Cork C of I set to face familiar names

While Cork C of I are the only Munster side in the men’s EY Hockey League, the Garryduff outfit view tomorrow’s game with Dublin’s Pembroke (Garryduff, 2.30pm) as their main derby for the season.

Indeed, on social media they are pitching it as the “battle of Cork C of I v Dublin C of I” with “both teams playing at home” given the proliferation of players who have made the move north in recent times.

Nick Burns, Stephen Sweetnam, Richard Sweetnam, Wesley Brownlow, Greg Chambers, and Richard Lynch could all feature for Pembroke against their former club while former Bandon men Scott Sullivan and Patrick Shanahan are also at the Ballsbridge club.