Time never stops at DCU…and neither do our student athletes! Get a flavour of a day in the busy lives of DCU’s performance athletes and student community, and of how DCU Sport is helping them to excel in their studies, sport and life.Continue Reading
Former world 5,000m champion and indoor mile record holder Eamonn Coghlan sat down for a fireside chat at an exclusive event before the 2023 Morton Games. On Friday 14th July, DCU Educational Trust hosted an exclusive dinner and fireside chat with Irish athletics legend Eamonn Coghlan to mark the return of competitive action to the...Continue Reading
Dublin senior hurler Andrew Dunphy is a final-year Business Studies student at DCU. In March 2023, he was awarded the Paddy J Wright Memorial Sports Scholarship. Here, he shares his passion for college hurling and his hopes for the future. “I started hurling when I was about four- or five-years-old. No one in my family...Continue Reading
First-year Róise Roberts is a silver medallist at the U20 National Championships 1500m, and competed in the U20 Women’s 4000m race at the European Cross Country Championships two years in a row. She shares how DCU Sports has helped her to overcome injury and reach her goals. How did you first get into athletics? I...Continue Reading
Sprinter and DCU Master’s student Mark Smyth is the reigning Irish 200m champion and holds the national record for the indoor 200m. This June, he’s representing Ireland at the 2023 European Games in Krakow. In this piece, he discusses how DCU Sports and Wellbeing has enabled him to balance high-performance sport with his studies in...Continue Reading
DCU student Kate Kenny plays for DCU’s O’Connor-cup winning football team and the Ashbourne-cup winning camogie team, while studying the Integrated Masters in Biomedical Engineering. In this piece, she explains how DCU Sport and being around like-minded people is helping her to balance and excel at both. Can you tell us how you first got...Continue Reading
DCU student Beibhinn Parsons became the youngest capped player in Irish rugby at 16 – and five years later, she’s qualified for the Olympics after blazing a trail for Ireland at the World Rugby Sevens Series. In the run up to that qualification, she shared how DCU Sports is helping her balance Communications coursework with...Continue Reading
Dublin Ladies footballer Jennifer Dunne, is in her 4th and final year of studying a Bachelor of Education at DCU. Jennifer is now the recipient of the Paddy J Wright Sport Memorial Scholarship for two years running. In this piece, she describes how the scholarship has helped her to juggle her final year studies and...Continue Reading
Nadia Power is a third year Marketing, Innovation and Technology student at DCU, who recently won bronze at the European Athletics u23 Championships 800m race in 2019. Achieving this sporting success is no easy feat and requires great determination and dedication. In this piece, Nadia talks about her sporting career so far, what the future...Continue Reading
Brendan Hyland has just completed his final year in Accounting and Finance at Dublin City University. In the coming weeks, Brendan and Team Ireland will be representing in the pool at the 2019 Fina World Championships in South Korea. If he finishes in the top 16 in any of his individual races or top 12...Continue Reading
