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Official source of news from University College Dublin (UCD) - Ireland's Global University. Est. 1854. One of Europe's leading research-intensive universities
University College Dublin
Joined February 2009
🎻🎬 The documentary film, In Time - Dónal Lunny, charts the life and work of one of the most influential figures in Irish folk and traditional music. It uses the famous archival footage of Planxty performing in University College Dublin’s Theatre L in 1972. Later, it shows
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Congrats to our Brian Mullins Ambassador Award for Gaelic Games recipients for 2025/2026, Jenna Ryan & Catherine O’Neill. Both students are US born and are members of their local clubs in Chicago and New York. Jenna and Catherine are also playing Gaelic games with @UCDGAA.
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💫 University College Dublin celebrated the induction of the 2025/26 Graduate Sports Scholars with a ceremony on yesterday afternoon! 💫 🔗 https://t.co/gZHr8feJhH This prestigious event honoured exceptional student-athletes who have excelled in both their sporting disciplines
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Congratulations to our Brian Mullins GAA/@gaelicplayers Graduate Scholarship recipients for 2025/2026, Ben O’Carroll & Lucy Dunne. Both represent their club, county and college with tremoudous pride and are brilliant ambassadors for the Gaelic games family and for @ucdgaa #ucdgaa
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Someone posted this on Reddit the other day. It tells you everything about American healthcare in 2025. Look at the right column. Prescription refills, urgent care needs, chronic conditions, cold symptoms, minor injuries. The poster says: don't call 911 for these, and that's 100%
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🗣️🎤 Who, What, Where, When: Legendary song collector Stever Roud explains the four things he must consider when cataloguing material for his song index. In Folklore Fragments Episode 43, Steve sat down with the National Folklore Collection’s Interim Director, Jonny Dillon, to
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🇮🇪Ireland will gain an AI Factory Antenna to boost national capabilities, co-funded by @DeptofFHed & @EuroHPC_JU This #AI #supercomputing infrastructure will be implemented by a consortium led by @ichec and @CeADARIreland Centre for AI based at @ucddublin
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'There's still a plan in place, and just because Nicola finished 11th it doesn't mean we're going to rush’ In Thursday's @SouthernStarIRL Sport we chat to Nicola Tuthill's coach Killian Barry about her success and what's next. To subscribe ➡️ https://t.co/WYqQRiz1yr
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The PIE Live Ireland 2025 is in full swing! 🇮🇪 What an incredible day it’s been so far at #UCD, filled with energy, conversations, and connections from across the global education community. The buzz in Dublin is unreal! #PIELIVE25 #PIELiveIreland #InternationalEducation
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Every great leap in energy has come from unlocking a deeper source: Water → Hydropower Wind → Wind turbines Sun → Solar cells Atom → Nuclear fission Now we’ve tapped the Earth’s magma — delivering 25–50 MW per well at $0.03/kWh, protected by 34 issued patents. This
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Congratulations to the #NobelPrize winners Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt working on technological progress and sustained growth. Mokyr worked very closely on this topic with our very own @EconomicsUCD Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda. https://t.co/SnZmcaybi8
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Thanks to @UniIreland and @QUBelfast for an excellent conference, strengthening partnerships and sharing knowledge across all universities on the island of Ireland.
We are proud to have hosted the Universities Ireland Conference at a time when cross-border partnership has never been more vital. @UniIreland and this conference in particular provide a unique forum to unify our efforts, exchange knowledge and show the value of
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🎼🎙️ “It’s not the origin of a song, it’s the interaction.” In Episode 43 of the Folklore Fragments Podcast, scholar Steve Roud, creator of the monumental Roud Folk Song Index, explores what makes traditional song unique, its beautiful messiness, its multiple creators, and its
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🧑🔬🔬 Ireland’s most ambitious cancer research collaboration, Precision Oncology Ireland, has entered its second phase, marking a major step forward in the development of next-generation personalised cancer care. Coordinated by Systems Biology Ireland (SBI) at University College
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Belated Congratulations & Well Done to Vanessa Becker who passed her PhD viva voce on the 30th Sept 👏 Pictured here with supervisor @McGarrigleGroup & colleagues from lab A3.01. Thanks to Prof Michael Willis of Univ of Oxford (extern), Paul Evans (intern) & Paul Evans (Chair)
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Congratulations and Well Done to Niamh Disney on passing her PhD viva voce this morning 👏 pictured here with supervisor Marcus @BaumannGroupUCD, the group and her family. Thanks to Prof Antimo Gioiello of Univ of Perugia (extern), Declan Gilheany (intern) & @EORResearch (chair)
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👩🎓🏅 Dr Tess McCann has won this year’s UCD Conway Festival Gold Medal for the discovery of a gene mutation responsible for inherited retinal diseases leading to vision loss. Working with a research team led by Professor Breandan Kennedy, Dr McCann identified a mutation in the
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Don’t be the friend asking ‘where’s the next event?’ at Tech Week🤦 Scan the code, be the friend with the answers.
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Many congratulations to Helen on her appointment.
💙💛 Our warmest congratulations to UCD Professor Helen Roche on her appointment to the Board of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) by The Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD. As a Full Professor of Nutrigenomics, Helen's expertise bridges disciplines at
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🐝✨ Since 2014, UCD Rosemount’s apiary has been home to a “home-grown, home-managed” hive used mainly as a teaching resource. Students who take the beekeeping module learn how honeybee systems work, how honey is produced and harvested, and how pollination supports life on and
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