The UCC players charged out of the dressing room before the 2011 Sigerson Cup final against against UUJ. Adrian Greaney had them jumping out of their collective skins. The Kerryman was ruled out of the game through injury but, as team captain, he still had a contribution to make. Emotion can be a great motivator […]

3 years ago

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

UL 0-12 UCC 0-11  By Daragh Small  UL captain Fiadhna Tangney scored 0-4 and her side were crowned Yoplait O’Connor Cup champions again after a thrilling win over UCC. The holders held a 0-10 to 0-4 lead at half-time and they went on to make it five titles since 2014 at a wet and windy […]

4 years ago

UCC 0-18 IT Carlow 2-11 UCC don’t do it the easy way but the hard way has never stopped them before. Fitzgibbon Cup champions for a record 40th time, the Cork college had to summon their Lazarus instincts once more to come from six points down to beat a gallant IT Carlow team. Darragh Fitzgibbon […]

6 years ago

God bless Keith Ricken. Hail him, clone him and worship that man to the high heavens. He’s a county manager who gets it. “I get requests to release players and I laugh,” he said recently to Balls.ie. “Because it’s like I’m a prison warden – I never have and never will stop a lad playing […]

6 years ago

UCC 0-18 DCU 0-17 The rain was falling, the wind was howling and the grass was dug up. The scores were level but the time was up. Extra-time looked a stone cold certainty, until a sliotar slipped away from a DCU body and out of play. In any normal circumstances, you wouldn’t worry about a […]

6 years ago