The 2024 Walsh Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the Dioralyte Walsh Cup, was an early-season inter-county

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

competition based in the Irish province of

Leinster Leinster ( ; ga, Laighin or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, situated in the southeast and east of Ireland. The province comprises the ancient Kingdoms of Meath, Leinster and Osraige. Following the 12th-century Norman invasion of Ir ...

and taking place in January 2024. Nine

county teams A county is a geographic region within Gaelic games, controlled by a county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and originally based on the 32 counties of Ireland as they were in 1884. While the administrative geography of Ireland has ...

competed — seven from Leinster (, , , , , , ); from Connacht; and from Ulster. Four other teams from Leinster and Ulster played in the second-ranked

2024 Kehoe Cup The 2024 Kehoe Cup was an inter-county hurling competition in the province of Leinster, played by four county teams: three from Leinster and one () from Ulster. It was the second level of Leinster/Ulster hurling pre-season competitions, below the ...

. were the winners.

Competition format

The teams are drawn into three groups of three teams. Each team plays the other teams in their group once. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw. Two group winners play each other in a semi-final, and the winners of that game play the other group winners in the final.

Competition format

Results

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Finals

References