Lockdown 2.0 and Mental Health: We Need Each Other Now More Than Ever | Editorial
Here we are again; just under a week into Lockdown 2.0. Now more than ever we will need our friends and family to stick by us all to make sure…
UCD Professor Takes Maths Lectures into the Wicklow Mountains
Professor Colm Fitzgerald, an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University College Dublin (UCD) has come up with a novel approach to delivering lectures online during…
UCD To Receive Over 8 Million in Research Funding
UCD will be provided with €8,273,620 of a €47 million euro fund for research contractors and research students whose work has been heavily impacted by Covid-19, Simon Harris has announced.…
Broken Promises : UCD’s Handling Of The Global Pandemic | Editorial
In March, students left the Belfield campus, as they have every year for the welcomed two-week respite. But this time, they did not return. Covid-19 took the country into lockdown…
UCD Collab with DNA Collection Company Labelled as “Restrictive”
University College Dublin and Genuity Science, have announced a collaborative agreement as part of a large scale population research programme across more than 60 diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s.…
USI launches “Education for All” Campaign for Accessible Third-Level Education
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has recently launched a new campaign known as “Education for All” which calls for the department of education to make third-level education more…
Ryan Blocks Irish Music Quotas
Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Transport Eamon Ryan has ruled out the implementation of quotas for Irish produced music on national radio, citing an incompatibility with EU law as…
Direct Provision Residents Undergo Hunger Strike, Protesting “Inhumane” Conditions
Residents of the Direct Provision Centre in Cahersiveen have gone on hunger strike to protest their “inhumane” living conditions. The hunger strike began on the morning of Tuesday July 28th…
Students May Attend Class Significantly Less Than UCD Are Promising, say UCD Academics
University College Dublin’s (UCD) plan for undergraduate students to attend between 40 and 60% of their classes in the Autumn Trimester may not reflect the reality for many students, according…
Thomas Grund: In Getting Students Back On Campus, Money Is All UCD Cares About | Op-Ed
It took months into the pandemic for University College Dublin (UCD) to realise that teaching in the autumn cannot go ahead as usual. Only on May 28th, UCD’s President Andrew…
It’s not easy being green | Conall Mac Dhonnagáin – PRO for UCD Young Greens
It's no secret that I am in favour of new leadership in the Green Party. I made that clear in my last piece; "Ryan Is Not The Green Messiah, He's…
No Messing Around This Time: UCD’s New Students’ Union President
The next President of University College Dublin’s (UCD) Students’ Union (SU) will be a familiar face to some. As this year’s Graduate Officer for the SU, Conor Anderson championed a…