By Oonagh O Farrell Seven of Ireland’s third level institutions have launched a new Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) PhD programme, one of the largest projects of its kind in the world. The project has Read more…
By Adam Higgins Dublin City University is one of the only Irish universities to have gone up in the QS World University Rankings this year. DCU rose three places to become the 326th best university Read more…
By Róisín Treacy Greater emphasis will be placed on funding for social sciences and humanities research in Horizon 2020, according to European Union Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. The former Fianna Fáil minister confirmed this change to Read more…
By Ruth Ní Mhaonghaile The new head of the University of Limerick (UL) medical school will earn around €240,000 per annum, €40,000 more than the president of the college itself. UL is currently recruiting a Read more…
By Teresa Gallagher One of the NuBar’s barmen, Jimmy English, had his legs waxed for the Bee for Battens charity on Monday. The 21-year-old communications student volunteered to let anyone with a few euro rip Read more…
By Timmy Kelleher The Occupy Cork Movement employed a flash mob to occupy the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) Circus Maximus on November 22. This was the first instance of the Occupy Cork group staging Read more…
By Gillian Fitzsimons DCU unveiled its UV message wall last Thursday evening as part of the college’s Please Talk Week. The wall illuminated various anonymous messages from students expressing their feelings. The purpose of the Read more…
By Frances Mulraney A University College Cork (UCC) society must disband following disorderly behaviour on a mystery tour bringing disgrace to the university. UCC Engineering Society or “Eng Soc” was told to close by the Read more…
By Catriona Hughes The European Investment Bank agreed to grant UCD and its Belfield Campus a loan of €90 million on Thursday, November 17. UCD was not alone, as the ESB also agreed a loan Read more…
By Adam Higgins A brand new training facility is to be built for Leinster Rugby on the grounds of University College Dublin (UCD). Work is already underway for a number of top of the line Read more…
By Fiona McGrath Sex, sex, sex – sex is everywhere. From magazines to music videos, we are bombarded by sex in the media today. Sex sells – that’s a given, but has it gone too Read more…
A Force To Be Reckoned With By Jenny Darmody Features Editor It’s nearly Christmas, it’s nearly exam time and it’s nearly the end of semester one. But it’s also time for the cold winter weather Read more…
By Monica Heck In Ireland, around 17 per cent of the population have some form of hearing loss. Currently only 15 to 20 per cent of deaf students are accessing third-level education here. At a Read more…
By Lauren Kelly As we battle the current recession – one that may last for a good 10 years, many students feel that it is in their best interest to choose a degree with a Read more…
Ronan Duggan DCU’s male distance athletes were finally beaten after five years of undefeated competition at the recent road relays in Maynooth. On the men’s side the lightning-quick opening mile of Joe Warne set Read more…
Eoghan Cormican It’s fair to say that’s it’s been a busy couple of weeks for DCU GAA director Michael Kennedy. Aside from his role here within the college, the Tyrone native was video analyst for Read more…
DCU 0-11 UCC 0-9 Eamon Donoghue At Clonad DCU Fresher’s reached their fourth All Ireland final in two years overcoming a fancied UCC outfit in a game where Ross Munnelly’s charges were called upon to Read more…
Tom Rooney Since merging with the Mercy club in 2007, women’s basketball in DCU has gone from strength to strength and head coach Mark Ingle has been at the heart of this progression. During his Read more…
DCU 5 – 13 UCC 1 – 12 Mike Hurley At St. Clare’s DCU Ladies made it two league victories on the trot when treating southern opponents UCC to a masterclass in finishing at Read more…
Brendan White The DCU first team finished their league campaign last week with a stunning 5-0 victory away to UCD. The result however, wasn’t sufficient to advance DCU beyond the group stages, but leaves them Read more…
Tom Rooney Now in his second season as DCU rugby Co-ordinator, Bernard Jackman is determined to build a rugby culture in the college for the long term. The former Leinster and Ireland hooker is not Read more…
Eoghan Cormican & Gavin Cawley Given recent results, it may come as no surprise that the hurlers of DCU are locked in a relegation fight, but the fact that their football counterparts are in similarly Read more…
Brendan White DCU graduate, Linda Byrne, has qualified for the Olympic games after completing the Dublin Marathon in 2:36.21, inside the Olympic A standard of 2:37. As well as achieving the Olympic standard, Byrne also Read more…
DCU 5-5 N.U.I.G 1-12 Eoghan Cormican At St. Clare’s DCU were made to fight all the way by NUIG before securing passage to a first ever Division 1 camogie league final. Those who pay any Read more…
Tomás O Ruanaidh Following successive wins over QUB and St Mary’s, DCU’s fresher footballers qualified for the quarter final stage of the league where they meet UCD at St. Clare’s today, Wednesday (throw in Read more…