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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) –Davey2010^Talk 00:00, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2010 Leinster Senior Cup[edit]

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County cup season article - not notable Kivo (talk) 22:14, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Leinster Senior Cup (association football) as WP:NSEASONS says that is preferable to deletion. Smartyllama (talk) 12:47, 26 October 2016 (UTC) Keep Per additional information provided below, seeing as first level teams are taking part. That being said, redirection should still be used rather than deletion if consensus is that this is not notable. Smartyllama (talk) 17:28, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, as first level teams are taking part. Surely has same level of coverage as English Level 10 league season articles. -Koppapa (talk) 06:50, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:00, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:00, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Absolute Keep Not a county cup. Provincial cup featuring entrants from levels 1–3. A leading cup competiton in Republic of Ireland. Djln Djln (talk) 14:42, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Leinster Senior Cup (association football). Don't think this is notable enough for a standalone article. Number 5 7 14:48, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Provincial nature of cup doesn't make it any less notable, and in fact it is only structured in this way due to the historical governance of Irish football whereby the Leinster Football Association who run the competition were actually founded before the Football Association of Ireland. Thus, the cup has been in existence before even the national League of Ireland and is the oldest football cup competition in the country. Specifically in relation to the modern day season articles, all the top League of Ireland sides from Leinster compete in the cup and deem it worthy enough of playing their strongest teams, therefore individual season articles are useful in giving more background info. --IrishTennis (talk) 15:20, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Here we go again ! Once more articles regarding Irish association football are being targeted by editors who know little are nothing about the topic and have not even done basic research. For one thing Leinster is not a county. It is a province made up of 12/15 counties. The Leinster Senior Cup is the oldest surviving association football competition in what is now the Republic of Ireland. Along with the FAI Cup and the League of Ireland Cup it remains one of three top cup competitions in the Republic of Ireland. Participants include clubs from the top three levels in the Republic of Ireland football league system. Recent winners include Dundalk F.C. who are currently playing in Europe. It should not be compared to a mickey mouse county cup like the Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup which features no mark clubs from levels 5-11 the English football system, none of whom, correct me if I am wrong, are currently competing in Europe. Unlike the Leinster Senior Cup, none of the "Senior" clubs from Sheffield & Hallamshire even compete in this cup. The season articles should not be deleted as they perfectly notable but I have no objection to the finals articles being merged with the relevant seasonal articles. Djln Djln (talk) 15:31, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep First level teams compete in this cup, and it is one of the oldest surviving soccer competitions in Ireland, and one of the three top cup competitions in Ireland today. --SuperJew (talk) 21:05, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - seems to be a notable enough competition to merit individual season articles -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:25, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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