Best changes

The Best Cup will have a new name on the plinth this year

The Best Cup will have a new name on the plinth this year. After the second series of matches, none of last year's semi-finalists have made it to the third round. Only two clubs, Westmanstown and Black Bush have reached the third round for the second successive year.

Best Cup (second round): Castle bt Forrest Little; Hollywood Lakes bt Bray; Elm Park bt Turvey; Westmanstown bt Boystown; Stackstown bt The Island; Craddockstown bt Milltown; Ballinascorney bt Skerries; St Anne's bt Slade Valley; Rathfarnham bt Sutton; Old Conna bt Coldwinters; Powerscourt bt Donabate; Howth bt Clontarf; Black Bush bt Balcarrick; St Margarets bt Charlesland; Naas bt Bodenstown; Corrstown bt Kilcock.

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