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DCU Boxing Club back from the brink
After the recent threat of extinction DCU Boxing Club has come back stronger than ever and is still on the rise. Read more…
Sport
Sport
McEnaney devastated after crushing All-Ireland defeat
Laura McEnaney reacts to losing the Ladies All-Ireland Senior Football final with Cork. Read more…
Other Sports
DCU Sport claims excellence award for second year running
DCU Sport has won the EIQA National Excellence award for the second year running. Read more…
Gaelic Football
Cooper reflects on “surreal” All-Ireland victory
DCU student Johnny Cooper reflects on his first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal with Dublin. Read more…
Gaelic Football
DCU GAA Academy strikes sponsorship deal
A five-year sponsorship deal has been agreed between the DCU GAA Academy and Bank of Ireland. Read more…
Other Sports
DCU Ultimate Frisbee team competing well at home and abroad
Deputy Sports Editor Ruaidhrí Croke speaks to DCU Ultimate Frisbee captain Brian David Henderson about the sport’s growing popularity and the status quo of one the university’s most active clubs. Read more…
Sport
Camogie and Men’s Soccer honoured at Sports Club Awards
Soccer and Camogie clubs win big at this year’s Sports Club Awards. Read more…
Features
Battles for Sam and Liam on the horizon again
Ben Egan previews the 2013 GAA Championships. Read more…
Sport
Sport Review of the Year 2012/2013
Deputy Sports Editor Eoin Sheahan reviews the year in sport Read more…
Gaelic Football
Cork star Aidan Walsh will ‘be able to return to DCU next year’
Back in September when Cork’s midfield powerhouse Aidan Walsh was starting in his first year in DCU, surely he could not have envisaged the year that lay ahead for him. The P.E and Biology student Read more…
Athletics
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…
Football
5 years of Clap-Trap and more to follow.
A manager does not have to be liked to be successful. On the contrary, many of the touchline predators we canonise hold characteristics akin to a beast: snarling, brooding, ruthless and scaly. Ok, probably not Read more…
GAA
Ten varieties of GAA supporters you are likely to meet this summer.
Over the past fifteen or so years I have travelled the length and breadth of the country, visiting nearly every G.A.A ground and mixing with supporters from nearly every county in Ireland. One thing that Read more…
Rugby
Can the Lions become the Wizards of Oz?
This summer rugby fans in the northern and southern hemispheres will be fixated on the Lions’ tour of Australia, where they have not played since losing the test series 2-1 in 2001. At this stage, Read more…
Other Sports
Pendred on the verge of UFC
Recent Analytical Science graduate and Mixed Martial Arts rising star Cathal Pendred (25) is the new Cage Warriors Fighting Championship Welterweight title holder, and is on course to be the second Irish fighter to join Read more…
Other Sports
Former DCU student, Cathal Pendred, on the verge of the UFC
On March 9th of this year, DCU graduate, Cathal Pendred, usurped Gael Grimaud as the Cage Warriors Welterweight Champion after a compelling five round battle in front of a sold out crown in London’s HMV Read more…
Other Sports
Final disappointment for DCU teams
Falling at the final hurdle is one of the worst feelings for anyone competing in any sport. To be within touching distance of glory and to have it slip from your grasp can at times Read more…
Football
College View Sport pipped by Radio rivals in Bill O’Herlihy Cup
DCU soccer fans held their breath on Wednesday evening as their college was set to be part of history, when the country’s two best college sides met in the All-Ireland final in Glasnevin. Some of Read more…
Other Sports
DCU Mercy lose out in all Ireland Colleges final to UL
There was disappointment for DCU Mercy last Wednesday as they were beaten by University of Limerick in the all-Ireland Colleges final at the national basketball arena in Tallaght. DCU, who defeated the same UL team Read more…
Gaelic Football
Depleted DCU reach Intermediate final against all the odds – DCU 1-08 UUJ 0-09
DCU faced University of Ulster Jordanstown in the first semi-final of the All-Ireland Intermediate football championship on Wednesday last. With a place in the final up for grabs, the Dublin outfit came out victorious on Read more…
Football
Season ends on bitter note for soccer side, but future looks bright
Alas, it was not to be. DCU’s ambition of capping off their most successful season to date with the addition of silverware, remained unfulfilled on a bitterly cold night in Frank Cooke Park. The pain Read more…
Other Sports
DCU Swimmers pleased with intervarsity medal haul
The fortunes of the DCU swimming club have rarely been brighter after they left the recent intervarsities with a bounty of medals. The club claimed seven individual medals and two relay medals spread across a Read more…
Athletics
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…
Football
DCU come up just short in CUFL final – DIT 2 DCU 0
DIT won their first CUFL Premier League title after an engaging war of attrition with DCU, in which the tackles were biting, no quarter was asked or given, and chances contained to a premium. Second Read more…
Football
DCU take on DIT in CUFL Premier League final
Tomorrow night in Cooke Park, the home of Tolka Rovers FC, the curtain will close on a historic season for DCU. Having advanced further than ever before in both the league and the Collingwood Cup-by Read more…