University Observer
| "Ne quid false dicere audeat, ne quid veri non-audeat" ("To tell no untruth and leave no truth untold") | |
University Observer, 29 September 2009
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| Type | fortnightly student newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet with tabloid insert |
| Editor | Aoife Hardesty |
| Deputy editor | Ruth Murphy |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | UCD Student Centre, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland |
| Circulation | 6,000 |
| Website | universityobserver |
The University Observer is a broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the campus of University College, Dublin once every three weeks. It was launched in 1994 by University College Dublin Students' Union as an immediate successor to the publication 'Students' Union News'. The paper maintains complete editorial independence from UCD Students' Union. The paper is accompanied by the arts and culture supplement 'OTwo.'
The paper was founded by dual editors Pat Leahy, now of the Sunday Business Post, and Dara Ó Briain, now of BBC and RTÉ comic fame. It has provided a number of notable Irish journalists their first break, including Roddy O'Sullivan and Shane Hegarty, now of The Irish Times; Declan Walsh, now of The New York Times; Alan Torney of RTÉ Radio 1; Sinéad Ingoldsby of BBC Northern Ireland; Daniel McConnell, Political Editor of the Irish Examiner; Juno McEnroe of The Irish Examiner; Steve Cummins, editor of NME Ireland; Samantha Libreri of RTÉ News; Stephen Carroll of France 24; Gillian Fitzpatrick, editor at Maximum Media, and Gavan Reilly of TV3.
The following is a selection of highlights or big stories published by the paper since its foundation. Part of this timeline was published in the print edition of the paper on 15 February 2011, and was contributed to by all former editors of the paper, during a threat to the existence of the paper by the Students' Union executive of the day.
1994–1995
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