Dublin Underwater Hockey

Training with beginners more than welcome! Thursdays 8.45pm to 10pm in the National Aquatic Centre. Who plays and who is the best?

What is Underwater Hockey?

* Underwater Hockey is a 3 dimensional team sport.
* It is played below the surface of the water in a swimming pool by two teams of 10 players, 6 in the water and 4 substitutes.
* Each player is wearing basic underwater equipment, i.e. fins, mask, cap with ear protection and snorkel.
* The object of the game is to push or pass a weighted puck along the b

ottom of the pool by using an underwater hockey stick, into the opposing teams goal. A Sport Less Ordinary...

The duration of the game is 30 minutes divided into two periods of 15 minutes, with a 3 minute break at half time, where the teams change ends. 2 in Water Referees and one out of water Referee control the match. The game first appeared in the late 1950's and was invented by the British Navy to help train their Navy Divers. At present many national and international tournaments are carried out up to World Championships for men-, women-, Masters and youth teams. The World Championships generally has about 40 countries wanting to compete. These are paired down to play in the main tournament of 16 teams. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, France and Holland are generally considered to be the top teams in the world. New Zealand won the elite Men's and Holland won the elite Women's in the world championships for the first time in 2004. These teams train everyday of the week during the run up to major championships and their countries sports association are willing to support these athletes with significant resources to accomplish their goals. How did Underwater Hockey make it to Ireland

Underwater Hockey was first introduced to Ireland in the early Eighty's by Aquatec Sub Aqua Club. The activity soon spread around a number of diving clubs like Viking, Irish, Currah, Ennis, Limerick and the Garda SAC. This unfortunately did not develop into much as a heavy-handed approach was taken to the early game that resulted in to a fair few damaged index fingers! As a result only two teams (Aquatec & Viking) battled it out for a number of years until in 1993 when a team was sent to the European Championship in Sheffield, UK. This turned out to be quiet an experience for the boys as they only scored one goal in the whole tournament and conceded many more. Since this date the two clubs have joined forces and are now known as the Dublin Underwater Hockey Team. Fortunately this experience forced us to change the way the game was played in Ireland and greater success has followed.. Bank Account Details for Subs etc. Bank of Ireland Blackrock
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18/09/2025

🤿🏊🏻‍♀️🏒 Looking to try something new, meet new friends, improve your swimming, get fit & have fun?

🤩 Cork Underwater Hockey Club are hosting a new 6 week beginners programme starting this October

Participants will be introduced to all the key skills needed to play a game including snorkelling basics, puck handling and team play!

📆 Wed, 8th Oct for 6 Weeks
⏰ 8-9pm
📍 Mayfield Sports Complex
💶 €120 includes snorkel & mask | €90 students

🎟 For more info & to register see: corksports.ie/latest-news/new-underwater-hockey-programme-oct-2025/

16/08/2025

28/09/2024

Hands up if you want to be part of Irelands 1st ALL FEMALE UWH TEAM 🙋‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙌. 🤿

Thursday gone we had our first dedicated night of WIS 🎉🎉

This was possibly our best beginners group we have ever had!
Some really strong UWH players in this group. 💪🏻.

3 more weeks to come so hope to see you all again plus we will have some more who sadly couldn’t make the first night.

Thanks to all our coaches, Diving Ireland and of course all our new players.

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11/09/2024

Looking to try something completely new, meet new friends, improve your swimming, get fit & have fun!

You are also very welcome if you have played in the past

Participants will be introduced to all the key skills needed to play a game improve snorkelling skills, puck handling and team play. Equipment will be provided.

Scan the QR code to see what Underwater Hockey is all about!

Sport Ireland

Photos from Dublin Underwater Hockey's post

15/03/2024

Last night we had our 2nd night in a 4 week beginners course for underwater hockey NAC. We had 4 recruits return plus one additional re-joiner who had played previously in Argentina. What a great bunch of people all up for the challenge of playing hold your breath hockey 🤘. We are expecting some additional newbies and re-joiners next week, so there is still time to get involved in this amazing sport. Represented in the pics are folks from New Zealand, Germany, Holland, Argentina and the United States with some Irish thrown in for good measure. Come join us National Aquatic Centre or one of the other many clubs across Ireland.

05/03/2024

Hey World, it’s just over a month to the Shamrock Cup, we have the 4 provinces of Ireland represented, plus teams from Netherlands and UK, but we have space for atleast one more team, so if you’re a solo gun for hire or a full team give us a shout and we will look after you. This is going to be a weekend of hockey, 2 hours on Thursday night NAC, 2 hours Friday night UCD Underwater Hockey and 4 hours Saturday night comp plus an activity soon to be announced for Saturday morning which may or may not involve powerboats, seals and cold water🤘

08/10/2023

One of our members Ciaran McMullan brushing up on his International Relations skills at a recent tournament in Dordrecht in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

The Irish Wolfhounds played well finishing 8th overall. Thank you again for a great tournament!

19/08/2023

Looking to try something completely new, meet new friends, improve your swimming, get fit & have Fun.

Dublin City Sports and Wellbeing Partnership in partnership with Diving Ireland are hosting a new 4 week beginners youth programme for those aged between 14 - 17 years old.

Starting Tuesday evenings the 5th of September 2023 in the Sports and Fitness Centre Ballyfermot D10 FT20.

Participants will be introduced to all the key skills needed to play a game improve snorkelling skills, puck handling and team play. Equipment will be provided.

Young people need to have good swimming ability and ideally have used a mask snorkel and fins.

Details:
Dates: (4 Week Course) Tuesday 5th - 12th -19th – 26th September

Time: 7:30pm to 9:00pm

Venue: Sports and Fitness Centre Ballyfermot, D10 FT20

To book a place and for additional information contact :
[email protected]
Ph 087 6899273

Scan the QR code to see what Underwater Hockey is all about!

Sport Ireland
Dublin City Council
Dublin City Sport & Wellbeing Partnership

30/07/2023

Two legends of Underwater Hockey took time out after their Masters World Quater Final on the Gold Coast to send Underwater Hockey in Ireland their best wishes in their own inimitable way. Benson Taylor Wolf Kev Chisholm

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