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- ↑ Cricket Leinster Open Competition Regulations 2011 - League Division 1 to Division 4
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- ↑ Senior League (Lewis Hohn Williams) – 93rd Year
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- ↑ Belfast Telegraph, 9 September 2013
- ↑ CricketEurope Leinster, 3 September 2014
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