Ms Lisa Jacob:

We are looking for some hockey coaches if the Senator is willing to transfer. We have identified Connacht as an area where we are particularly short of facilities. Once we finish our strategic plan and go to implementation, Connacht will be the first place where we need to identify partnerships. There is the same interest in Connacht following the girls' success as anywhere so we need to start there and help them identify partnerships such as identifying indoor facilities that those who are there already can use until we have the outdoor facilities that we need. They are a passionate group with a new committee in place for the past couple of months. It has been very proactive in linking in with Hockey Ireland. Hopefully things will go well from there.

I have coached the junior age groups in recent years. Hockey has under 16, under 18, under 21 and, depending on the year, under 23 competitions or development team action. Across Europe, especially, every nation is at it. They are all looking at the pipeline and being very intentional about how to attract the players of the future. We must do what we can to keep up. There are many volunteer coaches who give up 30 to 35 days of their year to prepare those teams. People are travelling to train. They have been so inspired by the girls and by the men over the past four years and they are excited to be in the pipeline. It means that we know there is a good future ahead and we have some input into that.