St Nicholas' is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club serving Ballyvolane and the adjacent Blackpool area. The club runs Gaelic football and hurling for all ages, and matches at the local grounds are the kind of thing that defines a Cork northside weekend.
If you're in Ballyvolane on a Sunday and there's a match on, it's worth watching. Cork people are serious about hurling and football in a way that's hard to convey to outsiders — the local club game is fiercely contested and completely free to watch.