All-Ireland champions Michael Breen and Doireann O’Sullivan are among the 10 winners of the UCC Sports Star Awards, which will be presented at a ceremony tonight.

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Two of Ireland’s great soccer academies battle for glory today as UCC and UCD meet in the Irish Universities Collingwood Cup final at Maynooth University (2.30pm).

Séamus Mac Géidigh was broadcaster and manager of RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta’s northwest service in Donegal

Queen’s University booked their passage into the quarter-final of the Collingwood Cup after a 2-1 victory over a NUI Galway side that fought every step of the way.

Students of the beautiful game are readying themselves for the biggest week in the third level football calendar, with the 2016 Collingwood Cup up for grabs and the Colleges and Universities Premier League also to be decided.

UCC 0 Dundalk 5: EA Sports Cup champions Dundalk strolled into the semi-finals of this season’s competition as they dismantled the Munster Senior League’s UCC with the minimum of fuss at The Mardyke last night.

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Jason Abbott’s free-kick winner four minutes from the end of yesterday’s Collingwood Cup semi-final sealed University College Cork a place in today’s decider against Trinity College.

University of Limerick will meet Trinity College Dublin in today’s Collingwood Cup quarter-final in Galway after emphatically sweeping past University of Ulster, Coleraine in yesterday’s first round.

Sunday could turn out to be a giddy climax to an already landmark week for St Patrick’s Athletic centre-half Sean Hoare, who only yesterday graduated from NUI Maynooth with a degree in business and accounting.

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Holders UCC continued their charge towards another Collingwood Cup as they scored a comfortable 4-0 win over a disappointing NUI Galway yesterday.

LUKE BURGESS proved to be the UCC matchwinner with a stunning strike in extra time to help take the famous Irish Universities Collingwood Cup back to Leeside for the first time since 2005.

BILLY CLERY is hoping to make it third time lucky and bridge a 12 years gap when his NUIG side take on UCC in today’s Irish Universities Collingwood Cup final at College Park (2.30).

JOHN GILES scrambled down his staircase in his Yorkshire home one morning to bafflingly find a pair of match caps had dropped in the letterbox from Dublin.

Drogheda United open their Airtricity League Premier Division campaign against newly promoted UCD at United Park, kick-off 7.45pm.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own. Today, and every Tuesday, he will be acting as referee on your opinions on the Premiership.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own. Today, and every Tuesday, he will be acting as referee on your opinions on the Premiership.

THEY cut short a tour of America last week to help search for his body — and last night they accompanied him as he began his final journey.

UCC will meet old rivals UCD in this afternoon’s Collingwood Cup final at University of Limerick (2pm) after going through on penalties in yesterday’s semi-final.

TWO first-half Shane Hennessy goals booked UCC's place in today's Collingwood Cup final in Belfast against University of Ulster Coleraine.

FIVE goals from Jonathan Herlihy and a hat-trick from Frank O’Keeffe secured UCC a place in the final four of this year’s Collingwood Cup.

THE UCC football club will mark the conclusion of their celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the club’s foundation with matches against teams representing the famous Harvard and Princeton universities in America next week.

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UNIVERSITY College Dublin confirmed their status as competition favourites with a smooth win over Queen’s University Belfast yesterday to set up an attractive final to the Collingwood Cup (inter-varsity soccer) at The Mardyke, Cork, today (2.30pm ko).