UCD GAA
The football club competes in the Sigerson Cup and Higher Education Leagues as well as in the Dublin Senior Football Championship and the O'Byrne Cup. The hurling club competes in the Fitzgibbon Cup and Higher Education Leagues and occasionally in the Dublin Senior Hurling Championship and the Walsh Cup. The Camogie Club competes in the Ashbourne Cup. The ladies Gaelic football team competes in the O'Connor Cup.
Former Dublin footballer Brian Mullins is the director of sport at UCD. Ger Brennan & Josh Warde are currently in charge of all Gaelic games on the UCD campus.
Hurling
UCD won the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship and the All-Ireland representing Dublin as the Collegians in 1917. In the all-Ireland final, the Collegians beat Boherlahan of Tipperary by a score-line of 5–4 to 4–2 at Croke Park. The attendance was 11,000. The Collegians all-Ireland winning team were: T. Daly, J. Ryan, S. Hyde, S. O’Donavon, H. Burke, C. Stuart, J. Phelan, B. Mockler, T. Moore, J. Cleary, F. Burke, M. Neville, M. Hackett, M. Hayes, P. Kenefick. Sub: B. Considine.
More recently, UCD won the 2000, 2004 and 2005 Dublin Senior Hurling Championships and reached the Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship final on each occasion but were defeated by narrow margins.
In 2004, UCD won the Walsh Cup for the first time when they convincingly beat reigning All-Ireland champions, Kilkenny, by 2–16 to 0–5.
UCD last won the Fitzgibbon Cup in 2001 when they were captained by David Hegarty (Clare). They defeated UCC in the final. Team: Matty White, Robbie Kirwan, DOC O'Connor, Brian Walton, Colm Everard, David Hegarty, Hugh Flannery, Gary Mernagh, Stephen Lucey, Pat Fitzgerald, Sean O'Neill, Redmond Barry, Brendan Murphy, Alan Barry, John Culkin.
Honours
Competition | Wins | Years won | Last final lost |
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Fitzgibbon Cup | 30 | 1912, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1923, 1927, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1941, 1944, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1993, 2001. | 2006 |
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship | 1 | 1917 | |
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship | 1 | 1917 | |
Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship | 0 | N/A | 2005 |
Dublin Senior Hurling Championship | 8 | 1934, 1947, 1948, 1961, 1968, 2000, 2004, 2005 | 1965 |
Dublin Under 21 Hurling Championship | 3 | 1969, 1976, 2001 | |
Walsh Cup | 1 | 2004 | |
Ashbourne Cup | 36 | 1915, 1916, 1918, 1921, 1933, 1935, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 2007, 2008 |
Notable players
- Oisín Gough
- David Hegarty
- Stephen Lucey
- Noel McGrath
- Brendan Murphy
- David O'Callaghan
- David O'Connor
- Liam Rushe
Football
Honours
Competition | Wins | Years won | Last final lost |
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Sigerson Cup | 32 | 1911, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1996, 2016 | 2004 |
All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship | 2 | 1974, 1975 | N/A |
Leinster Senior Club Football Championship | 2 | 1973–74, 1974–75 | N/A |
Dublin Senior Football Championship | 6 | 1963, 1965, 1973, 1974, 2002, 2006 | 1976 |
Dublin Under 21 Football Championship | 6 | 1968, 1969, 1971, 1999, 2000, 2001 | |
O'Connor Cup | 6 | 2001, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2016 |
Notable players
See also
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ UCD – Sport
- ^ "UCD claim Walsh Cup". 7 February 2004. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
- ^ 2007 final UCD 2–10 UCC 1–4 at Ballinderreen, “UCD land Ashbourne Cup for first time in 19 years," Irish Times
- ^ 2008 final UCD 5–9 WIT 0–9 at Casement Park, report on camogie.ie
- ^ "UCD find fitting way to honour Dave Billings' memory". Irish Examiner. 22 February 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ^ Lawlor, Damian (10 September 2022). "Wexford to appoint John Hegarty as new football manager". RTÉ.
- ^ "Boylan part of Laverty's new Down U20 football management team". Hogan Stand. 10 December 2020.