Higher Education GAA
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Higher Education GAA is the governing body for the Gaelic Games of Hurling, Camogie and Gaelic Football for third level institutions. The body coordinates competitions in both Ireland and Britain. It is a part of the parent organisation: the Gaelic Athletic Association. The main competitions are the Fitzgibbon Cup for hurling and Sigerson Cup for football.
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[edit] Hurling
[edit] Fitzgibbon Cup
The Fitzgibbon Cup is named after Dr. Edwin Fitzgibbon, a Capuchin friar and, from 1911 to 1936, a professor of philosophy at University College Cork.
In 1912 Dr. Fitzgibbon donated most of his annual salary to purchase the trophy. For the first 30 years, the cup was dominated by UCC and UCD, with UCG winning occasionally. Queen's University Belfast first took part in 1946, and won their only title in 1953.
The popularity of the championship grew, and, in the 60s and 70s three more colleges entered: Trinity College, Dublin, UU Coleraine and NUI Maynooth. In the late 80s, all teams in Division One of the Higher Education League were admitted. Since the event went open, in the 1990s, several newer third level institutions from Limerick and Waterford entered and quickly dominated the competition. Waterford IT won the title four times in six years, but UCC are the leaders in the roll of honour, with 39 titles, the last in 1998.
See main Fitzgibbon Cup article.
[edit] Gaelic football
[edit] Sigerson Cup
In 1911, the Sigerson cup was first presented by Proffesor Sigerson to foster unity amongst the constituent colleges of the National Universities of Ireland, which was won for the first time by UCD. The competition has since broadend its membership with teams representing a wider variety of Universities and College.
See separate Sigerson Cup article.
[edit] British Universities
[edit] Gaelic Football
Championship: The first attempt to start a British colleges Gaelic football tournament was in 1989, but it lapsed the following year and was revived in 1991 by the University of Crewe and Alsager who hosted and won a five-team tournament. In 1992 Newcastle and Sunderland Universities hosted a ten-team event on converted rugby pitches, and St. Mary's, Strawberry Hill (London) took the first of its four titles. The British Universities' Gaelic Football Championship - as it then became - started back in the 1992/93 academic session. Twelve teams congregated on Páirc na hÉireann, Catherine-de-Barns Lane, Solihull, Birmingham, with Swansea recording Wales' first and only club championship success thus far. The competition had found its true 'home', both in terms of geography and facilities, and there it has remained ever since.
The number of participants had risen to sixteen by 1994, but in 1995 an uncharacteristically heavy snowfall rendered the Birmingham pitches unplayable, and the competition had to be cancelled. The experience led to a championship review, arising out of which it was decided to divide Britain into four regions. Thus from 1996 the regions held their own qualification schemes, each sending two qualifying teams to the finals weekend.
The quota was raised to three teams per region in 1997, thus making for a 12-team weekend. In 1999 Joe McDonagh became the first GAA President to attend the British Universities' championships, and his lead has been followed by his successor, Seán McCague in 2001 and 2002.
| Year | Winner | Score | Runner-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Crewe and Alsager University** | |||
| 1992 | St. Mary's | |||
| 1993 | Swansea | |||
| 1994 | Dundee | |||
| 1995 | Cancelled* | |||
| 1996 | Liverpool John Moore's | St. Mary's Strawberry Hill, London | ||
| 1997 | St. Mary's Strawberry Hill, London | |||
| 1998 | St. Mary's Strawberry Hill, London | Liverpool John Moore's | ||
| 1999 | Liverpool John Moore's | Abertay University, Dundee | ||
| 2000 | St. Mary's Strawberry Hill, London | Abertay University, Dundee | ||
| 2001 | Abertay University, Dundee | |||
| 2002 | St. Mary's Strawberry Hill, London | |||
| 2003 | St. Mary's Strawberry Hill, London | |||
| 2004 | St. Mary's Strawberry Hill, London | |||
| 2005 | St. Mary's Strawberry Hill, London | 1-8 | Hope University, Liverpool | 0-10 |
| 2006 | Liverpool John Moore's | 0-7 | Hope University, Liverpool | 0-5 |
* Cancelled due to heavy snowfall in Birmingham
** Unofficial Championships
Plate: The prize for the third division of BU Gaelic Football is the plate. The following are the winners and competitors of this tournament:
| Year | Winner | Score | Runner-up | Score | Other Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Glamorgan | Bolton | |||
| 2005 | Aston University, University of Sunderland, University of Cambridge, etc. | ||||
| 2006 | Sunderland | 2-7 | Chester | 0-7 | Aston, Brighton, Chester, Carmarthen, Huddersfield, Rennes (France), Cambridge, Manchester Met, Sunderland, Abertay (Dundee), Glamorgan |
[edit] External links
| Gaelic Athletic Association (2006) | ||
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| National Football League | ||
| Division 1 | A |
Cork | Dublin | Fermanagh | Kerry | Mayo | Monaghan | Offaly | Tyrone |
| B |
Armagh | Derry | Down | Galway | Kildare | Laois | Meath | Wexford |
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| Division 2 | A |
Carlow | Clare | Donegal | Leitrim | London | Longford | Roscommon | Westmeath |
| B |
Antrim | Cavan | Limerick | Louth | Sligo | Tipperary | Waterford | Wicklow |
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| National Hurling League | ||
| Division 1 | A | |
| B | ||
| Division 2 | A | |
| B | ||
| Division 3 | A | |
| B | ||
| Connacht | Leinster | Munster | Ulster | Third level | ||
