Tournament details | |
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Province | Leinster |
Year | 2018 |
Sponsor | Bord na Móna |
Winners | |
Champions | Longford (1st win) |
Manager | Colum O'Meara |
Runners-up | |
Runners-up | Wicklow "B" |
Manager | Séamus Murphy |
Other | |
Matches played | 7 |
The 2018 Kehoe Cup was an inter-county and university hurling competition in the province of Leinster. The competition is ranked below the Walsh Cup and featured weaker teams from Leinster.[1]
Longford were the winners for the first time.[2]
Format
[edit]Each team plays the other teams in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The top two teams play in the final.
County teams
- Longford
- Louth
- Wicklow B (second team; players who appeared in the Walsh Cup could not play in the Kehoe Cup team)
Third level team
Group stage
[edit]Team | Pld | W | D | L | Pts | Diff |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | +25 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | –10 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | –3 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | –12 |
Final
[edit]Wicklow B | 0-10 – 0-11 | Longford |
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C Moorehouse (0-3, 2f), G O’Brien (0-2), J Cranley (0-2), J Connors (‘65’), E McCormack and L Evans 0-1 each | Report | Joe O’Brien (0-4), Cathal Mullane (0-4,2f), Daire Duggan, Johnny Casey, Patrick Walsh 0-1 each |
Referee: J Kennedy (Kilkenny)