Video & pictures: The Rochestown link with the Sigerson Cup

Video & pictures: The Rochestown link with the Sigerson Cup
UCC team members Shane Kingston, Kevin Flahive, John O'Sullivan, David Griffin and Nathan Walsh, during their visit to St Francis College, Rochestown, with the Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cups. All are past pupils of the college. Picture: David Keane.

David Griffin, with the Fitzgibbon Cup, and Kevin Flahive with the Sigerson Cup, at the graveside of Brother Edwin Fitzgibbon who donated the Fitzgibbon Cup in 1912, during the visit to St Francis College, Rochestown, by UCC GAA Club team members of the Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cup winning teams who are also past-pupils of the college. 

Included are, standing from left: Nathan Walsh, Sigerson team, Shane Kingston, Fitzgibbon team, Liam Ó Murchú, deputy principal; John O’Sullivan, Fitzgibbon team, Paul O’Reilly, teaching staff, Marie Ring, principal, Eoghan Buckley, teaching staff, Paddy Crowley, president of UCC hurling club;
Charlie McLaughlin, Sigerson team coaching staff, John Grainger, UCC GAA development
officer, along with Alan Cadogan, Cork hurler, and Eamonn Hennessy, both teaching staff, and right: the gravestone of Brother Edwin. Picture: David Keane


UCC team members Shane Kingston, John O'Sullivan, Nathan Walsh, Kevin Flahive and David Griffin, during their visit to St Francis College, Rochestown, with the Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cups. All are past pupils of the college. Also included are members of the current college senior hurling and football teams. Picture: David Keane.
UCC team members Shane Kingston, John O'Sullivan, Nathan Walsh, Kevin Flahive and David Griffin, during their visit to St Francis College, Rochestown, with the Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cups. All are past pupils of the college. Also included are members of the current college senior hurling and football teams. Picture: David Keane.

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