Raising the bar
It is hard not to be impressed by Aoife O’Sullivan, an Irish powerlifting record holder for her weight – having deadlifted 160kg, almost two-and-a-half times her body mass – who claims she only took up powerlifting by chance, and still insists that her academic life comes first. The care-free JS Irish and French Student […]
New STAR project to encourage young soccer talent
A new initiative founded by the Trinity Access Programme (TAP), run in conjunction with the Shamrock Rovers and Trinity Sport, seeks to foster educational and sporting development among students from Tallaght and the inner city through providing a number of opportunities to engage with college life. The year-long Sporting Talent and Academic Rewards (STAR) […]
DUFC: Season in Review
DUFC Season Results (correct as of 12/03/17) 18-25 win v Terenure 13-23 loss v UCD 19-31 win v St. Mary’s 32-27 win v Young Munster 14-27 win v Garryowen 14-25 loss v Lansdowne 7-27 win v Old Belvedere 10-30 loss v Cork Constitution 33-0 loss to tarf 0-29 loss to Clontarf 19-3 loss to […]
Town walks and country walks
Health and Wellbeing I have always loved being outside. I grew up in a house skirted by woodland; our garden backed right up onto the treeline. An inordinate amount of my childhood and teens were spent wandering around this wood and the rest of the countryside around my home. My parents were happy to […]
DUEC “slay” at Intervarsities
I can’t tell if they are enthusiastic to be interviewed, buzzing from their recent win, or just happy to see their friends again, but they certainly livened up the office on a rather dull Thursday afternoon. “If we’d come last this weekend, I still think we’d still all come away absolutely thrilled that we’d […]
Forget calorie counting and love fat!
Are you tired of eating tiny portions, counting calories and eating bland food every time you try and lose weight? How would you like to hear about a diet where you can eat bacon and eggs for breakfast, Boojum for lunch and steak for dinner? Absurd right? “It doesn’t exist,” you might exclaim. Wrong. Ladies […]
Bowling over the Creases
“By dragging their friends down to Ancillary Hall and College Park, the new committee made Trinity women’s cricket something fun and approachable.” The Cricket Club is one of the oldest sports clubs on campus, and an iconic part of Trinity’s history. The women’s club has been part of this for almost half a […]
A Captain’s Run
Confidence is like obscenity: hard to define, but you know it when you see it. One thing that isn’t difficult to pin down is where this confidence arises from. Sport has played a big part in the life of Róisín Harbison. From a young age, her mother, an interprovincial squash player, and her father, an […]
Play like a girl: Ladies GAA
Continuing his series on women in Trinity’s sporting world, Joel Coussins talks to three of the stars of Trinity’s Ladies Gaelic Football team: Deirdre Kennedy, a 3rd year MSIS student, Petra McCafferty and Michelle Peel, Senior Sophister Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy students respectively. How did you get into playing ladies football? D: My town […]
Aikido for All
Aikido is relatively obscure even now, despite the fact that Charmed character Prue and The Walking Dead‘s Morgan are known practitioners of the martial art (in fictional universes), as is the film star Steven Seagal. Aikido clubs are usually hidden within college campuses, attracting only those who actively seek them. This wasn’t true for […]
