How Tumilty put a quality Mark on Irish hockey

Before his departure, Mark Tumilty spoke with an old friend, Garry Doyle, about the joy he still gets daily from ‘an unbelievable sport’.

Mark Tumilty was bitten by the hockey bug when growing up in Banbridge in the eighties, playing a starring role in the local Academy’s All-Ireland Schools’ title success in 1992.

Twenty-seven years on and Tumilty is now national men’s coach, with his side within touching distance of securing Olympic qualification in Vancouver this weekend.