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[dropcap]A [/dropcap]large number of elderly patients are remaining in hospital instead of transferring to nursing homes they are eligible for, a new report has found.
[dropcap]Changes [/dropcap]have been made to Irish oral examinations in the four state-funded postgraduate primary school teaching courses in Ireland.
Irish Girl Guides have used Lego robotic materials to create new solutions to tackle water sustainability at a DCU expo. Read more…
The strategy includes five ‘steps’. The first is to provide access to a broader range of options for parents, so to facilitate an easier balance of working and caring. Read more…
The USI Vice President for Welfare, Damien McClean said students often know that support services exist but they feel like their problems are not serious enough to warrant using them. Read more…
Athlone IT worked with Hotpress, Lyon’s tea and Pieta House on a mental health campaign creating seveal illustrations depicting mental health issues. Read more…
Currently, 33 per cent of their professors are female, this has risen by two per cent since November 2017. UL received the Athena Swan Bronze award in 2015 for their work in advancing gender equality, an award that DCU won in 2017. Read more…
The introduction of VAT on food supplements has caused upset with the Revenue amongst health food shops and some calling it a “tax on the elderly.” Read more…
[dropcap]The [/dropcap]amount paid in library fines across the DCU Glasnevin and St Patrick’s libraries decreased by over €6,700 from 2016/2017 to 2017/2018.
[dropcap]A [/dropcap]housing charity is moving elderly residents out of a housing complex deemed not fit for purpose and moving 18 students in, charging them over three times the rent the previous residents were paying.
A Trinity Professor won the Science Foundation Ireland award: Researcher of the Year for his work on artificial intelligence. Read more…
Raising and Giving society (RAG) raised thousands of euro of charity at this years RAG Rumble which was a literal knockout event.
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Pharmacists warn people of the effects of using antibiotics for common illnesses like the cold, on which they have no effect. Read more…
Irish drinkers level of alcohol consumption can lead to serious health problems new research fro Drinkaware finds. Read more…
A simulated terrorist attack, known as Operation Barracuda, was staged on DCU campus to test how well emerency services react to such high risk incidents. Read more…
DCU’s FuJo Institute was funded by the European Commission to tackle disinformation spread online specifically on social media. Read more…
Neuroscientists were successful in getting paralysed patients walking again after using electrical stimulation on the spine. Read more…
There will be a record of patients on trolleys this winter warns the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) as hospitals wait until Spring to receive more beds. Read more…
From the findings of the report, they have urged policymakers to prioritise transition planning at an earlier stage within the post-primary school life-cycle for young people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Read more…
The dissatisfaction from the student body is due to the fact that the company also caters for three direct provision centres in Ireland and accommodates 850 asylum seekers in Cork, Athlone and Clare. Read more…
Over 20 different events took place during Rainbow Week with TCDSU working alongside a number of different Trinity societies in order to include and engage with all of the student body. Read more…
It ranks Ireland 4th out of 16 other European nations on the success scale, although the reasons are not financial. Read more…
DCU SU Vice President for welfare and equality does not believe in making consent workshops mandatory as it goes against the meaning of consent. Read more…
DCU has made it onto the Dublin Edition of the Monopoly board, the only university in Dublin to do so. Read more…
Three primary school children from Glasnevin helped design a children’s science books in an effort to make science more understandable for younger ages. Read more…
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