2016 O'Byrne Cup

2016 O'Byrne Cup
	Donal Keogan lifts the O'Byrne Cup
Tournament details
Province	Leinster
Year	2016
Trophy	O'Byrne Cup
Winners
Champions	Meath (9th win)
Manager	Mick O'Dowd
Captain	Donal Keogan
Runners-up
Runners-up	Longford
Manager	Denis Connerton
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The 2016 O'Byrne Cup was a Gaelic football competition played by the teams of Leinster GAA. The competition differs from the Leinster Senior Football Championship as it also features further education colleges and the winning team does not progress to another tournament at All-Ireland level.

Meath were the winners.

Format

16 teams compete: 11 county teams (all those of Leinster except Kilkenny) and 5 third-level teams: DIT, UCD, IT Carlow, DCU and Maynooth University.

The teams are drawn into 4 groups of 4 teams each. Each team plays the other teams in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The four group winners progress to the semi-finals.

Group A

Table	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
Dublin	3	2	1	0	64	41	23	5
DCU	3	2	0	1	55	37	18	4
Wexford	3	1	1	1	47	38	9	3
IT Carlow	3	0	0	3	41	91	-50	0

3 January 2016	Wexford	2-6 - 0-12	Dublin	Enniscorthy Referee: J Hickey
	A Flynn (1-1), B Brosnan (1-1), R Vallejo, K Rowe, K O'Grady, PJ Banville (0-1) each		D Rock (0-6), C Reddin, J Whelan, S Carthy, C Costello, P Andrews, C O'Callaghan (0-1) each	Enniscorthy Referee: J Hickey

3 January 2016	IT Carlow	2-6 - 3-20	DCU	Fenagh Referee: F Barry
	S McGraynor (2-3), D Aston (0-3)		C McGraynor (1-7), C McHugh (1-2), D Mannix (0-5), E Smith (1-1), C McNally (0-3), S Carey (0-1), S Attride (0-1)	Fenagh Referee: F Barry

6 January 2016	Dublin	3-24 - 2-8	IT Carlow	Blanchardstown
	C Costello (2-6), P Andrews (1-3), M Deegan (0-5), T Brady (0-2), J Whelan (0-2), S Carthy (0-2), C McGuire (0-2), N Scully (0-1), P McMahon (0-1)		C Healy (1-3), M Sherry (1-0), C Conroy (0-2), K Ryan (0-2), N Kane (0-1)	Blanchardstown

6 January 2016	Wexford	1-3 - 1-8	DCU	Enniscorthy
	J Carthy (1-0), K O'Grady (0-3)		C McGraynor (1-1), C McHugh (0-2), M Plunkett (0-2), S Carthy (0-1), C Breheny (0-1), D Mannix (0-1)	Enniscorthy

10 January 2016	Wexford	3-20 - 1-12	IT Carlow	Bunclody
	T Rossiter (0-6), D Shanley (0-5), K Rowe (1-2), K O'Grady (0-3), S Ryan (1-0), B Brosnan (0-2), P Curtis (1-0), K Butler (0-1), C Kehoe (0-1)		B McHugh (0-8), C Healy (1-4)	Bunclody

10 January 2016	Dublin	1-16 - 1-12	DCU	Parnell Park
	D Rock (0-6), C O'Callaghan (1-2), C Costello (0-3), S Carthy (0-2), P Andrews (0-2), J Whelan (0-1)		S Carey (0-7), E Smith (1-3), M Quinn (0-1), D Byrne (0-1)	Parnell Park

Group B

Table	P	W	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
Louth	3	2	1	57	33	24	4
Kildare	3	2	1	45	38	7	4
Offaly	3	1	2	34	42	-8	2
DIT	3	1	2	39	62	-23	2

Louth are placed ahead of Kildare because they won the head-to-head game between the teams.

3 January 2016	Kildare	0-24 - 1-7	DIT	Newbridge Referee: S Johnson
	A Tyrrell (0-9), E O'Flaherty (0-6), D Flynn (0-3), C McNally (0-2), R Houlihan, F Dowling, S Hanafin, R Cahill (0-1) each		B McMahon (0-5), C Madden (1-1), K O'Gara (0-1)	Newbridge Referee: S Johnson

3 January 2016	Louth	1-9 - 0-13	Offaly	Darver Centre of Excellence Referee: B Cawley
	J McEneaney (1-5), C Judge (0-2), G McSorley (0-1), R Holcroft (0-1)		B Allen (0-4), J Maher (0-3), S Doyle (0-3), C McNamee (0-1), C Donoghue (0-1), M Brazil (0-1)	Darver Centre of Excellence Referee: B Cawley

6 January 2016	Kildare	0-8 - 2-11	Louth	Hawkfield Referee: S Culhair
	R Cahill (0-4), M Conway (0-1), E Heavey (0-1), E Callaghan (0-1), C McNally (0-1)		J Califf (1-8), B Flannagan (1-0), R Holcroft (0-2), J McEneaney (0-1)	Hawkfield Referee: S Culhair

6 January 2016	DIT	2-11 - 0-10	Offaly	Haggardstown Referee: N McKenna
	K O'Gara (1-3), B McMahon (0-4), R Connelly (1-0), L Irwin (0-2), G Guilfoyle (0-1), C Madden (0-1)		N Dunne (0-5), A Sullivan (0-2), W Mulhall (0-1), S Dooley (0-1), J Gethings (0-1)	Haggardstown Referee: N McKenna

10 January 2016	Offaly	0-11 - 0-13	Kildare	Tullamore
	J Evans (0-3), J Maher (0-3), S Moriarty (0-1), S Nally (0-1), S Dooley (0-1), R McNamee (0-1), S Doyle (0-1)		R Cahill (0-5), E O'Connor (0-3), C McNally (0-2), M Byrne (0-1), A Tyrrell (0-1), S Hannafin (0-1)	Tullamore

10 January 2016	Louth	3-19 - 1-9	DIT	Darver Centre of Excellence
	J McEneaney (1-6), T Durnin (1-1), B Flannagan (1-1), D Byrne (0-3), R Holcroft (0-3), C McKeever (0-3), A Reid (0-1), M Rafferty (0-1)		K O'Gara (0-6), C Madden (0-3), E O Conghaile (1-0)	Darver Centre of Excellence

Group C

Table	P	W	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
Meath	3	2	1	54	35	19	4
UCD	3	2	1	45	34	11	4
Laois	3	2	1	46	46	0	4
Carlow	3	0	3	29	59	-30	0

3 January 2016	Carlow	1-4 - 1-18	Meath	Carlow Referee: C Dwyer
	C Blake (0-4), B Kavanagh (1-0)		M Newman (0-7), M Battersby (1-2), G Reilly (0-3), D McDonagh (0-3), H Rooney (0-1), S Tobin (0-1), P Geraghty (0-1)	Carlow Referee: C Dwyer

3 January 2016	Laois	1-10 - 1-9	UCD	Ratheniska Referee: P Maguire
	D Kingston (0-4), J Farrell (1-0), K Meaney (0-2), A Farrell (0-1), J O'Loughlin (0-1), N Murphy (0-1), R O'Connor (0-1)		J Heslin (0-4), L Kelly (1-0), C McCarthy (0-3), F Andrews (0-1), R Carr (0-1)	Ratheniska Referee: P Maguire

6 January 2016	Laois	1-16 - 1-9	Carlow	Portlaoise
	G Walsh (0-5), D Kingston (0-4), P Cahillane (1-1), J O'Loughlin (0-2), E Costello (0-1), A Farrell (0-1), K Meaney (0-1), R O'Connor (0-1)		J Murphy (1-0), G Kelly (0-2), D O'Brien (0-2), D Lunney (0-2), B Murphy (0-1), E Finnegan (0-1), J Kennedy (0-1)	Portlaoise

6 January 2016	Meath	0-11 - 2-8	UCD	Simonstown
	S Tobin (0-3), M Newman (0-2), D Lenihan (0-2), B O'Brien (0-1), C O'Sullivan (0-1), E Wallace (0-1), B Tormay (0-1)		T Hayes (1-1), C Basquel (1-0), J Heslin (0-2), J McEntee (0-2), C McCarthy (0-1), L Casey (0-1), E Lowry (0-1)	Simonstown

10 January 2016	Meath	2-16 - 0-14	Laois	Navan
	G Reilly (1-4), S Tobin (0-5), M Newman (1-0), C O'Sullivan (0-2), D Lenihan (0-2), D Keogan (0-1), A Douglas (0-1), H Rooney (0-1)		D Kingston (0-8), P Cahillane (0-2), G Dillon (0-1), N Murphy (0-1), E Costello (0-1), G Walsh (0-1)	Navan

10 January 2016	Carlow	1-7 - 2-13	UCD	Carlow
	D Foley (1-5), C Blake (0-1), P Broderick (0-1)		R Carr (1-4), E Lowry (1-4), P Mannion (0-1), L Kelly (0-1), P Kingston (0-1), N O'Reilly (0-1), E O'Byrne (0-1)	Carlow

Group D

Table	P	W	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
Longford	3	2	1	43	34	9	4
Maynooth	3	2	1	40	36	4	4
Westmeath	3	2	1	40	36	4	4
Wicklow	3	0	3	30	47	-17	0

3 January 2016	Wicklow	0-13 - 1-14	Westmeath	Bray Referee: B Tiernan
	R Finn (0-5), A McLoughlin (0-2), P Byrne (0-2), D Healy (0-1), C Murphy (0-1), D Hayden (0-1), C Fitzgerald (0-1)		J Connellan (1-6), S Dempsey (0-4), P Sharry (0-2), G Egan (0-1), C McCormack (0-1)	Bray Referee: B Tiernan

3 January 2016	Longford	0-18 - 1-9	Maynooth	Longford Referee: D Gough
	J McGivney (0-5), R Smyth (0-5), B Kavanagh (0-4), B Farrell (0-2), B McKeon (0-1), A Dalton (0-1)		N Flynn (0-5), E O'Carroll (1-0), J Wallace (0-2), B Duggan (0-1)	Longford Referee: D Gough

6 January 2016	Westmeath	0-14 - 1-10	Longford	Mullingar
	K Martin (0-4), G Egan (0-4), C McCormack (0-2), D Daly (0-1), R Foley (0-1), D Corroon (0-1), L Dolan (0-1)		B Kavanagh (0-4), M Brady (1-0), B McKeon (0-2), A Dalton (0-2), C Smyth (0-1), D Gallagher (0-1)	Mullingar

6 January 2016	Wicklow	0-9 - 1-15	Maynooth	Rathdrum
	M O'Connor (0-3), N Gaffney (0-2), P Cunningham (0-2), G Allen (0-1), E Murtagh (0-1)		N Flynn (0-7), R Kennedy (1-3), R McManus (0-4), F Conway (0-1)	Rathdrum

10 January 2016	Longford	1-9 - 1-5	Wicklow	Longford
	J McGivney (1-0), D McElligott (0-2), F McGee (0-2), D Masterson (0-1), C Smyth (0-1), R Smyth (0-1), D Gallagher (0-1), P McKeon (0-1)		P Byrne (1-2), C Murphy (0-1), R Finn (0-1), C Fitzgerald (0-1)	Longford

10 January 2016	Westmeath	0-9 - 0-10	Maynooth	Attendance: Moate
	G Egan (0-4), R Sharry (0-2), D Corroon (0-1), L Dolan (0-1), K Martin (0-1)		R Kennedy (0-6), E O'Carroll (0-2), B Duggan (0-1), R McManus (0-1)	Attendance: Moate

Semi-finals

17 January 2016 Semi-final	Meath	0-11 – 0-10	Louth	Drogheda Park
				Drogheda Park

17 January 2016 Semi-final	Dublin	0-9 – 1-12	Longford	Pearse Park, Longford Attendance: 2,000 Referee: J Hickey (Carlow)
		Report

Final

24 January 2016 2:40 p.m. Final	Meath	1-17 – 1-11	Longford	Páirc Tailteann, Navan Referee: B Cawley (Kildare)
	G Reilly 0-6; M Newman 0-4 (4f); C O’Sullivan 1-1; D Lenihan, S Tobin 0-2 each; D Smyth, R Ó Coilleann 0-1 each	Report	F McGee 0-6 (3f, 1 '45'); R Smyth 1-2; B McKeon, L Connerton, M Brady 0-1 each	Páirc Tailteann, Navan Referee: B Cawley (Kildare)