Hoey, nicknamed Sonic, played football with a range of clubs including Castletown Celtic, Peamount Ladies, Rock Celtic and Castletown Belles.
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.
[1] In all, she scored 26 goals that season, 10 of which came in a single match against DCU.
[4] 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.