2007, ISBN: 9781156301029

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Ulster Senior Football Championship is the premier Gaelic football "knockout" competition played in the province of Ulster in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Ulster Council and are played during the summer months, and all the counties participate. The Ulster football Final is played Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Ulster Senior Football Championship is the premier Gaelic football "knockout" competition played in the province of Ulster in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Ulster Council and are played during the summer months, and all the counties participate. The Ulster football Final is played in July normally in St. Tiernach's Park, Clones however from 2004 to 2006 it was staged in Croke Park, Dublin. The final between Monaghan and Tyrone in 2007 returned to Clones with Tyrone lifting the cup. It is regarded as the most competitive of the four provincial football championships. The Ulster Football Championship is run on a knock-out basis in which once a team loses they are eliminated from the competition, and so compete in the All-Ireland Qualifier Series of the Sam Maguire Cup. The winner of the Championship goes on to play in the All-Ireland quarter final. Before the introduction of the qualifier series, in 2001, the winner of the Ulster Championship would compete, along with the other three provincial winners, in the All-Ireland semi-finals, and then the two winners would compete in the All-Ireland final. An Ulster Championship medal (1995)Cavan are the most successful team in Ulster, having won the championship on 39 occasions. In recent years, Armagh have become the dominant force in Ulster, winning six titles in seven years between 1999 and 2006. Fermanagh remain the only team to not have won an Ulster title. For many decades, winning the Ulster Championship was considered as much as a team from Ulster could hope for, as the other provinces would usually be much stronger than their Ulster opposition. In the 1990s however, a significant sea change took place, as the Ulster Champions won the All-Ireland four years in a row fr. More: Books, , Ulster-Gaa-Inter-County-Football-Competitions~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<