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Ian Sloan of Ireland and and Eun Seong Hong of Korea compete for possession. INPHO/Donall Farmer

Ireland secure impressive draw with Korea

A hard-working performance from the home side helped them secure an excellent result in their hockey qualifier.

IRELAND STILL HAVE a chance of qualifying for the 2012 Olympics after earning an impressive 1-1 draw against Korea at a sold-out Belfield tonight.

Korea – who are ranked sixth in the world – were favourites going into the game, but fell behind when David Ames opened the scoring for the hosts after 27 minutes.

And Ireland were on course for a shock win, until Hyun Woo-nam equalised from a penalty corner in the second half, causing the game to end all square.

Ireland have never qualified for an Olympics, but are still in with a chance with two games left to play – against Chile on Thursday and Malaysia on Sunday.

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    Oct 2nd 2015, 11:30 PM

    What a mess.

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    Oct 2nd 2015, 11:59 PM

    That’s an old Southern star article they are quoting. @42.ie crew -lads if ye have got this wrong then ye will lose a lot of cred. This is an important matter and i hope ye checked yer facts before publishing, especially you Fintan. He’s being appointed and ratified Tuesday nite acc to redfm and the echo.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:29 AM

    Confirmed last night to Southern Star that he is not taking it. The County Board are outdoing themselves on this one
    https://twitter.com/KieranMcC_SS/status/650209514164195328

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    Oct 2nd 2015, 11:51 PM

    The evening echo were reporting that he was going to be announced as manager on Tuesday! He’s the only man for the job, should be moving mountains to get him.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:49 AM

    Yeah I read this ages ago on the 42. We’re not goldfish.

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