Another match and another victory, and another bonus point, this season is shaping up well. To keep ourselves on top we need to continue the hard work, and we must constantly improve our game.

After the match we went to Weldons and had a great night celebrating 2 wins (Womens Rugby won also) and our club captain Gav Grace's birthday. We introduced the women to the a court session and after some food and a lot of drink we ended up in 21s so next court session should have some non-match related accusations.

We have some time off matches now so we will have training on Wednesdays. These are possibly the most valuable training sessions we will have as we can build on some of our weaker areas in the light. This will mean we will have oppertunities to run lines and develop moves. We have set up a text system for match and training times so if you could all sign up to it(it's free of charge for players) and we will let ye know when training is on.

Well done to the lads who were playing against St.Pats last Wednesday. It was an amazing result with 5 tries unreturned. This has secured us the bonus point form our first match and sees us top of our group.

We have our next match at home against Blanchards Town IT next Wednesday the 12th of November at half 3 so training as usual next Monday.

We hope to see a continued excelent level of support down at the match and remember the positions for the trip away at the end of the year will go to the most commited players. This means if your injured make an appearance at training, and turn up to matches to support the guys who were picked.

Hello all

I would like to welcome you all old and new back to DCU. This summer has seen a lot of changes taken place; we have for instance new coaching personnel on board this year. I would like to take this time to express our heartfelt thanks on behalf of the club to a departing member of last years staff Gearoid Ferrick, indeed I would like to extend that thanks to all our former team mates who have left the college this season there contribution to this club for the last number of years has been immense and they will be sorely missed. We also have a development officer (JACK HANRATTY) on board who is based in DCU for the next three years whose main role is to increase the participation in rugby amongst the student populace on that note I am very pleased to announce the introduction of a 10 week tag league which will run from late October throughout the year with significant cash prizes for the winning team and runners up. I also wish to signal the clubs intent on sending a development team to South Africa in June for a week long period in which they will represent the college in at least two test matches and will watch one of the lions test matches before there return home. I would like to thank DCU and Leinster Rugby for there support and look forward to highly successful year both on and off the pitch. We will be looking to begin training as early as possible with the first training session on at Monday 29th September at St.Claries the directions to which can be found on this web site we will play our first game at home to DIT in a friendly on the 15th October. I hope to see you all at training, we cater for players of all skill levels and all new comers are more than welcome. Please if you are interested in playing rugby come to us on Clubs and Societies day, or if you would like to make contact with us before then email me at dcurfc@gmail.com and we can answer any questions you may have.

James Kelly (Gelly)
Chairman