
The draw has taken place for the Under 21 A Hurling Championships 2025.
The first round or quarter-Finals will be played on Saturday - November 1st
A couple of juicy ties to be had here:

Na Fianna v Crokes could be a dozie! - in fact several games there could be very competitive.
Crokes will have their county 20s contingent available, So Conal O'Riain, Brendan Kenny, David Lucey and David Purcell came on for the last few minutes of their SHC game v Na Fianna so he should be fit by now hopefully.
Lucan have been very strong at this age group over the last few years. Kennedy, Liam Garrigan, Mulqueen and guys like that have gone well at senior.
Na Fianna will have Joe Kavanagh from this years Dublin 20s who has featured a bit for the Na Fianna Seniors, Liam Stacy also under 21 possible and the younger of the Meagher brothers who scored a few points on his debut for the Na Fianna seniors during the group stages.
Survey:
We had 32 votes on who would win the U21 A Champsionship and these were the results:
Our poll on who would win the u21 champsionship came back with:
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The results were:

Looks like it was some game, Vincents winning by three points in a high scoring game considering the weather over the last few days.
For vincents Harry Curley stood out in defence, with Brian Murray, Aaron Cosgrave and Stephen Williams the key scorers in a 2-21 to 2-18 win over Raheny.
For Raheny James O’Donoghue and Niall Hayes were prominent as they pushed Vinnies all the way.
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Lucan seem to have completly dominated Judes, who look like they might have been more suited to the B grade based on this result. Or are Lucan just that good. They are one of the favourites to win this out. Time will tell.
David Mulqueen struck two goals and Cormac Coffey added 1-1 from the bench. Cathal Kenedy, Jack Behan, Luke Mooney and Liam Garrigan all impressed in a 3-18 to 0-2 win over St Jude’s.
Judes worked hard but couldn’t cope with Lucan’s pace and power.
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Convincing win for Crokes over Na Fianna, a small bit of revenge for the senior Semi-Final.
David Purcell scored 1-2 before going off. Captain Eoin Keys ran the show in midfield; Gearóid Flannery hit 10 points, Ciarán Donovan added 5 from play, with strong support from James Neary, Brendan Kenny, Oran O’Keeffe, Conal Ó Criostóir, Andrew Dillon and Ben Lynch in their 1-24 to 0-13 win over Na Fianna.
Na Fianna Battled hard but couldn’t contain Crokes’ firepower.
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And a very good result for Cuala over Boden. Aodhán English and Callum Dee hit the first-half goals, with English, Cillian Small and Lochlainn Sheehan also on target. Dan Fay and Eoghan O’Carroll were solid at the back, while Adam O’Toole made three key saves as they beat Ballyboden 3-13 to 1-7.
For Boden Eoin Dowling grabbed their goal with Joe Coffey and Dan Fay among their standouts in the second-half revival.
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Full roundup over on Dublin GAA Website
Semi Finals Fixtures:

Vincents meet Cuala who both had good wins in the Quarter-Finals. Vincent's winning a high scoring game against Raheny, whereas Cuala won a low scoring one against Boden - but any win over Boden at this level is a good win.
This really could go either way. I'm not going to try predicting it based on one set of results!
Crokes v Lucan is a juicy one, loads of recent Dublin underage players on both teams over the last couple of years and they come head to head in what has become a serious rivalry at minor and 21s over the last few years.
Another game that it's hard to predict, Crokes will be hoping David Purcell is fit after going off with what was described as an "illness" in the last round, so hopefully he'll be back.
Another one thats very hard to predict, Crokes had a big win over Na Fianna in Round 1, which is a good result, but Lucan seemsto have throttled Judes, holding them to a handful of scores.
One for DubsTV i'd have through - loads of people would want to see this one.
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That's a great win for Cuala over Vincents who have had some good minor teams recently.
Match report from DCB
Matters were even tighter at Páirc Naomh Uinsionn as Cuala did just enough to overcome St Vincent’s, prevailing by 0-20 to 2-12.
Despite facing an early five-point deficit, Cuala entered the break with the narrowest of leads courtesy of points from Aodhán English, Cillian Small and Ruairí McGrath.
St Vincent’s gradually restored their lead after the break but the Dalkey outfit finished strongly and scores from McGrath, Cillian Dockery and Small helped them over the line.
Massive win for Crokes over such rivals underage for the last few years
Match report from DCB
Crokes raced out of the blocks with an instant David Purcell point preceding Brendan Kenny’s 2nd minute goal.
The visitors settled into the contest with Massimo Pappalardo and Jack Behan excelling in their defence while points from Ryan Clancy and Darragh Meehan helped trim their deficit to 1-6 to 0-7 by the interval.
The concession of a goal to Oran O’Keeffe immediately from the restart undermined Lucan’s ambitions and with David Lucey and Luke O’Gorman impressing in defence, Kilmacud held on thanks to seven Purcell points and further scores by James Neary, Eoin Keys and Conal Ó Riain.
Full match report from DCB
Highly suspect that a lot of that bench will start for Crokes, and Jamie Conroy for cuala unless he's injured.
Score:
Pretty convincing win for Crokes in the end, hardly all that surprising as they're a bunch of guys there who are well established at senior club now and guys who were very unlucky not to win a Leinter medal last year at county level.
Expect to see a few of them involved with Dublin over the next 10 years with any luck.
Scorers
Kilmacud Crokes: D Purcell 0-9 (6f, 1 ‘65’); C Donovan, O O’Keeffe 1-3 each; R Walsh 1-0; A Dillon 0-2; C Ó Riain, G Flannery 0-1 apiece.
Cuala: C Lowry 0-8 (7f); C Groarke, A English, G O’Toole 0-2 each; J Conroy, R O’Connor, C Small 0-1 apiece.
Kilmacud Crokes: F Boyd; J Dunphy, D Lucey, L O’Gorman; F Donohoe, C Ó Riain, B Lynch; E Keys, J Neary; G Flannery, D Purcell, A Fearon; O O’Keeffe, C Donovan, A Dillon. Subs: O McCann for Dunphy (43), R Walsh for Flannery (45), B Kenny for Dillon (57), C McClean for Neary (59).
Cuala: A O’Toole; E O’Carroll, E O’Driscoll, L Sheehan; M Grant, R O’Connor, D Fay; C Groarke, J Conroy; A English, R McGrath, G O’Toole; C Small, C Lowry, P Egan. Subs: F Ó Muirí for Egan (49), F Dowling for Fay (49), J McDonough for Lowry (57), C Dockery for Grant (58), S Patton for McGrath (60).
Referee: Kevin McDonnell (St Vincent’s).
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