2011 Ashbourne Cup
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| Championship Details | ||
|---|---|---|
| Dates | Dec 2010 – 20 Feb 2011 | |
| Competitors | 10 | |
| Sponsor | ||
| Ashbourne Cup winners | ||
| Winners | Waterford IT (5th title) | |
| Captain | Ann Dalton Ann Dalton Anne Dalton is a camogie player and student, winner of a camogie All Star award in 2009. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final.-Career:... |
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| Manager | Helena Jacob | |
| Ashbourne Cup Runners-up | ||
| Runners-up | University College Cork | |
| Captain | Grainne Kenneally | |
| Manager | Ray Delaney | |
| Matches played | 9 | |
The 2011 Ashbourne Cup
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 current stars of the game...
inter-collegiate camogie
Camogie
Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and world wide, largely among Irish communities....
championship was staged at the NUIG sports complex in Dangan, Galway over the weekend of February 19–20 with the finals in Pearse Stadium
Pearse Stadium
Pearse Stadium is the principal Gaelic Athletic Association stadium, in County Galway, Ireland. The stadium opened on June 16, 1957, as 16,000 people came to watch Galway beat Tipperary in hurling, and Kerry in football, and to watch Bishop Michael Browne bless the facility.The stadium was opened...
, Satlhil. It was won by Waterford Institute of Technology who defeated University College Cork in the final by eight points, a repeat of the pairing and result, though not the margin of victory, of the 1999 final
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 current stars of the game...
and 2010 final
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 current stars of the game...
. Player of the tournament was WIT's Katrina Parrock
Katrina Parrock
Katrina Parrock is a camogie player, winner of All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010 and 2011 and an All Star award winner in 2010 and 2011. She was an All Star nominee in 2006 and 2009 and a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011.-Other awards:...
.
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 Katrina ParrockKatrina Parrock
Katrina Parrock is a camogie player, winner of All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010 and 2011 and an All Star award winner in 2010 and 2011. She was an All Star nominee in 2006 and 2009 and a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011.-Other awards:...
delivery which deceived UCC keeper, Susan Earner
Susan Earner
Susan Earner is a camogie player, a member of the Galway senior panel that unsuccessfully contested the All Ireland finals of 2010 and 2011 against Wexford, She won a Camogie All Star Award in 2011.-School and College:...
, 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
Orla Cotter born 1988 in Cork is a camogie player and student, winner of All Ireland camogie medals in 2006, 2008 and 2009 and a camogie All Star award in 2006, 2008. Captained the Cork Minor team in 2006, having won an All-Ireland Under-16 medal three years earlier...
through injury ten minutes after the break. Two well taken goals from the stick of Fionnuala Carr
Fionnuala Carr
Fionnuala Carr is a camogie player, winner of two Soaring Star awards in 2010 and 2011 and an Ashbourne All Star in 2011. She was on the Down team that contested the 2011 Kay Mills Cup final. Her father Ross Carr was an All Ireland football medalist in 1991 and 1994 and her sister Sarah-Louise...
brought UCC back to life but proved too little too late, and a late goal from Michelle Quilty
Michelle Quilty
Michelle Quilty is a camogie player and student. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final and was a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011. With a total of 5-26 she was the fourth highest scoring player in the Championship in 2011....
ensured victory for WIT.
Arrangements
The competition is administered by the Higher Education committee of the Camogie Association of Ireland. For the second time the Ashbourne CupAshbourne 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 current stars of the game...
, 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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| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center> | WIT: | |
| GK | 1 | Kristina Kenneally (Tipperary) |
| RCB | 2 | Collette Dormer Collette Dormer Collette Dormer is a camogie player and student, who played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final.-Career:An Ashbourne All Star in 2009 and 2010, two years in which she helped Waterford IT to glory, she has also won a Division 1 Colleges league medal to her collection. She has won Under-16, Minor ... (Kilkenny) |
| FB | 3 | Sarah Anne Fitzgerald (Laois) |
| LCB | 4 | Kay Ryall (Kilkenny) |
| RWB | 5 | Stacey Redmond Stacey Redmond Stacey Redmond is a camogie player, and All-Ireland Senior medal with Wexford in All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship in and a member of the panel who won the 2010 National League before injury deprived her of a chance to participate in Wexford’s 2010 and 2011 All Ireland championship victories... ((Wexford) |
| CB | 6 | Ann Dalton Ann Dalton Anne Dalton is a camogie player and student, winner of a camogie All Star award in 2009. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final.-Career:... (Kilkenny) |
| LWB | 7 | Patricia Jackman Patricia Jackman Patricia ‘Trish’ Jackman is a camogie player, winner of a Soaring Star Award in 2011, three Poc Fada titles, three National Camogie League medals, one All Ireland medal in 2011 and two runners up medals at Junior level in 2009 and 2010, one Munster medal, an Under 16 All Ireland title and a... (Waterford) (0-1) |
| MF | 8 | Jean Brady (Offaly) |
| MF | 9 | Lorraine Keena (Offaly) |
| RWF | 10 | Michelle Quilty Michelle Quilty Michelle Quilty is a camogie player and student. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final and was a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011. With a total of 5-26 she was the fourth highest scoring player in the Championship in 2011.... (Kilkenny) (1-2) |
| CF | 11 | Katie Power Katie Power Energizer , is a fictional character in Marvel Comics' universe. She first appeared in Power Pack #1 and was created by Louise Simonson and June Brigman.-Publication history:... (Kilkenny) (0-1) |
| LWF | 12 | Fiona Morrissey (Limerick) (0-1) |
| RCF | 13 | Katrina Parrock Katrina Parrock Katrina Parrock is a camogie player, winner of All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010 and 2011 and an All Star award winner in 2010 and 2011. She was an All Star nominee in 2006 and 2009 and a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011.-Other awards:... (Wexford) (1-1) |
| FF | 14 | Denise Gaule Denise Gaule Denise Gaule is a camogie player and student. The winner of the Young Player of the Year award of 2009, she played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final. She came to public attention during the 2009 All-Ireland semi-final against Galway when she scored three fine points, just one week after helping... (Kilkenny) (0-2) |
| LCF | 15 | Karen Kelly Karen Kelly Karen Kelly is a camogie player and teacher, winner of two Soaring Star awards in 2009 and 2011 and played in the 2009 All Ireland junior camogie final. The leading scorer in her side's impressive march to the final, Karen has won two National League medals, Munster titles in the Junior and... (Waterford) (0-2) |
Susan Earner
Susan Earner is a camogie player, a member of the Galway senior panel that unsuccessfully contested the All Ireland finals of 2010 and 2011 against Wexford, She won a Camogie All Star Award in 2011.-School and College:...
(Galway)
Sarah Collins
Sarah Collins was a woman from Wisconsin who enlisted as a soldier during the American Civil War. Although she disguised herself as a man, her sex was suspected because of how she put on her shoes. She was discovered to be female before her regiment left for the front.-References:*Massey, Mary...
(Limerick)
Fionnuala Carr
Fionnuala Carr is a camogie player, winner of two Soaring Star awards in 2010 and 2011 and an Ashbourne All Star in 2011. She was on the Down team that contested the 2011 Kay Mills Cup final. Her father Ross Carr was an All Ireland football medalist in 1991 and 1994 and her sister Sarah-Louise...
(Down) 2-0
Orla Cotter
Orla Cotter born 1988 in Cork is a camogie player and student, winner of All Ireland camogie medals in 2006, 2008 and 2009 and a camogie All Star award in 2006, 2008. Captained the Cork Minor team in 2006, having won an All-Ireland Under-16 medal three years earlier...
(Cork) 0-2
Sharon Hayes
Sharon Ruth Hayes is a former Canadian politician.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she represented the riding of Port Moody—Coquitlam from 1993 to 1997 for the Reform Party of Canada....
(Galway)
Denise Cronin
Denise Cronin is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1995.-Playing career:She won six All Ireland senior medals in all and 1998.-Management:...
(Cork) (0-4)
Katriona Mackey
Katriona Mackey born 1992 in Cork is a camogie player and an accountant, winner of an All Ireland camogie medal in 2009. She is twin sister of Pamela, who is also on the Cork camogie panel, she won a Munster championship and an All Ireland, coming on as a sub, in her first season on the panel. She...
(Cork)
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Ashbourne All-Stars
The 2011 Ashbourne All-Stars selected after the tournament were:Susan Earner
Susan Earner
Susan Earner is a camogie player, a member of the Galway senior panel that unsuccessfully contested the All Ireland finals of 2010 and 2011 against Wexford, She won a Camogie All Star Award in 2011.-School and College:...
(UCC & Galway); Collette Dormer
Collette Dormer
Collette Dormer is a camogie player and student, who played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final.-Career:An Ashbourne All Star in 2009 and 2010, two years in which she helped Waterford IT to glory, she has also won a Division 1 Colleges league medal to her collection. She has won Under-16, Minor ...
(WIT & Kilkenny), Leann Fennelly
Leann Fennelly
Leann Fennelly 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 the backs...
(UCD
University College Dublin
University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...
& Kilkenny), Julie Brien (UCC & Galway); Ann Dalton
Ann Dalton
Anne Dalton is a camogie player and student, winner of a camogie All Star award in 2009. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final.-Career:...
(WIT & Kilkenny), Michaela Morkan
Michaela Morkan
Michaela Morkan is a camogie player and student. She won a Camogie All Stars award in 2008 having been nominated in 2006, a Soaring Star award in 2009 and won a 2009 All Ireland junior camogie medal. She won All-Ireland 'B' titles with Offaly in Under-16 and Under-18 , as well as three Senior...
(NUIG & Offaly), Patricia Jackman
Patricia Jackman
Patricia ‘Trish’ Jackman is a camogie player, winner of a Soaring Star Award in 2011, three Poc Fada titles, three National Camogie League medals, one All Ireland medal in 2011 and two runners up medals at Junior level in 2009 and 2010, one Munster medal, an Under 16 All Ireland title and a...
(WIT & Waterford); Katrina Parrock
Katrina Parrock
Katrina Parrock is a camogie player, winner of All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010 and 2011 and an All Star award winner in 2010 and 2011. She was an All Star nominee in 2006 and 2009 and a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011.-Other awards:...
(WIT & Wexford), Chloe Morey (NUIG & Clare); Michaela Convery
Michaela Convery
Michaela Convery is a camogie player, winner of a Soaring Star award in 2010 and an All Ireland Intermediate championship medal in 2011.-Other awards:Three Senior County Ulster Medals, Under-16 and U18 All Ireland B Titles, Intermediate Club Championship....
(Jordanstown
University of Ulster
The University of Ulster is a multi-campus, co-educational university located in Northern Ireland. It is the largest single university in Ireland, discounting the federal National University of Ireland...
& Antrim), Katie Power
Katie Power
Energizer , is a fictional character in Marvel Comics' universe. She first appeared in Power Pack #1 and was created by Louise Simonson and June Brigman.-Publication history:...
(WIT & Kilkenny), Lisa Bolger (UL
University of Limerick
The University of Limerick is a university in Ireland near the city of Limerick on the island's west coast. It was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and became a university by statute in 1989 in accordance with the University of Limerick Act 1989...
& Offaly); Katriona Mackey
Katriona Mackey
Katriona Mackey born 1992 in Cork is a camogie player and an accountant, winner of an All Ireland camogie medal in 2009. She is twin sister of Pamela, who is also on the Cork camogie panel, she won a Munster championship and an All Ireland, coming on as a sub, in her first season on the panel. She...
(UCC & Cork), Denise Gaule
Denise Gaule
Denise Gaule is a camogie player and student. The winner of the Young Player of the Year award of 2009, she played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final. She came to public attention during the 2009 All-Ireland semi-final against Galway when she scored three fine points, just one week after helping...
(WIT) & Kilkenny), Michelle Quilty
Michelle Quilty
Michelle Quilty is a camogie player and student. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final and was a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011. With a total of 5-26 she was the fourth highest scoring player in the Championship in 2011....
(WIT & Kilkenny);
Purcell All-Stars
The 2011 Purcell All-Stars selected after the competition were :Laura Quinn (QUB & Derry); Grainne Quinn (DIT
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
& Dublin), Kate Lynch (Mary I Limerick
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Mary Immaculate College , also known as Mary I or MIC, is a College of Education and Liberal Arts, founded in 1898. It became academically linked to the University of Limerick in 1991. The college has approximately 3,500 students and 300 staff...
& Clare), Laura Twomey
Laura Twomey
Laura Twomey is an Irish camogie player who made her senior championship debut for Dublin in 1991 at the age of 17. She has won a Leinster Schools title in 1991 and in 1992 was a key member of the Naomh Mearnóg team that won the Dublin Senior Championship title for the first time in 2009. She...
(DCU
Dublin City University
Dublin City University is a university situated between Glasnevin, Santry, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland...
& Dublin); Mairead Short (QUB & Armagh), Caitriona Foley (Trinity & Cork), Emma Brennan (DCU
Dublin City University
Dublin City University is a university situated between Glasnevin, Santry, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland...
& Cork); Jane Dolan
Jane Dolan
Jane Dolan is a camogie player, winner of two Soaring Star Awards in 2010 and 2011. She also plays for DIT. Her injury time point secured the National League Division 3 title in 2011...
(DIT
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
) & Meath), Keelan Bradley (QUB & Derry); Cathy Bowes (DIT
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
& Galway), Colette McSorley
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. She was Ulster young player of the year in 2004.-Career:She is a prolific scorer for...
(QUB & Armagh), Aoife Burke (DIT
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
& Laois); Sinead Cassidy (QUB & Derry), Orlaith Murphy (IT Tralee
Tralee IT GAA
Tralee IT GAA are the Gaelic Athletic Association team in the Institute of Technology, Tralee. They play Gaelic football, Hurling, Ladies' Gaelic football and Camogie.-Gaelic football:...
& Cork), Joeleen Hoary (DIT
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
& Dublin);
Ashbourne Shield
The Ashbourne Shield, played off among the four beaten Ashbourne Cup quarter-finalists, was won by NUI Galway who defeated Cork IT 4-18 to 0-3 in the final. In the semi-finals Cork IT (3-18) defeated Athlone IT (3-3) and NUI Galway (1-7) defeated UUJUniversity of Ulster
The University of Ulster is a multi-campus, co-educational university located in Northern Ireland. It is the largest single university in Ireland, discounting the federal National University of Ireland...
0-9.
Purcell Cup
Queens University won the Purcell Cup defeating DCUDublin City University
Dublin City University is a university situated between Glasnevin, Santry, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland...
2-10 to 0-7 in the final. Keelin Bradley inspired the Ulster team to victory. In the semi-finals Queens University (2-7) defeated IT Tralee
Tralee IT GAA
Tralee IT GAA are the Gaelic Athletic Association team in the Institute of Technology, Tralee. They play Gaelic football, Hurling, Ladies' Gaelic football and Camogie.-Gaelic football:...
(3-1) and DCU
Dublin City University
Dublin City University is a university situated between Glasnevin, Santry, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland...
(2-6) defeated Mary I Limerick
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Mary Immaculate College , also known as Mary I or MIC, is a College of Education and Liberal Arts, founded in 1898. It became academically linked to the University of Limerick in 1991. The college has approximately 3,500 students and 300 staff...
(0-4). The tie of the quarter-finals was the victory of Queens University (4-12) over cup holders DIT
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
(3-5) in the grounds of Dundalk IT. IT Tralee
Tralee IT GAA
Tralee IT GAA are the Gaelic Athletic Association team in the Institute of Technology, Tralee. They play Gaelic football, Hurling, Ladies' Gaelic football and Camogie.-Gaelic football:...
(1-7) defeated IT Carlow 0-7, Mary I Limerick
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Mary Immaculate College , also known as Mary I or MIC, is a College of Education and Liberal Arts, founded in 1898. It became academically linked to the University of Limerick in 1991. The college has approximately 3,500 students and 300 staff...
defeated Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and DCU
Dublin City University
Dublin City University is a university situated between Glasnevin, Santry, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland...
(5-14) defeated Dublin University (0-1) in the other quarter-finals.
Purcell Shield
DITDublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
won the Purcell Shield defeating Trinity College, Dublin 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
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
(5-15) defeated IT Carlow (2-5) and Trinity (10-14) defeated GMIT (2-3).
Qualifiers
In the Ashbourne/Purcell qualifiers NUI Galway (2-19) defeated DITDublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
(2-6) at Dangan, Galway. Athlone IT (2-11) defeated IT Tralee
Tralee IT GAA
Tralee IT GAA are the Gaelic Athletic Association team in the Institute of Technology, Tralee. They play Gaelic football, Hurling, Ladies' Gaelic football and Camogie.-Gaelic football:...
(0-3) at Ahane, Co Limerick.
League
UCC (3-10) beat UU JordanstownUniversity of Ulster
The University of Ulster is a multi-campus, co-educational university located in Northern Ireland. It is the largest single university in Ireland, discounting the federal National University of Ireland...
(0-1) at Eire Og
Raheens GAA
Raheens is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Caragh, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of the Leinster senior club championship in 1981, 10 county senior football championships, first winners of the Kildare club of the year in 1973 and winners again in 1976. The separate hurling club,...
, Caragh
Caragh GAA
Caragh is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Prosperous, County Kildare, Republic of Ireland, winner of three county senior football championships and the only club to play in five successive county finals, club of the year 1978 and home club of Larry Stanley, All Ireland medalist in 1919,...
, Co Kildare
Kildare GAA
For more information see Kildare Senior Club Football Championship or Kildare Senior Club Hurling Championship.The Kildare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association , or Kildare GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County 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 CappawhiteCappawhite
Cappawhite often spelled Cappaghwhite is a village in South Tipperary, Ireland and is located on the R505 regional road from Cashel to County Limerick...
, Co Tipperary, founder and popular trainer of the NUI Maynooth camogie team. It was inaugurated in 1986. Cavan Institute
Cavan Institute
Cavan Institute is a third level college located in the town of Cavan in the Republic of Ireland. The college provides Further Education and Training Awards Council awards to students....
, Coláiste Froebel
Froebel College of Education
Froebel College of Education, is located at Sion Hill, Cross Avenue, Blackrock, Dublin and is run by the Dominican Order. It is one of five Colleges in Ireland which is recognized by the Department of Education and Skills for the training and education of national school teachers.Froebel College,...
, Crumlin College of Further Ed, Dundalk IT, Letterkenny IT, Limerick IT, Marino
Marino College of Further Education
Marino College of Further Education is situated in Connolly House on the North Strand, Dublin. The College is adjacent to the memorial park commemorating the bombing of this area by a German Bomber in May 1941. Marino College was one of the first colleges in Ireland to offer Post Leaving...
, NUI Maynooth, St Mary’s
St. Mary's University College (Belfast)
St Mary's University College was established in 1985, but can directly trace its existence to 1900 and the foundation of St Mary's Training College, which focused mainly on the training of women as teachers...
, St Pats, Sligo IT
Institute of Technology, Sligo
Institute of Technology Sligo is a state funded third-level educational institution situated in the city of Sligo, Ireland. The Institute has three Schools and 9 Departments....
and University of Ulster Coleraine
University of Ulster at Coleraine
The University of Ulster at Coleraine is the Coleraine campus of the University of Ulster. It houses the administrative headquarters of the university and is the most traditional in outlook, with a focus on science and the humanities. It was founded in 1968 as the New University of Ulster...
, all competed in the 2011 competition, which was won by NUI Maynooth.