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2023 Fitzgibbon Cup
The 2023 Fitzgibbon Cup was the 106th staging of the Fitzgibbon Cup since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1912. It is sponsored by Electric Ireland, and known as the Electric Ireland HE GAA Fitzgibbon Cup for sponsorship purposes. The draw for the group stage fixtures took place on 14 December 2022. The cup ran from 18 January to 18 February 2023. University of Limerick were the defending champions. The Fitzgibbon Cup final was played on 18 February 2023 at the SETU Waterford Complex, between University of Limerick and University of Galway, in what was their second consecutive meeting in the final. University of Limerick won the match by 4-19 to 1-13 to claim their eighth Fitzgibbon Cup title overall and a second title in succession. University of Galway's Evan Niland was the top scorer with 1-52. Group A Group A table Group A fixtures and results Group B Group B table Group B fixtures and results Group C Group C table Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Ireland
Electric Ireland () is an Irish utility company that supplies electricity and gas to business and residential customers in Ireland. It is the supply division of the Electricity Supply Board, the former monopoly electricity company in Ireland. The company now operates in an open market competing for the supply of retail electricity to residential customers. Electric Ireland sells a variety of smart technology, including Electric Vehicle Home Chargers, solar PV panels, battery storage, which are also sold by Electric Ireland's online shop. Other major suppliers include Airtricity and, more recently, Bord Gáis Energy. The business was known previously as ESB Customer Supply and ESB Independent Energy before 4 April 2011. The brand was a transitional one; in January 2012, all references to ESB were dropped and it is simply known as Electric Ireland. Regulation and pricing As a part of the regulatory system, the company as the former monopoly must sell its electricity at a premium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South East Technological University
South East Technological University (SETU; ga, Ollscoil Teicneolaíochta an Oirdheiscirt) is a public technological university located in the South East region of Ireland. It was formed from the amalgamation of two existing institutes of technology in the region - Waterford IT and IT Carlow. Following years of discussions and planning, its formation was announced in November 2021 and was formally established on 1 May 2022. It is the only university in the South East of Ireland. Background In 2013 the Irish government signed off on a plan to set up the first technological universities in Ireland. One of these TUs was to combine Institute of Technology Carlow with Waterford Institute of Technology. Waterford Institute of Technology had opened in 1970 as a Regional Technical College and adopted its present name on 7 May 1997. It first made an unsuccessful application to become a university in 2006, under the Universities Act 1997. Similarly, a third level institute was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kiely
Michael Kiely (born 2001) is an Irish hurler who plays for Waterford SHC club Abbeyside and at inter-county level with the Waterford senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a forward. Career Kiely played at juvenile and underage levels with Abbeyside before progressing onto the club's senior team. He was a member of the University of Limerick team that won the 2022 Fitzgibbon Cup. Kiely first appeared on the inter-county scene as a member of the Waterford minor hurling team before later lining out with the under-20 team. He was drafted onto the Waterford senior hurling team in 2021. Career statistics Honours ;University of Limerick * Fitzgibbon Cup: 2022, 2023 Events Predicted and scheduled events * January 1 ** In the United States, books, films, and other works published in 1927 will enter the public domain, assuming there are no changes made to copyright law. ** Croatia will adopt the eu ... *2017 Munster u16.5 E Hurling and Football Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darragh Flynn
Darragh Flynn (born 2002) is an Irish hurler who plays for Cork Intermediate Championship club Ballygiblin. He also joined the Cork senior hurling team in advance of the 2022 season. Career Flynn played hurling competitively at juvenile and underage levels with the Ballygiblin club. He later progressed onto the club's top adult team and won a County Junior A Championship title in 2021. By this stage Flynn was a member of the Cork minor hurling team during the 2019 Munster Minor Championship. He later won consecutive All-Ireland Under-20 Championship titles with the under-20 team. Flynn's performances in this grade earned a call-up to the senior team training panel in December 2021. Career statistics Honours ;Ballygiblin *All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship: 2023 *Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship: 2021, 2022 *Cork Premier Junior Hurling Championship: 2022 *Cork Junior A Hurling Championship: 2021 ;Cork *All-Ireland Under-20 Hurling Championship: 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuben Halloran
Reuben Halloran (born in 2002) is an Irish hurler. At college level he plays for SETU Waterford, at club level he plays with De La Salle and at inter-county level with the Waterford senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a forward. Career Halloran first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the De La Salle club, while also playing as a schoolboy with the De La Salle College in the Harty Cup. He scored all 1-14 of De La Salle's tally when they beat Ballygunner to claim the Waterford U20AHC title. Halloran has also lined out with SETU Waterford in the Fitzgibbon Cup. Halloran first appeared on the inter-county scene as a member of the Waterford minor hurling team in 2019. He immediately progressed to the under-20 team, however, he missed out on his third and final season with the team in 2022 due to a hamstring injury. Halloran first played for the senior team during the 2023 Munster Senior Hurling League The 2023 Munster Senior Hurling League, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gearóid O'Connor
Gearóid O’Connor (born 2000) is an Irish hurler. At club level he plays with Moyne-Templetuohy and at inter-county level with the Tipperary senior hurling team. O'Connor usually lines out as a forwards. Career O'Connor first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with various Moyne-Templetuohy teams before eventually progressing to adult level. He was top scorer with 1-12 when Moyne-Templetuohy beat Kilsheelan–Kilcash to win the Tipperary IHC title in 2021. As a student at Our Lady's Secondary School in Templemore, O'Connor won a Dr Harty Cup medal in 2017. He later pplayed with the University of Limerick and was part of their back-to-back Fitzgibbon Cup-winning teams in 2022 and 2023. O'Connor's performances resulted in his inclusion on the Team of the Year in 2023 and 2024. O'Connor first played for Tipperary as part of the Celtic Challenge team in 2017. He later progressed to the under-20 team and won an All-Ireland U20HC medal in 2019 after beating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Joseph's Doora-Barefield GAA
St Joseph's, Doora-Barefield is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in the parish of Doora-Barefield outside Ennis, County Clare, Ireland. Hurling was the more popular sport in Barefield over Gaelic football, now it's 50-50 between the both of them. Their main playing fields are in Gurteen. They have three full-size hurling and football pitches. There is also changing and showering facilities there. History Players from the club twice joined up with local rivals Éire Óg, Ennis to form the Ennis Faughs football team. Both clubs were competing at lower levels at the time so it was seen as an opportunity to play senior football. Between 1944-1956 and 1994-1995, the ''Ennis Faughs'' competed in thirteen county football finals, winning five Senior Football titles in 1947, 1948, 1952, 1954 and 1994. They also won an Intermediate Hurling title in 1945, and an Intermediate Football title in 1946. The club's most recent successes were both in 2022, when they won the Clare Intermedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballinasloe GAA
Ballinasloe GAA (Irish: ''CLG Bhéal Átha na Sluaighe'') is a Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic football and hurling club located in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland. Club history It was formed on 1 December 2005 as the result of a merger of St Grellan's GFC and Ballinasloe Hurling Club. Ballinasloe’s first ever hurling game took place on The Fair Green on Easter Monday 1884 between Killimor and Eyrecourt. Since this date Gaelic Games have been a pillar in Ballinasloe’s society. Since the games’ inception its popularity in Ballinasloe has been integral to its success. The first football game in Ballinasloe GAA’s successful history took place on 31 March 1893 in a field in Pollboy. The game was between Creagh and Ballinasloe. Ballinasloe was captained by Thomas Cunningham and Creagh by T.F Burke. Creagh came out on top in a low scoring game of 2-01 to 1 point. Late that year in June 1893, Ballinasloe fulfilled another fixture where they were welcomed out to Kiltorm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midlands Midwest
The Midlands (also referred to as Central England) are a part of England that broadly correspond to the Kingdom of Mercia of the Early Middle Ages, bordered by Wales, Northern England and Southern England. The Midlands were important in the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. They are split into the West Midlands and East Midlands. The region's biggest city, Birmingham often considered the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands, is the second-largest city and metropolitan area in the United Kingdom. Symbolism A saltire (diagonal cross) may have been used as a symbol of Mercia as early as the reign of Offa. By the 13th century, the saltire had become the attributed arms of the Kingdom of Mercia. The arms are blazoned ''Azure, a saltire Or'', meaning a gold (or yellow) saltire on a blue field. The saltire is used as both a flag and a coat of arms. As a flag, it is flown from Tamworth Castle, the ancient seat of the Mercian Kings, to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Technological University
Atlantic Technological University (also known as Atlantic TU or ATU; ga, Ollscoil Teicneolaíochta an Atlantaigh; OTA) is a Technological Universities in Ireland, technological university in the west and north-west of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It was formally established on 1 April 2022 as a merger of three existing Institutes of Technology in Ireland, institutes of technology (ITs) - Galway-Mayo IT, IT Sligo, and Letterkenny IT - into a single university, the fourth such TU in Ireland. History With alliances made in 2012, by 2015, Galway-Mayo IT (GMIT), along with IT Sligo and Letterkenny IT (LYIT), submitted a formal Expression of Interest to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) in the Republic of Ireland for re-designation as a Technological Universities in Ireland, Technological University. This partnership, known as the Connacht-Ulster Alliance (CUA), aimed to establish a 'Technological University' in the West of Ireland and County Donegal, a Counties of Ireland, cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mardyke (UCC)
The Mardyke, also referred as the Mardyke Sports Ground, is the sport and fitness facilities used by sports team representing University College Cork, the general student body, and members of the public. It is based in the Cork district of Mardyke. UCC acquired the grounds in 1911, and rented the main pitch to rugby, soccer, hockey and hurling clubs in the city for a 15% cut of the gate receipts. Outdoors, there are floodlit grass and all-weather pitches, used for soccer, rugby, Gaelic games, and hockey. Kayakers train in the adjacent North channel of the River Lee. There is a tartan track for athletics, where the Cork City Sports are held annually. The most notable performance came in the hammer throw on 3 July 1984, when Yuriy Sedykh and Sergey Litvinov broke the world record six times in one evening. The facilities were severely damaged when the River Lee burst its banks on 19 November 2009. The Mardyke Arena reopened on 15 February 2010 after repairs costing €4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maynooth University
The National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM; ga, Ollscoil na hÉireann Mhá Nuad), commonly known as Maynooth University (MU), is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It was Ireland's youngest university until Technological University Dublin was established in 2019, as it was founded by the Universities Act, 1997 from the secular faculties of the now separate St Patrick's College, Maynooth, which was founded in 1795. Maynooth is also the only university town in Ireland, all other universities being based within cities. The university consists of two connected campuses: an older southern campus, with 19th-century buildings, shared with St Patrick's College, Maynooth, St Patrick's College, and, across a public road, a modern northern campus, occupying circa . With over 13,000 students enrolled, and over 900 staff from over 20 different countries, it is Ireland's smallest, yet fastest growing, university. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
