O'Byrne Cup

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For details of the most recent competition see: O'Byrne Cup 2008

O'Byrne Cup

Irish	Corn Uí Bhroin
Sponsors	?
First played	1954
First winner	Offaly
Current Champions	Dublin (7th win)
Most Wins	Meath Kildare (8 wins)

The O'Byrne Cup is a Gaelic Athletic Association competition between football teams from Leinster. The competition is named after Matt O'Byrne, a former Club Officer in Wicklow. The participants in the O'Byrne Cup are the twelve counties of Leinster and recently four further education Colleges from Leinster. The O'Byrne Cup 2008 champions are Dublin, who beat Longford in the final by a scoreline of 2-12 to 1-14

Recently an O'Byrne Shield has been introduced for teams knocked out of the first stage of the Cup also.

Contents 1 Top Winners 2 Previous Finals 3 The O'Byrne Shield 3.1 Top Winners 4 External links

[edit] Top Winners

	Team	Winner	Winning Years
1	Meath	8	1967, 1974, 1977, 1983, 1992, 2001, 2004, 2006
	Kildare	8	1962, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1976, 1982, 1989, 2003.
3	Dublin	7	1956, 1958, 1960, 1966, 1999, 2007, 2008
4	Offaly	6	1954, 1961, 1981, 1993, 1997, 1998
5	Laois	5	1978, 1987, 1991, 1994, 2005.
6	Wicklow	4	1955, 1957, 1986, 1996
7	Louth	3	1963, 1980, 1990
	Westmeath	3	1959, 1964, 1988
9	Longford	2	1965, 2000
10	Carlow	1	2002.
	Wexford	1	1995

• No Competition in 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1979, 1984, 1985.

[edit] Previous Finals

2008 Final	Dublin	2-12 – 1-14	Longford	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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2007 Final	Dublin	2-13 – - 1-18	Laois	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1990 Final	Louth	2-04 – 1-06	Kildare	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1989 Final	Kildare	2-08 – 0-09	Meath	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1988 Final	Westmeath	0-13 – 2-05	Laois	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1988 Final	Westmeath	0-09 – 2-03	Laois	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1987 Final	Laois	1-08 – 0-09	Meath	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1986 Final	Wicklow	1-07 – 0-06	Westmeath	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1983 Final	Meath	1-11 – 1-09	Longford	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1982 Final	Kildare	2-08 – 1-05	Wicklow	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1981 Final	Offaly	1-12 – 0-11	Dublin	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1980 Final	Louth	0-08 – 1-04	Dublin	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1978 Final	Laois	3-07 – 1-08	Carlow	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1977 Final	Meath	2-09 – 0-09	Offaly	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1976 Final	Kildare	1-09 – 0-09	Wexford	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1974 Final	Meath	1-09 – 2-05	Dublin	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1973 Final	Kildare	3-11 – 1-04	Dublin	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1970 Final	Kildare	2-08 – 0-08	Louth	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1968 Final	Kildare	2-07 – 1-06	Westmeath	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1967 Final	Meath	0-10 – 1-05	Dublin	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1966 Final	Dublin	1-05 – 0-06	Offaly	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1965 Final	Longford	1-09 – 1-06	Kildare	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1964 Final	Westmeath	1-09 – 1-05	Carlow	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1963 Final	Louth	1-10 – 0-10	Longford	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1962 Final	Kildare	2-06 – 1-07	Louth	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1961 Final	Offaly	1-09 – 0-06	Longford	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1960 Final Replay	Dublin	1-11 – 0-07	Louth	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1960 Final	Dublin	2-06 – 1-09	Louth	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1959 Final	Westmeath	1-05 – 1-04	Kildare	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1958 Final Replay	Dublin	2-09 – 2-08	Meath	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1958 Final	Dublin	1-06 – 1-06	Meath	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1957 Final	Wicklow	1-09 – 0-10	Kildare	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1956 Final	Dublin	1-10 – 1-03	Kildare	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1955 Final	Wicklow	1-06 – 0-07	Westmeath	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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1954 Final	Offaly	0-10 – 1-05	Louth	? Attendance: Referee: ?

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[edit] The O'Byrne Shield

The O'Byrne Shield is an inter county competition between the losers of the first round of the O'Byrne Cup. The competition began in 2006 with Longford winning in the final. The 2007 final was contested by Longford and Athlone IT and Longford won the game on a scoreline of 2-10 to 1-7.

[edit] Top Winners

	Team	Winner	Winning Years
1	Longford	2	2006, 2007
1	Laois/Kildare	1	2008

[edit] External links

• 2007 O'Byrne Cup Details

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