Ireland hockey team targeting place in Olympic quarter-final: ‘It’s the fun part now’

Beat India in their fourth Group A game tomorrow and the likelihood is that Sean Dancer’s side will progress through to the Olympic quarter-finals.

IN THIS TOGETHER: Lena Tice and Deirdre Duke after defeat to Germany. Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Three games behind them, four goals scored with eight conceded, and after all that, the Irish women’s hockey team finds itself in the very place everyone had half-expected long before these Olympics took off.

Beat India in their fourth Group A game tomorrow and the likelihood is that Sean Dancer’s side will progress through to the quarter-finals: base camp for their ambitions on the team’s first appearance at these prestigious Games.