The weekly round-up is here for week #5 of the season. If you have any other submissions, drop me a message on Whatsapp (086 80 44 238)

1. Cocktail party – Dress to impress! The cocktail party is on Saturday, October 17^th with tickets €10 which gets you a welcome drink and finger food! The party kicks off after the men’s 1sts game on Saturday evening vs YMCA (tip-off 5pm). Get your ticket here: https://pay.sumup.com/b2c/Q4I5E257

2. Beginners Umpires course: We are hosting a beginners umpires course in the clubhouse on Friday, October 16^th. It starts at 7.15pm and runs until around 9pm with 40 minutes indoors and 40 minutes on the pitch. We will have top Leinster umpires facilitating the course. Email Maarten Blanken (mfblanken@hotmail.com) to sign up.

3. Rovers representing great charities – a number of club members are fundraising for excellent causes at the moment.

• Mandy Bools (pictured below with the W1 side) is fundraising for Breast Cancer Ireland in October’s Walk 2K a day challenge. You can support her here: https://fundraising.breastcancerireland.com/fundraiser/MB31500063?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgRzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwyNTYyODEwNDA1NTgAAaeI-kfJ4q0C6em_YwcIhrLHNeouO9sAEceYGFhORWX-KFZ0TFQK6hw3WloDWg_aem_zen3QHUNh21NB_-FSQivGQ
• Luke Madeley is running the Dublin Marathon in aid of the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust — a charity that holds a very personal significance. You can read more about it and support here: https://eventmaster.ie/fundraising/pages/LM98613982

4. This week’s fixtures – BAR OPEN 12.30pm to 8pm

Saturday, October 10th

Home

1pm (front) – M2 v UCD (league)

3pm (front) – M1 v Portrane (EYHL)

W1 v Clontarf – postponed

Away

11am – W3 v Tullamore (league)

1.15pm (Whitechurch Park) – W2 v Corinthian (league)

2pm (St Leo’s College) – W4 v Carlow (league)

Sunday, October 11^th

GIRLS

9am: 6th Class 1 vs Railway (Park Avenue)

9.45am: 6th Class 5 vs Sutton HC (Sutton Park)

11.30am: Inter 1 vs Loreto Wexford (Loreto Wexford)

12.20pm: Minor A vs Portrane Hockey Club (Portrane)

BOYS

10.15am: U16A vs Bray Hockey Club (front)

11.45am: U14A vs Monkstown Hockey Club (front)

3pm: Boys 5th Class Blitz vs Wicklow (East Glendalough)

5. Last week’s results round-up: Juliette Duffy’s double fired the W1 to a first win of the season – one an absolute peach to the top corner – as they beat Kilkenny 2-0! The W3 side also got their first win as they won 2-1 against Pembroke thanks to efforts from Siobhan Crombie and Margo Schaaf. The W3 side lost to a strong Pembroke side.

On the men’s side, the M1 drew 1-1 in Banbridge with the hosts earning the shoot-out bonus point this time, leaving us on six points from nine available so far. Mark English scored a second successive hat trick for the M2 in a comfortable away win over Clontarf. The M3 got off the mark with a 0-0 draw against Monkstown while a polished Avoca were 3-1 winners over the M4 team.

Sunday blitz-day with YMCA Hockey Club as the senior infants, 1st, 2nd and 5th class groups played a great series of games at Wesley while the 3rd and 4th class girls were at HQ for their set!

Huge thanks to all the coaches, umpires and orgainsers for a lovely day of hockey in the sun! Big thank you also to Kate for taking the action pics from the Under 8 girls group!

6. October mid-term camp (Oct 27th to 30th) – early notice for this camp which runs during the half-term break for senior infants to 6th class boys and girls, member and non-members. From 9.30am to 2.30pm Price is €120

Contact Orla on camps@threerockrovershc.com for more info or book now on: https://threerockrovershockeyclub.clubforce.com/products/membership

7. Re-turn – we now have three yellow bins into which you deposit your Re-Turn bottles and cans with all funds going to the club. It has proven a very handy source of income for the club so please consider dropping your empties in!

8. New members:

 If you or someone you know is looking to get into hockey, contact:

Juniors: junior.committee@threerockrovershc.com

Senior men: John Blakeney on mens.captain@threerockrovershc.com

Senior women: Andrea van Eeden womens.captain@threerockrovershc.com

9. Club membership

To be eligible to play, umpire or coach this season, Hockey Ireland Membership is required. Please sign up via the following links:

– HI Membership: https://membership.mygameday.app/regoform.cgi?aID=29011&pKey=da2c0f798cfdfa14090d0577d5fb6f48&formID=121278

– Three Rock club membership: https://threerockrovershockeyclub.clubforce.com/products/membership

10. Grow your knowledge – Hockey Ireland is continually running different courses on umpiring, coaching, safeguarding and Young Leaders certificates. If you want to upskill, have a look at what is coming up on https://hockey.ie/events/

Week four of the season and its all systems go! Here’s this week’s overview of what is going on around the club! If you have any other submissions, drop me a message on Whatsapp (086 80 44 238)

1. Friday/Saturday bar opening – thanks to a couple of parent volunteers, the bar will now open on Friday evenings during the youth sessions. All parents welcome to come up and socialise (and stay warm as the evenings get that bit cooler!)

For Saturday, October 3^rd, with five home games on the agenda, the bar will be open all afternoon until 6.30pm with the W1 side in the 1pm slot for a big date against Kilkenny to get behind. Make sure to invite your opposition up after the game!

2. This week’s fixtures

Saturday, October 3rd

Home

11am (front) – W3 v Pembroke (league)

1pm (front) – W1 v Kilkenny (EYHL2 qualifier)

1pm (back) – M4 v Avoca (league)

3pm (front) – W2 v Pembroke (league)

3pm (back) – M3 v Monkstown (league)

M5 v Suttonians – postponed

Away

12.30pm (Mount Temple) – M2 v Clontarf (league)

2.45pm (Havelock Park) – M1 v Banbridge (EYHL)

Sunday, October 4^th

9am (front and back) – 3^rd & 4^th class girls blitzes

10.30am (front) – Inter 1 girls vs Our Lady’s

10.30am (back) – U14B boys league vs Boyne – postponed

11.30am (King’s Hospital) – Inter 5 girls vs Weston

12pm (Wesley) – U8 boy blitz with YMCA

12pm (Wesley) – 5^th class girls blitz with YMCA

1pm (Wesley) – mixed 2^nd class blitz with YMCA

3. Last week’s results round-up: Strong opening days wins for the M2 and M4 sides while the W2, W4 and M1 teams all drew to keep their unbeaten start to the season going!

For the M2 side, new captain Mark English scored a hat trick as they swept aside Monkstown 6-1 to begin their title defence on the front foot. The M4s, under the watchful eye of Bono and the Edge on the Mount Temple clock tower, came back twice from a goal down to beat Clontarf 3-2 with Andy Bond firing the winner with five minutes to go. Big shout-out to Tom Dillon who provided two assists on debut.

Alex-Anne Kennedy was on the mark for the second week in a row as the W2 side drew 1-1 with Loreto; the W4 team drew a lively 2-2 battle early on Saturday morning with Botanic to make it four points from six.

In the EYHL, two Ben Johnson corner goals saw the M1 draw with Avoca 2-2 before some James Coffey heroics earned a shoot-out bonus point; we have five points from six thus far ahead of a big game with Banbridge on Saturday. Elsewhere, no joy for the W1 or M5 in Newpark where Avoca were the victors 3-0 and 7-0 respectively while the W3 lost 4-1 in Wicklow.

There were lots of youth blitzes at HQ on Saturday morning against Monkstown with the U12s and 10s playing coming to visit while the U16s and 14s played friendlies on Friday evening. The U8s blitz succumbed to the Sunday deluge so they get their first games in this week at Wesley with YMCA.

4. Cocktail party – October 17th, 7.30pm – get the date in the diary! It follows a full schedule of home matches at the club!

5. Youth goalkeeper Friday sessions – updated times; with a healthy number of goalkeepers signed up, sessions with James Coffey on Friday evenings will now be split into the following groups:

– Under 14s: 6.10 – 6.40pm

– Girls 1st year/6th class: 6.45 – 7.15pm

Under 16 boys/girls 7.20 – 7.50pm

6. October mid-term camp (Oct 27th to 30th) – early notice for this camp which runs during the half-term break for senior infants to 6th class boys and girls, member and non-members. From 9.30am to 2.30pm Price is €120

Contact Orla on camps@threerockrovershc.com for more info or book now on: https://threerockrovershockeyclub.clubforce.com/products/membership

7. Re-turn – we now have three yellow bins into which you deposit your Re-Turn bottles and cans with all funds going to the club. It has proven a very handy source of income for the club so please consider dropping your empties in!

8. New members:

 If you or someone you know is looking to get into hockey, contact:

Juniors: junior.committee@threerockrovershc.com

Senior men: John Blakeney on mens.captain@threerockrovershc.com

Senior women: Andrea van Eeden womens.captain@threerockrovershc.com

9. Get involved

The club always welcomes more volunteers to help grow and develop; here’s this week’s way you can help out!

• Match reporters/photographers – if you are in a position to showcase your team’s activities this week and  build our coverage of the club on social media, get in touch with Stephen Findlater on 086 80 44 238, stevie_findlats@yahoo.com or via the Whatsapp Community!

10. Club membership

To be eligible to play, umpire or coach this season, Hockey Ireland Membership is required. Please sign up via the following links:

– HI Membership: https://membership.mygameday.app/regoform.cgi?aID=29011&pKey=da2c0f798cfdfa14090d0577d5fb6f48&formID=121278

– Three Rock club membership: https://threerockrovershockeyclub.clubforce.com/products/membership

11. Grow your knowledge – Hockey Ireland is continually running different courses on umpiring, coaching, safeguarding and Young Leaders certificates. If you want to upskill, have a look at what is coming up on https://hockey.ie/events/

Lots happening on and off the pitch with 14 matches over next three days; the Cocktail Party has been set for October 17th; bookings open for the half-term camp and plenty more! Here’s this week’s round-up

1. This week’s fixtures

Friday September 25th

7.30pm (front) – U16 boys vs Monkstown

7.30pm (back) – U14 boys vs Monkstown

Saturday, September 19th

Home

9am (front) – U12 boys vs Monkstown

9am (back) – U10 boys vs Monkstown

11am (front) – W4 v Botanic (league)

1pm (front) – M2 v Monkstown (league)

3pm (front) – M1 v Avoca (EYHL)

Away

9.45am (Park Avenue) – M3 v Railway Union (league)

12.50pm (Beaufort) – W2 v Loreto (league)

2.30pm (Newpark) – W1 v Avoca (EYHL2Q)

3pm (East Glendalough) – W3 v Wicklow (league)

4.30pm (Mount Temple) – M4 v Clontarf (league)

4.30pm (Newpark) – M5 v Avoca (league)

Sunday, September 20th

9am (front) – U8 boys vs Monkstown

2. Last week’s results round-up: M1were out of the blocks with a win for the M1s as they beat newly promoted Cork Harlequins 4-1! Q1 goals from Ben Johnson and Evan Jennings were augmented by another corner from Ben in Q3 and another from James Walker before Quins got one back! Congrats to Josh Kelly on his first EYHL appearance and to James Clark and John Cunningham who played for the club for the first time!

The women’s firsts played an eight-goal thriller in their opening home game of the women’s EYHL2 qualifiers.  Muckross edged in front 2-1 in Q1 and 3-2 at half-time despite goals from Aoife McNulty and Juliette Duffy and Juliette’s second kept us in the hunt but the visitors ended up winning 5-3. 

Big opening wins for the W2 and W4s yesterday to start their league seasons! The 2s improved with each quarter with Alex Anne Kennedy setting them on their way with her first goal in her first game for the club before Millie Morton Bailey got the winner in a 2-1 result. The 4s, meanwhile, were 6-1 victors in Skerries with first club goals for Rebecca and Jessica Mooney. The W3 began their season with a lively 3-2 loss to UCD!

The girls enjoyed their first blitzes of 2026/27 with the 1st to 5th class teams going to Dalkey for a series of matches in the September sun! The U16 boys, meanwhile, produced a big win over Bray in a friendly match.

3. Cocktail party – October 17th, 7.30pm – get the date in the diary! It follows a full schedule of home matches at the club!

4. Parents Information Meetings – upstairs in the clubhouse, we will be running three sessions for parents of those in the youth section to find out more about how things run and so on

– Friday, September 25th – 7pm: 1st to 4th year parents  

– Saturday, September 26th – 9.30am: boys up to 6th class

– Sunday, September 27th – 9.30am: girls up to 6th class

5. Youth goalkeeper Friday sessions – updated times; with a healthy number of goalkeepers signed up, sessions with James Coffey on Friday evenings will now be split into the following groups:

– Under 14s: 6.10 – 6.40pm

– Girls 1st year/6th class: 6.45 – 7.15pm

Under 16 boys/girls 7.20 – 7.50pm

5. October mid-term camp (Oct 27th to 30th) – early notice for this camp which runs during the half-term break for senior infants to 6th class boys and girls, member and non-members. From 9.30am to 2.30pm Price is €120

Contact Orla on camps@threerockrovershc.com for more info or book now on: https://threerockrovershockeyclub.clubforce.com/products/membership

6. Groundforce! – the club will run another day of gardening works around the club in the coming weeks for which we will be looking for volunteers to take part! More info to follow

7. Re-turn – we now have three yellow bins into which you deposit your Re-Turn bottles and cans with all funds going to the club. It has proven a very handy source of income for the club so please consider dropping your empties in!

8. New members:

 If you or someone you know is looking to get into hockey, contact:

Juniors: junior.committee@threerockrovershc.com

Senior men: John Blakeney on mens.captain@threerockrovershc.com

Senior women: Andrea van Eeden womens.captain@threerockrovershc.com

9. Get involved

The club always welcomes more volunteers to help grow and develop; here’s this week’s way you can help out!

• Match reporters/photographers – if you are in a position to showcase your team’s activities this week and  build our coverage of the club on social media, get in touch with Stephen Findlater on 086 80 44 238, stevie_findlats@yahoo.com or via the Whatsapp Community!

10. Club membership

To be eligible to play, umpire or coach this season, Hockey Ireland Membership is required. Please sign up via the following links:

– HI Membership: https://membership.mygameday.app/regoform.cgi?aID=29011&pKey=da2c0f798cfdfa14090d0577d5fb6f48&formID=121278

– Three Rock club membership: https://threerockrovershockeyclub.clubforce.com/products/membership

Week two of the competitive season and the intensity ramping up! First home games of the season for the men’s and women’s firsts; first league games for the women’s 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th teams and the first blitzes of the season for the girls section!

Here’s a quick round-up of all that’s going on!

1. This week’s league fixtures

Saturday, September 19^th

Home

11am (front) – W3 vs UCD (league)

11am (back) – M4/5 vs Corinthian (friendly)

1pm (front) – M1 v Cork Harlequins (EYHL)

1pm (back) – M3 v YMCA (friendly)

3pm (front) – W1 v Muckross (EYHL2Q)

3pm (back) – W2 v Monkstown (league)

Away

4pm (Skerries CC) – W4 v Skerries (league)

A massive home curtain-raiser for the season with the M1 and W1 sides playing back-to-back on the front pitch. The men are up against Cork Harlequins at 1pm in their opening EY Hockey League game with the women on straight after at 3pm against Muckross. The women’s 3rds (11am vs Monkstown) and 2nds (3pm v Monkstown) both have their first league games while there are men’s friendlies on the back pitch at 11am on the back pitch. Bar open and food available all day.

Sunday, September 20^th

11am (Whitechurch Park) – Minor girls v Corinthian (friendly)

9am to 12pm (Loreto Dalkey) – blitzes for 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th class groups

2. Last week’s league result: Opening day of the season saw the women’s firsts play a hard-fought battle in St Mark’s against Glenanne with a final quarter goal earning the hosts a 2-1 win. Esme Donaghy got the club’s first competitive goal of 2026/27 with a first quarter goal.

3. October mid-term camp (Oct 27^th to 30^th) – early notice for this camp which runs during the half-term break for senior infants to 6^th class boys and girls, member and non-members. From 9.30am to 2.30pm Price is €120

Contact Orla on camps@threerockrovershc.com for more info or book now on: https://threerockrovershockeyclub.clubforce.com/products/membership

4. Rovers representing- Congrats to Ollie Cox (U16), Josh Kelly, Louis Rothwell and Simon Montgomery (U18) who have been included in the latest Irish underage boys development block!

Ben Johnson and Simon MacAllister (pictured) were at the launch of the new EY Hockey League season as their new season gets under way.

5. Groundforce! – the club will run another day of gardening works around the club in the coming weeks for which we will be looking for volunteers to take part! More info to follow

New windows and doors will be installed in the clubhouse at the end of October

6. Re-turn – the club continues to collect your Re-Turn bottles and cans with collection bins available on the fireplace in the bar. It has proven a very handy source of income for the club so please consider dropping your empties in!

7. Training schedule and new members

The current schedule for training sessions can be found here https://www.instagram.com/p/DclKzFtiNJY/?img_index=1

If you or someone you know is looking to get into hockey, contact:

Juniors: junior.committee@threerockrovershc.com

Senior men: contact John Blakeney on mens.captain@threerockrovershc.com

Senior women: contact Andrea van Eeden womens.captain@threerockrovershc.com

8. Get involved

The club always welcomes more volunteers to help grow and develop; here’s this week’s way you can help out!

• Match reporters/photographers – if you are in a position to showcase your team’s activities this week and  build our coverage of the club on social media, get in touch with Stephen Findlater on 086 80 44 238, stevie_findlats@yahoo.com or via the Whatsapp Community!

9. Club membership

To be eligible to play, umpire or coach this season, Hockey Ireland Membership is required. Please sign up via the following links:

– HI Membership: https://membership.mygameday.app/regoform.cgi?aID=29011&pKey=da2c0f798cfdfa14090d0577d5fb6f48&formID=121278

– Three Rock club membership: https://threerockrovershockeyclub.clubforce.com/products/membership

The club is saddened to hear of the passing of George McCaw, a long-time member of the club who was part of the Irish Senior Cup winning sides of the 1960s, an Irish international and a member of the Buccaneers touring teams.

He was also the architect who designed the club’s pavilion in the 1980s and was subsequently a pavilion member for many years along with his wife Maureen.

Our thoughts are with Maureen and his family. Funeral Service on Tuesday (June 2) at 1 pm in The Unitarian Church, Stephen’s Green (D02 YP23), afterwards, to Friends Burial Ground, Temple Hill, Blackrock.

https://rip.ie/death-notice/george-a-mccaw-dublin-rathfarnham-632089

Three Rock Rovers are delighted to announce Aidan Khares will lead the men’s firsts coaching team next season with Jody Hosking taking on the assistant coach role for the 2026/27 campaign.

Aidan joins us from Brooklands Hockey Club in Manchester where he coached the Brooklands men’s first team in the English Premier league.

He was involved with the Ireland Under-21 team as Assistant Coach at the most recent Junior World Cup in India where he helped them place 10th overall.

“I’m absolutely thrilled to take on the challenge of coaching Three Rock Rovers!” Aidan says of the new role.

“It’s an incredible opportunity to build on the fantastic foundation that Jody and Ash have established. Their hard work and dedication have set a high standard, and I can’t wait to contribute my own passion and strategies to help the team grow even further.”

Jody added: “Delighted to be involved with this group again going forward. We have made some big strides with a very young side this past season and we’ll be looking to go even further next season.”

We have no doubt that Aidan and Jody will be strong alliance in this upcoming 2026/27 season and look forward to seeing them build on their runs to the Irish Senior Cup final and EY Champions Trophy semi-final.

The Three Rock Rovers AGM for 2026 will take place on Monday, May 18th at 8.00pm in the clubhouse.

Agenda

1. Minutes of the 2025 AGM

   1.1 Matters arising

2. Team Reports

   2.1 Junior teams

   2.2 Ladies teams

   2.3 Mens teams

3. Other reports

   3.1 Committee report

   3.2 Council report

4. Club annual accounts

5. Elections:

   5.1 President

   5.2 Honorary Club Secretary

   5.3 Honorary Club Treasurer

   5.4 Ladies Club Captain

   5.5 Mens Club Captain

   5.6 Council members

   5.7 Committee members

   5.8 Honorary Auditor

6. Update on infrastructure projects

   6.1 Front pitch replacement

   6.2 Sustainability projects

   6.3 Funding update

7. Motion to increase the Senior and Student members annual subscription

   Proposed by: Karen Davis, Ladies Club Captain

   Seconded by: Wendy Lee, President

   Motion:

   “That the annual membership fees for Seniors and Students be increased for the 2026/27 season, as follows:

   • Senior Membership Early Bird rate of €385 to be removed

   • Senior Membership from €430 to €450

   • Student Membership (5th Year – end tertiary education): from €270 to €285”

8. AOB

   8.1 Health and Safety report

   8.2 Child Protection report

   8.3 Pavilion member’s list

When Jody Hosking arrived in Ireland in late November 2010, the plan was simple: three months, a bit of hockey, an experience to take back to South Africa.

That winter’s bizarre snowy white-out and a spate of blanket cancelations, though, was not part of the plan.

“I think I got about three games in those first three months,” Hosking recalls with a laugh. “I didn’t really feel like that gave a fair reflection of me from my time in Ireland and I kind of owed the club a little.”

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So he finished his degree in Potchefstroom, came back for the next season. And then another… and on and on to the present day, bringing a decade‑and‑a‑half of silverware, amassing 29 trophies as a culture-leader for the men’s first team and more than returning any notional debt in abundance.

It led the club through a golden era, ending a 40-year wait for the Irish Senior Cup in 2014, the three EY Champions Trophy titles in succession, 11 national indoor titles and countless European adventures.

Saturday’s Irish Senior Cup final against Lisnagarvey offers a possible first piece of silverware as coach (4.45pm, Grange Road), potentially writing another memorable chapter in his and the club’s combined history.

The irony is he never expected to be in this coaching realm despite having previously worked with the women’s firsts and the Under-16 boys teams.

Ending last season, plans were relatively known with Ashlin Freddy in situ, building systems with a bright young panel who only missed out on the EYHL title on goal difference to Garvey.

Jody, meanwhile, was looking forward to a quieter year and easing off the competitive edge. Instead, everything moved quickly.

But Ash was offered dream move to AH&BC Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Rovers were suddenly on the hunt for a head coach with potential suitors hard to come by.

The club turned, naturally, to someone who knew the environment and the players as well as anyone with Jody taking on the role, assisted by Niall Denham.

“I was actually a big part of trying to get Ash over to Ireland in the first place,” Hosking explains. “We had spoken about his three-year plans and I was happy enough to finish up playing and looking forward to playing 2s so it was funny how it worked out.”

“When the boys asked for a conversation, I didn’t hesitate,” Hosking says when he was asked about the role. “Not because I was desperate to do it, but because I knew the side just needed a bit of direction.”

He inherited a side which was still a little raw. The departures of Irish internationals Luke Madeley and Kevin O’Dea to London had already reshaped the group.

Rather than forcing an early charge, Hosking chose patience.

“The first half of the season was about finding our feet,” he says. “To be honest with you, I was also a bit thrown in the deep end myself. Like I hadn’t coached in a while.

“So there was a real drive from my side just to make sure to use the first half of the season just to get an understanding of the team and where we wanted to be.”

It has paid off. Rovers’ cup run has coincided with a clear upward curve since the turn of the year, unbeaten in the EYHL in 2026 and reaching the Senior Cup final for the first time since 2019.

Incidentally, Jody scored the winner that year in a 1-0 final win over Garvey at Grange Road.

Chief among the results was a formative 3-2 away win over Banbridge in the cup semi-final while last weekend’s 4-0 win over Corinthian in the EY Champions Trophy quarter-final was a first knock-out win of its kind in recent times.

“There’s huge confidence in the squad,” Hosking says. “We’re trending in the right direction at the right time.”

Central to that growth has been the growth of younger players. Conor Walsh is, in Hosking’s words, “playing some of the best hockey of his life”, while Sam Rothwell has been carefully managed back to full impact after injury at the end of last term.

Oscar Pasley has also shone while youngsters Simon Montgomery and Harry Glennon have taken their opportunities of late as Mark Samuel and Rex Dunlop moved abroad midseason.

That belief in pathways, patience and people is characteristic of Hosking’s entire Rovers journey. This current group is primarily made up of players who came through the youth section while only a handful are over 25.

Saturday’s final brings matters full circle. Lisnagarvey, ever‑present rivals, stand between Rovers and their potential third straight Senior Cup.

The rivalry itself rarely disappoints. Two league meetings this season produced a 6–5 thriller and a 4-4 draw last month in the league, highlighting both teams’ attacking richness.

As recently crowned EYHL champions, Garvey carry a clear favourites tag with a side bedecked with a quartet of international players who helped Ireland qualify for the World Cup.

Hosking expects structure to tighten from the league encounters on the big occasion, but believes the nature of modern hockey means goals will never be far away.

“Regardless,” he says, “I think we’re in for a treat.”

Irish Senior & Junior Cup Finals
📍 Three Rock Rovers Hockey Club, Grange Road, D16 PT82
📅 Saturday, May 2nd

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Event Overview

Three Rock Rovers is delighted to host the Irish Senior and Junior Cup Finals, featuring the top men’s and women’s club teams from across the country. We look forward to welcoming players, officials and supporters for a full day of top‑class hockey.

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Match Schedule

• 10.30am – Women’s Junior Cup Final
  Old Alex II v Railway Union II
• 12.30pm– Men’s Junior Cup Final
  Lisnagarvey II v Corinthian II
• 2.45pm – Women’s Senior Cup Final
  Monkstown v Railway Union
• 4.45pm – Men’s Senior Cup Final
  Lisnagarvey v Three Rock Rovers

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Ticket Information

• Tickets available:
• Online: https://events.mygameday.app/event/iscfinals/products
• at the gate

• Prices:
  • Adults: €25 (day pass); €10 (single game pass)
  • U18 Concessions: €17.50 (day pass); €6 (single game)
  • Under 5s: free
• Cashless payments preferred

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Getting to Three Rock

As part of the club’s sustainability initiatives, we encourage visitors to come to Grange Road via public transport, bicycle or walk where possible.

Public Transport

• Bus routes: 16, 74, S8, 116, 16D
• Nearest Luas: Dundrum – then take 74 bus
• Cycling encouraged – bike parking stands available in the back car park

By car

• Parking inside the venue only available for teams and officials
• Parking on the grass verges and bike paths outside the club is illegal and has the potential for cars to be clamped/towed

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Facilities on the Day

• Clubhouse open throughout the day
• Food & beverage options available
• Ed Sports open 10am to 4pm

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Match Day Guidelines

• Please arrive early for your preferred fixtures
• Respect players, officials and volunteers
• Follow any guidance from event volunteers

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Stay Connected – follow updates on the day:

• TRR @TRRHC (Instagram); ThreeRockRoversHC (Facebook)
• Hockey Ireland: @hockey_ireland/ (Instagram); IrishHockeyAssociation (Facebook)
• Tag your photos: #AIGIrishSeniorCup #IrishJuniorCup