Sport

For one DCU student Olympic qualification is almost a reality. Just six tenths of a second off the 400m A standard, Brian Gregan spoke to Brendan White about chasing that elusive time.   A whirlwind 12 Read more…

By Ronan Duggan DCU once again defended their Varsity Indoor Track and Field titles; the men for the sixth consecutive year with the women’s team completing the five-in-a-row. DCU has for many years relied on Read more…

With little or no financial funding, marathon runner Linda Byrne speaks to Eleni Megoran about overcoming all obstacles on the road to realising her Olympic dream. On August 5th at 11am, Linda Byrne will be Read more…

Will Slattery And so it all begins again. Another four-year cycle that will lead us to another World Cup. And it all starts with this 6 Nations. The last World Cup is now the distant Read more…

Prior to Friday’s Women’s Superleague National Cup final DCU Mercy coach Mark Ingle wanted fans to expect the unexpected, but the formbook was to ring true as UL recorded a comfortable 64-27 victory at the Read more…

Eoghan Cormican DCU will have it all to do when they meet Kildare in what should be a humdinger of an O’Byrne Cup final at O’Moore Park, Portlaoise on Friday, February 17. The final was Read more…

By Adam Higgins DCU and RTÉ are teaming up to help the teenagers of Ireland get fit with the First Year Fitness Challenge, a joint venture between Professor Niall Moyna of DCU’s School of Health Read more…

by Tom Rooney The DCU B handball team captured the B Plate title as the A team were defeated in the final of the 40×20 team intervarsity tournament at St. Joseph Centre in Wexford. The Read more…

UCC 7-18 DCU 0-10 by Eoghan Cormican At the Mardyke The scoreline says it all. A tale of two teams at either end of the of the Fitzgibbon spectrum. On a bitterly cold night at Read more…

by Tom Rooney The month of February marks a busy period for DCU’s footballers and hurlers as they enter the business end of the season. Their respective league campaigns proved a mix bag last year, Read more…

by Eoghan Cormican Having already secured a semi-final berth, DCU’s camogie side will seek the prize of top spot in Group A when they travel to face CIT in today’s crucial Purcell Cup fixture. DCU Read more…

DCU 0-9 St. Mary’s 0-8 by Eoghan Cormican At St. Clare’s Wing back Conor Daly proved an unlikely hero as the Freshers football side were pushed all the way in this fractious first round clash Read more…

DCU 1-12 GMIT 0-15 (after extra time) by Eoghan Cormican At St. Clare’s Substitute Peter Corry came to the rescue of DCU’s freshers hurling outfit just when as outsiders GMIT had one eye on a Read more…

DCU 0-11 UCD 0-10 by Eamon Donoghue At Belfield DCU held out for their third All-Ireland title in a week by overcoming UCD in the Intermediate league final on Thursday last. An excellent first half Read more…

DCU’s senior football side have received an extremely favourable draw ahead of next year’s O’Byrne Cup, which gives the North Dublin College more than a sporting chance of making the semi-finals come January 22nd. Niall Read more…

by Eoghan Cormican Fionnuala Britton achieved glorious redemption for last year’s heartbreaking fourth place finish when claiming the gold medal at last weekend’s European Cross-Country championships in Velenje, Slovenia. Not since Catherina McKiernan’s victory in Read more…

DCU 1-8 Carlow I.T 0-10  by Gavin Cawley At Newscastle DCU captured their first piece of GAA silverware with this hard fought victory over Carlow IT in what turned out to be a cracking contest Read more…

In Pursuit of Glory In anticipation of today’s Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cup draws, The College View  Sport talks to the various GAA managers about their ambitions for the season ahead by Paul O’ Brien  Although Read more…

GMIT 2-6 DCU 0-11 by Eoghan Cormican At St. Loman’s A Kealan Greene goal twenty-five seconds into injury time brought the curtain down on DCU’s short lived stay in the realms of Fitzgibbon hurling. Played Read more…

by Sam Griffin   Three DCU students are taking part in a new study that has determined that small amounts of high intensity interval training (HIIT) have the same effect as much longer levels of Read more…

Ronan Duggan   DCU’s male distance athletes were finally beaten after five years of undefeated competition at the recent road relays in Maynooth. On the men’s side the lightning-quick opening mile of Joe Warne set Read more…

Eoghan Cormican It’s fair to say that’s it’s been a busy couple of weeks for DCU GAA director Michael Kennedy. Aside from his role here within the college, the Tyrone native was video analyst for Read more…

DCU 0-11 UCC 0-9 Eamon Donoghue At Clonad DCU Fresher’s reached their fourth All Ireland final in two years overcoming a fancied UCC outfit in a game where Ross Munnelly’s charges were called upon to Read more…

Tom Rooney Since merging with the Mercy club in 2007, women’s basketball in DCU has gone from strength to strength and head coach Mark Ingle has been at the heart of this progression. During his Read more…