The draw for the 2014 Scottish Hydro Camanachd Cup semi-finals will be made in the Visitor Centre at Eilean Donan Castle on Monday 7 July 2014.
The draw will take place at 10am and it will be made by Maggie Cunningham, Chair of MG Alba, and Archie Robertson, President of the Camanachd Association.
MG Alba will televise both semi-finals live on BBC Alba as part of a new broadcast deal with the Camanachd Association that will see up to six shinty matches being televised on BBC Alba each year during 2014, 2015 and 2016. The semi-final matches are scheduled to take place at An Aird, Fort William on Saturday 9 August 2014 and Saturday 16 August 2014.
Partially destroyed in a Jacobite uprising in 1719, Eilean Donan lay in ruins for the best part of 200 years until Lieutenant Colonel John MacRae-Gilstrap bought the island in 1911 and proceeded to restore the castle to its former glory. After 20 years of toil and labour, the castle was re-opened in 1932.
Lieutenant Colonel John MacRae-Gilstrap also has important shinty connections that will be celebrated as part of the 2014 Blas Festival show “Home and Away – Glòir nan Caman” being performed in Inverinate on 10 September 2014 and other venues across the country in the week leading up to the 2014 Scottish Hydro Camanachd Cup Final.
The 2014 Scottish Hydro Camanachd Cup Final will take place at the Bught Park, Inverness on Saturday 13 September 2014.