All of the latest on and off campus news.
This academic year has seen a rise in the number of students interested in running for a position in the SU elections. Read more…
DCU student Atkinson landed a Voice of Ireland reporter role after applying just five minutes before deadline. Read more…
Students have voted to support equal marraige, following a sit-in protest against actions of the university’s Christian Union society. Read more…
The university are to hold their seventh referendum this year on the university’s stance on direct provision for asylum seekers. Read more…
NUIG are to award extra CAO points and other benefits to athletes to encourage them to study at the university. Read more…
Construction of the new Grangegorman campus of Dublin Institute of Technology is expected to create almost 6,000 jobs. Read more…
DCU Dance hosted a jam-packed week of events to get the whole college jiving and Irish dancing last week. Read more…
Young local man, Declan Meenagh (24) is seeking election in Cabra. A member of the Labour party, he is a recent graduate of NUI Maynooth and visually impaired. Read more…
DCU and NUI Maynooth have been hit with controversy over fake stag and hen parties. Read more…
Staff in the School of Communications are frustrated with server problems that are hindering students’ work. Read more…
Final year students consider their options as starting salaries fall to lowest rate in ten years. Read more…
Class Rep Council 7 abandoned due to lack of numbers Read more…
DCU SU raised over €7,000 for charity when Welfare Officer Lorna Finnegan took NUI Maynooth’s Mal Callan’s hand in marriage. Read more…
Figures released by the Lancet report and low wages for graduate nurses prompt student protests. Read more…
A variety of new amenities will be made available in DCU if proposed student centre gets go-ahead. Read more…
DCU’s Raise and Give Society will continue to participate in college charity events despite the re-branding of the notorious RAG Week. Read more…
Concerns have been raised as a new President of Queens University Belfast has been instated on a higher pay scale than the UK Prime Minister. Sharron Lynskey reports. Read more…
A recent RAG society event saw students pitch social enterprise ideas to a panel of social entrepreneurs in a bid for financial support. Hannah Moran reports. Read more…
The Foreign Affairs Minister has included educational services in Ireland’s international trade policy, hoping to take in €900m next year. Read more…
DCU is to host an international ethics symposium this May as part of President Higgins new ethics initiative. Read more…
UCD Students Union are keen to remodel and follow the example of UK SUs, which campaign for better student services on campus. Read more…
Students from across the country competed to make it to the furthest-flung corners of the globe for charity, as part of the recent ‘Jailbreak14’ event. Read more…
The Union of Students in Ireland organised the first ever National Conference on Gender recently, featuring modules on reproductive rights and transgender rights. Read more…
Students heard from successful graduates on how best to land their dream careers at a recent Careers Week talk at DCU. Read more…
Leading economists and academics addressed students on the future of Ireland’s third-level sector at the recent Trinity Economic Forum. Read more…