Year: 2011

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

By Aishling Phelan The President of DCU, Brian MacCraith, says that students don’t realise that the €250 increase in next year’s registration fee will not result in a higher quality education because the money will