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Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

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Campus Gatherings Drop by 50% in Spring Trimester

May 28, 2021May 28, 2021 By Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

The number of unauthorised gatherings detected by University College Dublin (UCD) dropped by almost 50% this year. However, off-campus parties

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Is Belfield A ‘Riot-Proof’ Campus? | UCD MythBusters

March 20, 2021March 20, 2021 By Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

You’ve all heard the rumours; your peer mentors might have mentioned University College Dublin’s “riot-proof design” when you first arrived

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Is the Student Centre pool really Olympic standard? | UCD MythBusters | An Fócas

February 22, 2021March 17, 2021 By Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

Some of you may have heard the rumours that UCD’s pool isn’t what it seems. The most popular stories going

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‘Old Man Belfield saved my life’ | An Fócas

February 21, 2021March 17, 2021 By Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

On a wet and windy night in 1990’s Dublin, second year Arts student Gisèle Scanlon was making her way onto

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How Twitter Changed Journalism – For Better and For Worse

January 31, 2021January 30, 2021 By Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

Oh, the times they are a-changin’. Student journalists often forget what the world was like before Twitter and social media.

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The Freshers Who Haven’t Met Their Friends Yet

January 30, 2021January 30, 2021 By Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

For many first years at University College Dublin (UCD) this year has seen an anti-climax punctured by a big sesh-shaped

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UCD Doctors Unethically Vaccinated Children in Mother & Baby Homes

January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 By Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

Medical researchers from University College Dublin (UCD) conducted unethical vaccine trials on children in Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes, according to the

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Investigation: UCD Breaching Law With Staff Hiring Process

January 14, 2021March 17, 2021 By Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

Hiring practices at University College Dublin (UCD) could be in breach of Irish and EU law, experts have warned. A

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#Opinion

The Latest Nude Sharing Scandal Shows Nothing Has Changed Since UCD200 | Opinion

November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 By Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

Back in February 2016, The College Tribune broke a story which described as many as 200 students, mainly male agricultural

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Staff Brace for Unprecedented Slash to Academic Council Numbers

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 By Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

Proposals to reduce the membership of University College Dublin’s (UCD) largest academic committee will be considered later this week. On

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The Housing Disaster: Analysing Our Generation’s Defining Crisis

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 By Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

This article is the first in a new series of collaborative efforts by Irish student journalists. The team comes from

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UCD Launches Diversity Screen to Track Equality Progress

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 By Conor Capplis - Senior Reporter

The voluntary scheme asks staff members to report their gender, sexuality, date of birth, ethnicity, nationality, religion, civil status, family status and disability.

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