Record number of entries for Datapac Championships

MORE colleges than ever before will be involved in the draws for the Datapac Third level championships in hurling and football, which will be held in Croke Park this morning.

The blue ribands of the college’s championships are the Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup in hurling and the Sigerson Cup in football, but a host of other college’s will also vie for honours in the 2nd tier (Ryan Cup in Hurling, Trench Cup in football) and 3rd tier competitions (Feargal Maher Cup in Hurling and Corn na Mac Léinn in football). Fifty three colleges will be involved in the various football competitions and 36 in hurling.

The Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup semi-finals and final will be hosted by UCC on the weekend of March 3 and 4 and 11 teams will participate in the competition. They are: WIT, UCD, UCC, Cork IT, University of Limerick, DIT, NUI Galway, Garda College, Limerick IT, Galway IT and St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra. Limerick IT won the competition last year.