Author: Katie O’Shaughnessy
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Budget 2018: childcare
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Child and Family Agengy, Tusla will receive an additional €40.6 million in 2018, bringing their annual funding to…
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Budget 2018: Tackling cancer
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Minister Paschal Donohue increased the VAT rate applied to sunbed services in yesterday’s budget, due to “Clear evidence” of…
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Round up of Budget 2018
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Leo Varadkar’s first budget was unveiled yesterday which contained modest increases in public spending alongside a small measure…
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SU offices ransacked
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The Students’ Union offices were broken into and ransacked on Sunday night, according to the SU president Niall…
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Fire breaks out in campus pharmacy
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There were no injuries when a fire broke out in the DCU pharmacy Pharmahealth on Tuesday at 11:12am.
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Editorial: Loser, winner: SU, where’s my chicken dinner?
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The curious case of the missing goujon spiralled out of control in recent weeks. So significant was the…
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Editorial: New DCU fails to reflect feeling of lost identity among smaller colleges
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All changed, changed utterly: a New DCU has been born. We have now passed the four month anniversary…
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Students and staff at CICE protest against unresolved compensation claims
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Students and staff members of CICE on Friday protested outside the college’s former site in Rathmines against unresolved…
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Government shamed as Apollo House recaptures spirits of 1916
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Sometimes doing a little can mean a lot. While one person cannot put the world to rights they…
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DCU’s indifference to student addiction
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Bríon Hoban takes a look into DCU’s attitude towards drugs and its strict anti-drug policy and wonders that…
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Staff member ‘made homeless’ following Incorporation
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A DCU member of staff and their son were made homeless following the Incorporation Programme, which saw the…
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Alumni look to the future at TEDxDCU
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Last week saw DCU hold a TEDx conference on the principle of Imagining the Next Century where speakers,…
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Absent voters sacrifice their voice
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Following last week’s US presidential election, Bríon Hoban believes that if more young Americans had voted, the outcome…
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Record breaker: Ireland’s Greta Streimikyte
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On Thursday, September 8th Greta Streimikyte sent shockwaves throughout Ireland when she set a new personal best and…
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Budget 2017 neglects mental health
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The rate of suicides in this country is higher than the rate of road deaths yet mental health…
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From medicine to journalism, Sheri Fink has done it all
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New York Times investigative reporter Dr. Sheri Fink graduated from Stanford University 26 years ago with a Bachelor’s…
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Selfish students only support certain strikes
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Recent Dublin Bus strikes caused outrage amongst students and the general populace, but is it so wrong to…
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Does DCU deserve more credit than it’s given?
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DCU was one of seven Irish third-level institutions to fall in the QS World University Ranking published this…
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MacCraith: Incorporation will make an impact on Irish society
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DCU President Professor Brian MacCraith has said the Incorporation Programme, which has seen St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra, Mater…
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MacCraith motivated for DCU to reach new heights
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A new DCU is slowly being born following years of hope, vision, innovation and hard work. The crop…
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Opinion: New DCU, old discrimination
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The newly formed DCU Faculty of Education caused controversy on just its third day of existence.
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Religious identity a determining factor in DCU primary school teaching courses
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DCU will offer two alternative pathways to students wishing to enter a primary school teaching course this year,…
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USI backs calls for reintroduction of postgraduate grants
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The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has called for Ireland’s political parties to band together in order…
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Time for Ireland to embrace ideal of free education
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Featured on The Irish Times. “Fees have been steadily rising since 2008, yet it took eight years for…
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DCU offers new programme for retirees
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Dublin City University has launched a new programme aimed at engaging the talents of retired and soon-to-be retired…