Dorothea Findlater RIP

It was with great sadness today that we learned of the death of Dorothea Findlater (nee de Courcy Wheeler).

She passed away peacefully early on Monday morning at her home in south Dublin at the age of 107, the oldest woman in Ireland at the time of her death.

Dorothea played initially for Kilmeague in Kildare and then with Trinity before helping to form Old Trinity Hockey Club. She went on to play for Ireland in 1936 on a tour to Philadelphia and remained involved in the sport until 2017, most recently lending her name to the inaugural Wheeler Plate played for between the alumni of Trinity ladies hockey club and the current club in College Park. She has been a pavilion member at Three Rock Rovers for well over 50 years.

Hockey Ireland would like to pass on our condolences to her family.

Funeral Service on Thursday (November 23) at 11 o'clock in St. Brigid's Parish Church, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, afterwards to Deans Grange Cemetery. Family flowers only, please.

Irish Hockey Association media release