🌷🌸 A flower blossoms for its own joy. #goodmorning #UCDInBloom #spring #Dublin

🔋♻️ Two University College Dublin students have won the top €12,000 prize at the EirGrid CleanerGrid Competition 2026, recognising innovative solutions to Ireland’s energy challenges. ⚡️ @eirgrid.bsky.social

🧠📑 A major new study has found that commonly prescribed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication in childhood may lower the long-term risk of developing serious psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia. 🧵 #ADHD #adhd #adhdlife #adhdsupport #adhdawareness

👩‍🎓🏐 Huge congratulations to UCD GAA's Anna Dunlea and Lauren Murtagh on being named to the 2026 AIG Higher Education All-Star team.

🤖🏥 University College Dublin researchers have developed a groundbreaking robotic model of the human oesophagus, transforming how swallowing disorders are studied, diagnosed and treated.

Five subjects at University College Dublin are now ranked among the world’s top 50, marking the University’s strongest-ever showing in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. Alongside these top-performing subjects, 13 others were named among the top 100 in the 2026 listings.

💙💛 University College Dublin has awarded an honorary doctorate to Dr Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General and a leading figure in the discovery of the Higgs boson. @cern.bsky.social

⛽️🚘 Despite a 15 to 20c excise cut approved by the Government, drivers in rural areas may not see lower fuel prices for several days, warns UCD Professor in Energy Economics, Lisa Ryan. www.newstalk.com/news/fuel-pr...

Dr Tian Carey (@tcddublin.bsky.social), Dr Jennifer Lynch (@ucddublin.bsky.social) and Dr Ian Woods (@rcsi.bsky.social) have been awarded the @royalsociety.org – Research Ireland University Research Fellowships. Learn more about their groundbreaking research: www.researchireland.ie/news/early-c...

👩‍🎓🔬 Dr Jennifer Lynch from the UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society – Research Ireland University Research Fellowship for a project aiming to develop new leukaemia therapies. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

🚣‍♂️🏆 Huge congratulations to the UCD Boat Club Senior Men's crew on securing a historic fifth consecutive Gannon Cup, with a convincing win over rivals Trinity College Dublin at the Dublin City Colours Boat Races.

Dan Flinter, former chairman of The Irish Times, dies at 75

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 Many congratulations to UCD faculty members, Professor Eileen Gibney and Assistant Professor Craig Slattery, on their appointments to the new Scientific Committee of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. @fsaiinfo.bsky.social

👩‍💻⛈️ University College Dublin is leading a new €5.7 million national research centre harnessing artificial intelligence to tackle climate change and drive Ireland’s transition to a low-carbon future.

Huge congratulations to Professor Mary Daly, a dear friend of NUI, on this most prestigious award 👏 NUI had the pleasure of honouring Professor Daly with an Honorary Degree in 2015, recognising her distinction as a leading Irish historian and contribution to Irish public life.

🦡🐿️ “Positive indications” for numbers of native red squirrels and pine martens in Ireland A study that uses remote cameras to photograph wildlife has reported numerous sightings of native red squirrels and pine martens in Ireland.

👩‍🎓🏅 University College Dublin historian Professor Mary E. Daly has been awarded the Cunningham Medal, the Royal Irish Academy’s highest honour, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to scholarship and research in Ireland. @ria.ie

One Health and artificial intelligence are at the centre of six new projects between University College Dublin and the University of California, Davis. 🤝 @ucdavis.bsky.social

💙💛 Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!☘️ Read all about wearing green, shamrocks and other St. Patrick's Day traditions in this UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post by @bealoideasucd.bsky.social from 2022. Read at buff.ly/jyxl0a3 @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

🦾👩‍🎓 Incredible - UCD Athletics star Nicola Tuthill has won silver at the European Throwing Cup, setting a new personal best of 72.48m in the hammer throw.

👩‍🎓📔 Novelist and UCD MFA Creative Writing graduate Charleen Hurtubise shares advice for aspiring writers: "Keep going. Believe that urge and get it down. Find a community of readers and writers, as a mentor said: find your weirdos." www.image.ie/living/page-...

Many congratulations to UCD researchers Dr Sara Benedi Lahuerta and Dr Ryan Lash, who have been appointed to the Young Academy of Ireland in recognition of their contributions as emerging leaders in research and innovation. 👏 @ria.ie @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Many congratulations to UCD Sutherland School of Law final-year law students Mark McDwyer and Ruth Morris, who have won this year’s National Negotiation Competition, held by the Law Society of Ireland.

Having left school at 17, novelist Djamel White later returned to education to complete an MFA in Creative Writing at the UCD School of English, Drama and Film, where he was mentored by Anne Enright. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

The University College Dublin community is saddened to learn of the passing of Olympic gold medallist and Irish sporting legend Ronnie Delany. www.rte.ie/sport/athlet...

Students whose energy, leadership and service have helped make University College Dublin a vibrant campus community have been honoured at this year’s President’s Awards. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Africa and Europe face a future of profound climate, digital, economic and social change. Meeting these global transitions will require both regions to act together with a shared purpose, shared agency, and stronger cooperation in science, technology, and innovation.

Congratulations to Professor Eileen Wall OBE, Head of Research at SRUC and a University College Dublin graduate, on being awarded an honorary OBE for services to Agricultural Science.

First-preference demand for University College Dublin has reached its highest level among CAO applicants. Almost 11,000 students have selected the university as their top CAO choice for September 2026.

UCD researchers are involved in four of 32 projects receiving nearly €6 million in @researchireland.ie funding to drive science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) engagement in Ireland.

University College Dublin has welcomed 57 exceptional students into the UCD Ad Astra Academy, the University’s flagship scholarship programme, recognising outstanding achievement in academia, sport and the performing arts. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

A project coordinated by Dr Emma Feeney from the UCD Institute of Food and Health has been awarded €5 million in funding by the Government of Ireland and the European Union. @ucdfoodhealth.bsky.social

UCD O’Connor Centre for Learning: Ireland’s largest facility dedicated to teaching and learning, opens at University College Dublin.

Professor Áine Ní Dhubháin is the new Chair of the COFORD Council, the body that provides scientific and policy advice to support the development of Ireland’s forests. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Professor Sarah Gleeson, Professor in Sustainability Geoscience in the UCD School of Earth Sciences, has been appointed to the National Science Advice Forum, a new group of experts that will provide scientific advice to support government decision-making. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

🐐🧬 New research has revealed that the Old Irish Goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in Ireland during the Late Bronze Age. The findings suggest the rare indigenous breed represents a continuous Irish lineage stretching back millennia. @gingerhowley.bsky.social

🦢💦 Even the swans are struggling to dry off #UCD #SustainableCampus #Wildlife #Dublin

🤰💊 Professor Patricia Maguire: "For now, if your doctor has prescribed aspirin in pregnancy, it’s important to continue taking it. It is a safe, effective and evidence-based treatment for women at higher risk of pre-eclampsia..."

🤰🍷 Previous estimates, based largely on self-reported data, suggested that between 20% and 60% of pregnant women in Ireland consumed alcohol. 🧵 @ucdmedicine.bsky.social

🤵🏅 Careful Now: Huge congratulations to Irish comedian, actor and author Ardal O’Hanlon, who has received the UCD Literary & Historical Society James Joyce Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the arts and Irish cultural life.

👩‍⚕️🏥 More than 3,000 additional training places will be made available nationwide over the next three years following a €28.5 million Government investment in healthcare education. University College Dublin is set to play a key role in this expansion of healthcare education places.

🇮🇪🌍 UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School’s Full-Time MBA programme is ranked 73rd globally by the Financial Times, remaining Ireland’s only full-time MBA in the prestigious top 100. 👏 @ucdsmurfitschool.bsky.social

🐴🎉 Happy Lunar New Year! Wishing joy and prosperity to all our students and friends who are celebrating at home and around the globe.

Thank you to the talented Sydney Thompson, HDip student @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, who has been working in our laboratory with archaeological conservator Susannah Kelly reconstructing some extremely fragmented and challenging bronze age burial urns @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

👨‍🎓✨ Ireland's Fastest Man! UCD Athletics Club sprinter Bori Akinola has just set a new 60m Irish record at the Belgrade Indoor Meeting in Serbia.

👩‍🎓🌱 “The tipping point has been reached.” - @noeleensmyth.bsky.social, Assistant Professor in Horticulture at UCD, warns that alien invasive non-native plant species now outnumber native ones growing in Ireland, raising urgent questions about the health of our ecosystems and what comes next.

Beautiful paintings. Part of the Beranger watercolour collection in UCD Special Collections. www.ucd.ie/specialcolle...

🧛‍♂️☘️ Bleh! The alleged Vampiro-Gaelic roots of Dracula are EXPOSED in the latest episode of Folklore Fragments from Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann/ The National Folklore Collection! 👏🎧 @bealoideasucd.bsky.social

👩‍🎓🌍 Warmest congratulations to UCD alumna Dr Eimear Cotter on her appointment as Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced by Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment Darragh O’Brien TD. 👏 @epaireland.bsky.social