Month: November 2011

Cillian Byrne apologises for his part in blockade By Aishling Phelan The Union of Students in Ireland broke the law on the day of the ‘Stop Fees, Save the Grant’ protest by excluding certain groups Read more…

By Sorcha Jowtt DCU’s Amnesty International Society gathered outside the Henry Grattan Building last Thursday with groups of balloons that symbolised Irish women living with domestic abuse. The event was held to celebrate the International Read more…

 By Suzanne Cooper Plans to build brand new state-of-the art libraries at the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) and the University of Limerick (UL) have been scrapped due recent Government cutbacks. The Government made the Read more…

By Eimear Phelan UCD St Vincent de Paul’s fourth Annual Homeless Week raised €800 euro in its first day. The event, which took place from November 14-18, saw around 30 students sleep outside the James Read more…

By Aisling Short Many students will not be able to continue in third-level education if grant cuts are announced on budget day, according to the newly appointed Dean of Graduate Studies, Dr Lisa Looney. Dr Read more…

By Aoife Mullen This year’s CAO offers indicated a change in course preferences, with students opting for the degrees they believe will offer them more job prospects. Many of the Leaving Cert students that attended Read more…

By Eimear Phelan “Freedom of the press is the yardstick used to measure free societies” is just one of the sentiments from the heated and highly contested media debate on Tuesday last week, an event Read more…

By Grainne Coyne and Aishling Phelan Rumours that university fees will increase to €5,000 next year were just “scaremongering” according to Deputy President of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), Colm Murphy. Speaking to Read more…

By Chloe O’Sullivan Only 17 cases of plagiarism were uncovered in DCU last year, despite the findings of a College View survey showing that two in three DCU students have committed plagiarism in some form. Read more…

By Lauren Kelly An arrest was made on campus last week for the theft of bicycles. Bicycle thefts have risen dramatically on the DCU campus in the past number of weeks. An Garda Síochana have Read more…

By Aisling Brady Seventy per cent of DCU students would break off a relationship if their boyfriend or girlfriend had a “one night stand” according to a recent survey on fidelity. Eight-eight percent of respondents Read more…

By Aisling Kett The Old Bar has been closed indefinitely due to serious health and safety concerns and cannot be used under any circumstances. A total of 23 problems forced its closure, including a lock Read more…

By Monica Heck A guest lecture on the topic of marriage equality was given to DCU social studies students by Grainne Healy, chairwoman of the Marriage Equality organisation, last week. Alongside her duties as chairwoman Read more…

By Oonagh O Farrell Seven of Ireland’s third level institutions have launched a new Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) PhD programme, one of the largest projects of its kind in the world. The project has Read more…

By Adam Higgins Dublin City University is one of the only Irish universities to have gone up in the QS World University Rankings this year. DCU rose three places to become the 326th best university Read more…

By Róisín Treacy Greater emphasis will be placed on funding for social sciences and humanities research in Horizon 2020, according to European Union Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. The former Fianna Fáil minister confirmed this change to Read more…

By Ruth Ní Mhaonghaile The new head of the University of Limerick (UL) medical school will earn around €240,000 per annum, €40,000 more than the president of the college itself. UL is currently recruiting a Read more…

By Teresa Gallagher One of the NuBar’s barmen, Jimmy English, had his legs waxed for the Bee for Battens charity on Monday. The 21-year-old communications student volunteered to let anyone with a few euro rip Read more…

By Timmy Kelleher The Occupy Cork Movement employed a flash mob to occupy the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT)  Circus Maximus on November 22. This was the first instance of the Occupy Cork group staging Read more…

By Gillian Fitzsimons DCU unveiled its UV message wall last Thursday evening as part of the college’s Please Talk Week. The wall illuminated various anonymous messages from students expressing their feelings. The purpose of the Read more…

By Frances Mulraney A University College Cork (UCC) society must disband following disorderly behaviour on a mystery tour bringing disgrace to the university. UCC Engineering Society or “Eng Soc” was told to close by the Read more…

By Catriona Hughes The European Investment Bank agreed to grant UCD and its Belfield Campus a loan of €90 million on Thursday, November 17. UCD was not alone, as the ESB also agreed a loan Read more…

By Adam Higgins A brand new training facility is to be built for Leinster Rugby on the grounds of University College Dublin (UCD). Work is already underway for a number of top of the line Read more…