All Ireland Schoolboys Hockey Championship

The competition is held in the Autumn term of each school year and 16 teams across the island compete.

Banbridge Academy, Down, are the current champions, having defeated Friends School, Lisburn in the 2024 final at Newpark Comprehensive School, Dublin The venue of the competition is on a three-year rota between Munster Leinster and Ulster The competition began in the 1982 school year.

It was initially dominated by schools from Ulster, with the first fourteen winners coming from that province.

The monopoly was finally broken in 1996-97 15th tournament, when Newpark School from Dublin became the first winners from Leinster.

In 2019 all four semifinalists hailed from Leinster, with eventual winners, The High School, defeating King's Hospital 1-0 to reach their first ever final.