Final Standings

	P	W	L	OTL	Pts
Perkele Pelicans	12	12	0	0	24
Longford Hawks	12	7	4	1	15
Kilkenny Storm	12	7	5	0	14
Dublin Rebels	12	5	6	1	11
Bangor Chiefs	12	5	7	0	10
Galway Bay lightning	12	4	8	0	8
Northern Cyclones	12	2	10	0	4

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 3		Longford Rink
04.10.2015	Dublin Rebels	5	Bangor Chiefs	4
04.10.2015	Northern Cyclones	2	Kilkenny Storm	6
04.10.2015	Dublin Rebels	5	Longford Hawks	3
04.10.2015	Bangor Chiefs	3	Galway Bay Lightning	7
04.10.2015	Northern Cyclones	1	Perkele Pelicans	6
04.10.2015	Kilkenny Storm	4	Longford Hawks	6
04.10.2015	Perkele Pelicans	10	Galway Bay Lightning	1
	Week 9		The Rink, Portadown
03.01.2016	Perkele Pelicans	11	Bangor Chiefs	2
03.01.2016	Dublin Rebels	8	Northern Cyclones	2
03.01.2016	Kilkenny Storm	4	Bangor Chiefs	1
03.01.2016	Galway Bay Lightning	0#	Longford Hawks	1
03.01.2016	Perkele Pelicans	9	Dublin Rebels	1
03.01.2016	Northern Cyclones	0	Longford Hawks	5
03.01.2016	Kilkenny Storm	1	Galway Bay Lightning	0#
	Week 10		Longford Rink
10.01.2016	Bangor Chiefs	5	Dublin Rebels	4^
10.01.2016	Kilkenny Storm	1	Northern Cyclones	0#
10.01.2016	Longford Hawks	7	Dublin Rebels	1
10.01.2016	Galway Bay Lightning	5	Bangor Chiefs	6
10.01.2016	Perkele Pelicans	1	Northern Cyclones	0#
10.01.2016	Perkele Pelicans	4	Kilkenny Storm	1
10.01.2016	Longford Hawks	6	Kilkenny Storm	3
10.01.2016	Galway Bay Lightning	2	Perkele Pelicans	12
	Week		The Rink, Portadown
28.02.2016	Galway Bay Lightning	5	Kilkenny Storm	1
28.02.2016	Dublin Rebels	4	Perkele Pelicans	6
28.02.2016	Northern Cyclones	6	Bangor Chiefs	1
28.02.2016	Kilkenny Storm	9	Dublin Rebels	7
28.02.2016	Longford Hawks	0#	Perkele Pelicans	1
28.02.2016	Galway Bay Lightning	4	Northern Cyclones	8
28.02.2016	Longford Hawks	0#	Bangor Chiefs	1
	Week		The Rink, Portadown
17.04.2016	Bangor Chiefs	4	Northern Cyclones	3
17.04.2016	Dublin Rebels	1	Galway Bay Lightning	0#
17.04.2016	Bangor Chiefs	6	Longford Hawks	5
17.04.2016	Northern Cyclones	5	Dublin Rebels	9
17.04.2016	Longford Hawks	1	Galway Bay Lightning	0#
	Week, 1 May 2016		Longford Rink
01.05.2016	Galway Bay Lightning	10	Dublin Rebels	8
01.05.2016	Kilkenny Storm	0	Perkele Pelicans	13
01.05.2016	Northern Cyclones	0#	Galway Bay Lightning	1
01.05.2016	Dublin Rebels	3	Kilkenny Storm	4
01.05.2016	Bangor Chiefs	3	Perkele Pelicans	10
01.05.2016	Longford Hawks	1	Northern Cyclones	0#
01.05.2016	Bangor Chiefs	3	Kilkenny Storm	6
01.05.2016	Perkele Pelicans	11	Longford Hawks	1

Venues: L – Longford; P – Portadown ^ Overtime # Walkover

Report

Perkele Pelicans won the first Inline Hockey Ireland Hibernia Elite League in 2015-16 with a perfect 12-0 Won-Loss Record, finishing ahead of Longford Hawks (7-4-1 Won-Loss-Overtime Loss), Kilkenny Storm (7-5), and Dublin Rebels (5-6-1). The other three teams in the League were Bangor Chiefs (Co. Down), Galway Bay Lightning and Northern Cyclones.

The Elite League was increased to eight teams for 2016-17 with the addition of new team Rileys, and the promotion of Cork Wolfpack from the IHI League 1. Northern Cyclones pulled out of the League for 2016-17.

Report

After a number of seasons where there were separate Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland Inline Hockey Leagues with an All-Ireland Playoff, the first Hibernia All-Ireland League was introduced in 2015-16. The Elite League – the Premier League in Ireland – was played as a seven team League, playing a 12 game home & away schedule.

Perkele Pelicans, Northern Cyclones, East Coast Blaze and Bangor Chiefs had joined from the Northern Ireland Inline Hockey Association Gold League, and Longford Hawks, Dublin Rebels, Galway Bay Lightning and Kilkenny storm from the National Inline Hockey League after 2014-15. East Coast Blaze dropped down to League 1 before the 2015-16 season started.

See https://eirball.ie/inline-hockey/ for more on Irish Inline Hockey Leagues from late 1990s to the present day, including more references on the 2014-15 and 2016-17 seasons.

References

Websites

[1] Inline Hockey Ireland (2016) Elite Standings [Internet] Available from: http://inlinehockeyireland.org/standing.php?id=1 [Accessed 16 October 2016][Broken Link – No Longer Available]

[2] Inline Hockey Ireland (2016) Elite Schedule [Internet] Available from: http://inlinehockeyireland.org/schedule.php?id=1 [Accessed 16 October 2016][Broken Link – No Longer Available]

Images

[3] Inline Hockey Ireland Facebook Cover Photo – Logo [Internet] Available from: https://www.facebook.com/inlinehockeyireland/photos/a.149991298356582.27261.143898408965871/143899552299090/?type=1&theater [Accessed 17 February 2017]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Richard Declan Mulcahy, Hugh Mulcahy & Aoife Mulcahy

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