The University Observer is the paper of record of University College Dublin and is Ireland’s most widely-read student publication with a circulation of 10,000 and a readership of approximately 24,000.
In 2009-2010 I was the full-time Deputy Editor of the paper, having been Online Editor the year previous, and a contributor across a multitude of sections in the three years previous.
Dublin Bus have announced proposals to scrap the iconic number 10 bus service into UCD from July. The traditional city centre route into the Belfield campus is to be amalgamated into Dublin Bus’s flagship 46a southside service as part of its ongoing Network Direct project, intending at rationalising the citywide bus service. The cut has […]
Entrepreneur and media training guru Gavin Duffy talks to Gavan Reilly about breakfast radio, the problem with the Irish economy, and life inside the Dragons’ Den
You might not have known it, but there’s a small independent republic in the middle of the Student Centre – at least, since last Wednesday. Deputy President Gavan Reilly explains
Paddy Ryan is the first to admit that his year as Campaigns & Communications Officer has been far from perfect. “I suppose taking up the job and the whole transition into the first semester was bumpy,” concedes the Tipperary native. “Everyone perceives the job they’re taking up to be different to what it’s going to […]
It’s been a hectic week, so it’s time for another 60+ minutes of funny, quirky, divisive and off-the-wall sports talk from the Observer team.
Another week, another hour of top-notch sporting analysis and insight from the sports crew of Ireland’s award-winning student newspaper. Killian Woods, Paul Fennessy and Richard Chambers chat about the absence of Wayne Rooney, the chances of United’s Champions League, UCD’s recent triumph over Bray Wanderers, Argentina’s entry into the Tri Nations Tournament, the continuing controversy […]
UCD Students’ Union President has been elected next year’s President of the Union of Students in Ireland. In a tightly-fought election which was sent to three recounts, Redmond defeated current USI Equality Officer Kelly by 109 votes to 107.
After last week’s radio mega-marathon, the Observer sports team return with another hour of incisive sports news, views, opinion, analysis and fun.
STUDENTS in UCD have voted to overturn UCD Students’ Union’s boycott on the sale of Coca-Cola products in SU shops and bars.
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