Hermes Ladies' Hockey Club

{{short description|Women's field hockey club at St. Andrew's College, Booterstown, Ireland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use Irish English|date=April 2022}} {{Field hockey team | union = Hockey Ireland | teamname = Hermes Ladies' Hockey Club | image = | imagesize = | fullname = Hermes Ladies' Hockey Club | nickname = | founded = 1966 | region = | ground = St. Andrew's College<br />Booterstown<br />Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown<br />Ireland<ref name="leinster310715">{{cite web|url=http://leinsterhockey.ie/contentPage/326559/hermes_h_c|title=Hermes Hockey Club|publisher=leinsterhockey.ie|accessdate=11 October 2018|date=31 July 2015}}</ref> | capacity = | ceo = | chairman = | captain alternate = Captain | captain = | coach alternate = Coach | coach = | top score alternate = | top scorer = | caps alternate = | caps = | url = | league = Women's Irish Hockey League | rank =  |pattern_la1= |pattern_b1= _thinturquoisesides |pattern_ra1= |leftarm1= 000030 |body1= 000030 |rightarm1=000030 |shorts1=01BAFE |socks1= 01BAFE  |pattern_la2= |pattern_b2= _thinturquoisesides |pattern_ra2= |leftarm2= FFFFFF |body2= FFFFFF |rightarm2=FFFFFF |shorts2=01BAFE |socks2= 01BAFE }}

'''Hermes Ladies' Hockey Club''' was a women's field hockey club based at St. Andrew's College in Booterstown, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. The club entered teams in the Women's Irish Hockey League, the Irish Senior Cup and the Irish Junior Cup. In 2016 Hermes merged with the women's team at Monkstown Hockey Club and subsequently played as '''Hermes-Monkstown'''. As Hermes-Monkstown, the club represented Ireland in the 2017 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup.

==History== ===Old Wesley Hockey Club=== Hermes Ladies' Hockey Club was a successor club of the Old Wesley Hockey Club, originally founded by former pupils of Wesley College. During the 1950s and early 1960s, Old Wesley played at Leinster intermediate level. Traditionally Old Wesley recruited players from Protestant schools. However, in order to make the move to senior status, the club decided to expand its membership to the wider community and change its name. In April 1966 Old Wesley was relaunched as Hermes Ladies' Hockey Club, taking Old Wesley's place in the Leinster Senior Division.<ref name="monkstown220818">{{cite news|url=http://monkstownhockeyclub.com/club-history/|title=Club History|publisher=monkstownhockeyclub.com|accessdate=22 August 2018}}</ref>

===Irish Senior Cup=== Hermes won the Irish Senior Cup for the first time in 1997, defeating Muckross 2–1 in the final. They won a second Irish Senior Cup in 1999 defeating Pegasus 3–2 in the final. They were cup winners on two further occasions in 2005 and 2006.<ref name="monkstown220818"/>

{| class="wikitable collapsible" ! Season ! Winners ! Score ! Runners up |- | 1974||Pegasus<ref>{{cite news|title=unknown article|page=2|date=6 April 1974|newspaper=Ireland's Saturday Night}}</ref>||2–0||'''Hermes''' |- | 1997||'''Hermes'''<ref name="monkstown220818">{{cite news|url=http://monkstownhockeyclub.com/club-history/|title=Club History|publisher=monkstownhockeyclub.com|accessdate=22 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=unknown article|page=26|date=3 March 1997|newspaper=Belfast Newsletter}}</ref>||2–1||Muckross |- | 1999||'''Hermes'''||3–2||Pegasus |- | 2000||Cork Harlequins||2–1||'''Hermes''' |- | 2002||Loreto<ref name="independent080402">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/womens-hockey-26050905.html|title=WOMEN'S HOCKEY|publisher=www.independent.ie|accessdate=21 October 2018|date=8 April 2002}}</ref>||2–2<ref group="note"> Loreto won 3–1 after penalty shoot-out</ref>||'''Hermes''' |- | 2004||Pegasus<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/3599295.stm|title=Double joy for Ulster sides|publisher=news.bbc.co.uk|access-date=27 May 2007|date=4 April 2004}}</ref><ref name="sportsfile040404">{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsfile.com/more-images/D0404012/#0|title=Hermes v Pegasus Photos|publisher=www.sportsfile.com|accessdate=11 October 2018|date=4 April 2004}}</ref>||2–1||'''Hermes''' |- | 2005||'''Hermes'''<ref name="sportsfile030405">{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsfile.com/more-images/D0504015/|title=Womens Irish Senior Cup Hockey Final Photos|publisher=www.sportsfile.com|accessdate=11 October 2018|date=3 April 2005}}</ref>||2–2<ref group="note"> Hermes won 4–3 after penalty shoot-out</ref>||Ballymoney |- | 2006||'''Hermes'''<ref name="sportsfile260306">{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsfile.com/more-images/D0603159/5000/|title=Hermes v Old Alexandra - Womens Irish Senior Cup Hockey Final Photos|publisher=www.sportsfile.com|accessdate=11 October 2018|date=26 March 2006}}</ref><ref name="rte140607">{{cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/hockey/2006/0326/202921-womenshockey/|title=Hermes retain Women's Senior title|publisher=www.rte.ie|accessdate=4 November 2018|date=14 June 2007}}</ref> ||1–0|| Old Alexandra |- | 2010–11||Pegasus<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2011/0418/1224294911448.html|title=Pegasus's experience wins out|publisher=www.irishtimes.com|date=18 April 2011|accessdate=18 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/hockey-beaney-seals-pegasus-glory-2622232.html|title=Hockey: Beaney seals Pegasus glory|publisher=www.independent.ie|date=18 April 2011|accessdate=18 April 2011}}</ref><ref name="sportsfile170411">{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsfile.com/more-images/1104154/|title=Pegasus v Hermes - ESB Electric Ireland Women's Irish Senior Cup Final Photos|publisher=www.sportsfile.com|accessdate=11 October 2018|date=17 April 2011}}</ref>||3–1||'''Hermes''' |- | 2014–15||Ulster Elks<ref name="irishtimes290315">{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/aine-curran-s-winner-earns-ulster-elks-a-first-irish-senior-cup-title-1.2157726|title=Aine Curran's winner earns Ulster Elks a first Irish Senior Cup title|publisher=www.irishtimes.com|accessdate=22 December 2018|date=29 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="sportsfile290315">{{cite news|url=https://www.sportsfile.com/more-images/1503300/5000/|title=Hermes v Ulster Elks - Irish Senior Women's Cup Final Photos|publisher=www.sportsfile.com|accessdate=22 December 2018|date=29 March 2015}}</ref> ||1–0||'''Hermes''' |- |}

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===All-Ireland Club Championship=== Hermes won the All-Ireland Club Championship on four occasions, in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008.<ref name="monkstown220818"/> In 2008 with a team that included Anna O'Flanagan, Chloe Watkins and Nicola Evans, all still schoolgirls, Hermes won the title after defeating Loreto in the final.<ref name="hookhockey250508">{{cite web|url=http://hookhockey.blogspot.com/2008/05/|title=Women's Championships final: Hermes 1 Loreto 0 (after golden goal)|publisher=www.hookhockey.com|accessdate=22 August 2018|date=25 May 2008}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable collapsible" ! Season ! Winners ! Score ! Runners up |- | 2003||'''Hermes''' || || |- | 2004||'''Hermes'''|| || |- | 2006||'''Hermes'''<ref name="sportsfile280506">{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsfile.com/more-images/D0605190/|title=ESB All-Ireland Women's Club Championship Hockey Final Photos|publisher=www.sportsfile.com|accessdate=11 October 2018|date=28 May 2006}}</ref>|| ||Pegasus |- | 2007||Pegasus<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newsletter.co.uk/sport/pegasus-claim-another-trophy-1-1853142|title=Pegasus Claim Another Trophy|publisher=www.newsletter.co.uk|accessdate=11 October 2018|date=30 April 2007}}</ref><ref name="sportsfile290407">{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsfile.com/more-images/D0704202/|title=Hermes v Pegasus The 2007 ESB Women's Club Championships Final Photos|publisher=www.sportsfile.com|accessdate=11 October 2018|date=29 April 2007}}</ref>||3–1||'''Hermes''' |- | 2008||'''Hermes'''<ref name="hookhockey250508"/>||1–0<ref group="note"> Hermes won after golden goal</ref>||Loreto |- |}

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===Women's Irish Hockey League=== In 2008–09 Hermes were founder members of the Women's Irish Hockey League. With a team that included Nicola Evans, Anna O'Flanagan, Gillian Pinder and Chloe Watkins, they finished the season as runners up, after losing 2–1 in a penalty shoot-out in the league final against Loreto.<ref name="hookhockey040509">{{cite news|url=http://hookhockey.blogspot.com/2009/05/loreto-take-national-honours.html|title=Loreto take national honours|publisher=www.hookhockey.com|accessdate=28 September 2018|date=4 May 2009}}</ref> Hermes were runners up again in 2010–11, losing 4–1 in the final to Pegasus.<ref name="fih020511">{{cite news|url=http://www.fih.ch/news/irish-hockey-league-crowns-champions/|title=Irish Hockey League crowns champions|publisher=www.fih.ch|accessdate=28 September 2018|date=2 May 2011}}</ref> In 2015–16, with a team that included Evans, O'Flanagan and Watkins, Hermes won the league title and the EY Champions Trophy.<ref name="rte010516">{{cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/hockey/2016/0501/785537-oflanagan-and-gray-drive-hermes-to-glory/|title=Anna O'Flanagan and Emma Gray drive Hermes to glory|publisher=www.rte.ie|accessdate=21 August 2018|date=1 May 2016}}</ref><ref name="irishtimes010516">{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/pumped-up-hermes-take-inaugural-women-s-ey-hockey-league-title-1.2631608|title=Pumped-up Hermes take inaugural women's EY Hockey League title|publisher=www.irishtimes.com|accessdate=21 August 2018|date=1 May 2016}}</ref> In 2016 Hermes merged with Monkstown and the ladies' team subsequently played as Hermes-Monkstown.<ref name="hookhockey260416">{{cite news|url=http://www.hookhockey.com/index.php/2016/04/hermes-and-monkstown-formally-join-forces/#.W8JUNvZFxy0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508124351/http://www.hookhockey.com/index.php/2016/04/hermes-and-monkstown-formally-join-forces/#.W8JUNvZFxy0|url-status=usurped|archive-date=8 May 2016|title=Hermes and Monkstown formally join forces|publisher=www.hookhockey.com|accessdate=22 August 2018|date=26 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="hookhockey220916">{{cite news|url=http://www.hookhockey.com/index.php/2016/09/hermes-monkstown-womens-eyhl-preview/#.W8JSFvZFxy0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014053043/http://www.hookhockey.com/index.php/2016/09/hermes-monkstown-womens-eyhl-preview/#.W8JSFvZFxy0|url-status=usurped|archive-date=14 October 2018|title=Hermes-Monkstown – Women's EYHL preview|publisher=www.hookhockey.com|accessdate=13 October 2018|date=22 September 2016}}</ref><ref name="hookhockey220916a">{{cite news|url=http://www.hookhockey.com/index.php/2016/09/the-season-starts-here-new-name-but-same-hermes-monkstown-still-favourites/#.W7_KovZFxy0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014623/http://www.hookhockey.com/index.php/2016/09/the-season-starts-here-new-name-but-same-hermes-monkstown-still-favourites/#.W7_KovZFxy0|url-status=usurped|archive-date=12 October 2018|title=The season starts here – new name but Hermes-Monkstown still favourites|publisher=www.hookhockey.com|accessdate=11 October 2018|date=22 September 2016}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable collapsible" ! Season ! Winners ! Score ! Runners up |- |2008–09||Loreto<ref name="hookhockey040509"/>||<ref group="note"> Loreto won 2–1 after penalty shoot-out</ref>||'''Hermes''' |- |2010–11||Pegasus<ref name="fih020511"/>||4–1||'''Hermes''' |- |2015–16||'''Hermes'''<ref name="irishtimes010516"/>||''n/a''||Pegasus |- |2016–17||UCD<ref name="hookhockey090417">{{cite news|url=http://www.hookhockey.com/index.php/2017/04/tice-strikes-twice-to-snatch-ey-title-for-ucd/#.W66LBfZFxy0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424175454/http://www.hookhockey.com/index.php/2017/04/tice-strikes-twice-to-snatch-ey-title-for-ucd/#.W66LBfZFxy0|url-status=usurped|archive-date=24 April 2017|title=Tice strikes twice to snatch EY title for UCD|publisher=www.hookhockey.com|accessdate=28 September 2018|date=9 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="sportsnewsireland090417">{{cite news|url=https://www.sportsnewsireland.com/other_sports/hockey-ucd-crowned-ey-hockey-league-champions/|title=Hockey: UCD Crowned EY Hockey League Champions|publisher=www.sportsnewsireland.com|accessdate=17 August 2018|date=9 April 2017|archive-date=18 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818020941/https://www.sportsnewsireland.com/other_sports/hockey-ucd-crowned-ey-hockey-league-champions/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="sportsfile280418">{{cite news|url=https://www.sportsfile.com/more-images/1804253/|title=UCD v Monkstown - Women's EY Hockey League Photo|publisher=www.sportsfile.com|accessdate=9 April 2018|date=28 April 2018}}</ref>||''n/a''||'''Hermes-Monkstown''' |}

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{{small|'''Source''':<ref name="hockeyie170818">{{cite web|url=http://www.hockey.ie/eyhl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026033559/https://hockey.ie/eyhl/|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 October 2020|title=EYHL - About|publisher=www.hockey.ie|accessdate=17 August 2018}}</ref>}}

===EY Champions Trophy=== {| class="wikitable collapsible" ! Year ! Winners ! Score ! Runners up |- |2016 ||'''Hermes'''<ref name="rte010516"/><ref name="irishtimes010516"/><ref name="newsletter010516">{{cite web|url=http://www.newsletter.co.uk/sport/hockey/hockey-hermes-clinch-champions-trophy-after-win-over-pegasus-1-7360209|title=Hermes clinch Champions Trophy after win over Pegasus|publisher=www.newsletter.co.uk|accessdate=28 September 2018|date=1 May 2016}}</ref>||3–1||Pegasus |- |2017 ||UCD<ref name="ucdie020517">{{cite news|url=http://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2017/may/02/cassinsshootoutheroicsinchampionstrophysealsucdtreble/|title=UCD Ladies hockey team take Champions Trophy to seal season treble|publisher=www.ucd.ie|accessdate=9 August 2018|date=2 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="hockeyie300417">{{cite news|url=http://www.hockey.ie/news-detail/10023231/|title=UCD Win EY Champions Trophy For Historic Treble|publisher=www.hockey.ie|accessdate=17 August 2018|date=30 April 2017|archive-date=18 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818052237/http://www.hockey.ie/news-detail/10023231/|url-status=dead}}</ref>||1–1<ref group="note"> UCD won 3–0 after penalty shoot-out</ref>||'''Hermes-Monkstown''' |}

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===Irish Junior Cup=== Hermes second team entered the Irish Junior Cup.

{| class="wikitable collapsible" ! Season ! Winners ! Score ! Runners up |- | 1979||'''Hermes II'''<ref name="monkstown220818">{{cite news|url=http://monkstownhockeyclub.com/club-history/|title=Club History|publisher=monkstownhockeyclub.com|accessdate=22 August 2018}}</ref>|| || |- | 2004||Pegasus II|| ||'''Hermes II''' |- | 2006||'''Hermes II'''||2–1||Lurgan |- | 2009||'''Hermes II'''<ref group="note"> Hermes II won 3–1 after penalty shoot-out</ref>||1–1||Railway Union II |}

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===Hermes in Europe=== Hermes represented Ireland in European competitions on six occasions. After winning the 1997 Irish Senior Cup they played in the European Cup Winners Cup A Division in Belgium. After winning the 1999 Irish Senior Cup, Hermes finished in third place at the 2000 European Cup Winners Cup A Division tournament in Cologne. In 2012, with a team that featured Mary Goode, Audrey O'Flynn and Gillian Pinder, Hermes won the Women's EuroHockey Club Champion's Challenge I, defeating Lille Metropole 3–1 in the final. After winning the 2016 EY Champions Trophy as Hermes, they played in the 2017 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup as Hermes-Monkstown.<ref name="monkstown220818"/><ref name="hookhockey280512">{{cite news|url=http://www.hookhockey.com/index.php/2012/05/oflynn-double-the-golden-touch-for-hermes/#.W-JOVPZ2ty0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604020525/http://www.hookhockey.com/index.php/2012/05/oflynn-double-the-golden-touch-for-hermes/#.W-JOVPZ2ty0|url-status=usurped|archive-date=4 June 2012|title=O'Flynn double the golden touch for Hermes|publisher=www.hookhockey.com|accessdate=7 November 2018|date=28 May 2012}}</ref><ref name="irishtimes050617">{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/hermes-monkstown-clinch-seventh-spot-in-euro-hockey-cup-1.3108477|title=Hermes-Monkstown clinch seventh spot in Euro hockey cup|publisher=www.irishtimes.com|accessdate=22 August 2018|date=5 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="softco130815">{{cite web|url=http://softco.com/news/hermes-hockey-club-celebrates-50-years/|title=Hermes Hockey Club celebrates 50 years|publisher=softco.com|accessdate=11 October 2018|date=13 August 2015}}</ref>

==Notable former players== ;{{flagicon|Ireland|field hockey}} Ireland internationals When the Ireland women's national field hockey team won the silver medal at the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, the squad included five former Hermes players – Deirdre Duke, Nicola Evans, Anna O'Flanagan, Gillian Pinder and Chloe Watkins.

{| |- style="vertical-align:top" || * Tara Browne * Jenny Burke * Catriona Carey * Naomi Carroll * Linda Caulfield * Fiona Connery * Carol Devine * Gwen Doherty || * Deirdre Duke * Nicola Evans * Kristin Farrell * Mary Goode * Sarah Hilliard * Jill Hodgins * Lisa Jacob * Nicola King || * Mary Logue * Anna O'Flanagan * Audrey O'Flynn * Gillian Pinder * Christine Quinlan * Daphne Sixsmith * Chloe Watkins |}

{{small|'''Source''':<ref name="monkstown220818"/><ref name="hookhockey250508">{{cite web|url=http://hookhockey.blogspot.com/2008/05/|title=Women's Championships final: Hermes 1 Loreto 0 (after golden goal)|publisher=www.hookhockey.com|accessdate=22 August 2018|date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref name="softco130815">{{cite web|url=http://softco.com/news/hermes-hockey-club-celebrates-50-years/|title=Hermes Hockey Club celebrates 50 years|publisher=softco.com|accessdate=11 October 2018|date=13 August 2015}}</ref><ref name="hockeyie180718">{{cite web|url=http://www.hockey.ie/news-detail/10041915/|title=Get To Know The Green Army Forwards|publisher=www.hockey.ie|accessdate=12 August 2018|date=18 July 2018|archive-date=16 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816194827/http://www.hockey.ie/news-detail/10041915/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="hockeyie170718">{{cite web|url=http://www.hockey.ie/news-detail/10041853/|title=Get To Know The Green Army Midfield|publisher=www.hockey.ie|accessdate=13 October 2018|date=17 July 2018|archive-date=3 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203214356/https://www.hockey.ie/news-detail/10041853/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="hookhockey150713">{{cite news|url=http://www.hookhockey.com/index.php/2013/07/seven-changes-as-smith-shuffles-his-deck-for-european-championships/#.W8Y94PZFxy0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017001930/http://www.hookhockey.com/index.php/2013/07/seven-changes-as-smith-shuffles-his-deck-for-european-championships/#.W8Y94PZFxy0|url-status=usurped|archive-date=17 October 2018|title=Seven changes as Smith shuffles his deck for European championships|publisher=www.hookhockey.com|accessdate=16 October 2018|date=15 July 2013}}</ref> }}

==Honours== *'''Women's Irish Hockey League''' **''Winners'': 2015–16: '''1''' **''Runners Up'': 2008–09, 2010–11, 2016–17 : '''3''' *'''EY Champions Trophy''' **''Winners'': 2016 **''Runners Up'': 2017 *'''All-Ireland Club Championship''' **''Winners'': 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008: '''4''' *'''Irish Senior Cup''' **''Winners'': 1997, 1999, 2005, 2006: '''4''' **''Runners Up'': 1974, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010–11, 2014–15 : '''6''' *'''Leinster Senior Cup''' **''Winners'': 1973–74, 1977–78: '''2''' *'''Irish Junior Cup''' **''Winners'': 1979, 2006, 2009: '''3''' **''Runners Up'': 2004: '''1''' *'''Women's EuroHockey Club Champion's Challenge I''' **''Winners'': 2012

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Women's Irish Hockey League teams Category:1966 establishments in Ireland Category:2016 disestablishments in Ireland Category:Field hockey clubs established in 1966 Category:Field hockey clubs disestablished in 2016 Category:Field hockey clubs in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown Category:Monkstown Hockey Club Category:Defunct field hockey clubs in Ireland