Gerry Reilly Cup

The Gerry Reilly Memorial under-16 Inter-County Football Tournament is an annual Gaelic football competition in the province of Leinster in Ireland. The tournament was started in 1989, named after a young Gaelic footballer Gerry Reilly who was killed in December 1987 at sixteen years of age.

The Gerry Reilly Memorial Cup
Founded1989
Title holdersMeath (8th title)
First winnerMeath
Most titlesMeath (8 titles)
SponsorsValu - Kitchens & Bedrooms

Format

The cup is run on a ’round robin’ basis. In other words each team plays each other and the two top teams progress to the final. Four counties participated in the 2007 tournament, Kildare, Westmeath, Dublin and Meath and formerly Cavan. The 2007 final was contested by both Meath and Dublin.

Dublin were the 2006 champions having defeated Westmeath 4-13 to 1-8 in the decider in Gilson Park, Oldcastle, County Meath. In 2007, Meath prevented Dublin from retaining the title by defeating them by 4-09 to 0-12 at Oldcastle.

Eight counties competed in 2016 including Meath, Monaghan, Cavan, Westmeath, Dublin, Wicklow, Louth & Longford with Cavan winning the Cup final by overcoming Dublin in the final with Meath securing the Plate with a decisive victory over Westmeath.

In 2017 eight counties have again entered the completion with Group 1 comprising Louth, Longford, Laois and Meath. Group 2 includes Dublin, Westmeath, Monaghan and Wicklow.

Sponsorship

The main sponsor is Valu - Kitchens & Bedrooms from Gleneagle. 'The ’Man of the Match’ award is sponsored for every game in the tournament by Peter and Patricia Caffrey of Interior Creations Ltd., Oldcastle.'.

2007

The 2007 tournament is run on a ’round robin’ basis, which means each team plays each other once. The winning team from each game gets two points for a win and one point is given for a draw. The two top teams in the tournament play each other in the final.

Date Venue Winner Score Loser Score
23 June Oldcastle Dublin 2-11 Kildare 1-5
24 June Oldcastle Meath 1-9 Westmeath 0-8
30 June Oldcastle Kildare 1-12 Westmeath 0-11
1 July Oldcastle Dublin 0-13 Meath 1-15
7 July Oldcastle Kildare 0-8 Meath 5-11
8 July Oldcastle Dublin 2-11 Westmeath 1-13
29 July
Final		 Oldcastle Dublin 0-12 Meath 4-9
Table P W D L F A +/- Pts
Meath 3 3 0 0 7-35 0-29 +19 6
Dublin 3 2 0 1 4-35 3-33 +5 4
Westmeath 3 1 0 2 2-33 3-31 -1 2
Kildare 3 0 0 3 2-24 7-33 -31 0

Roll of honour
Team Wins Years won
1 Westmeath 8 1990, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2010, 2011
2 Meath 7 1989, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2018
3 Dublin 6 1993, 1998, 2006, 2008 (U17 Blitz), 2012, 2013
Cavan 6 1997, 2004, 2005, 2014, 2015, 2016
  • No tournament in 2009.

Winners of the Gerry Reilly Plate to date:

Meath.......... 2013, 2015, 2016

Wicklow........ 2014

Winners of the Gerry Reilly Shield to date:

Westmeath...... 2013

Meath.......... 2014

Monaghan....... 2015

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gollark: ```pythonimport thesaurusimport randomimport concurrent.futures as futureswords_to_synonyms = {}synonyms_to_words = {}def add_to_key(d, k, v): d[k] = d.get(k, set()).union(set(v))def add_synonyms(syns, word): for syn in syns: add_to_key(synonyms_to_words, syn, [word]) add_to_key(words_to_synonyms, word, syns)def concat(list_of_lists): return sum(list_of_lists, [])def fetch_word(word): results = concat(thesaurus.Word(word).synonyms("all")) return resultsdef add_words(words): with futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=50) as executor: word_futures = {executor.submit(fetch_word, word): word for word in words} for future in futures.as_completed(word_futures): word = word_futures[future] try: data = future.result() except Exception as exc: print(f"Error fetching {word}: {exc}") else: add_synonyms(data, word)def getattr_hook(obj, key): results = list(synonyms_to_words.get(key, set()).union(words_to_synonyms.get(key, set()))) if len(results) > 0: return obj.__getattribute__(random.choice(results)) else: raise AttributeError(f"Attribute {key} not found.")def wrap(obj): add_words(dir(obj)) obj.__getattr__ = lambda key: getattr_hook(obj, key)wrap(__builtins__)__builtins__.engrave("Hi!")```
gollark: Ah yes. Global Interpreter Lock. Right. This may be hard.
gollark: On the plus side, you should be able to use `zilch` in place of `None` now.
gollark: The python thesaurus-izer may need some parallelization to be effective.
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