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Midleton Hockey Club is celebrating its 20th Season since the club was
formed back in 2002-2003. The club has grown incredibly over the last 20
years, and we have a healthy strong membership of nearly 300 registered
players.
To combine this celebration, although it has been 4 years in the making,
we were delighted to see the arrival of a new unit for the hockey club
which in time will give us kitchen & toilet facilities. We would like to
sincerely thank Aidan Kelleher from East Cork Crane Hire, (Members of the club), Eric
Calender and the team from Midleton College as well as Irish Distillers for the safe installation
of our unit. Their help was invaluable.
The previous executive committee were successful in applying for a Government grant which
gave us the financial basis to purchase this unit, but like most things over Covid, the grant has
ended up only funding 50% of our unit due to increasing prices.
On 15th April 2023, we are going to celebrate our 20th anniversary with a “Festival of Hockey”
fundraiser. Each team will have an allotted time where they will play 20-minute games, enjoy
refreshment in our new unit, we will have a raffle and we will be presenting each team with
their end of season awards. Team managers will be in touch shortly with times of games on
the day. Please keep the date free and more information will follow. If you are in a position
to supply a prize for the raffle, it would be very much appreciated. Please contact your team
manager.
As we approach the end of this season, the club has seen some great hockey & great
achievements by teams and individuals.
Huge congratulations to Andrew Sweetnam who has been picked for the Irish U16 boy’s
panel. Andrew was vice-captain of the Munster U16 team who won the Irish Interprovincial
this year, the first time in 19 years since Munster won this competition. We wish Andrew all
the best for a very exciting summer as Ireland will be playing in Europe.
Along with Andrew Sweetnam, Kayden Costa Holmes & Ollie Killeen were also picked for the
Munster U16 panel this year and we were delighted that Andrew Murphy & Matthew Carry
were chosen for the Munster U18 panel. Well done to all the boys.
Congratulations also to Elma Huggard & Jane O'Sullivan who have been chosen for the
Munster Master’s ladies panel. We wish these ladies the very best in Belfast over Easter.
We currently have many juvenile members trialling for various Development Panels and we
wish those participating the very best of luck over the coming weeks. It is a wonderful
experience for our members to represent their club & province.
Over the last few months, you will have noticed an increased presence of the hockey club on
social media. We have to sincerely thank Graham O'Sullivan for taking on this role and more
importantly, we thank Graham for redesigning our club website that I would urge you all to
look up, https://www.midletonhockey.com/.
Midleton Hockey Club -2023
Graham has worked tirelessly on sharing match & club information and giving us a new
platform to showcase our wonderful achievements. The club policies, teams, committee
members can all be found on our new website.
Midleton College has undertaken huge upgrades around the pitch in anticipation of our new
unit which will be fantastic when completed. There will be new hoarding made available
should your company wish to advertise around the pitch. Prices and panel sizes are almost
agreed and if you would like to secure a space, please email midletonhockey@gmail.com.
We have had a wonderful season of hockey. The talent & ability of our young players (and
senior players too) has been wonderful to witness, and it makes for a strong future for the
club.
I look forward to your support on 15th April!
Sincerely,
Daphne Spillane,
Chairperson Midleton Hockey Club
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