North Down Hockey Club is a field hockey club affiliated to the Ulster Branch of the Irish Hockey Association. The club was founded in 1896.
The men's section fields six adult teams, with the first team competing in Senior One of the Ulster Senior League. There are boys' youth teams at under-12, under-13 and under-15 levels.
The ladies' section fields four adult teams and a veterans' team. There are girls' youth teams at under-11 and under-14 levels.
Read more about North Down Hockey Club: Grounds, Formation, 1930s Successes, Post-war Decline, Recent Achievements, Notable Players, Honours, North Down Ladies
Famous quotes containing the words north and/or club:
“Come see the north wind’s masonry.
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions with projected roof”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man’s. It is in the boys’ gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.”
—Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)