Irish Basketball Association Men’s Senior National Cup 1994-2005

Enda Mulcahy

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IBA Men’s Senior National Cup Finals 1994-2005

Year	Winner		Runner-Up
1994-95	North Monastery 96’ers	84	Garvey’s Tigers Tralee	73
1995-96	Chambourcy Ballina	82	Star of the Sea	69
1996-97	Denny Notre Dame	80	Marathon St. Vincent’s	75
1997-98	Denny Notre Dame	79	Neptune Evening Echo	73
1998-99	Denny Notre Dame	82	Esat Blue Demons	61
1999-2000	Denny Notre Dame	69	St. Vincent’s	67
2000-01	Thorn Killester	87	Longnecks Ballina	71
2001-02	Burger King Limerick	89	Sx3 Star	83
2002-03	Mardyke UCC Demons	84	Sx3 Star	83
2003-04	Mardyke UCC Demons	86	Neptune	83
2004-05	Abrakebabra Tigers Tralee	90	Roma St. Vincent’s	81

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**Picture Credit:** Ross Mahon / Shutterstock (2021) TALLAGHT, IRELAND – MARCH 01, 2021: An aerial view of the National Basketball Arena in Tymon Park. [Accessed 4 May 2021]

About

The Senior National Cup was the All-Ireland Cup in Men’s Basketball from 1994-2005. It followed on from the Senior Cup and was replaced by the Super League Cup (Super League teams) and President’s Cup (Division 1 teams) in 2005-06. Any team in Ireland could enter, from teams in the two National Divisions to teams at a Regional Area Board level.

Report

Denny Notre Dame, from Firhouse in Dublin, who were resident at the time in the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght, were the Cup specialists during this era – winning the Cup four times in a row from 1996-2000.

Killester stopped their run in 2000-01 and from then on it was all Munster teams, as Limerick won it in 2001-02, followed by two wins for UCC Demons, and then in 2004-05 Tralee Tigers.

Another Cork side, North Monastery 96ers and Ballina from Mayo had preceeded Notre Dame’s record run.

References

Sources

[1] (1995) “Details”. Irish Independent. Monday, January 30, 1995. pp. 24-25

[2] (1996) “Tallaght Details”. Irish Independent. Monday, January 29, 1996. pp. 32-33

[3] (1997) “All The Sprite Cup Results”. Irish Independent. Monday, January 27, 1997. pg. 26

[4] (1998) “Basketball”. Irish Independent. Monday, January 26, 1998. pp. 30-31

[5] (1999) “Basketball”. Irish Independent. Monday, February 1, 1999. pp. 30-31

[6] (2000) “Basketball”. Irish Independent. Monday, January 31, 2000. pp. 28-29

[7] (2001) “Basketball”. Irish Independent. Monday, January 29, 2001. pp. 38-39

[8] (2002) “Basketball”. Irish Independent. Monday, January 28, 2002. pp. 26-27

[9] (2003) “Basketball”. Irish Independent. Monday, February 3, 2003. pp. 52-53

[10] (2004) “Basketball”. Irish Independent. Monday, January 31, 2004. pp. 22-23

[11] (2004) “Basketball”. Irish Examiner. Monday, February 2, 2004. pp. 30-31

[12] (2005) “Basketball”. Irish Independent. Monday, January 31, 2005. pp. 28-29

Note: An Archive of The Irish Independent is available to view online at The Irish Newspaper Archive which is a subscription service: https://www.irishnewsarchive.com

Images

[13] Ross Mahon / Shutterstock (2021) TALLAGHT, IRELAND – MARCH 01, 2021: An aerial view of the National Basketball Arena in Tymon Park. [Accessed 4 May 2021]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to John Folan

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

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Last Updated: 20 January 2019

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