Month: November 2011

Cillian Byrne apologises for his part in blockade By Aishling Phelan The Union of Students in Ireland broke the law on the day of the ‘Stop Fees, Save the Grant’ protest by excluding certain groups

By Sorcha Jowtt DCU’s Amnesty International Society gathered outside the Henry Grattan Building last Thursday with groups of balloons that symbolised Irish women living with domestic abuse. The event was held to celebrate the International

 By Suzanne Cooper Plans to build brand new state-of-the art libraries at the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) and the University of Limerick (UL) have been scrapped due recent Government cutbacks. The Government made the

By Eimear Phelan UCD St Vincent de Paul’s fourth Annual Homeless Week raised €800 euro in its first day. The event, which took place from November 14-18, saw around 30 students sleep outside the James

By Aisling Short Many students will not be able to continue in third-level education if grant cuts are announced on budget day, according to the newly appointed Dean of Graduate Studies, Dr Lisa Looney. Dr

By Aoife Mullen This year’s CAO offers indicated a change in course preferences, with students opting for the degrees they believe will offer them more job prospects. Many of the Leaving Cert students that attended

By Eimear Phelan “Freedom of the press is the yardstick used to measure free societies” is just one of the sentiments from the heated and highly contested media debate on Tuesday last week, an event

By Grainne Coyne and Aishling Phelan Rumours that university fees will increase to €5,000 next year were just “scaremongering” according to Deputy President of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), Colm Murphy. Speaking to

By Chloe O’Sullivan Only 17 cases of plagiarism were uncovered in DCU last year, despite the findings of a College View survey showing that two in three DCU students have committed plagiarism in some form.

By Lauren Kelly An arrest was made on campus last week for the theft of bicycles. Bicycle thefts have risen dramatically on the DCU campus in the past number of weeks. An Garda Síochana have

By Aisling Brady Seventy per cent of DCU students would break off a relationship if their boyfriend or girlfriend had a “one night stand” according to a recent survey on fidelity. Eight-eight percent of respondents

By Aisling Kett The Old Bar has been closed indefinitely due to serious health and safety concerns and cannot be used under any circumstances. A total of 23 problems forced its closure, including a lock

By Monica Heck A guest lecture on the topic of marriage equality was given to DCU social studies students by Grainne Healy, chairwoman of the Marriage Equality organisation, last week. Alongside her duties as chairwoman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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