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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…
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 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…
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…
Assistant Manager Seán Flynn has commended the DCU camogie team for their brave, but ultimately unsuccessful performance in their Division 1 league semi-final clash away to UL. Since being soundly beaten by UCD in their Read more…
Apparently we have a crisis in Ireland. It is covered extensively in newspapers and debated constantly by talking heads on television. No, it is not the economic crisis. It is the tighthead crisis. The tighthead Read more…
A slow start killed DCU’s chances of retaining the Division One Fresher League title against UCD in Parnell Park last Wednesday. Ross Munnelly’s men allowed their opponents to build up a seven point advantage by Read more…
Disappointment, anguish and pain; emotions that were etched across the faces of each of the DCU players and management after the two point defeat to UCD in the Fresher ‘A’ All-Ireland league final. The Northsiders Read more…
The structure of the college rugby season can seem strange to the uninitiated. It has the kind of schedule where one cancelled game can leave you twiddling your thumbs for weeks and painfully short of match Read more…
The DCU soccer team will know the identity of their opponents – and hosts – in the Umbro CUFL Premier Division quarter-final this afternoon. Although the draw for the knockout stages was held in FAI Read more…
The DCU Archery Club had an excellent start to the year, recruiting over 150 new members and hosting the DCU Intervarsity Competition held on November 10th. Close to 200 participants from colleges around the country Read more…
DCU make their bid for Ashbourne camogie when they play NUIG at Dangan GAA grounds tomorrow (throw-in 2pm). The play-off encounter will determine which side joins the elite of college camogie, with the loser forced Read more…
Lorna Finnegan talks with club chairperson Eoghan McGrath Describe your club in 5 words It’s Viagra for your forearms. . How did you get involved in rock climbing in the first place? It’s quite a Read more…
Two cheaply conceded goals in the opening six minutes not only cost DCU the match, but a first place finish in CUFL Premier Division East against DIT in Grangegorman. Much like last week against IT Read more…
DCU’s footballers secured their first league win of the season when overcoming NUI Maynooth at St. Vincent’s on Wednesday evening. The Dublin side were keen to capitalise on a strengthened team, with the return from Read more…
Sigerson football manager Niall Moyna has been drafted into the backroom team of the Down senior football set-up for the forthcoming year. Moyna, who trained DCU to a third Sigerson title earlier in the year Read more…
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…
All-Ireland winning manager Liam Sheedy revealed the secrets of a very successful career on the sideline to members of the DCU GAA club on Tuesday evening last. Sheedy entertained the notion that his 2010 All-Ireland Read more…
Prior to the match against local rivals St. Pat’s, Paul O’Brien was without trepidation. The manager of DCU’s senior hurling team had, in fact, been pleased by his side’s performance at Belfield last month, despite Read more…