Hockey Ireland Life Members on at the Talbot Hotel, Dublin in September 2022
Hockey Ireland Life Members on at the Carlton Hotel, Dublin in October 2023
Pictured (back row, l-r): Inez Cooper, Martin Canniffe, Ann Murray, John Denis, Sally Ann Fanagan, Brian George, Carol Metchette, Barbara O’Malley, Josephine Mitchell.
(front row, l-r): Grace Redmond, Ivy Dennis, Daphne Hall, Doreen Howe, Irene Johnston.
Each year at the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Hockey Ireland nominates members of the hockey public who have significantly contributed to hockey in Ireland throughout their life. Year in brackets is the year Honorary Life Membership was presented.
| Honorary Life Members | Deceased |
| David Balbirnie | Michael Boylan |
| Arlene Boyles (2020) | Walter Dowdall |
| Helen Buckley | Victor Edghill |
| Martin Canniffe (2021) | George Glasgow |
| Ray Cantan | Alan Kirk |
| Brian Caruth (2022) | Cees Koppelaar |
| Inez Cooper (2022) | Florence McKeown |
| Ivy Dennis (2019) | Cecil Reid |
| John Dennis | Dixon Rose |
| Sally Ann Fanagan | Rita Parsons |
| Norma Gartside | Des Simon |
| Brian George | Tom Wynne |
| Douglas Grey (1984 IHU) | Ronnie Smyth (2016) |
| Daphne Hall (2019) | Joan Priestman (2006) |
| Frank Hollway | |
| Doreen Howe | |
| Colin Hutchinson (2016) | |
| Peter Jackson | |
| Irene Johnston | |
| Richard Kendrick | |
| Carol Metchette (2016) | |
| Joan McCloy | |
| Anita Manning | |
| Josephine Mitchell | |
| Joan Morgan (2020) | |
| Ann Murray | |
| Ray O’Connor | |
| Ruth O’Mahony (1993 ILHU) | |
| Grace Redmond | |
| Gladys Ruddock | |
| June Smith | |
| John Smyth | |
| Lillian Sullivan | |
| George Treacy | |
| Crawford Tipping |