The 2011

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 ...

inter-collegiate

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championship was staged at the NUIG sports complex in Dangan, Galway, over the weekend of February 19–20 with the finals in

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. It was won by

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who defeated

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in the final by eight points, a repeat of the pairing and result, though not the margin of victory, of the 1999 final and 2010 final. Player of the tournament was WIT's

Katrina Parrock Katrina Parrock (born 2 September 1990) is an Irish camogie player, winner of All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2012 and an All Star award winner in 2010, 2011 and 2012. She was an All Star nominee in 2006, 2007 and 2009 and ...

The Final

A dominant WIT team did all the hard work in the first half and raced into a 1–6 to 0–1 lead at the break. The first score of the game came from a long

delivery which deceived UCC keeper, Susan Earner, to find its way to the UCC net. UCC had no answer to WITs phenomenal work rate and support play. The main difference between the two teams was WIT ability to take scores from play while all of UCC's scores came from placed balls. UCC were dealt a major blow when they lost key player

Orla Cotter Orla Cotter (born 1988 in Cork) is a Camogie player and student, winner of All-Ireland Camogie medals in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018. and Camogie All Star awards in 2008, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Captained the Cork Minor tea ...

through injury ten minutes after the break. Two well taken goals from the stick of Fionnuala Carr brought UCC back to life but proved too little too late, and a late goal from Michelle Quilty ensured victory for WIT.

Arrangements

The competition is administered by th
Higher Education
committee of the

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. For the second time the

, 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 second time in camogie history. Galway City Council held a reception for the 16 Ashbourne and Purcell Captains before the event.

Participants

Waterford IT and UCC emerged as the favourites for the competition from an early stage. The two finalists had several inter-county and All Star players in action.

Results

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Ashbourne All-Stars

The 2011 Ashbourne All-Stars selected after the tournament were: Susan Earner (

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Galway Galway ( ; , ) is a City status in Ireland, city in (and the county town of) County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay. It is the most populous settlement in the province of Connacht, the List of settleme ...

); Collette Dormer (

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Leann Fennelly Leann Fennelly (born 1990) is a camogie player and a student, who played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final. Background Leann's father, Liam, gave distinguished service to Kilkenny in the forward line, whereas she has shown her mettle in ...

( UCD &

), Julia Brien (

); Ann Dalton (

), Michaela Morgan ( NUIG &

Offaly County Offaly (; ) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Uí Failghe. It was formerly known as King's County, in honour of Philip II of Spain ...

), Patricia Jackman (

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);

(

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), Chloe Morey ( NUIG &

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); Michaela Convery (

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& Antrim), Katie Power (

), Lisa Bolger ( UL &

); Katriona Mackey (

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), Denise Gaule (

) &

), Michelle Quilty (

);

Purcell All-Stars

The 2011 Purcell All-Stars selected after the competition were: Laura Quinn ( QUB &

Derry Derry, officially Londonderry, is the second-largest City status in the United Kingdom, city in Northern Ireland, and the fifth-largest on the island of Ireland. Located in County Londonderry, the city now covers both banks of the River Fo ...

); Grainne Quinn ( DIT &

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

), Kate Lynch ( Mary I Limerick &

), Laura Twomey ( DCU &

); Mairead Short ( QUB &

Armagh Armagh ( ; , , " Macha's height") is a city and the county town of County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the Primates of All ...

), Caitriona Foley (

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), Emma Brennan ( DCU &

); Jane Dolan ( DIT) &

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), Keelan Bradley ( QUB &

); Cathy Bowes ( DIT &

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 and nominated for another in ...

( QUB &

), Aoife Burke ( DIT &

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); Sinead Cassidy] ( QUB &

), Orlaith Murphy ( Tralee IT GAA, IT Tralee &

), Hoarqy ( DIT &

);

Ashbourne Shield

The Ashbourne Shield, played off among the four beaten Ashbourne Cup quarter-finalists, was won by

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who defeated Cork IT 4–18 to 0–3 in the final. In the semi-finals Cork IT (3-18) defeated

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(3-3) and

(1-7) defeated UUJ 0–9.

Purcell Cup

Queen's University won the Purcell Cup defeating DCU 2–10 to 0–7 in the final. Keelin Bradley inspired the Ulster team to victory. In the semi-finals Queen's University (2-7) defeated Tralee IT GAA, IT Tralee (3-1) and DCU (2-6) defeated Mary I Limerick (0-4). The tie of the quarter-finals was the victory of Queen's University (4-12) over cup holders DIT (3-5) in the grounds of Dundalk IT.Report on Camogie.ie
/ref> Tralee IT GAA, IT Tralee (1-7) defeated

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0–7, Mary I Limerick defeated

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and DCU (5-14) defeated

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(0-1) in the other quarter-finals.

Purcell Shield

DIT won the Purcell Shield defeating

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by 5–11 to 0–7 in the final. In the Purcell Shield semi-finals, played off among the four defeated Purcell Cup quarter-finalists, DIT (5-15) defeated

(2-5) and

(10-14) defeated GMIT (2-3).

Qualifiers

In the Ashbourne/Purcell qualifiers

(2-19) defeated DIT (2-6) at Dangan, Galway.

(2-11) defeated Tralee IT GAA, IT Tralee (0-3) at Ahane, County Limerick.

League

(3-10) beat UU Jordanstown (0-1) at Éire Óg,

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, Co Kildare to win the third level league final.

Fr Meachair Cup

Colleges who do not compete in the Ashbourne and Purcell Cups participate in a one-day seven-a-side competition for a cup named after Fr Gearóid Ó Meachair (Gerry Meagher, d1982), from

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, Co Tipperary, founder and popular trainer of the

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camogie team. It was inaugurated in 1986. Cavan Institute, Coláiste Froebel, Crumlin College of Further Ed, Dundalk IT,

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, Limerick IT, Marino,

, St Mary's, St Pats, Sligo IT and University of Ulster Coleraine, all competed in the 2011 competition, which was won by

References

External links

History of the Ashbourne and Purcell Cups on camogie.ie

Official Camogie Website
* College website
University College Dublin
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