The 2017 Independent.ie HE GAA Fitzgibbon Championship Weekend will be hosted by NUIG on February 24th & 25th, 2017.

NUIG have won 10 Fitzgibbon Cups in their history, leaving them 3rd on the Roll of Honour for this competition. Indeed their last two victories came when the competition was hosted in Galway, in 1980 and 2010.

The weekend will consist of semi-finals and finals in the following Hurling Championships: The Fitzgibbon Cup, the Ryan Cup and the Fergal Maher Cup.

In December, attention will turn to the Independent.ie Higher Education Championship Draws for all grades. Last year’s Fitzgibbon Cup winners, Mary Immaculate College Limerick will be hoping to retain the title, but will face stiff competition from many others including UL, who they defeated in an epic game of Hurling which took 90 minutes to separate the teams in last year’s final in Cork IT.

Last years Ryan Cup winners Trinity College Dublin, will be making the step up to play in the 2017 Fitzgibbon competition so we will see a new champion crowned at that grade. IT Sligo and Letterkenny IT captured the Fergal Maher and Corn Padraig Mac Diarmada respectively.

Follow all the action including fixtures, results and live score updates on www.gaa.ie/highereducation/ the ‘GAA Higher Education’ Facebook page and on Twitter @HigherEdGAA