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Dublin City University Gaelic Athletic Association Club () is the GAA club at Dublin City University. The club fields teams in men's Gaelic football, hurling, ladies' Gaelic football and camogie. It also organises Gaelic handball. The club mainly competes in intervarsity competitions such as the Sigerson Cup, the Fitzgibbon Cup, the O'Connor Cup and the Ashbourne Cup. DCU has also entered competitions organised by the Leinster GAA, including the O'Byrne Cup, the Kehoe Cup and Walsh Cup. In 2016 St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra merged with Dublin City University. As a result some DCU GAA teams, especially reserve teams, compete as DCU St Patrick's or DCU Dóchas Éireann.

Football

Sigerson Cup

DCU senior men's Gaelic football team compete in the Sigerson Cup, while the reserve team competes in the Trench Cup. In 2006, with a team that included Conor Mortimer, Bernard Brogan, Seánie Johnston, Declan Lally, Stephen Cluxton, Paul Casey and captained by Bryan Cullen, DCU won the Sigerson Cup for the first time after defeating Queen's University by 0–11 to 1–04 in the final at Parnell Park. Mortimer secured the cup for DCU after scoring three points in the last 15 minutes. In 2010, DCU won the Sigerson Cup for the second time, after defeating UCC by 1–11 by 0–10. The team was captained by Paddy Andrews and also featured Michael Boyle, Philly McMahon, Kevin Nolan, Jonny Cooper, Bryan Cullen, David Kelly, Paul Flynn and Cathal Cregg. In 2012, DCU won their third Sigerson Cup title in seven years following a 2–17 to 0–7 win over NUI Maynooth in the final. Dublin trio Paul Flynn, Dean Rock and Eoghan O'Gara scored 1–11 between them. Other members of the team included Michael Boyle, Jonny Cooper, James McCarthy, Colm Begley, Fiontán Ó Curraoin, David Kelly and Michael Murphy. In 2015, Begley captained DCU when they won their fourth Sigerson Cup, defeating UCC by 1–14 to 2–10 after extra time in the final. Begley was captaining the side in the absence of regular captain Tom Flynn and vice-captain Davey Byrne, after both men were ruled out with injuries.

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Captain
2006	DCU	0–11;1–4	Queen's University	Bryan Cullen
2010	DCU	1–11;0–10	UCC	Paddy Andrews
2012	DCU	2–17;0–7	NUI Maynooth	Kieran Gavin
2015	DCU	1–14;2–10	UCC	Colm Begley
2016	UCD	0–10;2–2	DCU	Colm Begley

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O'Byrne Cup

DCU senior men's Gaelic football team have also competed in the O'Byrne Cup. In 2010, they became the first university team to win the cup.

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Captain
2009	Louth	1–17;1–10	DCU
2010	DCU	1–15;0–17	Louth	Paddy Andrews
2012	DCU	3–7;1–12	Kildare	Kieran Gavin

Ladies' football

O'Connor Cup

DCU senior ladies' Gaelic football team compete in the O'Connor Cup. DCU have also entered reserve teams in the Giles Cup, the Lynch Cup and the Lagan Cup. In 2009, with a team that included Lyndsey Davey, DCU won the O'Connor Cup for the first time. They subsequently went on to complete a three-in-a-row of O'Connor Cup wins. Other members of the team from this era included Niamh McEvoy and Lindsay Peat. In 2018, Sarah Rowe scored 1–3 as DCU defeated University of Limerick by 2–12 to 0–17 to win the cup for the fourth time.

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Captain
2009	DCU	2–11;1–13	University of Limerick	Fiona McHale
2010	DCU	2–12;0–12	University of Ulster, Jordanstown	Shannon Quinn
2011	DCU	3–8;1–11	University of Ulster, Jordanstown	Donna English
2013	Queen's University	4–10;1–9	DCU
2015	University of Limerick	3–16;0–9	DCU	Laura McEnaney
2018	DCU	2–12;0–17	University of Limerick	Aishling Moloney
2023	DCU	3-13; 1-13	University of Limerick	Anna Rose Kennedy
2024	DCU	2-16;1-14	UCC	Emma Duggan
2025	DCU	2-11; 1-9	UCC	Emma Duggan

O'Connor Shield

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Captain
2019	DCU	3–18;0–6	NUI Galway	Laura McGinley

HEC Ladies Division 1 – O'Rourke Cup

DCU senior ladies' Gaelic football team also compete in the HEC Ladies Division 1. The winners are awarded the O'Rourke Cup.

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Captain
2008	University of Ulster, Jordanstown	DCU
2011	DCU	University of Limerick
2012	DCU	University of Ulster, Jordanstown
2014	University of Limerick	DCU
2015	DCU	UCD
2017	DCU	University of Limerick
2019	University of Limerick	3–10;1–7	DCU	Ciara Finnegan
2021	DCU	beat	University of Limerick	Anna Rose Kennedy
2022	DCU	beat	University of Limerick	Anna Rose Kennedy
2023	DCU	beat	UCC	Emma Duggan
2024	DCU	beat	UCC	Emma Duggan

Giles Cup

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Captain
2017	DCU II	3–7;0–14	Athlone IT	Aoife Norris
2018	Waterford IT	4–16;0–8	DCU II

Lynch Cup

The DCU senior ladies' team initially found success in the Lynch Cup, winning it in 2004 and 2006 before gaining promotion to the O'Connor Cup.

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Captain
2004	DCU	Athlone IT
2006	DCU	Liverpool Hope University
2010	Mary Immaculate College	DCU II
2011	Carlow IT	2–11;1–3	DCU II
2015	DCU II	2–13;1–10	DIT	Fiona O'Sullivan

Lagan Cup

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Captain
2019	Ulster University at Magee	DCU II	Rachel Hogan

Hurling

DCU senior hurling team competes in the Fitzgibbon Cup, the Kehoe Cup and the Walsh Cup. DCU have also entered reserve teams in the Ryan Cup.

Kehoe Cup Shield

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up
2019	Louth	1–18;0–14	DCU St Patrick's Campus

Notes
Fitzgibbon Cup

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up
2018	University of Limerick	2–21;2–15	DCU

Ryan Cup

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up
1998	DCU	3–8;2–8	Limerick Institute of Technology
2002	DCU	1–13;0–11	St Patrick's College, Drumcondra
2010	Carlow IT	1–12;0–13	DCU

Fergal Maher Cup

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up
1988	NIHE Dublin

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Camogie

DCU senior camogie team competes in the Ashbourne Cup. DCU have also entered reserve teams in the Purcell Cup.

Purcell Cup

Year	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Captain
2011	Queen's University	2–10;0–7	DCU	Laura Twomey
2012	DCU	4–7;0–4	Queen's University	Laura Twomey
2013	DCU	2–11;1–9	Mary Immaculate College	Emma Brennan

Handball

DCU Gaelic handballers compete in competitions such as the Wexford Intervarsity, the Kilkenny Intervarsity, the Kingscourt Intervarsity and Dublin Leagues. Training takes place in DCU Sports Centre and at CLG Na Fianna.