Fifteen teams from five colleges will compete at this weekend’s Intervarsities Championship in Dublin.
Hosted by Trinity, who are also staging a black-tie gala dinner on Saturday night to celebrate their 90-year involvement in squash, they will be joined at the tournament by the Royal College of Surgeons, Queen’s University Belfast, University College Cork and the University of Galway.
Listed among the 75 players set to take part is Galway’s Danny Lynch, the three-time Ireland selection for the World Squash Junior Championships, who was chosen as a Trinity College Dublin sports scholarship recipient for 2025/26.
The reigning Irish BU19 Junior champion, who followed up appearances in Nancy and Houston with last July’s Ireland trip to Cairo, is now part of the Trinity scholarship programme catering for 62 athletes across 20 sports.
The squash tournament gets underway at 5:30pm on Friday with a Division A clash featuring two Trinity teams. RCSI A, QUB A and UCC A are the three other Division A teams. They will be in action on Saturday and Sunday.
Aside from the three courts at Trinity, two courts at Leinster Cricket Club are also scheduled to host a half-dozen Division C matches on Saturday.
Last year’s Intervarsities, hosted by Queen’s, ended with RCSI winning Division A ahead of Trinity, whose Front Square dining hall celebration this weekend of 90 years of squash at the college will see players, coaches, supporters and friends from across the generations reconnect.
