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[dropcap]Dublin[/dropcap] City University will visit Parnell Park to face the Dublin senior footballers on Sunday, January 8th in the opening fixture of this year’s O’Byrne Cup. Both sides will know the importance of a winning Read more…
Dublin City University 1-16 Cork Institute of Technology 0-8 Ashbourne Cup first round The DCU senior camogie team got their Ashbourne Cup campaign off to a flying start with a comprehensive victory over CIT last Read more…
Institute of Technology Tallaght 1-10 Dublin City University 1-20 Division Three semi-final DCU blew away ITT with a strong second half display to reach the Division Three final on Wednesday afternoon, November 23rd at Thomas Read more…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he penultimate fight of this year’s DCU RAG Rumble event had to be stopped after two rounds, due to one of Peter Wade’s front teeth getting knocked out by Thomas Walsh. ‘The Pistol’ Wade started Read more…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]dam King remembers a summer Saturday about five years ago when he was lying on his couch icing a leg injury he received in a Gaelic football match earlier that day. The injury meant the Read more…
Dublin City University 1-16 Institute of Technology Carlow 2-14 Fitzgibbon League quarter-final Two last minute IT Carlow points from play were enough to defeat DCU in an enthralling Fitzgibbon League quarter-final in St. Clare’s last Read more…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ttention, students of DCU. There is a world champion among us. Adam Shelley, the 70kg (11 stone) Taekwon-Do champion of the world. However, you may not think it at first glance. I meet Shelley in Read more…
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ootball, for more than a century-and-a-half, has been the game of the masses. The working man’s leisure. That, though, is precisely the biggest institutional problem the game faces and has always faced. It has been Read more…
Dublin City University 1-15 St. Mary’s 2-09 Ryan Cup quarter-final A strong first half performance from DCU proved to be enough to get past St Mary’s College, Belfast in the Ryan Cup, at St Clare’s. Read more…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he DCU swimming team will send the largest squad to the NUIG Invitational on Saturday, November 12th. The team expect to pick up a number of medals, having a number of extremely talented swimmers on Read more…
Dundalk Institute of Technology 1 Dublin City University 2 Colleges and Universities Football League Premier Division A dominant second half display from Dublin City University earned a win over Dundalk Institute of Technology at Oriel Read more…
Dublin City University 3 Maynooth University 6 Colleges and Universities Football League Premier Division St. Patrick’s Athletic’s Jack Bayly’s first half brace played a pivotal role for Maynooth University as DCU were handed their first Read more…
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n Thursday, September 8th Greta Streimikyte sent shockwaves throughout Ireland when she set a new personal best and national record for the 1,500m long-distance sprint at the event final in this year’s Paralympic Games in Read more…
Dublin City University 4-19 St. Patrick’s College 0-11 Senior Hurling League Division One A dazzling display from DCU on Wednesday night, October 19th under the lights of St. Clare’s saw them power past the challenge Read more…
St Patrick’s College 1-08 Dublin City University 6-14 O’Rourke Cup Captain Siobhán Woods scored a hat-trick in Dublin City Unversity’s win over its nearest neighbours St Patrick’s College in their O’Rourke Cup match on Wednesday, Read more…
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]ublin City University was represented strongly represented in this year’s All-Ireland Senior Ladies’ Football final at Croke Park on Sunday, September 25th. Siobhán Woods, a student of psychology and her teammates, Emer Ní Éafa, Emma Read more…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n their third game of the season, the DCU Saints improved their record to 2-1 with a dominant home win over the University of Limerick Eagles in the DCU Sports Centre in Glasnevin. Captain Eoin Read more…
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or most college students, a lot of time is spent trying to find our purpose in life. We spend much time worrying over whether we are taking the right career path and fretting over what Read more…
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]ublin defeated Mayo in a thrilling All-Ireland Senior Football final replay at Croke Park last Saturday that featured 20 graduates and current students from Dublin City University. Jim Gavin’s Dublin retained Sam Maguire with a Read more…
[dropcap]E[/dropcap]ight former DCU students have received nominations for the 2016 All-Star Gaelic football awards with recent All-Ireland finalists Dublin and Mayo receiving 11 nominations each. Dublin’s past students Stephen Cluxton, Jonny Cooper, John Small, Ciarán Read more…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he life of a Wicklow under-21 hurler is not an altogether glamorous one. For the rare glamour game that comes his way, he must content himself with playing matches in front of a few dozen Read more…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he 2016/17 Third Level Football season was officially launched on Wednesday afternoon, September 21st at the FAI’s Abbotstown headquarters. The conference included representatives from all 50 participating institutions in the second year the launch has Read more…
Moyna returns DCU Gaelic football manager Niall Moyna has decided to stay on with the 2015 Sigerson Cup winners having initially decided to call it a day, just hours after their after defeat in the Read more…
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]ost college students struggle with early mornings. For some, 9am lectures are just too much. Attendance at these squeamishly early lectures is a bonus rather than a necessity. Céire Smith, however, is no typical college Read more…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] problem that has hindered the growth of football in Ireland since the foundation of the state is the lack of media attention and public funding it receives in comparison to Gaelic games, despite being Read more…