Sometimes sport comes down to one brave decision, one moment where you can make history. However that brave decision does not always result in success. Sometimes these decisions backfire and give us the mistakes that are forever etched in history. These mistakes can take many forms, poor tactics on the field, á la the infamous…
UCC 1 UU 1 UCC win 5-3 on penalty strokes UCC won an emotional inter-varsity title on home turf at the Mardyke on Tuesday last, ousting University of Ulster on penalty strokes after a tense 1-1 stalemate. The Mauritius Cup will reside in Cork for just the second time in their history — the other was…
UCC Demons 89 Killester 78 As the temperatures drop and frost is seen in Cork for the first time this winter, indoors things are beginning to heat up in the ‘Nivea For Men’s SuperLeague’ as the teams begin to hit their stride. At this stage most sides have played each other once, and we’re beginning to…
UCC 10 Bective Rangers 8 UCC continued they’re good start to this season’s AIL Division 2A season with an incredibly hard fought win over Bective Rangers in a cold and wet Mardyke last Saturday. The conditions played a massive role in the game with the greasy surface and wet ball making it difficult for either…
Ladies Soccer: UCC student Lauren Murphy was in Serbia for the penultimate week of October as part of the Irish U19 team competing in the first qualifying round of the UEFA European Women’s U19 Championships. Needing to finish in the top two of a four team group, Murphy featured at full-back for the opener against…
Last April, I recall in a Premiership encounter with Blackburn, a lackadaisical Rovers clearance was directed back towards goal by United. The high, looping ball fell to Javier Hernandez. Chicharito, as he’s almost adoringly referred to, had the time and space to control the ball and register a credible shot on target. Instead, the Mexican…
Hurling: Eddie Enright was confirmed as the new UCC hurling manager on Friday, stepping into the shoes of the late Paul O’Connor. Enright was part of O’Connor’s backroom team which won the centenary Fitzgibbon Cup last March and previously captained UCC to his third Fitzgibbon medal in a row in 1998, a year after he…
Perhaps it would be fair to say that the final six minutes of Munster’s Heineken Cup pool game against Edinburgh on Sunday best sum up Denis Hurley’s season so far, and indeed his career since the last time he scored a try for Munster on New Year’s Day 2011. With Paddy Butler…
So you’ve made it to the professional ranks! You’ve signed your contract, picked up your free gear and posed for the cameras with your name proudly emblazoned on the back of your club’s shirt. Now that you’re home, what’s there to do? Sky Sports News is an option, before you get sick of looking…
Sport and success are two things that will always go hand in hand. However while sport has given us many success stories, it has also given us many stories of controversy and shame. Recently this ability of sport to create controversy has caught up with someone who for many was a true sporting icon,…