51-534: The College Tribune is a student newspaper which serves Ireland's largest third level institution, University College Dublin . It was established in 1989 with the assistance of journalist and broadcaster Vincent Browne who was attending the university as an evening student at the time. Browne noted the campus' lack of a news outlet which was independent of both the university and University College Dublin Students' Union and alongside founding editor Eamon Dillon set up
102-478: A Euro Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre, opened. In 2004, Hugh Brady was appointed president. In 2006, UCD Horizons begins. In 2009, Trinity and UCD announce the Innovation Alliance. In 2010, NCAD and UCD form an academic alliance. In 2012 the expanded Student and Sports Centre opened. In 2012, the college closed the athletics track and field facilities and students demanded an apology. In 2013,
153-826: A front-page story in the Irish Times on the €3 million budget overrun of the Chinese Confucius Centre on campus. In 2019, the Turbine's then editor Shane Clune won the Student Media 'Colour Writer of the Year' award. In 2020, Conor Capplis, then Editor of The College Tribune won 'Editor of the Year' In 2021, The College Tribune took home a number of awards in the National Student Media Awards with Hugh Dooley, News Editor and former Turbine Editor, winning 'Colour Writer of
204-524: A ministerial order of 1998 renamed the institution as "University College Dublin – National University of Ireland, Dublin". Originally located at St Stephen's Green and Earlsfort terrace in Dublin's city centre, all faculties later relocated to a 133-hectare (330-acre) campus at Belfield , six kilometres to the south of the city centre. In 1991, it purchased a second site in Blackrock, which currently houses
255-518: A plan to merge UCD and Trinity. Between 1969 and 1970, the Faculties of Commerce, Arts and Law moved to Belfield. In 1972, Thomas Murphy was appointed president. In 1973, the library opened. In 1980, the college purchased Richview and 17.4 acres and the architecture faculty moved there. In 1981, the Sports Complex opened. In 1986, Patrick Masterson was appointed president. During the 1990s, some of
306-420: A pull-out arts and culture supplement The Trib which covers music, film, fashion, arts, satire and entertainment. The Trib , previously The Siren , was introduced during Volume 20 and was later renamed for the paper's nickname. The Tribune also includes a satire section named 'The Turbine' which was previously named the 'Angry Gerald'. Articles from the print edition and dedicated content are also published on
357-479: Is Ireland's largest university and among Europe's most prestigious. UCD originates in a body founded in 1854, which opened as the Catholic University of Ireland on the feast of St. Malachy with John Henry Newman as its first rector; it re-formed in 1880 and chartered in its own right in 1908. The Universities Act, 1997 renamed the constituent university as the "National University of Ireland, Dublin", and
408-573: Is UCD's oldest surviving newspaper having been published continuously for over 30 years. The print edition is circulated at the university's Belfield and Blackrock campuses fortnightly during semesters one and two each year. Throughout its history, the College Tribune has been printed in tabloid format. Issues are typically 32 pages in length with the paper proper occupying 20 pages with news, features, science and technology, business, politics and innovation, Irish and sport. The remaining 12 pages are
459-573: Is a major holder of archives of national and international significance relating to the Irish War of Independence . In 1913, in response to the formation of the Ulster Volunteers , Eóin MacNeill , professor of early Irish history, called for the formation of an Irish nationalist force to counteract it. The Irish Volunteers were formed later that year and MacNeill was elected its Chief-of-staff. At
510-721: Is made up of the Quinn School of Business, the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School , and UCD Business International Campus. The former constituent school, the UCD Quinn School of Business (commonly The Quinn School), is the building in which the UCD College of Business's undergraduate programme is based. It is located in a three-story building on the Belfield campus and is named after Lochlann Quinn , one of
561-584: Is part of the UCD Environmental Research Station. O'Reilly Hall, opened in 1994, was designed by the Irish architecture firm Scott Tallon Walker . In 1964, Jeremiah Hogan was appointed president and Thomas E. Nevin led the science faculty to move to a new campus at Belfield . Also that year, UCD became the first university in Europe to launch an MBA programme. In 1967, Donogh O'Malley proposed
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#1733105780903612-465: Is where parts of the suburb of Ballymun are located. The new campus was largely designed by A&D Wejchert & Partners Architects and includes several notable structures, including the UCD Water Tower which was built in 1972 by John Paul Construction. The Tower won the 1979 Irish Concrete Society Award. It stands 60 metres high with a dodecahedron tank atop a pentagonal pillar. The Tower
663-624: The Irish Daily Mail , Sarah Binchy – radio producer at RTÉ Radio , Alan Caufield, editor of Metro , Colin Gleeson and Peter McGuire – freelance journalists, and brothers Gary and Fergus O'Shea, both now with The Sun . Other past contributors include Kate Hayes – TV producer for the BBC , Dave Kelly – chief sports analyst for the Irish Independent , Ruaidhri O'Connor – Rugby correspondent with
714-564: The Irish Independent , Paul Lynch – author of Red Sky in Morning, Katherine Smyth – associate producer with BBC Current Affairs, Blathnaid Healy - formerly UK editor at Mashable and now EMEA Director at CNN Digital International, and Donie O'Sullivan , CNN Reporter in New York. The Tribune has been recognised on a number of occasions at the national student media awards, including for sports writing. In addition to winning Student Newspaper of
765-448: The .ie domain in the late 1980s. The NovaUCD initiative is UCD's innovation and technology transfer centre, funded through a public-private partnership. In 2004, Duolog relocated its Dublin headquarters to NovaUCD. The Educational Irish Research Satellite 1 , or EIRSAT-1, is a 2U CubeSat under development at UCD and will be Ireland's first satellite. The students' union in the college has been an active part of campaigns run by
816-645: The Easter Rising . Several UCD staff and students participated in the rising, including Pádraig Pearse , Thomas MacDonagh , Michael Hayes and James Ryan , and a smaller number, including Tom Kettle and Willie Redmond , fought for the British in World War I . Many UCD staff, students and alumni fought in the Irish War of Independence . Following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty , four UCD graduates joined
867-539: The Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School . A report published in May 2015 asserted that the economic output generated by UCD and its students in Ireland amounted to €1.3 billion annually. Five Nobel Laureates are among UCD's alumni and current and former staff. Additionally, four Taoisigh (Prime Ministers) and three Irish Presidents have graduated from UCD, along with one President of India. UCD can trace its history to
918-647: The National University of Ireland was founded and the following year the Royal University was dissolved. This new university was brought into existence with three constituent University Colleges – Dublin, Galway and Cork . Following the establishment of the NUI, D. J. Coffey, Professor of Physiology, Catholic University Medical School, became the first president of UCD. The Medical School in Cecilia Street became
969-741: The Royal College of Science on Merrion Street, is now the location of the renovated Irish Government Building, where the Department of the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) is situated. University College Dublin also had a site in Glasnevin for much of the last century, the Albert Agricultural College , the southern part of which is now occupied by Dublin City University , the northern part
1020-610: The Tribune to correct this. Initially, a close working relationship was maintained between the Tribune and the Sunday Tribune which was at the time edited by Browne. This relationship afforded the paper the use of professional production facilities in its fledgling years. Ultimately however, the student newspaper would outlast its national weekly counterpart with the Sunday Tribune having ceased publication in 2011. The College Tribune
1071-604: The VERITAS and INTEGRAL experiments) and Experimental particle physics (participating in the Large Hadron Collider experiments LHCb and CMS ). Amongst the research institutes of the university are: Wide partnerships in which UCD is involved include: The most prominent UCD-related company is the IE Domain Registry ; many UCD academics continue to sit on the board of directors. UCD originally gained control of
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#17331057809031122-672: The government of the Irish Free State . UCD graduates have since participated in Irish political life – three of the nine Presidents of Ireland and six of the fourteen Taoisigh have been either former staff or graduates. In 1926, the University Education (Agriculture and Dairy Science) Act transferred the Royal College of Science in Merrion Street and Albert Agricultural College in Glasnevin to UCD. In 1933, Belfield House
1173-527: The 2025 QS World University Rankings , UCD was ranked as 126nd in the world. The 2022 QS World University Rankings for employability and reputation rate UCD as first in Ireland and 87th in the world. The 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed UCD in the range of 201–250. It also ranked it 101–200th in the 2022 Impact Rankings. The QS Subject Ranking: Veterinary Science , 2018 ranked UCD 24th globally and first in Ireland. The 2024 U.S. News & World Report ranked UCD as
1224-428: The 25 best blogs of 2009. As of November 2015, it had over 6,000,000 Twitter followers and over 3,200,000 fans on Facebook . In June 2016, it acquired YouTube channel CineFix from Whalerock Industries . In December 2017, Ziff Davis bought Mashable for $ 50 million, a price described by Recode as a "fire sale" price. Mashable had not been meeting its advertising targets, accumulating $ 4.2 million in losses in
1275-496: The Catholic University Medical School was opened on Cecilia Street. As a private university, Catholic University was never given a royal charter, and so was unable to award recognised degrees and suffered from chronic financial difficulties. Newman left the university in 1857. In 1861, Bartholomew Woodlock was appointed Rector and served until he became Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in 1879. Henry Neville
1326-846: The Irish State (for EU citizens) and by students themselves under the "Free Fees Initiative". Postgraduate fees vary depending on the student nationality, course and degree type, ranging from 7,000€ to 22,000€ per year. The initial patrons and benefactors of UCD were the Catholic Church. Amongst the most recent patrons include actor Gregory Peck , who was a founding patron of the School of Film. Other benefactors include Lochlann Quinn ( UCD Quinn School of Business ), Michael Smurfit ( Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School ), Peter Sutherland (Sutherland School of Law), Tony O'Reilly (O'Reilly Hall) and Denis O'Brien (O'Brien Science Centre). In
1377-570: The National Union, USI , and has played a role in the life of the college since its foundation in 1974. The Union has also taken stances on issues of human rights that have attracted attention in Ireland and around the world; in particular, it implemented a ban of Coca-Cola products in Student Union controlled shops on the basis of alleged human and trade union rights abuses in Colombia . This ban
1428-497: The Royal University system. In 1883, Fr William Delany SJ was appointed the first president of University College. The college attracted academics from around Ireland, including Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins and James Joyce . Some notable staff and students at the school during this period included Francis Sheehy-Skeffington , Patrick Pearse , Hugh Kennedy , Hannah O'Leary, Eoin MacNeill , Kevin O'Higgins , Tom Kettle , James Ryan , Douglas Hyde and John A. Costello . In 1908,
1479-696: The UCD Medical Faculty and the Faculty of Commerce was established. Under the Universities Act, 1997, University College Dublin was established as a constituent university within the National University of Ireland framework. In 1911, land donated by Lord Iveagh helped the university expand in Earlsfort Terrace /Hatch Street/ St Stephen's Green. Iveagh Gardens was part of this donation. UCD
1530-611: The UCD O'Brien Centre for Science opened and the UCD Sutherland School of Law opened. It is now the largest Common Law law school in the European Union. In 2015, UCD opened a global centre in the US. In 2019, UCD became the first Irish university to launch a Black Studies module, coordinated by Dr Ebun Joseph and Prof Kathleen Lynch . In March 2022 Prof Andrew Deeks resigned to take up
1581-601: The Year at the 1996 USI & Irish Independent Media Awards, then editor Conor Lally was also awarded Student Journalist of the Year. 2003 saw Tribune stalwart Peter Lahiff win Diversity Writer of the Year at the Guardian Student Media Awards . In 2016/17 the paper won the Student Media "Newspaper of the Year" award, after breaking several investigative stories in the Tribune and the national media, including
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1632-553: The Year' and Eagarthóir Gaeilge of The College Tribune, Anna-Clare Nic Gairbheith won the 'Journalism through Irish' award. University College Dublin University College Dublin (commonly referred to, in Ireland, as UCD ) ( Irish : Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath ) is a public research university in Dublin , Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland . With 38,417 students, it
1683-611: The building was renamed the Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington Building. In 1990, the UCD purchased Carysfort College, Blackrock, and became the location of the Smurfit Graduate school of business . The first student village, Belgrove, opened that year as well. In 1992, the second student village, Merville, opened and the Centre for Film studies was established. In 1993, Art Cosgrove was appointed president. In 1994, O'Reilly Hall
1734-501: The campus' student newspapers. Previous editors who have gone on to make careers for themselves include Richard Oakley – editor of The Times Ireland , Conor Lally – crime correspondent for The Irish Times , Daniel McDonnell – soccer correspondent for the Irish Independent , Roddy O'Sullivan – deputy news editor of The Irish Times , Eamon Dillon – crime journalist with the Sunday World , Jennifer Bray – political correspondent for
1785-418: The early 1960s when the faculty of science moved to the new 1.4 square kilometres (350 acres) park campus at Belfield in a suburb on the south side of Dublin. The Belfield campus developed into a complex of modern buildings and inherited Georgian townhouses, accommodating the colleges of the university as well as its student residences and many leisure and sporting facilities. One of UCD's previous locations,
1836-565: The first time in Ireland, higher-level education for followers of the Catholic Church and taught by such people. The Catholic hierarchy demanded a Catholic alternative to the University of Dublin's Trinity College , whose Anglican origins the hierarchy refused to overlook. Since the 1780s, the University of Dublin had admitted Catholics to study; a religious test, however, hindered the efforts of Catholics in their desire to obtain membership in
1887-519: The institution founded in 1854 as the Catholic University of Ireland . Renamed University College in 1883 and put under the control of the Jesuits in 1883, it became University College Dublin in 1908, a constituent college of the National University of Ireland under the Universities Act. After the Catholic Emancipation period of Irish history, Archbishop of Armagh attempted to provide, for
1938-552: The main financial contributors to the school. Other donors included Bank of Ireland , AIB , Irish Life & Permanent , Accenture , KPMG , PwC , Dunnes Stores and Ernst & Young . When first opened in 2002, it claimed to be the only business school in Europe with a specific focus on technology and e-learning . At the beginning of the 2005/2006 academic year, UCD introduced the Horizons curriculum, which completely semesterised and modularised all undergraduate courses. Under
1989-414: The new curriculum, students choose ten core modules from their specific subject area and two other modules, which can be chosen from any other programme at the university. UCD is also home to UCD Professional Academy, which offers career development through a range of professional diplomas. Subject areas include Business, IT, Management, Marketing and Design. Undergraduate fees are funded in part by
2040-585: The outbreak of World War I , in view of the Home Rule Act 1914 and the political perception that it might not be implemented, the leader of the Home Rule Party, John Redmond , urged the Irish Volunteers to support the British war effort as a way of supporting Irish Home Rule. This effort on behalf of Home Rule included many UCD staff and students. Many of those who opposed this move later participated in
2091-402: The paper's website, collegetribune.ie. A standalone version of the website was launched in 2011, having previously been hosted with assistance from the university's computer science society on UCD's own website. Content is also shared through social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. The Tribune is the only student newspaper in Ireland which operates independently of the authorities of
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2142-500: The paper. Of the other three campus media outlets two, Belfield FM and UCDTV are student societies while the University Observer is published by the students' union. Several journalists working both in Ireland and further afield can trace their roots back to the College Tribune . As UCD does not offer a dedicated journalism course at undergraduate or postgraduate level, many students cut their teeth by involving themselves in
2193-539: The role of vice-Chancellor at Murdoch University, in Perth, Western Australia. Prof Mark Rogers was appointed acting president. UCD consists of six colleges, their associated schools (37 in total) and multiple research institutes and centres. Each college also has its own Graduate School , for postgraduates. List of colleges and their respective schools following restructuring in September 2015. The UCD College of Business
2244-578: The second best university in Ireland and 253rd globally. UCD's Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is ranked 22nd in the Financial Times' ranking of leading European Business Schools in 2022 and 1st in Ireland. UCD was The Sunday Times University of the Year 2006 and 2020. UCD had a research income of €155.7 million during 2021/22. The School of Physics hosts research groups in Astrophysics, space science and relativity theory (members of
2295-403: The students of Women's Studies, led by Niamh Nolan, petitioned to rename their Gender Studies building after Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington to honour her contribution to women's rights and equal access to third-level education. Her husband Francis Sheehy-Skeffington was himself an alumnus of the university and Hanna of the Royal University, a sister university of UCD. Their campaign was successful and
2346-403: The university in which it is published. To achieve this, the paper is supported entirely through advertising revenue. Editors and section editors are unpaid volunteers with an interest in journalism who are drawn from the university community. While the Tribune engages with university and students' union authorities in order to represent students interests, they have no control over the content of
2397-450: The university's governing bodies. Thus, in 1850 at the Synod of Thurles , it was decided to open a university in Dublin for Catholics. As a result of these efforts, a new "Catholic University of Ireland" opened in 1854 on St Stephen's Green , with John Henry Newman appointed as its first rector. The Catholic University opened its doors on the feast of St Malachy, 3 November 1854. In 1855,
2448-632: Was appointed Rector to replace Woodlock. In 1880, the Royal University of Ireland was established and allowed students from any college to take examinations for a degree. In 1882, Catholic University reorganised, and the St Stephen's Green institution (the former Arts school of the Catholic University) run by the Irish Jesuits, was renamed University College, and it began participating in
2499-485: Was opened. In Malaysia , UCD, together with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), owns a branch campus within George Town , the capital city of the State of Penang . Established in 1996, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and University College Dublin Malaysia Campus (RUMC) offers a twinning programme in Medicine where students spend the first half of their course in either RCSI or UCD, before completing their clinical years at RUMC. In 2003, NovaUCD,
2550-522: Was overturned in 2010. UCD has over 60 sports clubs based on campus with 28 sports scholarships awarded annually. Mashable Mashable is a news website , digital media platform and entertainment company founded by Pete Cashmore in 2005. Mashable was founded by Pete Cashmore while living in Aberdeen , Scotland, in July 2004. Early iterations of the site were a simple WordPress blog, with Cashmore as sole author. Fame came relatively quickly, with Time magazine noting Mashable as one of
2601-439: Was purchased for sporting purposes. In 1940, Arthur Conway was appointed president. By the early 1940s, the college had become the largest third-level institution in the state and the college attempted to expand the existing city centre campus. It was later decided that the best solution would be to move the college to a larger greenfield site outside of the city centre and create a modern campus university . This move started in
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