Football
Mixed week for soccer side despite quarter-final qualification
DCU senior soccer team secured quarter-final qualification with a 4-1 win over Letterkenny but went down 4-0 to Maynooth a week later. Read more…
The College View
Other Sports
DCU recognises one of Ireland’s greatest sportsmen
Sean Kelly, who received an honorary doctorate in DCU last week, speaks to the media about his career. Read more…
Camogie
Powering her way to an All-Star
DCU student Mairead Power recently won a camogie All-Star award for her performances with Kilkenny this year. Read more…
Gaelic Football
Conroy leads Vincent’s to title
DCU intermediate football team and St Vincent’s coach Tommy Conroy talks to Eoin Sheahan about DCU GAA and St Vincent’s winning the Dublin senior title. Read more…
Student Life
Would you like a job with that?
Is it possible to have a part time job in college, or is it all work and no play? Read more…
DCU News
Movember raising awareness of men’s health amongst DCU community
The Movember campaign, which sees males grow moustaches for November, is raising awareness amongst members of the DCU community who may not otherwise think about their health. Megan Roantree reports. Read more…
DCU News
DCU partner with Special Olympics for new research project
DCU have partnered with Special Olympics Ireland for a new research project aimed at increasing knowledge about the health and welfare of people with intellectual disabilities, as Darragh McGrath reports. Read more…
DCU News
Students weren’t intentionally excluded from Convention forum – MacCraith
Few students attended the fourth public meeting of the Constitutional Convention held on campus last week, as staff omitted to notify students it was being held, as Sarah Bermingham reports. Read more…
News
UCD forum thinks big on Ireland’s 21st Century challenges
UCD undergraduate students organised a recent forum which saw area experts give their views on some of the biggest challenges facing the world in the 21st century, as Jordan Kavanagh reports. Read more…
DCU News
Film festival to return with powerful documentary screening
The 8×8 Documentary Film Festival, run by educational development charity SUAS, will return to DCU in December with a screening of a powerful documentary about a photojournalist killed while working in Libya, as Rachel McLaughlin reports. Read more…
National News
SUs strike back at controversial facebook profiles
Students’ Unions in several third-level institutes are calling upon Facebook to remove controversial profiles which are feared to be impacting on students mental health, as Mark Hogan reports. Read more…
News
More Irish students choosing to study in US
The number of Irish students travelling to the US to study has risen significantly, as more scholarships are made available and students look to add to their CVs, as Laura Colgan reports. Read more…
DCU News
Students keen to assist medical brigade to Ghana
Students are keen to assist on DCU Global Brigade’s medical brigade to Ghana next year, where they will participate in workshops and consultations with local people. Shane Houlihan reports. Read more…
DCU News
DCU awards honorary doctorates to three sporting greats
Brian O’Driscoll, Sean Kelly and Katie Taylor were all awarded honorary Doctorates of Philosophy at a ceremony in The Helix this morning. Read more…
GAA
Senior footballers lose out to DIT in poor contest
DCU’s senior football team lost out to DIT at a rainy St Clare’s last week in what was their first defeat of the season. Read more…
GAA
DCU freshers overcome Queen’s in hotly contested battle
DCU’s fresher football team recorded another victory as they overcame Queen’s University on Monday night. Read more…
DCU News
Sporting great set to receive honorary doctorates
Three sporting greats are set to be honoured by DCU soon when they are conferred with honorary doctorates by the university, as Ian Coyne reports. Read more…
National News
Low turnout for youth budget cuts demonstrations
The USI President has played down the significance of low turnouts at recent demonstrations against harsh Budget 2014 cuts to supports for those aged under 25, as Ruth Marnell reports. Read more…
Through My Eyes
Three minutes from death: how blood donation saved one person’s life
The difference between life and death? Potentially three minutes. A look at blood donation, and how it saved the life of one lucky student. Read more…
DCU News
Zombie march fails to break record
Timing is said to have been a factor in the cancellation of a planned attemp at a record-breaking zombie march, which failed to attract a sufficient number of participants for the event to go ahead. Read more…
University News
Petition to commemorate Trinity students dead in World War Two
Campaigners have controversially called for a monument to be erected in honour of Trinity students who fought and died for the British forces in World War Two, as Megan Roantree reports. Read more…
DCU News
Labyrinth to be installed on campus by next April
Funding has been raised which will enable the controversial planned on-campus labyrinth to be installed next spring, as Sarah Bermingham reports. Read more…
DCU News
Constitutional Convention to hold meeting in DCU
DCU is due to host a sitting of the Constitutional Convention in November where they will look for ideas from the public regarding constitutional matters. Finnian Curran reports. Read more…
Articles
Crunching Down On Fitness Myths
Will 100 crunches a day give you a 6 pack? What weights bulk up your body? Rachel McLaughlin takes a look at the most common fitness myths and delivers some home truths. Read more…
Student Life
Excommunicado: A day without my phone
What would life be like without your phone? Amy Mulvaney tried it, read on to see how she coped… Read more…