Jamie Mc Carron Archives – The College View

DCU Tea Instagram account run by teen thousands of miles away.

January 22, 2021

“They kept calling the lecturers rides.”

Hospitals face scrutiny for giving leftover vaccines to staff’s families

January 21, 2021

Three hospitals have confirmed that they vaccinated non-staff members with leftover vaccines, Pfizer has said there will be a decrease in this week’s supply of Covid-19 vaccines.

DCU awarded €2.87 million euro grant to research media in European politics

December 9, 2020

The European Commission has allocated close to €3 million to DCU researchers as part of a project that will study how media discourse impacts the public’s opinion on the European Union.

Former Young Greens Chairperson speaks out against “massive culture of harassment”

November 25, 2020

“There’s a massive culture of harassment but it’s not just sexual,”

Part-time and temporary academic staff struggle with financial issues, report finds

November 25, 2020

Third level employees on part-time or temporary contracts are struggling with job instability and a lack of career progression, an investigation has found.

Leaders of Trinity Greens, Young Greens and Queer Greens have resigned

November 11, 2020

Prominent members of the Green Party’s youth branch have resigned due to the party’s record in Government, particularly their support for Mother and Baby Homes legislation.

Trinity College Fresher’s group chats infiltrated by suspicious advertisements

October 28, 2020

Trinity College’s Welfare Officer, Leah Keogh, warned students to be suspicious of “female-only” advertisements in first-year group chats.

Ireland’s climate will be drastically warmer by 2050, study finds

October 14, 2020

A study from the Irish Centre for High-End Computing has found that the year 2050 will bring severe weather events and an increase in temperature.

Trinity College’s Historical Society withdraws speaking invitation to Richard Dawkins

October 14, 2020

The Hist’s auditor, Bríd O’Donnell, stated that the society ‘would not be moving ahead’ with Dawkins’ planned address, due to his past remarks on Islam and sexual assault.

Ireland enters recession as GDP drops over 6 per cent

September 20, 2020

Ireland’s economy contracted by 6.1 per cent during the second financial quarter of this year (April to June), according to figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) last week.

Government’s latest Covid-19 restrictions blasted by politicians and experts

August 22, 2020

Government measures to ban spectators from outdoor sporting events have been branded “bizarre” by Kingston Mills, professor of Experimental Immunology at Trinity College, and criticised by several politicians.

DCU Student launches scanner technology that could help businesses reopen

July 21, 2020

Seanie Germaine, a Marketing, Innovation & Technology student from DCU, has released a facial temperature scanner deigned to monitor a person’s health before they enter a business.

University of Limerick appoints first female president of an Irish university

July 15, 2020

Professor Kersten Mey will become Ireland’s first female university president, governing the University of Limerick on an interim basis.

Leo Varadkar insists that state exams will go ahead in June

April 3, 2020

Leo Varadkar announced on Wednesday that Junior and Leaving Certificate exams will go ahead in June, as previously planned.

Referendums to be rerun as part of SU elections

March 4, 2020

Two Students’ Union referendums that originally ran last December and were declared void due to due to low voter turnout, will be held on Wednesday and Thursday this week

Tech Entrepreneur to fund grants for student journalists

February 5, 2020

The Web Summit founder tweeted that he would contribute the money in “bursaries for student muckrakers over the next 10 years,” on the 20th January, and has since announced that he “might try make it €200,000.”

Female genital mutilation prevention conference held in Dublin

October 30, 2019

AkiDwA, Ireland’s network for migrant women, held a conference aimed at combatting FGM, last Tuesday in the city centre.

DCU students devoted to Shite Nite

October 2, 2019

DCU’s Nubar held the first ever “Devotion” on Tuesday, September 24th, marking the end of eleven years of “Shite Nite” .