Today marks the end of a long winter hibernation for DCU rugby. The stop-start nature of the college rugby season means today marks only DCU’s second competitive match of the season. It is coach Phil Read more…
With DCU’s fresher hurlers beginning 2013 competitive action last week, it seems as if the slate has been wiped clean. With four losses from five games in the league, it was very much a first Read more…
The DCU camogie team sailed through to the semi-final of the Purcell Cup after they overcame a battling Mary I side in horrid conditions on Wednesday afternoon. The match was subject to a late change Read more…
For years, Ladies football has played the role of poor cousin to the GAA’s other codes. But there are those that sense a new wind is blowing. DCU star Laura McEnaney tells Sam Griffin about Read more…
DCU will attempt to move one step closer to securing a third Sigerson title in four years when they welcome Queen’s University Belfast to St. Clare’s today, for what promises to be a keenly contested Read more…
Since survival in Division 1 of the Higher Education league was clinched before Christmas, there has been a profound sense of positivity surrounding the DCU senior hurling team. Their triumph over St. Pat’s in November, Read more…
When the DCU players look back on their victory over IT Letterkenny in the CUFL quarter-final in times to come, thoughts of the taxing early morning coach journey and dismal weather conditions will be reduced Read more…
Daniel Aherne’s goal in the 68th minute was enough to see DCU through to their first ever CUFL semi-final after a difficult encounter with highly-favoured hosts, IT Letterkenny. The champions, IT Carlow, await them, after Read more…
The DCU soccer team enter unchartered territory tomorrow when they travel to IT Letterkenny, for their first ever CUFL quarter-final. Led by the new management team of Declan Roche and his assistant John Russell, DCU Read more…
The GAA Men’s Football Club is the largest recipient of the Club Life Committee grant allocations for 2012-13, pocketing €45,908.60. Figures attained by The College View show that 13% of the CLC budget was allocated Read more…
GAA Men €45,908.60 Hurling €20,031.20 Soccer Men €18,217.90 Tennis €16,952.80 Athletics €16,768 GAA Women €16,389.20 Rugby Men €13,564.13 Gymnastics and Trampolining €13,429.05 Surf n’Sail €12,239.16 Clay Target €10,995.72 Swimming and Waterpolo €10,730 Handball €10,206 Sub Read more…
A third Sigerson title, a first ever Purcell Cup and the All-Ireland Freshers ‘B’ football championship. 2012 was certainly a fruitful year for DCU GAA, but will the next 12 months be as laden with silverware? The College Read more…
DCU has a couple of sports where excellence is a given. The GAA and Athletics programs are nationally regarded breeding grounds that provide premium talent to the Irish sporting conveyor belt. But amidst the Sigerson Read more…
The DCU soccer team have been drawn against IT Letterkenny and the University of Ulster Magee in the CUFL Premier Division quarter-final and the first round of the Collingwood Cup respectively. When the draw for Read more…
Identifying the sports in DCU that are driven by scholarship programs is an effortless task – for not only do they dominate the college’s landscape, they are fortresses revered across the country. Moulded from nothing, Read more…
Guts and talent, but mostly guts. Those were the overriding factors that carried Fionnuala Britton to a second successive European Cross-County title, the first ever female athlete to achieve such a feat. And given that Read more…
Women’s rugby scholarships in DCU aren’t as well publicised as the men’s, believes Club Captain Clara McDonald. “DCU women’s rugby scholarships aren’t widely publicized. No one is really to blame for it and we just Read more…
At the end of last season the DCU soccer team were reflecting on yet another disappointing College and Universities Football League campaign and an equally deflating showing in the Collingwood Cup. Fast-forward nine months, and Read more…
Queen’s University Belfast was the venue for last month’s National Tetrathlon Intervarsities, where DCU Equestrian Club had two teams competing. The tetrathlon consists of four phases of competition: shooting, swimming, riding and running. Although many Read more…
Lorna Finnegan talks with club Chairperson Cliodhna McHugh. Describe your club in 5 words. Fun, energetic, hectic, friendly and banter. How did you get involved in GAA in the first place? I’ve always played GAA and one Read more…
Lorna Finnegan talks with club Chairperson Martina Brophy Describe your club in 5 words. Energetic, enjoyable, confidence-boosting, different and sociable. How did you get involved with Karate in the first place? I was interested in karate, but Read more…
DCU’s C1 handball quartet emerged victorious in the ‘C’ plate decider at the recent 40×20 team’s intervarsity in Wexford. The team comprising of Conor Callaghan, Peter Brennan, Marina Kilduff and Niamh Farrell defeated UCD’s C2 Read more…
DCU’s Intermediate football team were crowned league champions after a hard fought two-point victory in an enthralling final against rivals UCD last Thursday at St Clare’s. On a freezing cold day at the north Dublin Read more…
DCU camogie’s Sean Flynn expressed his frustration with the CCAO ruling that prevents the Purcell Cup winners from automatically competing in the prestigious Ashbourne Cup the following year. The current CCAO ruling forces the Purcell Read more…
The DCU ladies basketball side finished as runners-up in a freshers tournament at Carlow IT last weekend. DCU opened their account in tremendous style, recording a hugely impressive 38-19 win over NUI Maynooth. However, in Read more…