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Ashbourne Cup
Current season or competition:
2022 Ashbourne Cup
Ashbourne Cup displayed in the GAA Museum
IrishCorn Ashbourne[1]
Founded1915
TrophyAshbourne Cup
see 2nd Baron Ashbourne
Title holdersDublin City University (1st title)
Most titlesUniversity College Dublin (35 titles)

The Ashbourne Cup is an Irish camogie tournament played each year to determine the national champion university or third level college.[2][3] The Ashbourne Cup is the highest division in inter-collegiate camogie.[4] The competition features many of the current stars of the game and is sometimes known as the 'Olympics of Camogie' because of the disproportionate number of All Star and All-Ireland elite level players who participate each year[5] Since 1972 it has been administered by the Higher Education Archived 31 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine committee of the Camogie Association. TU Dublin are the current champions, having won the Ashbourne cup in 2023.[6]

Format

Each of the 4 @3rdLevelCamogie competitions follow a group stage and knockout format. Teams are generally divided into 2 groups with the top 2 in each group advancing to the semi-finals and 3rd place in both groups contesting the shield final. Each competition operates on a promotion and relegation basis.

History

The competition is the brainchild of

Trinity College
, Dublin in 1972. Apart from 1934 to 1937, until 1960 the competition was played on a league basis, and since then the concluding stages have been played together on a single weekend in mid-February. There was no competition in 1943, due to war-time restrictions, and the competition remained unfinished in 1963, when University College Dublin fielded an ineligible player for the final, which was drawn and never replayed. University College Cork claimed the title. The Ashbourne Cup semi finals and finals are now played alongside the Purcell (2nd Division), Fr. Meachair (3rd Division) and Uí Mhaolagáin Cups (4th Division) on the second weekend of February.

Purcell Cup

The CCAO also oversees the Purcell Cup (Division 2), which has been contested since 1977. The Purcell Cup, was donated by

Ulster Polytechnic by 3–0 to 0–1 in the first final in St Patrick's. Drumcondra
on 6 March 1977.

Fr Meachair Cup

Colleges who do not compete in the Ashbourne and Purcell Cups play for a cup named after Fr Gearóid Ó Meachair (Gerry Meagher, d1982), from

NUI Maynooth
camogie team. Inaugurated in 1986, the Fr. Meachair Cup is now competed by both college senior and intermediate teams.

O'Mhaolagáin Cup

The remaining teams not in the first three championships participate in the 4th division or Uí Mhaolagáin cup, with the format following the group and knockout stages implemented in the other competitions. The trophy is named for Camogie Association President of 1991–4, Brídín Uí Mhaolagáin.[7]

Ashbourne Cup Winners

Team County Wins Last win
University College Dublin (UCD) Dublin 35 2008
University College Cork (UCC) Cork 32 2003
National University of Ireland, Galway
(NUIG, formerly UCG) 		Galway 15 1994
University of Limerick (UL) Limerick 10 2020
Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) Waterford 8 2016
University of Ulster, Jordanstown
(UUJ) 		Antrim 3 1997
TU Dublin
(TUD GAA) 		Dublin 1 2023
Queen's University Belfast (QUB GAA) Antrim 1 1991
Dublin City University (DCU DÉ) Dublin 1 2022

[8]

Highlights & Incidents

Highlights and incidents of the championship history include:

Ashbourne Cup Champion Colleges

Purcell Cup Champion Colleges

Fr Meachair Cup Champion Colleges

Ashbourne Cup Finals

Until 1960 the series was played as a round robin over different weekends in the winter. The first figure in this table is the number of goals scored (equal to 3 points each) and the second total is the number of points scored, the figures are combined to determine the winner of a match in

Gaelic Games
. The results, dates and venues of finals since 1960 have been:

Purcell Cup Finals

Fr Meachair Cup Finals

Ashbourne All-Stars

For many years a Combined Universities team was selected after the Ashbourne Cup event to play

Cumann Camógaíochta na nGael
instituted Ashbourne All-Stars for the best players in each position at the end of the tournament.

2006

Rosanna Kenneally (

Cork IT & Tipperary), Marie O'Connor (Garda College & Kilkenny), Amanda O'Regan (UL & Cork), Sharon Daly (UCD & Offaly
)

2007

WIT & Wexford), Marie O'Connor (Garda College & Kilkenny
)

2008

Rosanna Kenneally (

WIT & Wexford), Aoife McLoughney (UCC & Tipperary), Una Leacy (UCC & Wexford
) .

2009

WIT & Kilkenny
)

2010

Eleanor Mallon (

NUIG & Cork
)

2011

WIT & Kilkenny)[38]

2012

Emma Staunton (

WIT & Wexford),[39]

2020

Edel McNamara (WIT & Clare), Róisín Phelan (UCC & Kilkenny), Aisling Brennan (WIT & Offaly), Ciara Doyle (WIT & Clare), Kerrie Finnegan (TU Dublin & Dublin), Karen Kennedy (UL & Tipperary), Sibéal Harney (UCC & Waterford), Mairéad Burke (UL & Galway), Chloe Sigerson (UCC & Cork), Beth Carton (UL & Waterford), Orla Cronin (UCC & Cork), Laura Stack (Trinity & Limerick), Chloe Foxe(UCD & Wexford), Áine ní Chrothaigh (Marino & Waterford), Siobhán McGrath (UL & Galway)

2021

Competitions not Played due to COVID19.

2022

Sarah Ahern (

NUIG & Kilkenny), Kate Kenny (DCU & Offaly), Steffi Fitzgerald (DCU & Kilkenny), Abby Flynn (DCU & Waterford), Emma Murphy (UCC & Cork), Megan Shields (TU Dublin & Cavan
)

Purcell All-Stars

Purcell All-Stars were first selected from the Purcell Cup participant teams in 2006, rewarding the best players in each position at the end of the tournament.

2010

Martina O'Brien (

Maynooth
)

2011

Laura Quinn (

IT Tralee & Cork), Joeleen Hoary (DIT & Dublin);[40]

2012

Gráinne Smyth (

Cork IT & Cork
)

References

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  12. ^ a b 2001 final UL 2-6 WIT 1-8, report on RTÉ online
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  26. Maynooth
    club chairman Fr Gearóid Ó Meachair.
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  39. ^ "2012 All-Star teams on CCAO.ie". Archived from the original on 9 August 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
  40. ^ "2011 All-Star teams on CCAO.ie". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2011.

External links

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