News
UCC first college to retain Green Flag
UCC have just made history being the first college in the world to retain their Green Flag, but can DCU do enough to secure their own Flag? Read more…
The College View
News
Political careers for female DCU students?
Several factors have turned women off a career in politics in the past. Would DCU’s politically-involved female students put themselves forward? Read more…
DCU News
Doherty looks back on year of highs and lows
Outgoing DCU SU President reveals has has confirmed sufficient finance to begin work on the DCU Student Centre and talks about how he found the role of SU president ‘horribly brilliant’. Read more…
The Hype
Review: Comedy Crunch
Wafer ice-cream, comfy couches, big name acts and lots of laughter – one of Dublin’s best comedy nights, reviewed. Read more…
SU '13
DCUSU13 Opinion Poll results
With just one more day to go until your new Students’ Union is announced, The College View and DCUfm found out how you are going to vote today and tomorrow. Will you be voting in the elections? Read more…
SU '13
SU elections: Voting day in pictures
Polling stations are now open and candidates are still out around campus trying to get your votes. Voting will reopen tomorrow from 10am to 5pm. Photo Credit: Rachel McLaughlin
SU '13
Ciaran O’Connor on Uaneen and student finance
Ciaran O’ Connor is a final year communications student and is running for Vice President for Education. He is also a class rep and a student ambassador. Ciaran is aware of the financial pressures facing Read more…
SU '13
What you are voting for
With election time closing in – so close it’s actually today – it’s voting time. Turnout in DCU has traditionally been low, which makes it all the more important to get your vote in today. Read more…
SU '13
Colin Brennan on the USI, fees and his plans for next year
Colin Brennan is a final year Journalism student and your potential SU President for next year DCU students voted to re-affiliate with the Union of Students Ireland in a referendum in February. But on March Read more…
SU '13
SU Elections: Campaign day in pictures
Candidates were out in force today to try and get your support. There were brownies, rice cakes and even a banana – life sized. To get the full info on your future President, Welfare and Read more…
Clubs and Socs
DCU societies hold mock same-sex marriages
DCU’s LGBTA, Drama and Amnesty Societies held mock same-sex marriages as part of DCU’s Equality Week. The mock marriages were held outside the Henry Grattan on Thursday November 15th. The marriages were held between members Read more…
Football
DCU v IT Blanchardstown Preview
DCU will look to maintain their perfect start to the season when they take on IT Blanchardstown on Wednesday afternoon. After comfortably winning their first two ties against UCD and Coláiste Íde, DCU currently lie Read more…
Film
Review: Skyfall
After the latest offering from the Bond series, one could be forgiven for disowning the franchise and pledging your allegiance to Bourne, or Jack Bauer, even Johnny English. After the gritty and punchy panache of Read more…
Gaelic Football
Byrne leads demolition job of Carlow – DCU 2-17 Carlow IT 0-06
The Fresher’s football side opened their campaign with a demolition of Carlow IT at St. Clare’s on Tuesday afternoon last. In a match that bore little resemblance to a contest, DCU took on the alias Read more…
Camogie
Uncertainty surrounding DCU’s Ashbourne participation
When Laura Twomey prized her hands onto the Purcell Cup last February, the dream had finally become a reality. Ashbourne Camogie had been secured. DCU’s stickwomen spent two years teetering on the brink of top Read more…
Film
Shaken, Stirred and Shocking: 50 Years of 007 on the big screen
With the release of “Skyfall”, James Bond films will have graced our cinema screens for half a century, enduring several wars, the fall of Empires and countless similar cinematic contemporaries. Through five decades, Bond has Read more…
Clubs and Socs
Underwear run raises over €1,000 for charity
The DCU Raising and Giving (RAG) Society raised over €1,000 following the “Underwear Mile” charity fundraiser last Wednesday afternoon. Participants braved the elements and stripped down to their bare essentials in aid of various Irish Read more…
Through My Eyes
The big move… back home
My current greatest fear in life is attending my 20 year school reunion. Unlike many of the women who will attend, it’s not the few extra pounds I’m carrying that puts the fear of God Read more…
Clubs and Socs
DCU Ógra Fianna Fail the biggest political society on campus
DCU Ógra Fianna Fail are the biggest political society in DCU after more than doubling their membership this year. DCU Ógra FF (Pádraig Pearse DCU Cumann) recruited 53 members during the two sign up days, Read more…
Articles
NUIG student living in a tent
A student at NUI Galway is currently living in a tent in a secret location off campus to save money and finish his degree. Thirty-year-old Dubliner, Frank Cronin, is living out his final year of Read more…
Television
How low can you go? The Valleys and “constructed reality” TV
Three years ago, a new type of television programme was born. A Frankenstein’s monster composed of parts of Big Brother, The Apprentice and Boozed Up Irish Abroad, they called it Jersey Shore. The premise was fairly Read more…
Film
What Roisin Did: Flux talk to Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy has always wanted to be an actress – starting her career by appearing in a Goodfellas pizza ad with her mother Charlotte Bradley, and moving to starring in RTE’s The Clinic and Stardust Read more…
DCU News
Cuts to Erasmus programme may affect grants
Erasmus students might not receive their grants during the second semester of 2012/2013 due to cuts to the 2012 EU Budget, the European Commission has said. Eighty-four DCU students are currently abroad for the full Read more…
Film
Review: Sinister
Sinister is the latest horror endeavour from director Scott Derrisckson, best known for his chilling masterpiece The Exorcism of Emily Rose. It is also the latest in a recent spate of horror movies in which Read more…
Randoms
It’s time to get the girls: Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Most people know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Everything’s pink and women and men alike proudly sport the pink ribbon. But what most people don’t know is that a woman in Ireland is Read more…