Irish hockey will expand to include a full national league next season after a drawn-out debate was finally settled yesterday.

Cork Church of Ireland and Cork Harlequins were the biggest winners on a productive Irish Junior Cup weekend for Munster teams.

CORK Church of Ireland will look to a clutch of youngsters to help in their bid to reclaim the men’s Irish Junior Cup when they welcome Mossley to Garryduff tomorrow (2pm).

CORK Church of Ireland are determined to honour their tragic late player/coach Andy Chambers by doing the business on the pitch in their re-fixed Irish Senior Cup clash with Kilkeel at Garryduff tomorrow (2pm).

JOHN JERMYN has returned to the international fold ahead of Ireland’s series of friendlies against the Netherlands in Seville, but there is still no sign of his Cork C of I club-mate David Hobbs in the squad.

THE fight to lay claim to some of the oldest silverware in world hockey begins this weekend, as the men’s and women’s Irish Senior Cup gets underway.

UCC’s women and Cork C of I’s men gave their Irish Hockey League semi-final hopes a shot in the arm with notable victories over Ulster opposition in round two of the competition this weekend.

RAILWAY UNION will be hoping to translate their league form onto the national stage when they visit Cork to cross swords with UCC in an intriguing double-header at the Mardyke tomorrow (12pm).

DAVID HOBBS will celebrate his 100th Irish cap this weekend, and become the youngest player in Irish Hockey history to do so.

A US academic today spoke of his shock at the extent of apparent security force collusion in loyalist paramilitary murders in the North.

Bertie Ahern has said the Dublin Joint Justice Committee would report back within three months on what further action should be taken in the wake of the Barron Report into the Dublin/Monaghan bombings of 1974.