Demon weather washes out UCC practice

WHEN coach Luke D’Alessio took his players to the Parochial Hall for practice yesterday he found the doors closed – there was no water and the place was frozen.

Things can only get better for the UCC Demons coach as he plots this weekend’s defence of the National Cup in a derby semi-final against their arch rivals, National Event Hire Neptune.

The champions take on that assignment without playing a game in month after the clash against Moycullen on January 2 was cancelled. Last weekend they were scheduled to play UCD Marian, who are involved in the other semi-final against Killester next Sunday, but that game, too, failed to materialise.