Ronan Gormley (born 21 April 1983) is an
Irish field hockey
Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...
player. Originally from
Cork
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Materials
* Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product
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Places Ireland
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he played club hockey with
Pembroke Wanderers in Dublin. He also played for a period with in Germany.
Gormley joined the
Ireland men's national field hockey team
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squad in 2004,
and earned his 200th
cap
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in 2015. He was a member of the Irish team that won bronze at the
2015 Men's EuroHockey Championship, and later represented Ireland at the
2016 Summer Olympics
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. He earned his 250th cap for Ireland in February 2017,
becoming one of the most capped players in Irish hockey.
After captaining Ireland over 120 times, he retired from international competition in September 2018.
References
External links
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1983 births
Living people
Irish male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Ireland
Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Pembroke Wanderers Hockey Club players
Men's Irish Hockey League players
Ireland international men's field hockey players
21st-century Irish sportsmen
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