2018 Kehoe Cup

2018 Kehoe Cup

Tournament details
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.

Longford were the winners for the first time.

Format

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

• DCU St. Patrick's Campus

Group stage

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	Diff
Wicklow B	3	2	1	0	5	+25
Longford	3	2	0	1	4	–10
Louth	3	1	0	2	2	–3
DCU St. Patrick's Campus	3	0	1	2	1	–12

Final

11 February 2018

2 p.m.

Wicklow B	0-10 – 0-11	Longford
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

Pearse Park, Longford

Referee: J Kennedy (Kilkenny)