UCD GAA

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UCD GAA
CLG An Coláiste Ollscoile
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Founded:1900
County: Dublin
Nickname:The Students
Colours:Sky blue, navy and yellow
Grounds: Belfield
Coordinates: 53°18′16.48″N6°13′02.06″W / 53.3045778°N 6.2172389°W / 53.3045778; -6.2172389
Playing kits
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Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All IrelandLeinster
champions		Dublin
champions
Football: 2 2 6
Hurling: 0 0 8
Camogie: 0 1 3

UCD GAA or University College Dublin Gaelic Athletic Association club is a Dublin based Gaelic games club in University College Dublin. The UCD hurling club was founded in 1900 and boasted the mottos "Ad Astra" and "Cothrom Féinne". The first team was an amalgamation of students from UCD and Cecilia St. Although UCD had been playing Gaelic football unofficially since 1900, the official club history began in the season of 1911/1912.

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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 was the director of Sports at UCD. [1] Ger Brennan & Josh Higgins are currently in charge of all Gaelic games on the UCD campus. [2]

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. [3]

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

CompetitionWinsYears wonLast final lost
Fitzgibbon Cup 301912, 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 11917
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship 11917
Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship 0—2005
Dublin Senior Hurling Championship 81934, 1947, 1948, 1961, 1968, 2000, 2004, 20051965
Dublin Under 21 Hurling Championship 31969, 1976, 2001
Walsh Cup 12004
Ashbourne Cup 361915, 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, [4] 2008 [5]

Notable players

Football

Honours

CompetitionWinsYears wonLast final lost
Sigerson Cup 321911, 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 [6] 2004
All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship 2 1974, 1975 —
Leinster Senior Club Football Championship 21973–74, 1974–75—
Dublin Senior Football Championship 61963, 1965, 1973, 1974, 2002, 20061976
Dublin Under 21 Football Championship 61968, 1969, 1971, 1999, 2000, 2001
O'Connor Cup 62001, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2016

Notable players

See also

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ UCD – Sport
  3. ↑ "UCD claim Walsh Cup". 7 February 2004. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  4. ↑ 2007 final UCD 2–10 UCC 1–4 at Ballinderreen, “UCD land Ashbourne Cup for first time in 19 years," Irish Times
  5. ↑ 2008 final UCD 5–9 WIT 0–9 at Casement Park, report on camogie.ie
  6. ↑ "UCD find fitting way to honour Dave Billings' memory". Irish Examiner . 22 February 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  7. ↑ Lawlor, Damian (10 September 2022). "Wexford to appoint John Hegarty as new football manager". RTÉ.
  8. ↑ "Boylan part of Laverty's new Down U20 football management team". Hogan Stand. 10 December 2020.
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