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David Harte is one of Ireland’s best-ever hockey players. The man from Ringrone outside Kinsale is heading into his second Olympics at the age of 36, and is ready, along with his Irish teammates, to make a mark in Paris.
Harte is the only Irish hockey player to have been named in the World Hockey Team of the Year – twice, in 2015 and 2016.
His performances will be key to any Irish success this summer – and to find out more about his time growing up in West Cork, we visited Bandon Grammar School, where Harte’s hockey career flourished as a teenager. Watch above.
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Thank you to Denis Pritchard and everyone at Bandon Grammar School for welcoming us.
Video produced by Seán Holland. Videography: Tony O'Shaughnessy. Written and edited by Dylan Mangan.
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