2016 O'Byrne Cup

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2016 O'Byrne Cup
Meath donal.jpg
Donal Keogan lifts the O'Byrne Cup
Tournament details
ProvinceLeinster
Year2016
Trophy O'Byrne Cup
Winners
Champions Meath (9th win)
Manager Mick O'Dowd
Captain Donal Keogan
Runners-up
Runners-up Longford
Manager Denis Connerton
  2015
2017  

The 2016 O'Byrne Cup was a Gaelic football competition played by the teams of Leinster GAA. The competition differs from the Leinster Senior Football Championship as it also features further education colleges and the winning team does not progress to another tournament at All-Ireland level.

Contents

Meath were the winners.

Format

16 teams compete: 11 county teams (all those of Leinster except Kilkenny) and 5 third-level teams: DIT, UCD, IT Carlow, DCU and Maynooth University.

The teams are drawn into 4 groups of 4 teams each. Each team plays the other teams in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The four group winners progress to the semi-finals.

Group A

TablePWDLFA+/-Pts
Colours of Dublin.svg Dublin 32106441235
Colours of Roscommon.svg DCU 32015537184
Colours of Wexford.svg Wexford 3111473893
Colours of Sligo.svg IT Carlow 30034191-500
3 January 2016 Wexford 2-6 - 0-12 Dublin Enniscorthy
Referee: J Hickey
A Flynn (1-1), B Brosnan (1-1), R Vallejo, K Rowe, K O'Grady, PJ Banville (0-1) eachD Rock (0-6), C Reddin, J Whelan, S Carthy, C Costello, P Andrews, C O'Callaghan (0-1) each

3 January 2016 IT Carlow 2-6 - 3-20 DCU Fenagh
Referee: F Barry
S McGraynor (2-3), D Aston (0-3)C McGraynor (1-7), C McHugh (1-2), D Mannix (0-5), E Smith (1-1), C McNally (0-3), S Carey (0-1), S Attride (0-1)

6 January 2016 Dublin 3-24 - 2-8 IT Carlow Blanchardstown
C Costello (2-6), P Andrews (1-3), M Deegan (0-5), T Brady (0-2), J Whelan (0-2), S Carthy (0-2), C McGuire (0-2), N Scully (0-1), P McMahon (0-1)C Healy (1-3), M Sherry (1-0), C Conroy (0-2), K Ryan (0-2), N Kane (0-1)

6 January 2016 Wexford 1-3 - 1-8 DCU Enniscorthy
J Carthy (1-0), K O'Grady (0-3)C McGraynor (1-1), C McHugh (0-2), M Plunkett (0-2), S Carthy (0-1), C Breheny (0-1), D Mannix (0-1)

10 January 2016 Wexford 3-20 - 1-12 IT Carlow Bunclody
T Rossiter (0-6), D Shanley (0-5), K Rowe (1-2), K O'Grady (0-3), S Ryan (1-0), B Brosnan (0-2), P Curtis (1-0), K Butler (0-1), C Kehoe (0-1)B McHugh (0-8), C Healy (1-4)

10 January 2016 Dublin 1-16 - 1-12 DCU Parnell Park
D Rock (0-6), C O'Callaghan (1-2), C Costello (0-3), S Carthy (0-2), P Andrews (0-2), J Whelan (0-1)S Carey (0-7), E Smith (1-3), M Quinn (0-1), D Byrne (0-1)

Group B

TablePWDLFA+/-Pts
Colours of Louth.svg Louth 32015733244
Colours of Kildare.svg Kildare 3201453874
Colours of Offaly.svg Offaly 31023442-82
Colours of Laois.svg DIT 31023962-232
3 January 2016 Kildare 0-24 - 1-7 DIT Newbridge
Referee: S Johnson
A Tyrrell (0-9), E O'Flaherty (0-6), D Flynn (0-3), C McNally (0-2), R Houlihan, F Dowling, S Hanafin, R Cahill (0-1) eachB McMahon (0-5), C Madden (1-1), K O'Gara (0-1)

3 January 2016 Louth 1-9 - 0-13 Offaly Darver Centre of Excellence
Referee: B Cawley
J McEneaney (1-5), C Judge (0-2), G McSorley (0-1), R Holcroft (0-1)B Allen (0-4), J Maher (0-3), S Doyle (0-3), C McNamee (0-1), C Donoghue (0-1), M Brazil (0-1)

6 January 2016 Kildare 0-8 - 2-11 Louth Hawkfield
Referee: S Culhair
R Cahill (0-4), M Conway (0-1), E Heavey (0-1), E Callaghan (0-1), C McNally (0-1)J Califf (1-8), B Flannagan (1-0), R Holcroft (0-2), J McEneaney (0-1)

6 January 2016 DIT 2-11 - 0-10 Offaly Haggardstown
Referee: N McKenna
K O'Gara (1-3), B McMahon (0-4), R Connelly (1-0), L Irwin (0-2), G Guilfoyle (0-1), C Madden (0-1)N Dunne (0-5), A Sullivan (0-2), W Mulhall (0-1), S Dooley (0-1), J Gethings (0-1)

10 January 2016 Offaly 0-11 - 0-13 Kildare Tullamore
J Evans (0-3), J Maher (0-3), S Moriarty (0-1), S Nally (0-1), S Dooley (0-1), R McNamee (0-1), S Doyle (0-1)R Cahill (0-5), E O'Connor (0-3), C McNally (0-2), M Byrne (0-1), A Tyrrell (0-1), S Hannafin (0-1)

10 January 2016 Louth 3-19 - 1-9 DIT Darver Centre of Excellence
J McEneaney (1-6), T Durnin (1-1), B Flannagan (1-1), D Byrne (0-3), R Holcroft (0-3), C McKeever (0-3), A Reid (0-1), M Rafferty (0-1)K O'Gara (0-6), C Madden (0-3), E O Conghaile (1-0)

Group C

TablePWDLFA+/-Pts
Colours of Meath.svg Meath 32015435194
Colours of Dublin.svg UCD 32014534114
Colours of Laois.svg Laois 3201464604
Colours of Carlow.svg Carlow 30032959-300
3 January 2016 Carlow 1-4 - 1-18 Meath Carlow
Referee: C Dwyer
C Blake (0-4), B Kavanagh (1-0)M Newman (0-7), M Battersby (1-2), G Reilly (0-3), D McDonagh (0-3), H Rooney (0-1), S Tobin (0-1), P Geraghty (0-1)

3 January 2016 Laois 1-10 - 1-9 UCD Ratheniska
Referee: P Maguire
D Kingston (0-4), J Farrell (1-0), K Meaney (0-2), A Farrell (0-1), J O'Loughlin (0-1), N Murphy (0-1), R O'Connor (0-1)J Heslin (0-4), L Kelly (1-0), C McCarthy (0-3), F Andrews (0-1), R Carr (0-1)

6 January 2016 Laois 1-16 - 1-9 Carlow Portlaoise
G Walsh (0-5), D Kingston (0-4), P Cahillane (1-1), J O'Loughlin (0-2), E Costello (0-1), A Farrell (0-1), K Meaney (0-1), R O'Connor (0-1)J Murphy (1-0), G Kelly (0-2), D O'Brien (0-2), D Lunney (0-2), B Murphy (0-1), E Finnegan (0-1), J Kennedy (0-1)

6 January 2016 Meath 0-11 - 2-8 UCD Simonstown
S Tobin (0-3), M Newman (0-2), D Lenihan (0-2), B O'Brien (0-1), C O'Sullivan (0-1), E Wallace (0-1), B Tormay (0-1)T Hayes (1-1), C Basquel (1-0), J Heslin (0-2), J McEntee (0-2), C McCarthy (0-1), L Casey (0-1), E Lowry (0-1)

10 January 2016 Meath 2-16 - 0-14 Laois Navan
G Reilly (1-4), S Tobin (0-5), M Newman (1-0), C O'Sullivan (0-2), D Lenihan (0-2), D Keogan (0-1), A Douglas (0-1), H Rooney (0-1)D Kingston (0-8), P Cahillane (0-2), G Dillon (0-1), N Murphy (0-1), E Costello (0-1), G Walsh (0-1)

10 January 2016 Carlow 1-7 - 2-13 UCD Carlow
D Foley (1-5), C Blake (0-1), P Broderick (0-1)R Carr (1-4), E Lowry (1-4), P Mannion (0-1), L Kelly (0-1), P Kingston (0-1), N O'Reilly (0-1), E O'Byrne (0-1)

Group D

TablePWDLFA+/-Pts
Colours of Longford.svg Longford 3201433494
Colours of Maynooth.png Maynooth 3201403644
Colours of Westmeath.svg Westmeath 3201403644
Colours of Wicklow.svg Wicklow 30033047-170
3 January 2016 Wicklow 0-13 - 1-14 Westmeath Bray
Referee: B Tiernan
R Finn (0-5), A McLoughlin (0-2), P Byrne (0-2), D Healy (0-1), C Murphy (0-1), D Hayden (0-1), C Fitzgerald (0-1)J Connellan (1-6), S Dempsey (0-4), P Sharry (0-2), G Egan (0-1), C McCormack (0-1)

3 January 2016 Longford 0-18 - 1-9 Maynooth Longford
Referee: D Gough
J McGivney (0-5), R Smyth (0-5), B Kavanagh (0-4), B Farrell (0-2), B McKeon (0-1), A Dalton (0-1)N Flynn (0-5), E O'Carroll (1-0), J Wallace (0-2), B Duggan (0-1)

6 January 2016 Westmeath 0-14 - 1-10 Longford Mullingar
K Martin (0-4), G Egan (0-4), C McCormack (0-2), D Daly (0-1), R Foley (0-1), D Corroon (0-1), L Dolan (0-1)B Kavanagh (0-4), M Brady (1-0), B McKeon (0-2), A Dalton (0-2), C Smyth (0-1), D Gallagher (0-1)

6 January 2016 Wicklow 0-9 - 1-15 Maynooth Rathdrum
M O'Connor (0-3), N Gaffney (0-2), P Cunningham (0-2), G Allen (0-1), E Murtagh (0-1)N Flynn (0-7), R Kennedy (1-3), R McManus (0-4), F Conway (0-1)

10 January 2016 Longford 1-9 - 1-5 Wicklow Longford
J McGivney (1-0), D McElligott (0-2), F McGee (0-2), D Masterson (0-1), C Smyth (0-1), R Smyth (0-1), D Gallagher (0-1), P McKeon (0-1)P Byrne (1-2), C Murphy (0-1), R Finn (0-1), C Fitzgerald (0-1)

10 January 2016 Westmeath 0-9 - 0-10 Maynooth
Attendance: Moate
G Egan (0-4), R Sharry (0-2), D Corroon (0-1), L Dolan (0-1), K Martin (0-1)R Kennedy (0-6), E O'Carroll (0-2), B Duggan (0-1), R McManus (0-1)

Semi-finals

17 January 2016
Semi-final
Meath 0-11 – 0-10 Louth Drogheda Park

17 January 2016
Semi-final
Dublin 0-9 – 1-12 Longford Pearse Park, Longford
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: J Hickey (Carlow)
Report

Final

24 January 2016
2:40 p.m.
Final
Meath 1-17 – 1-11 Longford Páirc Tailteann, Navan
Referee: B Cawley (Kildare)
G Reilly 0-6; M Newman 0-4 (4f); C O’Sullivan 1-1; D Lenihan, S Tobin 0-2 each; D Smyth, R Ó Coilleann 0-1 each Report F McGee 0-6 (3f, 1 '45'); R Smyth 1-2; B McKeon, L Connerton, M Brady 0-1 each

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