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On the evening of January 8th, 16 relatives of Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital staff were vaccinated ahead of 39 medical students who were on stand-by for the vaccine.…
Professor Dolores Cahill has recently threatened the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) with legal action, over her appearance in a BBC Panorama documentary. The Documentary titled: ‘BBC 1 Panorama: Vaccines and…
The UCD Athletics Club is one of the university’s most successful sports club ever. It holds the school record for churning out Olympians and World Championship competitors. UCD Athletics had…
Business and economics can often come across as inaccessible in academia. It can feel like fancy words are designed to complicate things that your average man or woman on the…
It has been a year since the game-changing 2020 general election, which brought an end to civil war politics, and redrew the electoral map. However, due to COVID-19 suspending politics…
This week the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman published a white paper setting out the governments plan to abolish direct provision. The proposals include the…
Mass on-campus Covid-19 testing is underway this week at the University of Limerick after an outbreak of the virus among the student population. Dr Ronan Ryder, Director of the Student…
On February 22nd, University College Dublin (UCD) President, Andrew Deeks issued a Bulletin following the announcement of the Level 5 Lockdown extension. Deeks outlined the importance of limiting campus activities…
This week marked the one year anniversary since Mary Naughton, founder of the UCD Post-Graduate Workers Alliance (PGWA) marched on a meeting of University management to present their demands, along…
T/W: Sexual Abuse and Child Abuse In a live-streamed interview with Off The Ball, University College Dublin (UCD) Alumnus and former professional Rugby Union Player, Brian O’Driscoll, addressed the sexual…
Huawei has been the center of much controversy in recent years, primarily thanks to increased US scrutiny under the Trump administration. This increased scrutiny eventually led to the company being…
Developers have applied for fast-tracked permission to build a new student accommodation facility near UCD. If approved, the facility would consist of eight 7 storey apartment blocks, with space for…