ogilvie, Amy Murphy, Ellen Rogan, Martha Dunne

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The under 16 intermediate yellow team continued their recent good run of form with a 1-1 draw away to Three Rock Rovers. Tara Somers scored the goal which ensured a fifth-placed finish in the league.
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Squad: Alice Medcalf, Ailbhe Harrington, Lettie Hassey, Emer Bowe, Dervle Walsh, Hannah Neville, Ciara Parnell, Agatha Farioli, Muireann Murphy, Tara Somers, Laura Sutton, Alexi Guillot, Kate Freeman.