{"id":258869,"date":"2026-01-23T00:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/258869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T00:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:16:12","slug":"ucc-to-take-on-reigning-champions-dcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/258869\/","title":{"rendered":"UCC to take on reigning champions DCU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">UCC will face reigning champions DCU at the quarter-final stage of the Sigerson Cup after the draws were made on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Paul O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s side had anticipated that they would have the advantage of being on home turf next week having played their previous two games up the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">They will face the holders next Tuesday at the DCU Sportsground with throw-in at 7.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">UCC will come into the game on the back of two successive victories over ATU Sligo and Queen\u2019s University Belfast as they bypassed Round 3.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4932236_34_articleinlinemobile_3321075_1_.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Peet of UCC in action against Ryan McQuillan of Queen's University Belfast. Picture: Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile\" title=\"Dan Peet of UCC in action against Ryan McQuillan of Queen's University Belfast. Picture: Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Dan Peet of UCC in action against Ryan McQuillan of Queen&#8217;s University Belfast. Picture: Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The last win was particularly impressive against a strong Queen&#8217;s team. UCC were trailing late on, but got the last three scores including a two-pointer from Ruair\u00ed Murphy to prevail by two points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On the other hand, DCU had to navigate the Round 3 juncture after losing in Round 2A to University of Limerick having beaten Ulster University in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">DCU got the better of ATU Galway on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">UCC are back in the business end for the first time since winning the competition for the 24th time in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">They lost at the Round 3 stage in 2024 before losing their two games last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In the other Sigerson Cup quarter-final ties, UL meet Maynooth University, UCD lock horns with UoG and TUD face Queen&#8217;s University Belfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCC will face reigning champions DCU at the quarter-final stage of the Sigerson Cup after the draws were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-258869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-gaa","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}