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DCU do Seachtain na Gaeilge

March 10, 2016

Seachtain na Gaeilge is a nationwide campaign backed by organisations who aim to promote Irish. It takes place the week before St. Patrick’s Day each year. Whilst great emphasis is put on the campaign in Read more…

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Fresher hurlers beaten by CIT in final

March 9, 2016

Fresher A hurling final Cork Institute of Technology IT 1-13 DCU 0-13 DCU were beaten in the All-Ireland Fresher Hurling final by Cork Institute of Technology in the Cork College’s sports grounds on Thursday, March Read more…

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DCU Ladies qualify for O’Connor Cup weekend

March 9, 2016

O’Connor Cup quarter-final DCU 3-18 Queen’s University Belfast 1-11 DCU qualified for the O’Connor Cup weekend on Thursday night, February 25th, after seeing off Queen’s University Belfast in an exciting encounter.

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DCU dance over the competition

March 9, 2016

  DCU Dance Society took home five awards at an inter varsity competition in Trinity College Dublin, last week.

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Observations of accidental adulthood

March 9, 2016

As Virginia Woolf once said, ‘growing up is losing some illusions in order to acquire others’. You may no longer believe in Santa (or you may, each to their own), but you can somehow make yourself believe that those letters marked ‘urgent’ about your student loan repayments are not even there. Read more…

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The changing world of children’s toys

March 9, 2016

Toys are changing, while some people may worry that tablets and smartphones are taking over and that young children are becoming dependent on technology, in the opposite direction, many toys are becoming more suitable and appropriate for children every day. Read more…

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MacCraith gets grilling at CRC

March 9, 2016

Overcrowding in the computing faculty and campus accommodation rent hikes were among the issues Class Rep Council (CRC) brought to DCU President, Professor Brian MacCraith.

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Ex convict leads enactus bootcamp

March 9, 2016

DCU Enactus Society launched a fitness boot-camp conducted by a former prisoner as their latest social enterprise project, last week.

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Living with Diabetes

March 9, 2016

spiralling down towards a really unhealthy lifestyle. The more rare kind of Diabetes is type 1: a disease you most commonly get diagnosed with at an early stage in life – for no, yet, known reason. For many kids who have this disease, or any other disease that makes you “different”, it is something well connected to shame. Read more…