Sports Scholarships
(06 Dec 2007)
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Sports Scholarships 2007
At a reception in UCD on Wednesday 5th December the President of UCD, Dr. Hugh Brady, announced the names of the 83 UCD Sports Scholarship recipients for the 2007/2008 academic year.
The Rugby recipients were:-
Cian Aherne (Limerick), Vasily Artemiev (Russia), Ben Barclay (Dublin), Wesley Carter (Tipperary), Brian Cawley (Wicklow), Eoghan Conran (Kildare), Andrew Cummiskey (Dublin), Cailbhe Doherty (Wicklow), Cathal Doyle (Kildare), Mark Flanagan (Westmeath), David Gilchrist (Dublin), Robert Kearney (Louth), Killian Lett (Wexford), Fergus McFadden (Kildare), Gerard Moran (Dublin), David Nyhan (Dublin), Conor Quinn (Kildare), Robert Shanley (Dublin), Jonathan Slattery (Dublin) and Gavin Telford (Laois).
Some of Ireland’s best known sports figures are former UCD sports scholars including the current international rugby players Brian O’Driscoll and Paddy Wallace, captain of the Dublin County Gaelic Football team, Colin Moran and team mates Alan Brogan, Paul Griffin and Darren Magee
The UCD sports scholarship programme aims to develop elite athletes who can compete at the highest national and international level. Sport at UCD continues to thrive and recent announcements by the university in relation to the building of a swimming pool along with the completion of the upgrading of the UCD Bowl for use by soccer and rugby will further improve the facilities for sports players and spectators alike.
Pictured above are UCD Rugby Scholars Eoghan Conran (Kildare), Jonathan Slattery (Dublin), Mark Flanagan (Westmeath), Wesley Carter (Tipperary) and Ben Barclay (Dublin), at the announcement of the UCD Sports Scholarship recipients for the 2007/2008 academic year.