New Ladies Sponsor & New Kit for 2025-26

New Club Sponsor for the Ladies teams and New Club Kit unveiled

Laura Wharton, Admin Manager MOTIS Ireland Ltd, presents the new home and away playing kit to the club Ladies Captain Steph Smart and the Club Head Coach, Francesca Santoro-Ferrer.

MOTIS Ireland Ltd is one of the most progressive shipping companies in Europe with over 6,000 customers throughout Europe. Its network covers over 500 Freight Ferry routes throughout Europe and many other services relating to the European Transport industry.

Founded in 2002 by David McComb a Newry local and by Patrick Hutley, the company has grown from its first small office in Hill Street with five employees, to its current newly refurbished head-office on the Downshire Road and employs over eighty people throughout Europe.

The head-office is open 24 hours, 7 days a week to take bookings. The company also has a sales office in Stoke on Trent (England) and local offices in Prague (Czech Republic), Poznan (Poland), Vilnius (Lithuania) and Bucharest (Romania) as well as sales representation in Germany, France, and the Benelux. MOTIS has also made significant investments within the Port of Dover providing Truck Parking Facilities and Logistical Services 24 hours a day.

Newry Olympic Ladies in their new kit for the season with Laura Wharton from club sponsor MOTIS

The playing kit, supplied by another Newry company, Playr-Fit, was a huge hit straight away going by the feedback from the players.

The whole ladies’ senior section was on hand to try out the new outfit, with both the 1s and the 2s having home matches in the afternoon.

Club trustee Willie McCague, thanked Laura and MOTIS Ireland for their support...

“Everyone within Newry Olympic is really grateful for the backing from MOTIS Ireland. It’s particularly pleasing to have a major local company, literally just down the road from our club grounds, come on board and help with the development of the club and support our members.”

“We look forward to developing the partnership over the next two years. The sponsorship makes a huge difference to what the club and the committee can do for our members now and in the future.”

The Ladies 1s and 2s try out the new playing kit with Laura Wharton from MOTIS Ireland, Club Coach Fran Santoro-Ferrer and Club Trustee Willie McCague

Ladies Captain Steph Smart celebrates the handover of the new playing kit with Laura Wharton from MOTIS Ireland Ltd

LADIES HOCKEY RESULTS – Saturday 8 November

Although certainly looking the part in the first outing with their new playing kit, there were mixed results for the Newry Olympic ladies’ teams.

Ulster Hockey Senior League 3

Newry Olympic Ladies 1s (2 – 0) Ballynahinch Ladies 1s

The Olympic Ladies 1s continued their great start to the season in Senior League 3 with a well-deserved 2-0 home win over Ballynahinch.

The whole team played superb hockey throughout the match. The home defence limited the Ballynahinch forwards to just a few shots on the Newry goal. While the midfield and forward line created plenty of scoring chances.

Goals from Katie McCullough and captain Steph Smart, were enough to secure a well-deserved win and all three points for Newry

Katie McCullough and Captain Steph Smart, goal scorers against Ballynahinch

Ulster Hockey Junior League 11

Newry Olympic Ladies 2s (0 – 5) Kilkeel Ladies 2s

An unbeaten run of four matches for the Ladies 2s in Junior League 11 was brought to an abrupt halt by an experienced Kilkeel team in the local derby at the Belfast Road grounds on Saturday.

The visitors were too strong for Newry on the day, running out the winners by five goals to nil.