Sport
Deadly Mahony puts DCU to the sword
UCC 7-18 DCU 0-10 by Eoghan Cormican At the Mardyke The scoreline says it all. A tale of two teams at either end of the of the Fitzgibbon spectrum. On a bitterly cold night at Read more…
The College View
Sport
Crunch time for GAA sides
by Tom Rooney The month of February marks a busy period for DCU’s footballers and hurlers as they enter the business end of the season. Their respective league campaigns proved a mix bag last year, Read more…
Sport
Sheehan braced for Cork challenge
by Eoghan Cormican Having already secured a semi-final berth, DCU’s camogie side will seek the prize of top spot in Group A when they travel to face CIT in today’s crucial Purcell Cup fixture. DCU Read more…
Sport
Freshers survive late fightback
DCU 0-9 St. Mary’s 0-8 by Eoghan Cormican At St. Clare’s Wing back Conor Daly proved an unlikely hero as the Freshers football side were pushed all the way in this fractious first round clash Read more…
Sport
DCU bailed out of trouble by late goal
DCU 1-12 GMIT 0-15 (after extra time) by Eoghan Cormican At St. Clare’s Substitute Peter Corry came to the rescue of DCU’s freshers hurling outfit just when as outsiders GMIT had one eye on a Read more…
Sport
UCD toppled in Intermediate league triumph
DCU 0-11 UCD 0-10 by Eamon Donoghue At Belfield DCU held out for their third All-Ireland title in a week by overcoming UCD in the Intermediate league final on Thursday last. An excellent first half Read more…
Sport
Plum draw for DCU in O’Byrne Cup
DCU’s senior football side have received an extremely favourable draw ahead of next year’s O’Byrne Cup, which gives the North Dublin College more than a sporting chance of making the semi-finals come January 22nd. Niall Read more…
Sport
Scintillating run clinches gold for Britton
by Eoghan Cormican Fionnuala Britton achieved glorious redemption for last year’s heartbreaking fourth place finish when claiming the gold medal at last weekend’s European Cross-Country championships in Velenje, Slovenia. Not since Catherina McKiernan’s victory in Read more…
Sport
Freshers hold the aces in league decider
DCU 1-8 Carlow I.T 0-10 by Gavin Cawley At Newscastle DCU captured their first piece of GAA silverware with this hard fought victory over Carlow IT in what turned out to be a cracking contest Read more…
Sport
In Pursuit of Glory
In Pursuit of Glory In anticipation of today’s Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cup draws, The College View Sport talks to the various GAA managers about their ambitions for the season ahead by Paul O’ Brien Although Read more…
Sport
Relegation woe as injury-time goal condemns hurlers
GMIT 2-6 DCU 0-11 by Eoghan Cormican At St. Loman’s A Kealan Greene goal twenty-five seconds into injury time brought the curtain down on DCU’s short lived stay in the realms of Fitzgibbon hurling. Played Read more…
Sport
Study could signal change in training methods
by Sam Griffin Three DCU students are taking part in a new study that has determined that small amounts of high intensity interval training (HIIT) have the same effect as much longer levels of Read more…
Features
Interview with Neil Delamre
Best known for his presence on The Panel and The Blame Game, Neil Delamere is one of the most well known and loved Irish comedians at the moment. With his third DVD, Implement of Divilment, Read more…
Features
Based on a true story? Usually more loosely than expected…
By Emma-Louise Hutchinson I don’t ask for much from the movies I watch, just that they, you know, do what they say on the tin, or the movie poster as the case may be. I’m Read more…
The Hype
Luke Healy rejects the culture of self-mprovement
by Luke Healy I am terrible. Lots of people are terrible too. Lots and lots and lots. But some people are great. And I want to be one of them. So what makes a person Read more…
The Hype
Luke Healy writes a romance novel
When I was a teenager, my friends and I spent our Friday nights in a book shop. Yeah, we were those guys. While our peers were out drinking €2 cider in a field, we were Read more…
The Hype
Stylists…the new rulers of the fashion world?
Katie Clinton Remember the time before stylists ran the fashion world? Maybe I should say, before we knew they ran it? The days when Rachel Zoe wasn’t more recognisable than of her clients and it Read more…
News
Paralympic gold medallist joins the activities on Disability Awareness Day
By Conor McTernan Many students are unaware that there are currently 380 students with a disability registered with the Disability Learning Support Service in DCU. Disability Awareness Day was staged last Monday as part of Read more…
News
Pat Kenny is ‘pretty stupid for an educated man’ – Kennedy
By Gillian Fitzsimons Irish singer-songwriter Brian Kennedy branded Pat Kenny ‘‘pretty stupid for an educated man’’ at an LGBT talk held in DCU. He criticised the RTÉ broadcaster after being the subject of homophobic remarks Read more…
News
Labour DCU blames Fine Gael for U-turn on education cuts Critical of DCU president’s €180,000 wage
By Sam Griffin The government has broken the pre-election promises it made to students by introducing cuts to education in the Budget, according to the DCU branch of the Labour Party. Chairman of Labour DCU, Read more…
News
Calls to celebrate an International Week
By Frances Mulraney International Day ‘‘could have been a much bigger event’’ if it was spread across a number of days, according to the Islamic Society at DCU. As part of Identity Week, campus was Read more…
News
Mature students face a tough challenge getting back to education
By Aisling Kett Mature students in DCU say Budget 2012 will make it more difficult to return to education at a time when people need to further their qualifications to become more employable. The overall Read more…
News
Decrease in number of ‘disadvantaged’ students studying a postgraduate degree
By Aisling Short Scrapping maintenance grants for new postgraduate students will lower registration numbers and discourage those termed ‘the disadvantaged’ from applying for postgraduate degrees, according to Dr. Lisa Looney, the newly appointed Dean of Read more…
News
DCU RAG Rumble a knock out success
By Frances Mulraney and Emma Jane Hade DCU’s Raising and Giving (RAG) Society raised €5,022.83 with the university’s first ever white collar boxing event as more than 30 DCU students took to the ring last Read more…
News
Oh no she didn’t
By Noelle Smith Oh yes she did! Lisa Keegan’s unorthodox yet hilarious version of a ‘happily ever after’ fairytale was a hit in DCU with sold out shows nearly every night. Crappily Ever After tells Read more…