2010 Ashbourne Cup
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Ashbourne Cup 2010
Championship Details
Dates Jan 2010 – 21 Feb
Competitors 8
Sponsor
Ashbourne Cup winners
Winners Waterford IT (4th title)
Captain Ursula Jacob
Ursula Jacob
Ursula Jacob is a camogie player, winner of All Star awards in 2010 and 2011 and All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010 and 2011, when she scored a dramatic 52nd minute goal which changed the course of the All Ireland final and secured victory for Wexford. She was player of the match in Wexford’s...

Manager Helena Jacob
Ashbourne Cup Runners-up
Runners-up University College Cork
Captain Grainne Kenneally
Manager Aoife Murray
Aoife Murray
Aoife Murray born 1984 in Dunmanway is a camogie player and quantity surveyor based in Cork, winner of All Ireland medals in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009. All Star awards in 2004, 2006 and 2009, minor, Junior, Intermediate as well as her Senior All-Ireland medals and Munster championship honours in...

Matches played 7

The 2010 Ashbourne Cup
Ashbourne Cup
The Ashbourne Cup is an Irish camogie tournament played each year to determine the national champion university or third level college. The Ashbourne Cup is the highest division in inter-collegiate camogie. The competition features many of the current stars of the game...

 inter-collegiate camogie
Camogie
Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and world wide, largely among Irish communities....

 championship was staged at the Cork IT sports complex in Bishopstown, Cork over the weekend of February 20–21. It was won by Waterford Institute of Technology who defeated University College Cork in the final by two points, a repeat of the pairing and result, though not the margin of victory, of the 1999 final
Ashbourne Cup
The Ashbourne Cup is an Irish camogie tournament played each year to determine the national champion university or third level college. The Ashbourne Cup is the highest division in inter-collegiate camogie. The competition features many of the current stars of the game...

. Player of the tournament was WIT's Katrina Parrock
Katrina Parrock
Katrina Parrock is a camogie player, winner of All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010 and 2011 and an All Star award winner in 2010 and 2011. She was an All Star nominee in 2006 and 2009 and a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011.-Other awards:...

.

The Final

Waterford led 0-3 to 0-2 at half-time and extended their lead before Denise Cronin
Denise Cronin
Denise Cronin is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1995.-Playing career:She won six All Ireland senior medals in all and 1998.-Management:...

's 37th minute goal for UCC, dispossessing Redmond and soloing from halfway and unleashing a shot from just outside the 20m line. WIT saw their lead cut back to a point immediately afterwards but regained the initiative and goalkeeper Kristina Kenneally's late save from Jill Horan
Jill Horan
Jill Horan is a camogie player, an All Star winner and captain to the Tipperary team in 2011, when she was the player of the second and sixth rounds of the championship and a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011. With a total of 1-23 she was the seventh highest scoirng player in the...

 secured their victory.

Arrangements

For the first time the Ashbourne Cup
Ashbourne Cup
The Ashbourne Cup is an Irish camogie tournament played each year to determine the national champion university or third level college. The Ashbourne Cup is the highest division in inter-collegiate camogie. The competition features many of the current stars of the game...

, the highest division in collegiate camogie, was played alongside the Purcell Cup, the second division of collegiate competition, bringing 400 collegiate camogie players had been together at one event for the first time in camogie history. Cork City Council held a reception for the 16 Ashbourne and Purcell Captains before the event on February 19, 2010.

Participants

Waterford IT and UCC emerged as the favourites for the competition from an early stage, although University College Dublin ran UCC to one point in the Ashbourne semi-final. The two finalists had several inter-county players among the entrants, from Kilkenny and Cork respectively, including Ann Dalton
Ann Dalton
Anne Dalton is a camogie player and student, winner of a camogie All Star award in 2009. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final.-Career:...

 captain of the Kilkenny team, All Star Katie Power
Katie Power
Energizer , is a fictional character in Marvel Comics' universe. She first appeared in Power Pack #1 and was created by Louise Simonson and June Brigman.-Publication history:...

 (Kilkenny) and Orla Cotter
Orla Cotter
Orla Cotter born 1988 in Cork is a camogie player and student, winner of All Ireland camogie medals in 2006, 2008 and 2009 and a camogie All Star award in 2006, 2008. Captained the Cork Minor team in 2006, having won an All-Ireland Under-16 medal three years earlier...

 from the Cork team had played in the 2009 All Ireland final
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2009
The 2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons— is the high point of the 2009 season in the sport of camogie. It commenced on June 20, 2009 and ended with the final on 13 September 2009...

 the previous September.
The competition is administered by the Higher Education committee of the Camogie Association of Ireland.

Results

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style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center> WIT:
GK 1 Kristina Kenneally (Tipperary)
RCB 2 Therese Shortt (Tipperary)
FB 3 Sarah Anne Fitzgerald (Laois)
LCB 4 Kellyanne Cottrell (Kilkenny)
RWB 5 Collette Dormer
Collette Dormer
Collette Dormer is a camogie player and student, who played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final.-Career:An Ashbourne All Star in 2009 and 2010, two years in which she helped Waterford IT to glory, she has also won a Division 1 Colleges league medal to her collection. She has won Under-16, Minor ...

 ((Kilkenny)
CB 6 Ann Dalton
Ann Dalton
Anne Dalton is a camogie player and student, winner of a camogie All Star award in 2009. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final.-Career:...

 (Kilkenny)
LWB 7 Stacey Redmond
Stacey Redmond
Stacey Redmond is a camogie player, and All-Ireland Senior medal with Wexford in All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship in and a member of the panel who won the 2010 National League before injury deprived her of a chance to participate in Wexford’s 2010 and 2011 All Ireland championship victories...

 (Wexford)
MF 8 Denise Gaule
Denise Gaule
Denise Gaule is a camogie player and student. The winner of the Young Player of the Year award of 2009, she played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final. She came to public attention during the 2009 All-Ireland semi-final against Galway when she scored three fine points, just one week after helping...

 (Kilkenny)
MF 9 Patricia Jackman
Patricia Jackman
Patricia ‘Trish’ Jackman is a camogie player, winner of a Soaring Star Award in 2011, three Poc Fada titles, three National Camogie League medals, one All Ireland medal in 2011 and two runners up medals at Junior level in 2009 and 2010, one Munster medal, an Under 16 All Ireland title and a...

 (Waterford)
RWF 10 Katie Power
Katie Power
Energizer , is a fictional character in Marvel Comics' universe. She first appeared in Power Pack #1 and was created by Louise Simonson and June Brigman.-Publication history:...

 (Kilkenny)
CF 11 Marie O’Neill (Cork) (0-2)
LWF 12 Katrina Parrock
Katrina Parrock
Katrina Parrock is a camogie player, winner of All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010 and 2011 and an All Star award winner in 2010 and 2011. She was an All Star nominee in 2006 and 2009 and a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011.-Other awards:...

 (Wexford) (0-2)
RCF 13 Karen Kelly
Karen Kelly
Karen Kelly is a camogie player and teacher, winner of two Soaring Star awards in 2009 and 2011 and played in the 2009 All Ireland junior camogie final. The leading scorer in her side's impressive march to the final, Karen has won two National League medals, Munster titles in the Junior and...

 (Waterford) (0-1)
FF 14 Ursula Jacob
Ursula Jacob
Ursula Jacob is a camogie player, winner of All Star awards in 2010 and 2011 and All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010 and 2011, when she scored a dramatic 52nd minute goal which changed the course of the All Ireland final and secured victory for Wexford. She was player of the match in Wexford’s...

 (Wexford)]] (Captain) (0-5)
LCF 15 Michelle Quilty
Michelle Quilty
Michelle Quilty is a camogie player and student. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final and was a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011. With a total of 5-26 she was the fourth highest scoring player in the Championship in 2011....

 (Kilkenny)
Substitutes:
LCF Charlene Raher (Waterford) (0-1)
style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> UCC: | GK 1 Denise Leahy (Cork) RCB 2 Julie Brien (Galway) FB 3 Sarah Collins
Sarah Collins
Sarah Collins was a woman from Wisconsin who enlisted as a soldier during the American Civil War. Although she disguised herself as a man, her sex was suspected because of how she put on her shoes. She was discovered to be female before her regiment left for the front.-References:*Massey, Mary...

 (Limerick) LCB 4 Elaine O’Shea (Kilkenny) RWB 5 Aideen McNamara (Limerick) CB 6 Fionnuala Carr
Fionnuala Carr
Fionnuala Carr is a camogie player, winner of two Soaring Star awards in 2010 and 2011 and an Ashbourne All Star in 2011. She was on the Down team that contested the 2011 Kay Mills Cup final. Her father Ross Carr was an All Ireland football medalist in 1991 and 1994 and her sister Sarah-Louise...

 (Down) LWB 7 Miriam Crowley (Cork) MF 8 Jill Horan
Jill Horan
Jill Horan is a camogie player, an All Star winner and captain to the Tipperary team in 2011, when she was the player of the second and sixth rounds of the championship and a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011. With a total of 1-23 she was the seventh highest scoirng player in the...

 (Tipperary) (0-1) MF 9 Denise Cronin
Denise Cronin
Denise Cronin is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1995.-Playing career:She won six All Ireland senior medals in all and 1998.-Management:...

 (Cork) (1-1) RWF 10 Grainne Kenneally (Waterford) (Captain) CF 11 Orla Cotter
Orla Cotter
Orla Cotter born 1988 in Cork is a camogie player and student, winner of All Ireland camogie medals in 2006, 2008 and 2009 and a camogie All Star award in 2006, 2008. Captained the Cork Minor team in 2006, having won an All-Ireland Under-16 medal three years earlier...

 (Cork) (0-4) LWF 12 Therese Muldowney
Therese Muldowney
Therese Muldowney is a camogie player and social worker, who played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final. Therese has won Under-16 and Minor provincial titles with Kilkenny as well as a schools All- Ireland in the Senior 'B' grade...

 (Kilkenny) RCF 13 Deirdre Fahey (Waterford) FF 14 Siobhan McGrath (Tipperary) LCF 15 Aoife McLoughney (Tipperary) MATCH RULES
  • 60 minutes
  • Extra Time if scores level
  • Maximum of 5 substitutions>

Ashbourne All-Stars

The 2010 Ashbourne All-Stars selected after the tournament were:

Eleanor Mallon (Jordanstown
University of Ulster
The University of Ulster is a multi-campus, co-educational university located in Northern Ireland. It is the largest single university in Ireland, discounting the federal National University of Ireland...

); Mairéad Luttrelle (UCD
University College Dublin
University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...

), Sabrina Larkin (UL
University of Limerick
The University of Limerick is a university in Ireland near the city of Limerick on the island's west coast. It was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and became a university by statute in 1989 in accordance with the University of Limerick Act 1989...

), Gráinne Stapleton (UCD
University College Dublin
University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...

); Collette Dormer
Collette Dormer
Collette Dormer is a camogie player and student, who played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final.-Career:An Ashbourne All Star in 2009 and 2010, two years in which she helped Waterford IT to glory, she has also won a Division 1 Colleges league medal to her collection. She has won Under-16, Minor ...

 (WIT), Fionnuala Carr
Fionnuala Carr
Fionnuala Carr is a camogie player, winner of two Soaring Star awards in 2010 and 2011 and an Ashbourne All Star in 2011. She was on the Down team that contested the 2011 Kay Mills Cup final. Her father Ross Carr was an All Ireland football medalist in 1991 and 1994 and her sister Sarah-Louise...

 (UCC), Jill Horan
Jill Horan
Jill Horan is a camogie player, an All Star winner and captain to the Tipperary team in 2011, when she was the player of the second and sixth rounds of the championship and a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011. With a total of 1-23 she was the seventh highest scoirng player in the...

 (UCC); Katrina Parrock
Katrina Parrock
Katrina Parrock is a camogie player, winner of All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010 and 2011 and an All Star award winner in 2010 and 2011. She was an All Star nominee in 2006 and 2009 and a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011.-Other awards:...

 (WIT), Alison Maguire
Alison Maguire
Alison Maguire is a camogie player for Dublin and UCD with whom she won an Ashbourne Cup medal in 2008 and an Ashbourne All Star award in 2010. She is a member of the St Vincent’s club. She won an All-Ireland Féile na nGael medal in 2003 and has two senior Dublin championship honours and four...

 (UCD
University College Dublin
University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...

); Gráinne Kenneally (UCC), Áine Lyng
Áine Lyng
Áine Lyng is a camogie player and sport science student. She won a Soaring Star award in 2009 and played in the 2009 All Ireland junior camogie final. Áine has been nominated for a senior All Star four times and has won Gael Linn medals with Munster in both Junior and Senior...

 (UL
University of Limerick
The University of Limerick is a university in Ireland near the city of Limerick on the island's west coast. It was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and became a university by statute in 1989 in accordance with the University of Limerick Act 1989...

), Patricia Jackman
Patricia Jackman
Patricia ‘Trish’ Jackman is a camogie player, winner of a Soaring Star Award in 2011, three Poc Fada titles, three National Camogie League medals, one All Ireland medal in 2011 and two runners up medals at Junior level in 2009 and 2010, one Munster medal, an Under 16 All Ireland title and a...

 (WIT); Fiona Lafferty (UL
University of Limerick
The University of Limerick is a university in Ireland near the city of Limerick on the island's west coast. It was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and became a university by statute in 1989 in accordance with the University of Limerick Act 1989...

), Ursula Jacob
Ursula Jacob
Ursula Jacob is a camogie player, winner of All Star awards in 2010 and 2011 and All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010 and 2011, when she scored a dramatic 52nd minute goal which changed the course of the All Ireland final and secured victory for Wexford. She was player of the match in Wexford’s...

 (WIT), Deirdre Twomey (NUIG).

Purcell All-Stars

The 2010 Purcell All-Stars selected after the competition were:

Martina O’Brien (IT Tralee
Tralee IT GAA
Tralee IT GAA are the Gaelic Athletic Association team in the Institute of Technology, Tralee. They play Gaelic football, Hurling, Ladies' Gaelic football and Camogie.-Gaelic football:...

); Karen Mullins (DIT
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...

), Therese Lynn (Maynooth
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The National University of Ireland, Maynooth , was founded by the Universities Act, 1997 as a constituent university of the National University of Ireland. It is Ireland's second oldest university, having been formed from St Patrick's College, Maynooth, itself founded in 1795.The university is...

), Sarah Ryan (DIT
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...

); Rachel Ruddy
Rachel Ruddy
Rachel Ruddy is a Dublin Camogie and Ladies Gaelic Football player from the Ballyboden St Endas club. She was an Camogie All-Star nominee in 2008. Along with Andrea Fitzpatrick she was named Joint Dublin Player of the Year in 2008, and in 2010 she won a Purcell Cup All Star award...

 (Trinity), Edwina Keane
Edwina Keane
Edwina Keane is a camogie player and student, who played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final and was a Purcell All Star award winner in 2010. The Leinster 'Young Player of the Year' in 2008, Edwina added the I.T. Tralee 'Sportsperson of the Year' award for the academic year 2008-'09 to her...

 (IT Tralee
Tralee IT GAA
Tralee IT GAA are the Gaelic Athletic Association team in the Institute of Technology, Tralee. They play Gaelic football, Hurling, Ladies' Gaelic football and Camogie.-Gaelic football:...

), Aileen O’Loughlin (DIT
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...

); Jane Dolan
Jane Dolan
Jane Dolan is a camogie player, winner of two Soaring Star Awards in 2010 and 2011. She also plays for DIT. Her injury time point secured the National League Division 3 title in 2011...

 (DIT
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...

), Paula Kenny (Garda College); Christine Kenny (DCU
Dublin City University
Dublin City University is a university situated between Glasnevin, Santry, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland...

), Keelin Bradley (Queens), Niamh Mulcahy
Niamh Mulcahy
Niamh Mulcahy is a camogie player, winner of the Young Player of the Year award in 2007. She was player of the match when Limerick won the All Ireland Senior B championship in 2007 on a team managed by Ciaran Carey, having secured a replay for Limerick with a long-range free in the final against...

 (Mary I
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Mary Immaculate College , also known as Mary I or MIC, is a College of Education and Liberal Arts, founded in 1898. It became academically linked to the University of Limerick in 1991. The college has approximately 3,500 students and 300 staff...

); Shauna Jordan (Queens), Colette McSorley
Colette McSorley
Collette McSorley is a camogie player, national Young Player of the Year award winner in 2005, the first Armagh camogie player to win a major national award in the sport, and winner of a Soaring Star Award in 2011. She was Ulster young player of the year in 2004.-Career:She is a prolific scorer for...

 (Queens), Louise Walsh (Maynooth
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The National University of Ireland, Maynooth , was founded by the Universities Act, 1997 as a constituent university of the National University of Ireland. It is Ireland's second oldest university, having been formed from St Patrick's College, Maynooth, itself founded in 1795.The university is...

)

Ashbourne Shield

The Ashbourne Shield, played off among the four beaten Ashbourne Cup quarter-finalists, was won by the University of Limerick
University of Limerick
The University of Limerick is a university in Ireland near the city of Limerick on the island's west coast. It was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and became a university by statute in 1989 in accordance with the University of Limerick Act 1989...

 who defeated Cork IT 1-10 to 1-4 in the final. In the semi-finals Cork IT (8-19) defeated Athlone IT (1-8) and UL
University of Limerick
The University of Limerick is a university in Ireland near the city of Limerick on the island's west coast. It was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and became a university by statute in 1989 in accordance with the University of Limerick Act 1989...

 (6-9) defeated NUI Galway (0-7).

Ashbourne Shield Panels

UL
University of Limerick
The University of Limerick is a university in Ireland near the city of Limerick on the island's west coast. It was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and became a university by statute in 1989 in accordance with the University of Limerick Act 1989...

: Susan Vaughan, Edel Frisby, Sabrina Larkin, Alison Walsh, Karen Duggan, Mary Ryan, Clare Ryan, Clodagh Glynn, Shonagh Curran, Fiona Rochford, Mary Coleman, Áine Lyng
Áine Lyng
Áine Lyng is a camogie player and sport science student. She won a Soaring Star award in 2009 and played in the 2009 All Ireland junior camogie final. Áine has been nominated for a senior All Star four times and has won Gael Linn medals with Munster in both Junior and Senior...

 (Captain) (1-5), Ciara Johnston (0-1), Mairead Scanlon, Darina Ryan (0-1), Anne Marie McGann, Siobhan O’Neill, Roisin Byrne, Fiona Lafferty (0-2), Juanita Brennan, Maria Walsh, Elaine Hough (0-1), Maria Moran, Ursula Quinn, Aine Brislane

Cork IT Lisa Marie O’Mahoney (Cork), Patricia Moloney (Cork), Christine O’Neill (Cork), Aisling O’Keefe (Cork), Colleen Long (Cork), Julie McGrath (Cork), Charlotte Kearney (Captain), Elaine O’Riordan (Cork), Erin Reidy (Cork), Shona Cunningham (Cork), Ursula Day (Cork), Evelyn Ronayne (Cork), Erin Corkery (Cork), Denise Luby (Cork) (0-3), Michelle Browne (Cork) (1-1) Anne-Marie Ryan, Ciara McKenna, Suzanne Lynch, Clara Kavanagh, Emma O’Reagan, Mairead O’Sullivan, Aoife Doyle, Orla Gleeson, Sorcha Fenneily, Aoife Doyle, Anne-Marie Ryan, Ciara McKenna, Suzanne Lynch, Clara Kavanagh, Emma O’Reagan, Mairead O’Sullivan, Aoife Doyle, Orla Gleeson, Sorcha Fenneily, Aoife Doyle

Purcell Cup

Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...

, beaten finalists by a point in 2008, won the Purcell Cup defeating IT Tralee
Tralee IT GAA
Tralee IT GAA are the Gaelic Athletic Association team in the Institute of Technology, Tralee. They play Gaelic football, Hurling, Ladies' Gaelic football and Camogie.-Gaelic football:...

 1-5 to 0-5 in the final. An early goal from Noelle Corrigan proved to be the difference between the teams. The Purcell Cup quarter-finals threw up an upset when Mary Immaculate
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Mary Immaculate College , also known as Mary I or MIC, is a College of Education and Liberal Arts, founded in 1898. It became academically linked to the University of Limerick in 1991. The college has approximately 3,500 students and 300 staff...

 defeated Queens University Belfast 1-7 to 0-2. In the semi-finals IT Tralee
Tralee IT GAA
Tralee IT GAA are the Gaelic Athletic Association team in the Institute of Technology, Tralee. They play Gaelic football, Hurling, Ladies' Gaelic football and Camogie.-Gaelic football:...

 defeated Garda College 2-10 to 0-2 and Dublin IT
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...

 defeated Mary Immaculate
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Mary Immaculate College , also known as Mary I or MIC, is a College of Education and Liberal Arts, founded in 1898. It became academically linked to the University of Limerick in 1991. The college has approximately 3,500 students and 300 staff...

 3-7 to 2-9.

Purcell Cup Teams

Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...

: Nicola Byrnes (Dublin); Deirdre Barry (Westmeath), Gráinne Quinn (Dublin), Sarah Walsh (Kilkenny); Karen Mullins (Tipperary), Sarah Ryan (Dublin), Norah Kirby (Dublin); Jane Dolan (Meath) (0-3f), Aileen O’Loughlin (Laois); Cathy Bowes (Galway) (0-1), Coral Ann Canning (Dublin), Eimear Brunell (Dublin); Kathryn Katounia (Dublin), Noelle Corrigan (Kilkenny) (1-0), Joleene Hoary (Dublin) (0-1).
Sub: Aisling Brogan (Dublin) for Brunell (22, inj).

IT Tralee
Tralee IT GAA
Tralee IT GAA are the Gaelic Athletic Association team in the Institute of Technology, Tralee. They play Gaelic football, Hurling, Ladies' Gaelic football and Camogie.-Gaelic football:...

: Martina O’Brien (Cork); Alva Neary (Limerick), Tara Cooney (Galway), Maura O’Brien (Cork); Áine Byrne (Tipperary), Edwina Keane (Kilkenny), Jill Hurley (Cork); Sarah Sexton (Cork), Megan Moran (Galway); Grace O’Riordan (Limerick), Geraldine Norton (Wicklow), Orlaith Murphy (Cork) 0-4, three frees one 45); Danielle Sheedy (Clare) (0-1), Ailish Considine (Clare), Mairéad Fitzgerald (Limerick).

Purcell Shield

Queens University Belfast won the Purcell Shield defeating NUI Maynooth
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The National University of Ireland, Maynooth , was founded by the Universities Act, 1997 as a constituent university of the National University of Ireland. It is Ireland's second oldest university, having been formed from St Patrick's College, Maynooth, itself founded in 1795.The university is...

 by 1-8 to 0-8 in the final. In the Purcell Shield semi-finals, played off among the four defeated Purcell Cup quarter-finalists, Maynooth
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The National University of Ireland, Maynooth , was founded by the Universities Act, 1997 as a constituent university of the National University of Ireland. It is Ireland's second oldest university, having been formed from St Patrick's College, Maynooth, itself founded in 1795.The university is...

 defeated DCU
Dublin City University
Dublin City University is a university situated between Glasnevin, Santry, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland...

 0-13 to 1-5 and QUB defeated Trinity 4-9 to 1-3.

Purcell Shield Panels

Queens: Laura Quinn, Sarah Louise Henry, Anne McGuigan, Adelle Archibald, Theresa Adams, Kerry Crossey, Maire McGeehan, Claire Laverty, Mairead Short, Claire Dallat (0-1), Keelin Bradley (1-0), Shauna Jordan (Captain) (0-1), Louise McAleese, Collette McSorley (0-6), Ciara Donnelly. Subs Leona Quinn, Breanainn Mullan, Maeve Boyle, Janine McNeill, Brenda Toner, Ciara O’Kane, Eimear Murphy, Kathleen Kielt, Orla O’Neill, Sinead Cassidy

Maynooth
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The National University of Ireland, Maynooth , was founded by the Universities Act, 1997 as a constituent university of the National University of Ireland. It is Ireland's second oldest university, having been formed from St Patrick's College, Maynooth, itself founded in 1795.The university is...

: Jane Power (Meath), Jackie Doyle (Wexford), Therese Lynn (Kildare), Laura Hogan (Wicklow), Jenna Murphy (Meath), Sarah King (Westmeath), Aisling Newton (Donegal), Annie Kirwin (Dublin), Siobhan Mac Court (Kildare), Aoife Kavanagh (Dublin), Catherine Walsh (Kilkenny) (0-1), Martha Kirwin (Laois) (Captain), Sabine Kennedy (Kildare), Sinead McHugh (Kildare), Maria Divilly (Kildare). Subs Louise Walsh (Kildare) (0-7), Niamh Lyons (Kildare), Sarah Nealon (Kildare), Mariona Tyrell (Kilkenny), Mags Shorthall, Aimee Singleton (Dublin), Emma Carroll (Kilkenny), Ailbhe Rogers (Louth), Laura Newman (Westmeath), Edel Ni Dhunaigh (Dublin)

Fr Meachair Cup

The 2010 Fr Meachair Cup seven-a-side for colleges who do not compete in the Ashbourne or Purcell Cups was hosted by Marino College at the Nearby St Vincent's GAA Grounds on February 25, 2010 and won by St Mary's Belfast. Group Results: Group A: Marino 4-4 Carlow IT 1-7; Carlow IT 5-2 Froebel 3-2; Marino 1-2 Froebel 0-5; Group B: Dundalk IT 1-4 Crumlin 1-1; St Mary’s Belfast 3-4 Dundalk IT 0-2; St Mary’s Belfast 3-5; Crumlin 3-3; St Mary’s, Belfast 10-4 Coleraine 0-0; Crumlin 2-4 Coleraine 1-1; Dundalk IT 3-3 Coleraine 1-1; Fr Meachair Cup Semi Finals: Dundalk IT 2-4 Marino 2-2; St Mary’s, Belfast 2-6 Carlow IT 0-0; Fr Meachair Cup Final: St Mary’s, Belfast 1-8 Dundalk IT 1-4 (AET); Shield Final; Froebel 4-4 Coleraine 1-0,
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