A new four-year collaboration between financial services leader Fidelity Investments Ireland and Dublin City University will provide a programme of scholarships to tackle the persistent underrepresentation of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths, both in the workplace and in education. This collaboration with DCU Faculty of Engineering and Computing, DCU Sport...Continue Reading
Professional services firm Azets Ireland has today been announced as the new sponsor of DCU Sport. Azets Ireland will be the main shirt sponsor across DCU sport teams, and will also be the named sponsors of the DCU Sport Scholarships Awards. This sponsorship funding will support the overall DCU Sport programme, including the sport scholarship...Continue Reading
DCU Educational Trust and DCU Sport are pleased to announce the creation of a new DCU Golf Scholarship commencing in September 2024. The scholarship will support a talented student golfer to progress their academic and sporting goals while enrolled as an undergraduate student at DCU over the course of a four-year degree programme, or on...Continue Reading
Bohemians footballer and Ireland Schools International Player of the Year Peter Grogan is a first-year Sport Science and Health student at DCU. Here, he recounts the highlights of his football career so far, and shares how the Joseph Anthony Lynch Memorial Sports Scholarship is helping him achieve his goals in sport and in university. “I...Continue Reading
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
