UCC and DCU set for final showdown

THE most conspicuous aspect of this weekend’s Sigerson Cup semi-final line-up is those that are marked absent. No Cork IT. No UUJ. No Queen’s. No IT Sligo. No NUI Galway.

No UCD.

Were it not for the presence of DCU in this afternoon’s second semi-final in Maynooth there would be none of the last 14 champions involved at the business end of this year’s competition. That’s a remarkable statistic, so there is a novel quartet left to scrap it out for this year’s honours.