Ulster Colleges

[WT4E]

https://twitter.com/ulsterschools/status/1614042906213613569?t=Cu9S5bpydIxLeT_AyMBw4Q&s=08

Some comeback to be fair. They don't come much sweeter for the winners (or devastating for the losers) than this!

Jesus that was absolutely awful from Maghera..... so many errors in a min it's ti know where to start.

[J70]

19 year olds shouldn't be playing macrory. End of.

I started my third year of university when I was 19.

[Armagh18]

Sure for decades, all the major GAA schools in the competition allowed lads who bombed at GCSE/O'Level to stay on and introduced all manner of qualifications to enable them to play MacRory. Or enticed them from secondaries across the road for the same reason.

Isn't there an age cut-off anyway?

That's very true, but that was more about keeping students good footballers on at the same school after their GCSEs, or moving them across at that point, not enticing them in after they've completed 7 years in a different school altogether.

MacRory is now U-19. I believe it used to be U-18.5 and there was a time where MacRory winning teams would've lost players for the Hogan as it was U-18

Was hogan ever u18? Always thought the school year in the south works off the calendar year so was always u19

[thewobbler]

Hogan was u18 until around 2000. It's now u18.5 I believe.

[WT4E]

Hogan was u18 until around 2000. It's now u18.5 I believe.

I think Dungannon academy won it in 1997 with some lads that would not have been u18? Conal Martin or ja quinn maybe?

[thewobbler]

Actually the change might have went through in 1996 along with the MacRory moving to u19.

I know Sean Marty Lockhart was winning MacRory captain in 95, but wasn't eligible for Hogan.

[square_ball]

Hogan was u18 until around 2000. It's now u18.5 I believe.

I think Dungannon academy won it in 1997 with some lads that would not have been u18? Conal Martin or ja quinn maybe?

Majority of that team from memory would not have been u18 at that time so the rule must have been changed a short time before that year. Only the likes of McGuigan, Thornton and Gourley started for Tyrone minors in 1997. Maybe a few others in the squad.

[Wildweasel74]

Macrory Cup Upper sixth Limit was 18 and a half, ie. The full upper sixth term. Hogan cup cut off was 18yrs as they do a year less down south, so technically the oldest was, 17yrs and a half. When did it extend to 19? There should be no extension. By the old year seven (now 14). Anybody after that should be inadmissible.

[omagh_gael]

Patrician beat St Mary's with a goal in second period of extra time. Semi finals as follows:

Omagh CBS v Patrician
Dungannon/St Macartans v HTC

[ONeill]

Didn't see that coming.

[ONeill]

Big win for St Joe's Donaghmore in the McLarnon.

Not too distant future could see Cookstown, Dungannon, Omagh and Donaghmore competing in the A grade. Possibly Ballygawley too.

[pbat]

Why was the MacRory final moved from Patrick's day?

[ONeill]

Too many of the players were already booked to do rock-the-boat in the Holylands.

[thewobbler]

Why was the MacRory final moved from Patrick's day?

Split season means county have first dibs on players in spring, so schools comps were brought forward

[omagh_gael]

Big win for St Joe's Donaghmore in the McLarnon.

Not too distant future could see Cookstown, Dungannon, Omagh and Donaghmore competing in the A grade. Possibly Ballygawley too.

Some year for Tyrone schools winning the ulster A, B and C grade competitions.