“Dublin City University has risen from 46th to 40th place in a league table of the world’s young universities. DCU is the only university on the island of Ireland to be featured in the QS World University Rankings for colleges that are less than 50 years old …” (more)
[Business Post, 10 June]
“Another Irish university is hiring debt collectors to tackle the growing problem of unpaid student fees …” (more)
[Katherine Donnelly and Barry Duggan, Independent, 29 May]
“… The synod also heard that Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin was effectively prevented from being taken into the Trinity College centre. ‘Trinity by its actions in effect refused to accept as undergraduates Protestant young men and women who wish to be primary teachers’, Mr Oughton said …” (more)
[Dan Keenan, Irish Times, 11 May]
“Trinity College Dublin tops a list of eight Irish colleges which feature in the top 200 of subject-by-subject rankings of the world’s universities. It features in the top 200 for 24 of the 30 study disciplines for which tables were compiled by QS World University Rankings, including top-50 placings for English language and literature, politics, history, and modern languages …” (more)
[Niall Murray, Irish Examiner, 8 May]
“Eight Irish universities have made the global top 200 for specific subject areas in the QS World University Rankings …” (more)
[Louise Holden, Irish Times, 8 May]
[The QS subject rankings are here.]
“Waterford Institute of Technology and Trinity College Dublin dealt with the highest number of allegations of bullying among its staff and students in the past five years, with WIT paying more than €100,000 in investigation and legal fees …” (more)
[Irish Examiner, 29 April]
“To coincide with World Intellectual Property Day Dublin City University (DCU) is embarking on a fast-track DCU Licence Express Scheme to make selected patent innovations available to industry and entrepreneurs …” (more)
[John Kennedy, Silicon Republic, 26 April]
“In 2008, young women accounted for 14% of all undergraduates enrolling in computing courses at Dublin City University. Five years later, the percentage has stubbornly refused to move on and women are still in the minority …” (more)
[Marie Boran, Irish Times, 18 April]
“Four teenagers who carried out ‘an unprovoked, unwarranted and unexpected’ assault on a university student have had their sentence adjourned until next year …” (more)
[Irish Times, 10 April]
“Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week’s programme, I speak to Professor Brian Mac Craith, President of Dublin City University, about the Séamus Heaney Lecture he gave in St Patrick’s College, titled Envisioning the Future of Education, and about his work as a university president today.” (audio)
[Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM, 7 April]
“The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has sought legal advice concerning the decision taken by Dublin City University Students’ Union (DCUSU) President Paul Doherty to declare the USI affiliation referendum that took place there in February, ‘null and void’ …” (more)
[Aoife Valentine, University Observer, 3 April]
“The political class of the student movement was rocked last night with news that DCU Students’ Union had declared the results of its recent referendum on USI membership null and void. The affiliation referendum, passed last month by a margin of 768 votes to 642 votes, had been hailed as a major coup for USI …” (more)
[Owen Bennett, University Times, 29 March]
“The President of the Union of Students (USI) in Ireland has blamed a ‘small cohort’ in DCU for the decision of the university’s students’ union to declare a recent referendum affiliating it to the USI ‘null and void’ …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 28 March]
“Nicola Furlong’s mother has said she wants to see her daughter’s murderer serve his sentence in a Japanese prison instead of being moved to more lenient conditions in his native US …” (more)
[Lynne Kelleher, Irish Examiner, 26 March]
“The family of American killer Richard Hinds still believe Nicola Furlong’s murder in a Tokyo hotel room was more of an accident and do not believe their son intended to end her life …” (more)
[Scott Carroll, Independent, 25 March]
“The family of murdered Irish woman Nicola Furlong intend to sue the Tokyo hotel where she was killed. Arriving back in Dublin Airport last night, her father Andrew confirmed that the family will take a civil action for negligence against the Keio Plaza Hotel …” (more)
[Cormac McQuinn and Paul Murphy, Independent, 22 March]
“The family of murdered Nicola Furlong are ‘taking solace’ from the news that her killer will be incarcerated in Japan’s harshest prison …” (more)
[Niall O'Connor, Herald, 20 March]
“The Union of Students’ in Ireland may have been allowed to campaign on campus for the recent re-affiliation referendum based on misinformation …” (more)
[Aisling Kett and Aoife Mullen, The College View, 20 March]
“In a justice system with a conviction rate of more than 99%, it was never likely that Richard Hinds was going to return home to Memphis, Tennessee, this week. But even that slim prospect of a not-guilty verdict was destroyed by a defence that always stretched credibility …” (more)
[David McNeill, Irish Times, 20 March]
“A judge has jailed Memphis murderer Richard Hinds for up to 10 years after he was caught out in a web of lies. The evidence provided by musician Hinds (19) was branded ‘untrustworthy’ and ‘irrational’ …” (more)
[Paul Murphy and Louise Hogan, Independent, 20 March]
