The Collidge Nucleus Behind Ireland’s Rugby World Cup squad
Andy Farrell’s 33-man squad has landed in France for the Rugby World Cup and more than stamped an impact into the competition with a dominant 79-point win in their opening…
L&H Forced to Remove Arthur Cox Logo from RTÉ Debate Posters
At last week’s House Debate, committee members of the Literary and Historical Society (L&H) admitted that their corporate sponsor, Arthur Cox, had reached out to the society to request the…
The Worrying State of UCD AFC: Foundations & Misplaced Priorities
Very few expect UCD AFC to challenge for the League of Ireland title, or even contest for a top 6 finish, but the 2023 season has already seen the Collidge…
UCD Euthanises 17,000 Animals in Testing since 2020
Data released to the College Tribune using the Freedom of Information Act shows that 16,994 laboratory animals have been euthanised in the university for medical and scientific research since 2020.…
UCD accommodation rent reaches record high
The cost of student accommodation in Irish universities has increased once again this year, with the prices of accommodation in UCD increasing by a further 2% from last year’s figures…
On the verge of irrelevance: Stephen Kenny’s Ireland era hangs in the balance
The defence of the Stephen Kenny era has been based in romanticism. This romanticism is forged in a belief in what Irish football ought to be. The first strand of…
Is Tiktok For You? Now You Can Decide
TikTok, the social media platform with over 1.1 billion global users, is changing, or at least for Europeans. Earlier this month, TikTok announced that it would soon be giving users…
Harris announces €2m to fund Erasmus for students in North
The Irish government will allocate €2 million to support Northern Irish students who can no longer partake in the Erasmus+ programme, the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Simon Harris…
UCD jumps 10 spaces in university world rankings but remains firmly in second-place
University College Dublin is among the top 200 universities in the world according to the latest set of QS university world rankings, coming in at 171st. UCD remains the second-highest-ranking…
UCD loses €29.5 million by halting two capital projects worth €590 million.
“Unprecedented levels of construction cost inflation” will seize plans on a student residence scheme and Centre of Creativity at the university, according to the UCD governing authority. According to UCD’s…
BREAKING: UCDSU announce end of resit fees for UCD students
Students in UCD will no longer have to pay €180 to resit exams starting from this September, UCD Students’ Union has announced. The abolition of resit fees has been the…
UCD to hire 156 new staff in national plan to improve student-staff ratios
Irish universities have been granted permission from the Government to hire more than 1500 new permanent staff members this year in an effort to improve student-staff ratios. UCD will see…