Year: 2012

By Aisling Kett A society dedicated to drinking tea has been set up in DCU. DCU Society Life Committee approved the establishment of DCU Tea Society at a meeting last Wednesday. DCU Tea Society aims Read more…

By Catrίona Hughes DCU’s animal welfare society, Whisker has raised over €1,000 so far this year for various sanctuaries helping homeless animals in Ireland. The figure emerged following a neutering awareness campaign and sponsored fast Read more…

By Aisling Kett Minister for European Affairs, Lucinda Creighton told students that there are plenty of jobs in the EU when she spoke at an EU jobs fair in the Helix last Tuesday. The minister Read more…

By Mary McDonnell  DCU lecturer, Brian Harney, delivered a 24-hour lecture in aid of ‘Baby Grace’ last Wednesday. Grace is the daughter of a PDP student in the Business School, and is being treated for Read more…

  By Brendan White Three DCU students will join other regional winners from around Ireland to compete for a place in the World Finals of the The Red Bull Paper Wings competition taking place in Read more…

By Róisín Treacy Atheist Ireland wants teacher training college Hibernia to remove “defamatory allegations” from some of its course notes which blame atheists for some of the “worst horrors of history”, according to the Journal.ie. Read more…

By Catríona Hughes University College Cork must pay a former staff member in the research department an ex gratia redundancy payment in addition to her statutory redundancy entitlement after losing a challenge to a Labour Read more…

Newspapers will become extinct if they fail to embrace new technologies, according to the editor of The Irish Times. Speaking at an event in DCU last week, Kevin O’Sullivan stressed how important it is for Read more…

By Adam Higgins DCU ranks outside the top 100 places to study a degree in finance according to a recent report. The latest QS world rankings leaves Ireland far down the list as a place Read more…

By Gerard Madden, reporter from SIN NUIG   The Galway branch of the campaign Free Education for Everyone (FEE) led students on a march through the city last Wednesday in a protest against cuts to Read more…

  By Frances Mulraney Class Rep Council voted to amend the funding models on which students would vote, if a second referendum were to take place on higher education funding. The council last Wednesday passed Read more…

  By Sarah Bermingham   DCU Students’ Union joined forces with Drinkaware.ie recently to stage Alcohol Awareness Week, which aimed to encourage students to ‘rethink their drinking’. Events intended to challenge students’ knowledge of responsible Read more…

  By Aisling Kett   Members of DCUFM took part in the All-Ireland Student Radio Takeover last Saturday at the station’s headquarters in the Hub. The radio station teamed up with students from universities such Read more…

By Sam Griffin The construction of the proposed €50,000 Labyrinth looks set to go ahead after Students’ Union president Ed Leamy acknowledged the project would most likely proceed with or without the support of the Read more…

By Will Slattery After the postponed French clash a few weeks ago there was a joke going around that the tied score line meant that Ireland came away with the best result they had gotten Read more…

By Suzanne Cooper Five new UCD spin out companies aim to employ more than 50 people between them by the end of 2013. They are among 19 spin-out companies that completed the Nova UCD Campus Read more…

  By Aisling Kett One cardboard camp.  Roughly 20 students. A jumble of sleeping bags and handmade signs. It could only be the DCU SVP 24 hour sleep out. From 2pm on Wednesday February 22nd Read more…

By Gillian Fitzsimons DCU Students’ Union passed a mandate for future SU elections to hold a hustings at Class Rep Council (CRC), meaning candidates for sabbatical positions must now take part in a debate in Read more…

By Gillian Fitzsimons Discussions about banning Facebook on campus and in particular the library are ongoing between the DCU Students’ Union executive and Information Systems and Services (ISS). Delivering the Executive Report at last Wednesday’s Read more…