‘Sports News’ Archives
DCS Cricketers 100% Season Success
Douglas Community School cricket team finished their season with a win against Midleton College giving us a 100% record this year. The match was a Twenty over a side held on the college’s new pitch (A really good carpet of artificial turf laid on an aggregate base) at the rugby pitch in Midleton. Last year we lost our opening match to [...]
DCS Cricket win over Bandon Grammar
Douglas Community School cricket team won their first match of the season against Bandon Grammar. The match was a Twenty over a side encounter that brought great performances from both sides. We lost the toss and were put in to bat. Our openers of Sharukh Nawaz and Ibrahim Khan made a steady start and accumulated well with some lusty blows from [...]
DCS Capture Soccer Munster Youth Cup
Douglas Community School 2, Cresent Comprehensive College 1 (Rob Lehane, Eoghan Murphy) On Tuesday 22 March at Pike Rovers Grounds Limerick, our senior soccer team captured the Munster Youth Cup with a magnificent 2-1 victory over Crescent Comprehensive College of Limerick. The first half was a tight affair with neither side having many [...]
DCS Gymnast Abroad
Congratulations to Adam Dalton of Third Year who has been doing very well in his chosen sport of gymnastics. Over the past year Adam has competed at the European Junior Championships held in Birmingham and he has also travelled to Romania this summer as part of the Irish training camp. Adam is aiming to make the Irish team that will be [...]
DCS Cricket Relaunches Against Midleton College
It was a fine day as DCS played its first cricket match of the modern era against the best of the munster schools, Midleton College. We played a 20 over a side fixture at their beautiful ground. Mohammed Ali Syed, our first captain, won the toss and put them in (which means we bowled first). Early overs went the way of the home side with [...]
