Sonia Hoey (died 5 March 2024) was an Irish association footballer and Gaelic footballer.
Career
Hoey, nicknamed Sonic, played football with a range of clubs including Castletown Celtic, Peamount Ladies, Rock Celtic and Castletown Belles. It was with Dundalk City that she had her biggest success. Hoey scored the only goal of the game in the 2005 Women’s FAI Cup final against Peamount United at Lansdowne Road to bring the trophy to Dundalk for the first and only time. In all, she scored 26 goals that season, 10 of which came in a single match against DCU.
Hoey also played Gaelic football with the Dowdallshill club and won a Louth JLFC title in 2012 and a Louth ILFC title in 2013. She also lined out with the Louth senior ladies' football team.
Illness and death
Hoey was diagnosed with stage 3 cervical cancer in February 2019 and underwent an aggressive treatment of radiation and chemotherapy. She was almost a year in remission when, in July 2020, it was discovered that the incurable cervical cancer had returned and spread to her lungs.
Hoey died on 5 March 2024.
Honours
Dundalk City
- FAI Women's Cup: 2005
References
- "The day Dundalk emerged as winners in the 2005 WFAI Cup". Louth Live. 23 April 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- "Hoey a Dundalk City slicker as she scores ten goals". Irish Independent. 12 August 2005. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
- "Sonia Hoey RIP". Dundalk FC website. 6 March 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- "Sadness at passing of Louth sports all-rounder Sonia Hoey". Hogan Stand. 8 March 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- "Fundraising concert for former Dundalk FC star Sonia Hoey as she plans to return to Mexico for treatment". Irish Independent. 18 February 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- "The death has occurred of Sonia HOEY". rip.ie. 6 March 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.