Colleges show their colours in showdown on the Liffey

Some highly-charged racing is in store when the Colours Races — those famous head-to-heads between the crews of Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin — take place on Saturday on the River Liffey.

Eight crews in four events will race side by side from O’Connell Bridge to St. James’s Gate, an event that has attracted thousands of supporters in the past. Novice men and women’s crews compete for the Dan Quinn Shield and Sally Moorhead Trophy respectively, while the main events are undoubtedly the senior women battling for the Corcoran Cup and the senior men seeking the Gannon Cup in the grand finale at 3pm.

UCD defend their titles in both senior events, but in the recent Erne Head of the River (HOR) in Enniskillen, the Trinity senior men’s crew were fastest with, UCD considerably adrift.