After over 100 years, a Dublin GAA club’s senior side played its final ever game last night

The end of an era.

The Fitzgibbon Cup came to a close on Tuesday for a lot of third level sides, with the final round of group games. But for one Dublin GAA club, Tuesday's final game against DCU was the end in more ways than one. The St Patrick’s Drumcondra GAA club is part of the teacher training college on the northside of the city, but due to a planned merger with Dublin City University later this year, the GAA club's senior hurling team will be subsumed into the larger college from the first term of the next academic year. There has been huge controversy over the planned move that will wipe out over 100 years of GAA history, as dozens of the country's best hurlers have togged out for the club over the last century or more. But it appears that there is no turning back, and the club posted an emotional Facebook post on Tuesday afternoon to let everyone know to come out and support the college side for one last time. It's understood that the college club will continue to exist but not at senior level in the premier third-level hurling competition after Tuesday's game.