The 2014

McGrath Cup The McGrath Cup is a Gaelic football competition played each January in Munster Munster ( gle, an Mhumhain or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms o ...

was a

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competition played by the teams of

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. The competition differs from the

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as it also features further education colleges and the winning team does not progress to another tournament at All-Ireland level.

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were the defending champions after defeating

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in the 2013 final. Tipperary, Limerick, Waterford and Clare refused to take part in the 2014 competition in protest at the Munster Council’s decision to seed the 2014 Munster Football Championship and keep Cork and Kerry on separate sides of the draw. The competition was won by Cork who defeated Kerry in the final by four points on 19 January in Mallow.

Teams

The following Third Level Colleges took part in 2014 * University College Cork (UCC) * Tralee IT * University of Limerick (UL) *

Cork Institute of Technology Cork Institute of Technology (CIT; ga, Institiúid Teicneolaíochta Chorcaí) was an institute of technology, located in Cork, Ireland. Upon its dissolution, the institute had 17,000 students studying in art, business, engineering, music, dram ...

(CIT) *

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(LIT) *

Mary Immaculate College Mary Immaculate College (Coláiste Mhuire gan Smál), also known as MIC and Mary I, is a College of Education and Liberal Arts. Founded in 1898, the university level College of Education and the Liberal Arts is academically linked with the Univ ...

(Mary I) The following counties took part in 2014 *

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Match Results

Quarter-finals

5 January *Kerry 0-17 Tralee IT 0-8 *CIT 5-17 Mary I 2-6 *Cork 3-22 LIT 0-7 *UL 5-18 UCC 4-16

Semi-finals

12 January *Kerry 2-12 CIT 0-13 *Cork 6-16 UL 0-7

Final

References

External links

McGrath Cup at Munster GAA
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