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THE CENTRAL APPLICATIONS OFFICE (CAO) website has crashed this morning due to a Direct Denial of Service, or DDoS, attack.
The University Observer is getting ready for the 2010-2011 year, and wants you to get involved! Ireland’s award-winning student newspaper is now seeking contributors for the coming year.
UCD Students’ Union’s Summer Survival Guide has been embargoed until 1st July following a row over which of the SU officers’ details should appear in the booklet, The University Observer has learned.
Dublin Bus have announced that the iconic number 10 bus route linking UCD with the city centre is to be abolished, with its route split between newly expanded 39a and 46a services.
The route reform comes as part of a major overhaul of Dublin Bus’s Stillorgan services.
X Factor stars Jedward have been forced to withdraw from this year’s UCD Ball as a result of the ongoing air travel restrictions around Europe.
Nominally a Computer Science student, Gary Redmond describes his year as UCD Students’ Union President as being “a year of very tough decisions” but yet also one of “numerous achievements”.
Most notable amongst these achievements was …
It’s difficult to know where to begin reviewing the performance of Mike Pat O’Donoghue, like the man himself it’s been a meandering miscellany year of the weird and wonderful. Some say the Entertainments office hasn’t …
“There are all these different things that I can look at and say that I know I’ve done something good here.” UCD Students’ Union’s Education Vice-President, Donnacha Ó Súilleabháin, feels that he has “done something …
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 …
Student welfare in UCD has been highly recognised this year due to the efforts of Students’ Union Welfare Vice-President, Scott Ahearn. This recognition is mainly positive, with a huge increase in the Student Welfare Fund, …
UCD’s branch of the St Vincent de Paul have claimed the €5,000 first prize in the AIB Better Ireland Awards. UCDSVP auditor Kevin Conlon has said that the prize came at the right time for …
€860 from the UCD Societies Fund has been used to enrol a young woman into the University of Liberia. The woman, Jowel Harris, will commence her studies in Business Accounting next month, in a course which …
An alumnus of UCD has donated $100,000 to create a new rugby scholarship for the university’s club. John Gardiner, a law graduate and former captain of the UCD Rugby Club, has initiated the new scholarship …
UCD has invited ambassadors from several countries to a reception with the intent of promoting UCD as a prime training ground for athletes competing in the 2012 Olympic Games.
The reception, which is to take place …
A member of UCD Students’ Union Council has accused a committee member of the Kevin Barry Cumann (KBC) of trying to intimidate him into not running for an SU Executive position. The member of Council, …
A new pilot scheme that allows students to give module feedback online may be rolled out across campus if enough students participate in the initial trials. A lecturer from the Centre for Teaching and Learning, …
UCD Students’ Union has confirmed details of the successful candidates for next year’s SU Executive positions. Four campaigns officers were elected to the positions of Women’s Officer, Environmental Officer, Irish Language Officer and Postgraduate Officer, …
The Belfield pharmacy will remain vacant until the end of the academic year after being closed during the mid-term break. Three potential new tenants have recently pulled out for personal and professional reasons after the …

