SOME OF THE leading GAA players in the country discovered their early season assignments in 2017 when the draws for next year’s Sigerson, Trench and Fitzgibbon Cup took place.
Here’s the draws in full.
Sigerson Cup
(First team named at home)
Preliminary Round – 25/26 January
NUI Galway v Trinity College
Garda College v Cork IT
GMIT v IT Sligo
Round Two – 25/26/31 January
- UL v Maynooth University
- Athlone IT v Dublin IT
- Garda College/Cork IT v UUJ
- GMIT/IT Sligo v UCD
- Queen’s University v DCU
- NUIG/Trinity College v St Mary’s
- IT Carlow v IT Tralee
- St Pat’s Drumcondra v UCC
Quarter-Finals – 8 February
Semi-Finals – 17 February – Connacht GAA Centre, Bekan
Final – 18 February – Connacht GAA Centre, Bekan
Fitzgibbon Cup
Group A: IT Carlow, Mary I, GMIT, DIT
Group B: UL, NUIG, DCU St Patrick’s, CIT
Group C: DCU, LIT, Trinity, WIT
Group D: UCD, UCC, University Ulster, Maynooth University
Round 1 – Tuesday 24 January
Round 2 – Thursday 2 February
Round 3 – Tuesday 7 January
Quarter-Finals – 14 February
Semi-Finals – 24 February – NUI Galway
Final – 25 February – NUI Galway
Trench Cup
Quarter Final
8th Feb 2017- WIT V Mary I/ IT Tallaght