Abbey Vocational School made a winning start to their inaugural MacRory Cup campaign with a four-point victory over St. Patrick’s Academy, Dungannon, in Trillick on Tuesday afternoon.
AVS, who won last season’s All-Ireland ‘B’ colleges championship led by seven points at the interval.
The Tyrone outfit produced a strong second half showing but it was to no avail as the Donegal Town-based school tagged on a few scores to make sure of the victory.
AVS are not the sole Donegal representatives in this year’s MacRory Cup.
A new amalgamation of five secondary schools, named South West Donegal, is contesting Ulster Colleges gaelic football’s premier competition for the first time ever.
The team is made up of players from five different schools: Colaiste na Carraige, St Catherine’s Vocational School Killybegs, St Columba’s Comprehensive Glenties, Pobalscoil Na Rossan and Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair.
The new team will be trained by Shay Murrin, Gary Boyle and Niall Friel – and is an initiative devised at Donegal county level, to help improve talent ID and overall school standards in gaelic football.
South West also emerged victorious from their first MacRory Cup game on a scoreline 2-6 to 0-4 over Holy Trinity, Cookstown in late October.
Ulster College’s MacRory Cup
Abbey Vocational School 4-14 St. Patrick’s Academy Dungannon 2-13
