Munster Technological University Kerry GAA or MTU Kerry GAA is the

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team located in the Munster Technological University,

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. They play

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

hurling Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goa ...

ladies' Gaelic football Ladies' Gaelic football () is an Irish team sport for women. It is the women's equivalent of Gaelic football. Ladies' football is organised by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association. Two teams of 15 players kick or hand-pass a round ball toward ...

and

camogie Camogie ( ; ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game "hurling" (which is played by men only), it is organised ...

Gaelic football

The football club competes in the

Sigerson Cup The Sigerson Cup is the trophy for the premier Gaelic football championship among Higher Education institutions (Universities, Colleges and Institutes of Technology) in Ireland. It traditionally begins in mid January and ends in late February. T ...

and Higher Education Leagues as well as the

McGrath Cup The McGrath Cup is a Gaelic football competition played each January in Munster Munster ( or ) is the largest of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south west of the island. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of t ...

. The Ladies football team play in the O'Connor Cup and Higher Education Leagues.

History

MTU Kerry (formerly known as IT Tralee and Tralee RTC) made a mark on the college GAA scene in 1997 when it became the first RTC to win the Sigerson Cup. It was only Tralee's second outing in this competition. However, the college created further history by winning the Sigerson three times in successive seasons to become the only RTC/Institute of Technology to do so in the competition's history. The Ladies football team also won the O'Connor Cup back to back in 1998 and 1999.

Winning Sigerson Cup captains

* Éamon Ferris 1997 * Michael Cloherty 1998 *

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1999

Notable footballers

Colm Cooper Colm "the Gooch" Cooper (born 3 June 1983) is an Irish Gaelic footballer whose National Football League (Ireland), league and All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, championship career at senior level with the Kerry county football team, Kerr ...

* Michael Donnellan * Noel Garvan *

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* Seamus Moynihan *

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* Mike Frank Russell

Hurling

The hurling club play in the

Ryan Cup The Ryan Cup is the tier 2 hurling championship for third level colleges, the Fitzgibbon Cup being the tier 1 hurling championship trophy. The Ryan Cup competition is administered by Comhairle Ard Oideachais Cumann Lúthchleas Gael (CLG), the GAA ...

and Higher Education Leagues and the

Waterford Crystal Cup The Waterford Crystal Cup was an annual hurling competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association from 2006 to 2015 for the top inter-county teams and third-level institutes and universities in the province of Munste ...

History

MTU Kerry won the

in 1997, 2007, 2011. The camogie team won the Purcell Shield in 1997.

Honours

Notable hurlers

* James O'Brien * Nicky Quaid

Camogie

The camogie team play in the Purcell Shield.

Interesting facts

*MTU Kerry Senior Football team first win the

in 1997 and go on to win 3 in a row. *MTU Kerry Ladies Football team first win the O'Connor Cup in 1998 and go on to win 2 in a row. *MTU Kerry

Camogie Camogie ( ; ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game "hurling" (which is played by men only), it is organised ...

team first win the Purcell Shield in 1997. *MTU Kerry win debut

game beating inter-county opposition

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away in 2005. Score 2-08 to 0-09. *MTU Kerry's Deirdre O' Reilly wins an All Ireland medal as well as an

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award for her achievements with the Cork senior ladies' football team. *MTU Kerry Fresher Football team win 2 in a row All Ireland league titles in 2007 and 2008. *MTU Kerry Senior Hurling team compete in

Fitzgibbon Cup The Fitzgibbon Cup () is the trophy for the premier hurling championship among higher education institutions (universities, colleges and institutes of technology) in Ireland. The Fitzgibbon Cup competition is administered by Comhairle Ard Oideac ...

for first time in 1998. *Eoin Ryan becomes the first MTU Kerry hurler to make the

All Star team. *MTU Kerry Senior Football and Hurling teams entering into Intercounty Competitions (

References

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