Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo’s recent outburst, claiming he had become a “little sad” has set the media world alight with speculation that an exit from the Spanish capital is on the cards for the Portuguese international. Media outlets, Madridistas and football lovers alike are in harmony over the prolific striker’s abrupt malaise, with suggestions…
Hurling:It is with great sadness that we report the untimely death of UCC’s hurling manager and hall of fame recipient, Paul O’Connor. O’Connor had a successful career at all levels, winning the Harty Cup with the North Monastery, a pair of county titles with Na Piarsaigh and playing Senior hurling with Cork for three years….
Results are what managers are defined and remembered by. The cream always rises as the cliche goes. Take Chelsea for example; Mourinho produced banal, mundane performances on a weekly basis, and for this reason was sacked by Roman Abromovich. Ever since, the Russian billionaire has failed to find a replacement to combine his dream style…
Three-quarters of the way through the All-Ireland camogie final, the incumbent champions Wexford had just goaled to catapult themselves out of sight of a tiring Cork side. The game seemed to be getting away from the Rebelettes as Aoife Murray returned the ball to play, her puck out bouncing high towards an onrushing Wexford defender….
On a bright and sunny Friday, the same day as the first batch of next year’s Freshers were setting foot on campus, five of Ireland’s top sportspeople were honoured as a part of the college’s continuing UCC Sport 100 celebrations. They may all have been initiated in different codes but what linked them was far…
On Sunday next, Galway and Kilkenny will meet for the third time in the 2012 Senior Hurling Championship, Joe Canning’s late equalizer insuring that we will be treated to the first All-Ireland final replay since 1959. Immediately after the final whistle had sounded, “fans” took to social networking sites and vented their anger at the…
Last Thursday, the first of the new recruits to UCC’s rowing development programme were presented with the challenge that will face them for the coming year. They spent the day with sports performance support experts in strength and conditioning or “lifting metal up and down” as the college’s Rowing Development Officer, Ed Green says. Each…