Henderson back to ease ’keeper crisis

NIGEL HENDERSON has returned to the Irish senior men’s team to help solve national coach Dave Passmore’s goalkeeper crisis.

Henderson retired from international hockey last year after the European Nations Trophy tournament in Rome, but has stepped into the breach as three of Passmore’s first-choice ’keepers are unavailable.

Henderson’s younger brother Charlie had been selected as Irish ’keeper for this weekend’s four-nation tournament in Egypt, but he injured himself at work yesterday and was forced to withdraw from the trip with concussion.