The Saturday Birthday Spot

Last Friday evening we launched our new 4 session Inclusion Hockey coaching programme at Comber Leisure Centre for young people with learning disabilities or difficulties and it was great to see the involvement of our youth members – well done all!!! The aim of the sessions is to make hockey more attractive to and accessible…

We are sorry to learn today of the death after a period of illness of Heather Thompson. Heather was better known to many, and in fact only known to most, as Twinkle. She was a major character in our Club playing from the late 1960s into the 1980s and, apart from playing on the first…

Unlike with our local pantomime politicians where deadlines come and go and get stretched to infinity, our very own deadline for subscriptions has crept, apparently unnoticed by some, right up to us.  It’s 31 October (2018 not 2019) and that’s it – no pay no play!

No messing about for Gareth McKeown as he becomes the 24th North Down player to reach the 100 goal mark with five goals last weekend moving him seamlessly onto 104.  Two goals for Josh Gilmore on Saturday against Harlequins puts him now on 149 in just eight and a half seasons, ignoring the last one,…

We have learnt today with great sadness of the sudden death yesterday of Andy Walls’ father Vince.  Vince was a great character and followed son Andy’s hockey career at North Down closely.  He is best remembered at our Club for his volunteer stint a few years ago as minibus driver when an apparently routine trip…