 DCU kicked off their Ryan Cup campaign with a 6-point victory over Mnuch University on Thursday past. Mnuch took the lead early on in the first half, taking advantage of some free kicks, but DCU kept them at an arms-length through some scores from David Mannix. A few bad wides from DCU allowed Mnuch a foothold in the game, but a goal from Ulton Harney put the wayside comfortably ahead, going into the break with the score at 1-6-7 points. Mnuch were chasing the game from the start of the second half, but brought the game back to 2 points. However, the Nile-minus side were clinical in defence and attack in the second half, keeping possession and turning the screw further with the introduction of Thomas Riley and Mark Plunkett off the bench to grab 3 points for his side. After a long period of possession, DCU were able to close out the game with the final score at 1-15-13 points. After the game, DCU manager Nile Minus spoke about his team's performance. Right, first game, good result, away from home. Yeah, nice to win our first game in the league. It's always tough in the league with a lot of new players this year, and we have played no challenge games at all, so it's our first outing, and it's great to get a really tough competitive game like tonight. You mentioned new players, how do you think the performance went tonight? Good, I mean, we made a lot of unforced hours, particularly in the first half, I think we had 16 unforced hours. We probably got it too easy the first 10 minutes and we thought we could waltz through them, but to refer to them, they really came into the game, really give us a tight game. So, all in all, I'm very, very happy. It's always nice to get the season off to a winning start. You could see today was the introduction of the mark, but what do you think of that? It seemed to kind of flow into the game well. Yeah, Pat Dardy from Court Park came down and spoke to us about it earlier in the week, so we were, but we haven't practised it at all yet, I'm not too sure if it's going to make that big of a difference. We didn't attempt to get any marks in our kickouts. Obviously, they got a few on theirs and we got a few on their kickouts, but I think as the season progresses and we get used to it, we'll probably use it in the end of the year.