A COLLECTIVE inability to raise themselves for the big occasion cost Cork Harlequins any chance they had of winning this Irish Junior Cup Final at the National Hockey Arena on Saturday.

TODAY’S Irish Senior Cup semi-final between Cork Harlequins and Glenanne represents a chance of redemption for one player on the home side.

SINCE their departure from the Irish Senior Cup at the hands of Pembroke Wanderers back in January, Cork Harlequins have had only one aim in mind and that has been this weekend’s ESB Women’s Club Championships at Belfield.