Classy UCD end UCC’s dreams

UCD 3-11 UCC 1-9

A chastening week for UCC at the Mardyke as the university’s footballers were sent packing in the Sigerson Cup 48 hours after the hurlers had exited the Fitzgibbon Cup.

Yesterday’s quarter-final defeat, far less comprehensive than the eight-point margin suggests, means the skull and crossbones are absent from the finals weekend in Jordanstown for the first time since 2009 — a mark of UCC’s dominance under Billy Morgan.