Athletics
DCU claims IUAA outdoor crown
DCU Athletics Academy wins IUAA outdoor championships for tenth successive year. Read more…
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Fast start to the intervarsity year for DCU athletics
Both DCU Men’s and ladies’ teams came home with medals last week. Read more…
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Clean sweep for DCU Athletics in Waterford IT
Following another tremendous year in the Outdoor Track and Field Championship down in Waterford IT, Cian Roche caught up with DCU Athletics Academy director, Enda Fitzpatrick. Read more…
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DCU take home cross country title
DCU’s Athleitcs Club put in another strong performance at the recent intervarsity cross country championship, taking home the men’s title. Read more…
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DCU dominate at indoor championships
DCU Athletic’s Academy dominated the medals table at the recent indoor championships. Read more…
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DCU Dragons regain their title at the IUAA Road Relays
DCU’s men’s athletics team recently retained their title at the Intervarsity Athletics Road Relay Championships. Read more…
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DCU leading the race in Irish athletics
Director of DCU Athletics Academy, Enda Fitzpatrick talks about how the athletics programme in DCU is the best in the country and should act as a template for other colleges. Read more…
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Successful year for DCU Sports stars on national stage
DCU has had a great sporting year collegiately but the worldwide sporting landscape has also felt the impact of the college. Inter country GAA, international rugby and world athletics have all been areas where DCU Read more…
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DCU Modern Pentathlete secures silver for Ireland in ‘Olympic standard’ World Cup
For every athlete in every sport, the thrill of representing your country remains the same. No matter the stature of the performer, when a sportsperson talks about representing their nation an unmistakable passion is present. Read more…
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Britton storms home for Bronze
Former DCU student Fionnuala Britton produced a lightning quick last lap to claim a bronze medal in the women’s 3,000 metre final at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Gothenburg on Sunday. With one lap Read more…
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Scholarship programme the key to athletics dominance – Warne
They are one of the most decorated clubs in DCU, and the Athletics Academy are keen to add more silverware to their trophy cabinet. Already hugely successful, they count athletes such as Brian Gregan and Read more…
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Gregan records European leading time in season opener
DCU student Brian Gregan qualified for the European Indoor Championships in style last week by setting an indoor personal best for the 400m. Gregan’s time was the fastest by a European this season and the Read more…
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Superb Britton retains her European title
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…
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Gregan condemns OCI policy as ‘ridiculous’
Three tenths of a second outside the Olympic A standard, 400m sprinter Brian Gregan is adamant he should have been selected to compete in London. It would be easy to forgive Brian Gregan if he Read more…
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Fitzpatrick takes umbrage with ‘flawed system’
Though a handful of athletes moulded by DCU’s Athletics Academy represented Ireland at the recent Olympics, Director Enda Fitzpatrick laments those who were not afforded the chance to compete. In 2004, not one track and Read more…
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The best coach you’ve never heard of
Prodigious athletics coach Brother Colm O’ Connell tells Will Slattery the secret to his success. For many sports fans in Western Europe the dominance of Kenyan middle distance runners has made the sport all too Read more…
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World class Rudisha has a chance at immortality
For some, it was one of the greatest races ever run, for many it may not have even been a blip on their radar; about an hour and a half before Usain Bolt became the Read more…
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Olympic champion owes all to Brother Colm
Alongside King David there will always be Brother Colm. One man is the tall elegant Kenyan runner who with each race defies what can be done at 800m. The other is a small Irish catholic Read more…
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‘To be so close was gutting’
Despite missing out on Olympic qualification by .02 of a second, DCU’s Steven Colvert enjoyed a progressive season on the track, but as he tells Eoghan Cormican, it was ultimately one tinged with regret. Three Read more…
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Striding Forward – Olympian Laura Reynolds speaks to CV Sport
Though only securing the qualifying time four weeks before the deadline, DCU graduate Laura Reynolds enjoyed a dream Olympic debut, as she tells Eoghan Cormican. A week prior to the Games of the XXX Olympiad, Read more…