UCC and UL will contest the Sigerson Cup final on Wednesday night. UCC are the kingpins, they have won the competition 23 times, but despite having never won the competition before, UL are the favourites. They lost last year’s final to NUIG and that gives them a wrong to right. Here are the five biggest […]

3 years ago

St Clare’s was thronged for the football, not quite as busy for the hurling. Streams of students made the ten minute walk from DCU down to the GAA grounds where, on both nights, the breeze was so sharp that it would have cut you in two. There were as many girls as boys among them, […]

3 years ago

Down the line, David Garland could see himself becoming a referee. “If the wages were good,” he reasons. For now, the Donaghmoyne dazzler is a Monaghan senior footballer and a part-time umpire. A full-time PE and Biology student in DCU and an occasional employee of Seamus McEnaney’s, a barman in Foley’s pub on Merrion Row. […]

6 years ago

The Sigerson Cup is back. This time, there are no second chances. This it’s straight knock-out. Eight first round games took place over the weekend and after it all, the reigning champs and the favourites are still standing but already, there are some big guns out. Ulster University were beaten by an impressive UCD outfit […]

6 years ago

It’s been a great month of Electric Ireland Sigerson Cup football. They’ll say its importance is weaning, they’ll say it doesn’t matter any more. The magic is still there though, and the smiles on Billy Morgan’s, Sean O’Shea’s and every UCC face in Portlaosie on a windy Wednesday night showed that. That winning feeling! The […]

7 years ago

A Cork legend, a GAA legend. He’s 74-years of age but it hasn’t worn off on him yet. The Gaelic football played in O’Moore Park on Wednesday night was a far cry from his first Sigerson Cup medal as a player back in 1965, but UCC manager Billy Morgan only lives for the challenges. Try […]

7 years ago