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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…
The Sigerson champions once again found themselves in rough waters when they went head to head with DIT in the second round of the Division 1 Senior Football League. Despite impressive performances from the likes Read more…
An excellent performance in front of goal saw the Freshers football team run out hugely comfortable 13-point-winners against local rivals DIT on Thursday last. The home side wasted little team in carving out an early Read more…
The DCU camogie team will play NUI Galway to determine which side competes in the Ashbourne Cup for the 2012-13 season, The College View has learned. The play-off encounter has been provisionally fixed for the Read more…
Ciarán Neary and past lecturer Eugene Kennedy flew the DCU flag with distinction at the recent World Handball Championships, as both handballers climbed the podium following outright success in their respective categories. Kilkenny native Neary Read more…
Sitting pretty at the top of the CUFL Premier Division East, DCU are within touching distance of qualifying for the knockout stages of the competition for the first time in its present incarnation. Declan Roche’s Read more…
DCU students Philly McMahon, James McCarthy, Dean Rock, John Small and Andy O’Brien were part of the Ballymun Kickhams panel that annexed the clubs third County senior football title. It was Dean Rock who grabbed Read more…
Describe your club in five words. Friendly, active, encouraging, competitive and a great laugh. 2How did you get involved in Fencing? I got involved in my first year of college when I joined the club. Read more…
Hurling Club chairperson Seamus Kelly tells Eoghan Cormican that Fitzgibbon hurling is the only way forward forthe college’s beleaguered stickmen. In the chronicles of DCU hurling, the past 12 months must surely rank among the Read more…
DCU will look to maintain their perfect start to the season when they take on IT Blanchardstown on Wednesday afternoon. After comfortably winning their first two ties against UCD and Coláiste Íde, DCU currently lie Read more…
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…
The Fresher’s football side opened their campaign with a demolition of Carlow IT at St. Clare’s on Tuesday afternoon last. In a match that bore little resemblance to a contest, DCU took on the alias Read more…
When Laura Twomey prized her hands onto the Purcell Cup last February, the dream had finally become a reality. Ashbourne Camogie had been secured. DCU’s stickwomen spent two years teetering on the brink of top Read more…
DCU’s Padraig Breheny may not have seen action in last month’s All-Ireland final, but as he tells Will Slattery, his first year with the Galway senior hurling panel was a special one nonetheless. Padraig Breheny Read more…
A superb performance from Conor McGraynor failed to prevent DCU from succumbing to a one-point loss to UCD in the Intermediate Football League on Wednesday last. The Wicklow footballer was at the centre of everything Read more…
DCU’s four “core sports” are allocated more time in the high performance gym than any of the other sports, the Chief Executive of DCU sport Ken Robinson revealed. “We would have our core sports, they Read more…
Four DCU students have been nominated for the 2012 Football All Star Awards. PE and Biology student Michael Murphy is a certainty to take one of the three full forward positions after leading Donegal to Read more…
DCU made it two from two in their CUFL campaign by easily disposing of a brave Coláiste Íde side this afternoon. In reality, the score line flattered the visitors, and had DCU been more ruthless Read more…
Everything may be bigger in the capital but bigger doesn’t always equal better. With more adulation comes more criticism, with more exposure comes more scrutiny and with more success comes higher standards. If new Dublin Read more…
With the Sigerson Cup safely stored away until the turn of the year, the primary focus of the DCU footballers, for the time being at least, is the Irish Daily Mail Division 1 League which Read more…
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…
DCU managed to disprove the axiom that opening games of the season are disappointing affairs fraught with error and lethargy, by easily disposing of UCD in their CUFL Premier Division East encounter. The home side Read more…
The Olympics is one of the special events that can get the nation hooked on sports they previously didn’t care about. All of a sudden your postman can tell you the most effective judo flip Read more…
DCU Mercy moved into pole position in the Nivea Women’s Superleague following their second win of the season on Sunday last. Regarded by most as the greatest threat to UL’s Superleague crown, DCU Mercy barely Read more…
With a record entry list for the 2012 World Handball Championships, DCU have the privilege of sending eleven of its students to this premier sporting event. Eight boys and three girls from the University will Read more…