Exclusive Interview with Our Lord and Saviour, The UCD Prez Himself | Turbine
The Turbine chatted with the Prez on a Zoom call, touching on everything from movies and food to how he beats the blues! Q: What’s your favourite time of day?…
UCD Students’ Union Donate Surplus Goods To Dublin Homeless Charity
After the closure of the UCD Campus in March, the UCD Students’ Union (SU) donated the rest of the perishable stock in the SU shops local charity Inner City Helping…
UCD Should Adopt A New Mental Health Strategy | Ruairí Power – UCDSU Welfare Officer
Safely emerging from the Covid-19 crisis demands that we reimagine the structure of our day to day lives. How we access mental healthcare is no exception. Following the unified calls…
Lights, Camera, Cut? How the Pandemic is Affecting the Film Industry
When we woke up to the announcement of the Bafta TV nominations, it was almost as if, just for a moment, the last few months hadn’t changed life completely. The…
End Of The Line For Student Fee Compensation Movement
Conor Anderson, incoming University College Dublin (UCD) Students’ Union president, informed students that the university is not set to be compensating fees due to Covid-19 crisis. In a post to…
Trinity Provost Calls for Creation of Department of Higher Education
Calls for the introduction of a Department of Higher Education and Research grow as Dr Patrick Prendergast, Provost of Trinity College Dublin, signalled his support for its establishment in an…
Three Contest UCDSU Graduate Officer By-Election
Three postgraduate students are contesting the race for Graduate Officer at University College Dublin (UCD) Students’ Union (SU). Following the election of five executive officers in May, the position for…
“The Government Is Constraining Us Like Hell” | Patrick Paul Walsh on the Slow Death of the University
Conor Capplis – Editor The government’s decade-long underfunding of universities has presented the sector with a myriad of issues, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed unreliable non-exchequer sources of income.…
Success In Sight For NovaUCD’s Student Start-Ups
Last week, the 2020 NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition was launched. The competition, which is being run digitally in light of Covid-19 restrictions, will see early-stage student start-ups go through an…
Saturday Classes “Incredibly Unfair” and “Not Practical” | Letter to the Editor
The following letter is in response to University College Dublin’s (UCD) proposed university structures for Trimester 1 in Autumn 2020. National health guidelines will pose “significant challenges” to maintaining face-to-face…
UCD Spent Almost €15 million On Off-Campus Residential Properties
University College Dublin (UCD) has spent €14.8 million on off-campus residential properties since the presidency of former UCD President Hugh Brady. The College Tribune can reveal that UCD has purchased…
REVEALED: Report Shows What UCD Will Look Like in Autumn – Very Different
Hybrid learning, no exams in the RDS, late September start, Saturday classes, specified student groups to share classes with, and not a lot of mixing; here’s what Autumn 2020 will…