The premier competition in third level gaelic football, the Sigerson Cup, begins this week with first round matches taking place across Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
ATU Donegal, under the guidance again this year of Maxi Curran, are in action on Wednesday evening when they take on last year's beaten finalists, University of Limerick (UL) at the Connacht GAA Centre of Excellence in Bekan (7:30pm).
Three-time winners ATU Sligo, who are managed this year by Con O'Meara, travel to Belfast on Thursday evening to play the teacher-training college St Mary's (The Ranch) at the Dub in south Belfast at 8pm.
Mary's beat Sligo in round two of last year's competition.
Holders UCC begin their defence on Wednesday against Ulster University.
As for the format of this year's competition, first-round losers will play each other in round 2B – with the wInners advancing to round 2A to play-off against each other.
The draw for round three will take place on January 18th.
The Sigerson Cup finals weekend will be hosted by MTU Kerry from February 13th to 18th.
2024 Sigerson Cup draw
Round 1
Queens v DCU
UCC (holders) v Ulster University
Maynooth University v MTU Cork
NUI Galway v TU Dublin
ATU Galway v UCD
SETU Carlow v TUS Midlands
University of Limerick v ATU Donegal
St Mary’s v ATU Sligo
The dates, venues and throw-in times for this week's round 1 matches are listed below.
