After defeating an impressive NUI Maynooth side to win the Division 2 league for the first time this year, Trinity are optimistic going into the Giles Cup Championship. With NUIM recently promoted to the first division, O’Connor Cup, Trinity are …
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Decent results for Trinity athletes at Athlone intervarsities
The Irish Universities Athletics Association held its annual indoor track and field Intervarsity Championship in Athlone on Friday 6th February, with 65 athletes competing in 300 events, and DUHAC athletes travelled down from Dublin to represent Trinity.
Although DCU continued …
Fundamental tensions of society emerge at local derbies
This weekend’s sporting action showed that there is something primal about the meeting of two local rivals that goes against linguistic logic and beyond the confines of sport.
This weekend saw a veritable feast of sporting rivalry in the football world, with Atlético vs. Real in Madrid, Spurs vs. Arsenal in London and Everton vs. Liverpool on Merseyside. There is something fundamental, something primal in the crude tribalism …
American football gaining ground in Irish universities
David Lunn from Trinity’s American Football Club, Conor Whelan from UL and Padraig O Fearghail from UCD talk to Michael Foley about the progress made by college football teams competing in Ireland.
American football is a developing sport across Europe. Maybe it’s the sheer spectacle of the Super Bowl. Or the combination of perfect planning and execution by some of the most physically gifted athletes on the planet. Or, the chance to …
Wonder boy’s meteoric rise
Alicia Lloyd talks to former Trinity player Niyi Adeolokun about his quick rise to professional rugby after recently signing a two-year deal with Connacht.
One of my all time favourite quotes about the game of rugby came from former sports journalist Alfred E Crawley: “The tactical difference between association football and rugby with all its varieties seems to be that in the former, the …
Laochra Caithréimeacha an Spóirt
Frances Mulraney
Staff Writer
Is maith is cuimhin liom an t-ionadh a bhí orm is mé ag seasamh os comhair chúl an leoraithe a bhí in úsáid mar stáitse ag deireadh shamhradh na bliana 1998. Ní raibh mé i mo …
Women in sport
Elaine McCahill
Editor
Last Saturday most of us gazed misty-eyed at television screens as an emotional Brian O’Driscoll was named man-of-the-match and walked laps of the Aviva with his daughter Sadie in tow. Whether you have an avid interest in …
Superbowl season
Dylan Brockmeyer
Contributor
The commercials, the half-time show, the spicy buffalo wings, the barbecues, the hundreds of bowls of chips and dip, the ‘tailgate’ parties and the Bud Light beer. The Super Bowl is basically a national holiday. There is …
DUFC celebrate 160th anniversary
Sarah Burns
Staff Writer
This year will see Dublin University Football Club (DUFC), the world’s oldest rugby club in existence celebrate its 160th anniversary. DUFC, founded in 1854 prides itself on not only being the oldest Irish rugby club but …
The romance of rugby season
Cal Gray
Sports Editor
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when the winter is having a hard time leaving and the trees are waiting impatiently to be covered in leaves. The air still plays host to …