All-Ireland Poc Fada Championship

All-Ireland Poc Fada Championship

The All-Ireland Poc Fada Hurling & Camogie Championships is an annual tournament testing the skills of Ireland's best hurlers and camogie players. Poc Fada is Irish for "long puck". The championships are sponspored by M Donnelly & Co. since 1996.

The date varies but it is on the Saturday of the August Bank Holiday each year (since 2005) For 2012 the date is the 4th of August. The starting time is 12.00 (On the 2.5km course the Boys Under 16 final pucks off first, followed by the Camogie Final with the Senior Final following thereafter on the 5km course). Beginning at "An Fhána Mór", Annaverna, County Louth, competitors must puck a sliotar with a hurley to the top of Annaverna Mountain, "An Céide," and onwards to "Carn an Mhadaidh"' and after a short break continue down to "An Gabhlán," finishing back at "An Fhána Mór," Annaverna. The whole course measures 5 kilometres (3.1 mi).