UCD Connections 2011

Woodland WalksOn the map: Belfield’s beauty spots

Mission science

The Science District launches

Business ConneCtions

HoW Ucd looks TodayThe campus welcomes alumni

inside

The Magazine for uCD Business Alumni

global search local jobs

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Milestone MoMents 28 born in 1911 On Flann O’Brien’s

centenary, we look back 100 years

30 in The name of The Law The UCD Sutherland School of Law opens

50 down To a T A new James Joyce portrait is unveiled

52 Team of The cenTury Votes are in for the fantasy rugby team of the

century

Contents

UCDconnections

2011 – 2012

alumni magazine

university people 8 a year in The

SPoTLiGhT Who shone in 2011?

Many UCD alumni it seems ...

14 naTionaL TreaSureS

Honouring the nation’s greatest

18 Life SKiLLS To Knife SKiLLS

From economist to epicure: changing lanes to forge a new career

34 Q & aLumni Miriam O’Callaghan on college days and career

46 Some ThinGS you JuST can’T Teach

Comedy on campus

49 QuoTe, unQuoTe A word from famous

alumni and visitors

60 re-connecTionS Catch up with

classmates, see who has had a book published, and read about births and marriages

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ON THE COVER: A section of the UCD Alumni Campus Map, designed to highlight places of interest as well as Woodland Walks, five walks of differing lengths on campus. The map was designed by Simon Roche and Daniel Frost.

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UCD Connections is published by Gloss Publications Ltd, The Courtyard, 40 Main Street, Blackrock, Co Dublin, 01 275 5130. Distributed by The Irish Times. To order a copy, go to www.ucdconnections.ie. Printed by Boylans. Colour origination by Typeform. Copyright 2011 Gloss Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is strictly prohibited. This magazine can be recycled either in your Green Bin kerbside collection or at a local recycling point.

In the compilation of this publication, every care is taken to ensure accuracy. Any errors or omissions should be brought to the attention of the UCD Development & Alumni Relations Office. However, UCD does not accept any liability to any person for loss or damage arising from anything contained in this publication or for any error or omission in it, even if such loss and damage is caused by the negligence of UCD or its servants and agents.

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alumni update22 UNIVERSITY

CHALLENGE How well do you know

your University? Take the Alumni Quiz ...

68 LEAVING A LEGACY Donate to UCD

inteRVieW24 FRom SCHoLARSHIp

To SUCCESS Businessman George Moore on his UCD beginnings

eVentsFoundation Day Dinner (page 84); Business School Alumni Awards (page 85); Business Alumni Chapter Events (page 86); Ruby Jubilee (page 87); Newman Fellowship (page 88); Sigerson Centenary Dinner (page 89); Medical Gala Dinner and Robing (page 90); Kevin Barry Window (page 91); Characters in Conversation (pages 92, 93 & 94); Bloomsday (page 95); Engineering Events (page 96).

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70 THE mBA NETwoRk The value of an MBA

76 TAkING SToCk Boston-based Desmond

Mac Intyre on Ireland’s crisis

78 ENTREpRENEURSHIp The skills to make it happen: the role of the University in

shaping an entrepreneurial mindset

80 ALUmNI ABRoAd Graduates doing business

overseas

life on campus20 SHERRY, ANYoNE? UCD Law Society is 100 years old

38 UCd IN NUmBERS Stats in action

40 mISSIoN SCIENCE UCD Science District

launches today

54 SpoRTS SHoRTS Triumphs on the field

56 ERA oF THE ELITE Medallists in the making: fostering achievement in sport

59 CENTRE oF EXCELLENCE

Leinster Rugby takes up residence

Business connections

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BUSINESSTHE MAGAZINE FOR UCD BUSINESS ALUMNICONNECTIONS

THE MBA NETWORKStrength in Numbers

ENTREPRENEURSHIPTHE KEY TO

FUTURE SUCCESS

ALUMNI ABROADDoing the Business Overseas

TAKING STOCK

AN OUTSIDER’S VIEW

IN THIS ISSUE

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UCD Connections is published by Gloss Publications Ltd, The Courtyard, 40 Main Street, Blackrock, Co Dublin, 01 275 5130. Distributed by The Irish Times. To order a copy, go to www.ucdconnections.ie. Printed by Boylans. Colour origination by Typeform. Copyright 2011 Gloss Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is strictly prohibited. This magazine can be recycled either in your Green Bin kerbside collection or at a local recycling point.

In the compilation of this publication, every care is taken to ensure accuracy. Any errors or omissions should be brought to the attention of the UCD Development & Alumni Relations Office. However, UCD does not accept any liability to any person for loss or damage arising from anything contained in this publication or for any error or omission in it, even if such loss and damage is caused by the negligence of UCD or its servants and agents.

| contents |

alumni update22 UNIVERSITY

CHALLENGE How well do you know

your University? Take the Alumni Quiz ...

68 LEAVING A LEGACY Donate to UCD

inteRVieW24 FRom SCHoLARSHIp

To SUCCESS Businessman George Moore on his UCD beginnings

eVentsFoundation Day Dinner (page 84); Business School Alumni Awards (page 85); Business Alumni Chapter Events (page 86); Ruby Jubilee (page 87); Newman Fellowship (page 88); Sigerson Centenary Dinner (page 89); Medical Gala Dinner and Robing (page 90); Kevin Barry Window (page 91); Characters in Conversation (pages 92, 93 & 94); Bloomsday (page 95); Engineering Events (page 96).

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70 THE mBA NETwoRk The value of an MBA

76 TAkING SToCk Boston-based Desmond

Mac Intyre on Ireland’s crisis

78 ENTREpRENEURSHIp The skills to make it happen: the role of the University in

shaping an entrepreneurial mindset

80 ALUmNI ABRoAd Graduates doing business

overseas

life on campus20 SHERRY, ANYoNE? UCD Law Society is 100 years old

38 UCd IN NUmBERS Stats in action

40 mISSIoN SCIENCE UCD Science District

launches today

54 SpoRTS SHoRTS Triumphs on the field

56 ERA oF THE ELITE Medallists in the making: fostering achievement in sport

59 CENTRE oF EXCELLENCE

Leinster Rugby takes up residence

Business connections

95 56

BUSINESSTHE MAGAZINE FOR UCD BUSINESS ALUMNICONNECTIONS

THE MBA NETWORKStrength in Numbers

ENTREPRENEURSHIPTHE KEY TO

FUTURE SUCCESS

ALUMNI ABROADDoing the Business Overseas

TAKING STOCK

AN OUTSIDER’S VIEW

IN THIS ISSUE

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PAGE 70

PAGE 80

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Since the relaunch of UCD Connections, and its focus on alumni worldwide, not just in Ireland, we have been able to engage

more effectively with our audience. As with all magazines, the contents should reflect the interests of the readers so, when a

survey of our last issue revealed that alumni wanted to know more about what was happening on campus today – the nuts and

bolts, the bricks and mortar – we wanted to address that demand.

That feedback could not have come at a more opportune time. Since the move to Belfield in the 1960s, there has been

continuous development on campus – naturally, with a campus population of over 25,000, the size of Kilkenny, growth was

inevitable. This year, however, sees some very significant plans crystallise: the new Science Centre, a 67,000-square-metre

“science district” launches this month – it will be the biggest concentration of scientists in this country and will attract talent from

all over the world. (Mission Science, page 40)

A direct response to the government strategy to build on our science and technology infrastructure, this ambitious plan, so

crucial for the future of this country, is testament to the important support we get from alumni on every level – from funding

research and scholarships to developing the infrastructure. Likewise, the UCD Sutherland School of Law will break ground

this year thanks to the valuable support of UCD law graduates and the legal profession. The new Sports Centre is also nearing

completion – it will be a wonderful resource for all students but also a vital link in the chain of encouraging and fostering

Ireland’s elite athletes, many of whom reside and study at UCD. Speaking of elite athletes, UCD is now home to

Leinster Rugby (Centre of Excellence, page 59).

As well as UCD’s built environment, much work has gone into creating a landscape that everyone can enjoy in the heart

of Dublin 4. This month sees the launch of our Woodland Walks – five walks of differing lengths and interest on the Belfield

campus. Whether you run, walk or take a Sunday stroll, alumni and families are welcomed back to the University on

Sunday 25th September to pick up our specially commissioned alumni campus map and take the route of choice. You never

know, it could become another tradition for all the generations.

On a sad note, we fondly remember Garret FitzGerald as we read about National Treasures (page 14) in the feature

he inspired. He will be greatly missed.

If you haven’t already done so, please update your contact details on the UCD alumni website so that we can keep you

informed about events, reunions and other opportunities to tap fond memories.

UCD Connections is being distributed with The Irish Times as a cost-effective means of reaching a large audience. We are happy

to post a copy to any graduate who requests one – please don’t assume we have your up-to-date contact details. Update your

details and let us know your views on our magazine at www.ucdconnections.ie.

ÁIne GIbbons, Vice-president for deVelopment And AlUmni relAtions

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WALK THE WALK

If you haven’t already explored the lovely amenity that is the 133 hectares of green

space on the Belfield campus,

UCD would like to invite all alumni, family and friends

To the launch of the

WooDLAnD WALKsOn Sunday September 25, from 11am

Join us at O’Reilly Hall, any time from 11am - 4pm on Sunday 25th and pick up your copy of the limited edition UCD Alumni Campus Map

Take a stroll on one of five Woodland Walks of varying length (see below)

50,000 trees, 75 species, 9 hectares of woodland coverage

Enjoy a post-walk cup of coffee or tea

MILLEnnIUM WALK: 3.2km – duration 35-40 mins BELfIELD WALK: 2.4km – duration 30-35 minsGLEnoMEnA WALK: 1.9km – duration 20-25mins RosEMoUnT WALK: 1.8km – duration 20-25 minsBoUnDARy WALK: 6.2km – duration 60-70 mins

Pre-register with your contact details on www.ucd.ie/alumni and get details of various short presentations on the trees, trails and points of interest of the Woodland Walks that will take place throughout the afternoon

TALK THE TALK

Owenstown Entrance

Figurehead Sculpture

HorseSculpture

Celtic Twilight Sculpture

Na Fánaí Fuachtmhara Sculpture

The Age of FreedomSculpture

Foster’s Avenue Entrance

Clonskeagh

Entrance

Newstead

Entrance

N11 Entrance

UCD MiCHAEl SMUrFiT GrADUATE BUSiNESS SCHOOl4km

O’Kane Centre for Film Studies (Magnetic Observatory)

O’reilly Hall

Belfield House

University lodge

roebuck Castle

Merville House

richview

Water Tower

Ardmore House

The lake

Newman Building James Joyce library

Walks, Trails & Places of Interest

UCD AlUmni CAmpUs mAp

The

Glenomena Walk

Belfield Walk

MIllennium Walk

Rosemount Walk

Boundary Woodland Walk

Pedestrian Route

Primary Vehicular Route

For a detailed building map and additional campus information see www.ucd.ie/campusdevelopment

Bus Stop

Parking

Pedestrian-only Entrance

NEWMAN HOUSESt. Stephen’s Green 4km

richviewEntrance

Science District

John Hume institute for Global irish Studies

Engineering and Materials Science Centre

Quinn School of Business

Sutherland School of law

Student learning leisure and Sports Complex

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We were inspired to create a limited edition map of Belfield following conversations throughout the years with our alumni about the striking

enhancement of the campus. Developing Belfield as a green,

sustainable and modern 21st-century university is part of the overall campus master plan. This map features walks, trails and places of particular interest to alumni.

The Woodland Walkway was completed in 2011 and features

8km of woodland paths with a series of walks developed to open up the beautiful 133 hectare campus to the wider community.

Our Period Houses have been sensitively restored over recent years and hold a special place in our hearts. Belfield House for example, purchased by UCD in the 1930s, is remembered as a

sporting location.Of the 27 sculptures on the Sculpture Trail at UCD we have

featured five. All of these public works are an integral part of the urban fabric of UCD, enriching the sense of place and the physical beauty of the natural environment.

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Owenstown Entrance

Figurehead Sculpture

HorseSculpture

Celtic Twilight Sculpture

Na Fánaí Fuachtmhara Sculpture

The Age of FreedomSculpture

Foster’s Avenue Entrance

Clonskeagh

Entrance

Newstead

Entrance

N11 Entrance

UCD MiCHAEl SMUrFiT GrADUATE BUSiNESS SCHOOl4km

O’Kane Centre for Film Studies (Magnetic Observatory)

O’reilly Hall

Belfield House

University lodge

roebuck Castle

Merville House

richview

Water Tower

Ardmore House

The lake

Newman Building James Joyce library

Walks, Trails & Places of Interest

UCD AlUmni CAmpUs mAp

The

Glenomena Walk

Belfield Walk

MIllennium Walk

Rosemount Walk

Boundary Woodland Walk

Pedestrian Route

Primary Vehicular Route

For a detailed building map and additional campus information see www.ucd.ie/campusdevelopment

Bus Stop

Parking

Pedestrian-only Entrance

NEWMAN HOUSESt. Stephen’s Green 4km

richviewEntrance

Science District

John Hume institute for Global irish Studies

Engineering and Materials Science Centre

Quinn School of Business

Sutherland School of law

Student learning leisure and Sports Complex

| map || map |

We were inspired to create a limited edition map of Belfield following conversations throughout the years with our alumni about the striking

enhancement of the campus. Developing Belfield as a green,

sustainable and modern 21st-century university is part of the overall campus master plan. This map features walks, trails and places of particular interest to alumni.

The Woodland Walkway was completed in 2011 and features

8km of woodland paths with a series of walks developed to open up the beautiful 133 hectare campus to the wider community.

Our Period Houses have been sensitively restored over recent years and hold a special place in our hearts. Belfield House for example, purchased by UCD in the 1930s, is remembered as a

sporting location.Of the 27 sculptures on the Sculpture Trail at UCD we have

featured five. All of these public works are an integral part of the urban fabric of UCD, enriching the sense of place and the physical beauty of the natural environment.

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Kathryn reilly Sinn Féin Senator (MeconSc european Public

affairs & law 2009)

Having narrowly lost out in the general

election in March, Kathryn Reilly

(22) became the youngest candidate

ever elected to the Seanad when she

was returned to the Industrial and

Commercial panel after a marathon

count that kept all candidates on the edge

of their seats.

Sean O’Brien Rugby player(Diploma in Sports Management 2007)

One of the most talked about Leinster

and Ireland rugby stars of the current

season, O’Brien made his Six Nations

debut against Italy in February and went

on to play in every game

in the series. The Tullow

native, Carlow’s first

Irish rugby international

of the modern era, also

played a vital part in Leinster’s victory in

the Heineken Cup Final in Cardiff and

was named ERC player of the year in

May. Yet he still finds the time to raise

25 suckling cows on the family farm.

O’Brien is quoted as saying, “Myself and

John Hayes are always talking about

cattle and stuff.”

PatricK hOnOhan

Governor of the Central Bank

(Ba economics and Mathematics 1971,

Ma 1973)

Could it be the toughest job in Ireland?

Governor of the Central Bank Patrick

Honohan certainly has his hands full

managing the current banking crisis.

In March 2011 the former World Bank

economist said that he would like to see

a lower interest rate charged on the EU/

IMF bailout loan than the then rate of 5.9

per cent. It has since been renegotiated.

Paul Mercier Playwright (Ba irish and english 1979, hDiped 1981)

Earlier this year playwright Paul Mercier

returned to the Abbey Theatre with

two new plays, The East Pier and The

Passing, both set in modern-day Dublin

and reflective of the difficult times the

country is experiencing. Mercier made

a name for himself in the 1980s as

writer and artistic director with Passion

Machine Theatre Company, for whom

he directed eleven of his own plays in

addition to work by writers like Roddy

Doyle and Michael Harding.

A UCD contemporary of

actor Brendan Gleeson, the two shared

their passion for drama as members of

DramSoc.

Kevin O’Sullivan

Editor of the Irish Times (BSc 1981)

Kevin O’Sullivan was appointed Editor

of The Irish Times in succession to

Geraldine Kennedy in June. He joined

the newspaper in 1997, having previously

worked on the Connacht Tribune and the

Tuam Herald, and had held the position

of News Editor since 2006. Previously

he was night editor, special projects

editor, editor of the health supplement

and environmental and food science

correspondent. A native of Tramore,

Co Waterford, O’Sullivan is now a board

member of The Irish Times Limited.

eMMa DOnOghue Author

(Ba english and French 1990)

Ontario-based Dubliner Emma

Donoghue won many plaudits for her

seventh novel Room. In addition to

being shortlisted for the prestigious Man

Booker Prize, and the Orange prize for

Fiction, this compelling exploration of

the effects of incarceration on a mother

and her child was awarded the Hughes &

Hughes Irish Novel of the Year, the 2011

Commonwealth Prize for Fiction and the

Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

| alumni achievement | | alumni achievement |

Many alumni had an annus mirabilis in 2010-2011. We look at some of the movers and shakers.

spotlighteOghan MurPhy TD

(Ba english and Philosophy 2004)

Success in the March 2010 general

election saw Eoghan Murphy (29)

become one of the youngest members

ever elected to Dáil Éireann. Murphy

first held political office when elected

to Dublin City Council in 2009 and

resigned his role as a speechwriter at the

nuclear-test-ban treaty organisation in

Vienna in order to take up office. He

previously worked in international

arms control, and the United

Nations in London, Geneva and

Vienna. Murphy also has an MA in

International Relations from King’s

College London.

ruairí quinn Minister for Education and Skills (Barch 1969)

The formation of a Fine Gael/

Labour coalition government saw the

appointment of Ruairí Quinn (an active

member of the Labour party

while a student at UCD) as

Minister for Education and

Skills. He has held high office

in the past, most notably as

Minister for Finance

from 1994 to 1997.

Mr Quinn announced a radical overhaul

of the Junior Certificate in April, saying

the exam is “no longer suitable as the

main form of student assessment in

lower-secondary education”.

jaMeS hanley Artist (Ba history of art and english 1987)

James Hanley, widely regarded as one

of Ireland’s leading painters, hosted

his first solo exhibition in over six

years in March. The show in

the Solomon Fine Art

Gallery represented

a year’s work in

the life room of the Royal Hibernian

Academy. Hanley’s work is included in

numerous public and private collections

including IMMA, the Arts Council, AIB

and the European Parliament. He is

one of the few living artists whose work

is represented in the collection of the

National Gallery of Ireland.

Dervilla Mitchell

Consultant Engineer (Be 1980)

Dervilla Mitchell, the most senior

female engineer in leading Irish

consulting engineering practice

Arup was awarded the Inspiration

and Leadership in Business and

Industry Award by the prestigious Royal

Academy of Engineering in London

in May 2011. A firm believer in gender

equality in the workplace, Mitchell

helped establish Arup’s women’s network,

ConnectWomen, and is championing its

Inclusive Leadership Programme. She also

headed up the company’s involvement in

the construction of Terminal 5 at

Heathrow airport.

ROLE of HONOUR

nOel KilKenny(BCL 1974)

2010 saw the appointment of County Clare

native noel KilKenny as irish Consul General

in new yorK. havinG spent three years in the

irish Department of JustiCe, KilKenny beGan

his Career with the Department of foreiGn

affairs in 1977. sinCe then he has taKen

up posts all over the worlD inCluDinG

stints in hollanD, China, washinGton

DC, bosnia, lonDon, estonia

anD molDova.

ROckiNg ON

Danny O’reilly(BComm 2001)

this summer the Coronas playeD their biGGest

heaDline GiG to Date in marlay parK as part

of the @the parK series of intimate GiGs helD

unDer Canvas in the leafy south Dublin parK.

the meteor awarD-winninG banD formeD

when its four members were Just 15

years olD. Danny o’reilly fronts

the banD on voCals anD rhythm

Guitar.

rugBy Starsean O’Brien

Six nations debut against Italy in February

tD eoghan murphy

One of the youngest members ever elected to Dáil Éireann

SeniOr engineer dervilla mitchellHelped establish Arup’s women’s

network

heaDline actdanny o’reilly

The Coronas hit the big time

A year in the

ucD cOnnectiOns alumni magazine | 9

a rOOM OF her Own

emma donoghueAwards season for

the author

artiSt james hanley

One of our foremost portrait painters

SenatOrkathryn

reillyYoungest ever

candidate

tD ruairí quinn

Minister for Education and Skills

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Kathryn reilly Sinn Féin Senator (MeconSc european Public

affairs & law 2009)

Having narrowly lost out in the general

election in March, Kathryn Reilly

(22) became the youngest candidate

ever elected to the Seanad when she

was returned to the Industrial and

Commercial panel after a marathon

count that kept all candidates on the edge

of their seats.

Sean O’Brien Rugby player(Diploma in Sports Management 2007)

One of the most talked about Leinster

and Ireland rugby stars of the current

season, O’Brien made his Six Nations

debut against Italy in February and went

on to play in every game

in the series. The Tullow

native, Carlow’s first

Irish rugby international

of the modern era, also

played a vital part in Leinster’s victory in

the Heineken Cup Final in Cardiff and

was named ERC player of the year in

May. Yet he still finds the time to raise

25 suckling cows on the family farm.

O’Brien is quoted as saying, “Myself and

John Hayes are always talking about

cattle and stuff.”

PatricK hOnOhan

Governor of the Central Bank

(Ba economics and Mathematics 1971,

Ma 1973)

Could it be the toughest job in Ireland?

Governor of the Central Bank Patrick

Honohan certainly has his hands full

managing the current banking crisis.

In March 2011 the former World Bank

economist said that he would like to see

a lower interest rate charged on the EU/

IMF bailout loan than the then rate of 5.9

per cent. It has since been renegotiated.

Paul Mercier Playwright (Ba irish and english 1979, hDiped 1981)

Earlier this year playwright Paul Mercier

returned to the Abbey Theatre with

two new plays, The East Pier and The

Passing, both set in modern-day Dublin

and reflective of the difficult times the

country is experiencing. Mercier made

a name for himself in the 1980s as

writer and artistic director with Passion

Machine Theatre Company, for whom

he directed eleven of his own plays in

addition to work by writers like Roddy

Doyle and Michael Harding.

A UCD contemporary of

actor Brendan Gleeson, the two shared

their passion for drama as members of

DramSoc.

Kevin O’Sullivan

Editor of the Irish Times (BSc 1981)

Kevin O’Sullivan was appointed Editor

of The Irish Times in succession to

Geraldine Kennedy in June. He joined

the newspaper in 1997, having previously

worked on the Connacht Tribune and the

Tuam Herald, and had held the position

of News Editor since 2006. Previously

he was night editor, special projects

editor, editor of the health supplement

and environmental and food science

correspondent. A native of Tramore,

Co Waterford, O’Sullivan is now a board

member of The Irish Times Limited.

eMMa DOnOghue Author

(Ba english and French 1990)

Ontario-based Dubliner Emma

Donoghue won many plaudits for her

seventh novel Room. In addition to

being shortlisted for the prestigious Man

Booker Prize, and the Orange prize for

Fiction, this compelling exploration of

the effects of incarceration on a mother

and her child was awarded the Hughes &

Hughes Irish Novel of the Year, the 2011

Commonwealth Prize for Fiction and the

Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

| alumni achievement | | alumni achievement |

Many alumni had an annus mirabilis in 2010-2011. We look at some of the movers and shakers.

spotlighteOghan MurPhy TD

(Ba english and Philosophy 2004)

Success in the March 2010 general

election saw Eoghan Murphy (29)

become one of the youngest members

ever elected to Dáil Éireann. Murphy

first held political office when elected

to Dublin City Council in 2009 and

resigned his role as a speechwriter at the

nuclear-test-ban treaty organisation in

Vienna in order to take up office. He

previously worked in international

arms control, and the United

Nations in London, Geneva and

Vienna. Murphy also has an MA in

International Relations from King’s

College London.

ruairí quinn Minister for Education and Skills (Barch 1969)

The formation of a Fine Gael/

Labour coalition government saw the

appointment of Ruairí Quinn (an active

member of the Labour party

while a student at UCD) as

Minister for Education and

Skills. He has held high office

in the past, most notably as

Minister for Finance

from 1994 to 1997.

Mr Quinn announced a radical overhaul

of the Junior Certificate in April, saying

the exam is “no longer suitable as the

main form of student assessment in

lower-secondary education”.

jaMeS hanley Artist (Ba history of art and english 1987)

James Hanley, widely regarded as one

of Ireland’s leading painters, hosted

his first solo exhibition in over six

years in March. The show in

the Solomon Fine Art

Gallery represented

a year’s work in

the life room of the Royal Hibernian

Academy. Hanley’s work is included in

numerous public and private collections

including IMMA, the Arts Council, AIB

and the European Parliament. He is

one of the few living artists whose work

is represented in the collection of the

National Gallery of Ireland.

Dervilla Mitchell

Consultant Engineer (Be 1980)

Dervilla Mitchell, the most senior

female engineer in leading Irish

consulting engineering practice

Arup was awarded the Inspiration

and Leadership in Business and

Industry Award by the prestigious Royal

Academy of Engineering in London

in May 2011. A firm believer in gender

equality in the workplace, Mitchell

helped establish Arup’s women’s network,

ConnectWomen, and is championing its

Inclusive Leadership Programme. She also

headed up the company’s involvement in

the construction of Terminal 5 at

Heathrow airport.

ROLE of HONOUR

nOel KilKenny(BCL 1974)

2010 saw the appointment of County Clare

native noel KilKenny as irish Consul General

in new yorK. havinG spent three years in the

irish Department of JustiCe, KilKenny beGan

his Career with the Department of foreiGn

affairs in 1977. sinCe then he has taKen

up posts all over the worlD inCluDinG

stints in hollanD, China, washinGton

DC, bosnia, lonDon, estonia

anD molDova.

ROckiNg ON

Danny O’reilly(BComm 2001)

this summer the Coronas playeD their biGGest

heaDline GiG to Date in marlay parK as part

of the @the parK series of intimate GiGs helD

unDer Canvas in the leafy south Dublin parK.

the meteor awarD-winninG banD formeD

when its four members were Just 15

years olD. Danny o’reilly fronts

the banD on voCals anD rhythm

Guitar.

rugBy Starsean O’Brien

Six nations debut against Italy in February

tD eoghan murphy

One of the youngest members ever elected to Dáil Éireann

SeniOr engineer dervilla mitchellHelped establish Arup’s women’s

network

heaDline actdanny o’reilly

The Coronas hit the big time

A year in the

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a rOOM OF her Own

emma donoghueAwards season for

the author

artiSt james hanley

One of our foremost portrait painters

SenatOrkathryn

reillyYoungest ever

candidate

tD ruairí quinn

Minister for Education and Skills

8 | ucD cOnnectiOns alumni magazine

| alumni achievement | |alumni achievement |

James NolaN Ireland Athletics Team Manager 2012 (Bsc sports

management 2009)

Acclaimed middle distance runner and

former two-time Olympian James Nolan

was appointed Head of Paralympic

Athletics by the Paralympic Council

of Ireland. The former UCD athletics

scholarship student takes responsibility

for implementing the High Performance

Programme for our paralympic athletes

as they prepare for the London 2012

Paralympic Games. He will also act

as Ireland athletics team manager.

Nolan led the Irish team to great

success at the 2011 IPC Athletics World

Championships in New Zealand. The

team of eight returned with two gold and

one silver medal. He remains involved in

the coaching of top level middle distance

runners at UCD.

Professor JosePh BergiN

Historian (Ba 1970, ma 1972)

Joseph Bergin, Kilkenny-born Professor

of Modern History at the University

of Manchester, has become the first-

ever recipient of the silver Richelieu

Medal, awarded by the University of

Paris-Sorbonne to scholars who have

excelled in their field. This is just the

latest in a series of accolades recognising

the contribution Professor Bergin has

made to the study of French history:

in February 2010 he received the

‘Antiquities of France’ medal from the

French Academy of Inscriptions and

Belles-Lettres for his most recent book,

Church, Society and Religious Change in

France 1580-1730. He was also made

an “officier” of the French Order of the

Palmes Académiques.

Dr BriaN o’Doherty

Artist (mB BCh Bao 1952, DPh 1955)

Until 2008 artist and novelist Brian

O’Doherty was better known by his

assumed name, Patrick Ireland. This

year he and partner Barbara Novak,

the renowned American art historian,

stunned the art world with their

generosity when they donated their

collection of post-war American art

to IMMA. Comprising 76 works,

the collection reflects the couple’s

intimate involvement with the art

movement in the US. A pioneer of 1960s

conceptualism, O’Doherty studied

medicine at UCD and painted in his

spare time. He is

also a Booker prize-

nominated author.

miChael NooNaN Minister for Finance (Ba 1966, hDiped 1967)

Limerick’s Michael Noonan, a former

leader of Fine Gael, has taken on the

onerous role of Minister for Finance and

is charged with getting us out of the mire.

Noonan has been a minister in every Fine

Gael-led government since 1982 and has

held the offices of Minister for Justice,

Minister for Industry and Commerce and

Minister for Health. He spoke bravely and

poignantly about his wife’s battle with

Alzheimer’s disease on RTÉ’s The Frontline

in May 2010.

JoaN BurtoN Minister for Social Protection (BComm 1970)

Minister Joan Burton showed dignity

in the face of controversy after being

apparently passed over for a Finance

ministry and given the role of Minister for

Social Protection instead. In her new role

she is committed to eradicating tax non-

compliance and social welfare fraud, and

has vowed to offer a “hand up rather than

a handout” to the unemployed.

miCk WallaCe TD, property developer and football manager

(Ba history and Philosophy 1978,

hDiped 1983)

Mick Wallace, who had previously been

well known for his construction business

and his passion for Wexford soccer,

entered the Dáil as an independent TD

in April. The Wellingtonbridge native

topped the poll with a resounding 13,329

votes.

stePheN hiNey (Be 2005) aND

JohN mC Caffrey (Dip sports

management 2007) Dublin Senior Hurling Joint CaptainsIn May 2011 Dublin became the new

national hurling league champions.

During the campaign McCaffrey took

over as Dublin senior hurling team

captain due to an injury sustained by

regular captain Stephen Hiney. The team

overcame Kilkenny in the final by 0-22 to

1-07 to win its first league title since 1939.

Dr rhoNa mahoNy

Master of the National Maternity Hospital (mB BCh Bao 1994, mD 2005)

Highly respected consultant obstetrician

and gynaecologist Dr Rhona Mahony has

been appointed Master of the National

Maternity Hospital, Holles Street. She is

the first woman to be appointed to this

role since the founding

of the hospital in 1894

and the first

woman

to hold the post of Master in a Dublin

maternity hospital in the history of

the State. Dr Mahony graduated from

UCD in 1994, with first-class honours

in obstetrics and gynaecology and was

awarded the John F Cunningham Medal

in obstetrics and gynaecology from Holles

Street Hospital in 1995.

Professor JohN CroWN

Senator (mB BCh Bao 1980, mBa

health services management 1999)

Professor John Crown, a tireless

campaigner for the improvement

of cancer services in Ireland, holds

professorships in cancer research from

Dublin City University and UCD and was

elected to the Seanad on the National

University of Ireland (NUI) Panel earlier

this year. The founder of Ireland’s first

national cancer treatment research group

(ICORG) in 1997, has vowed to donate

his Seanad salary to cancer research

and to continue his campaign for

healthcare reform.

Dr Valerie BresNihaN

Non-Judicial Appointee to the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board (Bsocsc 1985, ma 1989, PhD

1997, DipeurConv & hr law 2004)

Dr Valerie Bresnihan has been appointed

to the Judicial Appointments Advisory

Board by Minister for Justice Alan

Shatter. Dr Bresnihan was previously

an NUI Seanad candidate in

2002 and 2007

and taught equality studies and politics

at UCD before serving on the Mountjoy

Prison visiting committee from 1996-

2000, becoming Chairperson and later

Executive Director of the Irish Penal

Reform Trust.

DaViD ColemaN

Clinical psychologist (Ba 1992,

ma 1995, mPsychsc 1997) Clinical

psychologist and popular RTÉ presenter

David Coleman is working on a new

television series that will shine a long

overdue spotlight on the issue of bullying

in Ireland. He will also examine best

anti-bullying practice here and overseas,

including the award-winning KIVA

programme in Finland. The series of

three programmes is scheduled to be

broadcast on RTÉ One early in 2012.

innovator

Dr CoNor haNley (BE 1990)

In July, IrIsh medIcal technology company BIancamed ltd, set up In 2003 By ceo dr conor hanley, dr phIlIp de chazal and

professor conor heneghan was acquIred By resmed, a us-Based manufacturer

and dIstrIButor of medIcal equIpment. BIancamed, a ucd spIn-out company,

headquartered In novaucd, developed an InnovatIve non-

contact devIce for the monItorIng of sleep and

BreathIng.

write stuff

Neil JorDaN (BA Irish History and English 1972)

decemBer 2010 saw the puBlIcatIon of a

fIfth novel from fIlm maker and novelIst,

neIl Jordan. Mistaken, a comIng of age

novel set In the 1960s, was favouraBly

receIved By the crItIcs. he Is currently

dIrectIng and producIng

tv serIes the BorgIas.

sleeP mattersconor hanley

Company acquired by US firm

CliNiCal PysChologistdavid coleman

Tackles bullying

10 | ucD connections alumni magazine

moNey maNmichael noonan

In charge of the coffers

DJ

DaVe faNNiNg(BA English and Philosophy,

HDipEd 1975)

2fm dJ dave fannIng puBlIshed hIs

autoBIography the thing is In septemBer

2010. long-tIme frIend Bono penned

the IntroductIon. musIc was fannIng’s

passIon from an early age and he left

ucd determIned to forge a career

In Ireland’s fledglIng musIc

Industry. he certaInly

succeeded.

hurliNg leaque ChamPioNsstephen hiney & john mccaffrey

Dublin Senior Hurling team joint captainsruNNiNg mate

james nolanIreland athletics team manager

Writer iN resiDeNCeneil jordanFifth novel published

raDio heaDdave fanning

In his own words

PolitiCal PersoNjoan burton

Accepted her new portfolio with grace

ucD connections alumni magazine | 11

| alumni achievement | |alumni achievement |

James NolaN Ireland Athletics Team Manager 2012 (Bsc sports

management 2009)

Acclaimed middle distance runner and

former two-time Olympian James Nolan

was appointed Head of Paralympic

Athletics by the Paralympic Council

of Ireland. The former UCD athletics

scholarship student takes responsibility

for implementing the High Performance

Programme for our paralympic athletes

as they prepare for the London 2012

Paralympic Games. He will also act

as Ireland athletics team manager.

Nolan led the Irish team to great

success at the 2011 IPC Athletics World

Championships in New Zealand. The

team of eight returned with two gold and

one silver medal. He remains involved in

the coaching of top level middle distance

runners at UCD.

Professor JosePh BergiN

Historian (Ba 1970, ma 1972)

Joseph Bergin, Kilkenny-born Professor

of Modern History at the University

of Manchester, has become the first-

ever recipient of the silver Richelieu

Medal, awarded by the University of

Paris-Sorbonne to scholars who have

excelled in their field. This is just the

latest in a series of accolades recognising

the contribution Professor Bergin has

made to the study of French history:

in February 2010 he received the

‘Antiquities of France’ medal from the

French Academy of Inscriptions and

Belles-Lettres for his most recent book,

Church, Society and Religious Change in

France 1580-1730. He was also made

an “officier” of the French Order of the

Palmes Académiques.

Dr BriaN o’Doherty

Artist (mB BCh Bao 1952, DPh 1955)

Until 2008 artist and novelist Brian

O’Doherty was better known by his

assumed name, Patrick Ireland. This

year he and partner Barbara Novak,

the renowned American art historian,

stunned the art world with their

generosity when they donated their

collection of post-war American art

to IMMA. Comprising 76 works,

the collection reflects the couple’s

intimate involvement with the art

movement in the US. A pioneer of 1960s

conceptualism, O’Doherty studied

medicine at UCD and painted in his

spare time. He is

also a Booker prize-

nominated author.

miChael NooNaN Minister for Finance (Ba 1966, hDiped 1967)

Limerick’s Michael Noonan, a former

leader of Fine Gael, has taken on the

onerous role of Minister for Finance and

is charged with getting us out of the mire.

Noonan has been a minister in every Fine

Gael-led government since 1982 and has

held the offices of Minister for Justice,

Minister for Industry and Commerce and

Minister for Health. He spoke bravely and

poignantly about his wife’s battle with

Alzheimer’s disease on RTÉ’s The Frontline

in May 2010.

JoaN BurtoN Minister for Social Protection (BComm 1970)

Minister Joan Burton showed dignity

in the face of controversy after being

apparently passed over for a Finance

ministry and given the role of Minister for

Social Protection instead. In her new role

she is committed to eradicating tax non-

compliance and social welfare fraud, and

has vowed to offer a “hand up rather than

a handout” to the unemployed.

miCk WallaCe TD, property developer and football manager

(Ba history and Philosophy 1978,

hDiped 1983)

Mick Wallace, who had previously been

well known for his construction business

and his passion for Wexford soccer,

entered the Dáil as an independent TD

in April. The Wellingtonbridge native

topped the poll with a resounding 13,329

votes.

stePheN hiNey (Be 2005) aND

JohN mC Caffrey (Dip sports

management 2007) Dublin Senior Hurling Joint CaptainsIn May 2011 Dublin became the new

national hurling league champions.

During the campaign McCaffrey took

over as Dublin senior hurling team

captain due to an injury sustained by

regular captain Stephen Hiney. The team

overcame Kilkenny in the final by 0-22 to

1-07 to win its first league title since 1939.

Dr rhoNa mahoNy

Master of the National Maternity Hospital (mB BCh Bao 1994, mD 2005)

Highly respected consultant obstetrician

and gynaecologist Dr Rhona Mahony has

been appointed Master of the National

Maternity Hospital, Holles Street. She is

the first woman to be appointed to this

role since the founding

of the hospital in 1894

and the first

woman

to hold the post of Master in a Dublin

maternity hospital in the history of

the State. Dr Mahony graduated from

UCD in 1994, with first-class honours

in obstetrics and gynaecology and was

awarded the John F Cunningham Medal

in obstetrics and gynaecology from Holles

Street Hospital in 1995.

Professor JohN CroWN

Senator (mB BCh Bao 1980, mBa

health services management 1999)

Professor John Crown, a tireless

campaigner for the improvement

of cancer services in Ireland, holds

professorships in cancer research from

Dublin City University and UCD and was

elected to the Seanad on the National

University of Ireland (NUI) Panel earlier

this year. The founder of Ireland’s first

national cancer treatment research group

(ICORG) in 1997, has vowed to donate

his Seanad salary to cancer research

and to continue his campaign for

healthcare reform.

Dr Valerie BresNihaN

Non-Judicial Appointee to the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board (Bsocsc 1985, ma 1989, PhD

1997, DipeurConv & hr law 2004)

Dr Valerie Bresnihan has been appointed

to the Judicial Appointments Advisory

Board by Minister for Justice Alan

Shatter. Dr Bresnihan was previously

an NUI Seanad candidate in

2002 and 2007

and taught equality studies and politics

at UCD before serving on the Mountjoy

Prison visiting committee from 1996-

2000, becoming Chairperson and later

Executive Director of the Irish Penal

Reform Trust.

DaViD ColemaN

Clinical psychologist (Ba 1992,

ma 1995, mPsychsc 1997) Clinical

psychologist and popular RTÉ presenter

David Coleman is working on a new

television series that will shine a long

overdue spotlight on the issue of bullying

in Ireland. He will also examine best

anti-bullying practice here and overseas,

including the award-winning KIVA

programme in Finland. The series of

three programmes is scheduled to be

broadcast on RTÉ One early in 2012.

innovator

Dr CoNor haNley (BE 1990)

In July, IrIsh medIcal technology company BIancamed ltd, set up In 2003 By ceo dr conor hanley, dr phIlIp de chazal and

professor conor heneghan was acquIred By resmed, a us-Based manufacturer

and dIstrIButor of medIcal equIpment. BIancamed, a ucd spIn-out company,

headquartered In novaucd, developed an InnovatIve non-

contact devIce for the monItorIng of sleep and

BreathIng.

write stuff

Neil JorDaN (BA Irish History and English 1972)

decemBer 2010 saw the puBlIcatIon of a

fIfth novel from fIlm maker and novelIst,

neIl Jordan. Mistaken, a comIng of age

novel set In the 1960s, was favouraBly

receIved By the crItIcs. he Is currently

dIrectIng and producIng

tv serIes the BorgIas.

sleeP mattersconor hanley

Company acquired by US firm

CliNiCal PysChologistdavid coleman

Tackles bullying

10 | ucD connections alumni magazine

moNey maNmichael noonan

In charge of the coffers

DJ

DaVe faNNiNg(BA English and Philosophy,

HDipEd 1975)

2fm dJ dave fannIng puBlIshed hIs

autoBIography the thing is In septemBer

2010. long-tIme frIend Bono penned

the IntroductIon. musIc was fannIng’s

passIon from an early age and he left

ucd determIned to forge a career

In Ireland’s fledglIng musIc

Industry. he certaInly

succeeded.

hurliNg leaque ChamPioNsstephen hiney & john mccaffrey

Dublin Senior Hurling team joint captainsruNNiNg mate

james nolanIreland athletics team manager

Writer iN resiDeNCeneil jordanFifth novel published

raDio heaDdave fanning

In his own words

PolitiCal PersoNjoan burton

Accepted her new portfolio with grace

ucD connections alumni magazine | 11

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Who are the men and women who deserve to be called National Treasures? Who are the idealists, the achievers and the original thinkers who make us proud to be Irish?

Bridget Hourican calls the roll.

Definition of a national treasure: “a piece of architecture, a

landscape, document, or other artefact that is considered to be of

national significance and an embodiment of the national heritage;

by extension, a public figure accorded this importance”. (OED).

For instance: the Ardagh Chalice, the Book of Kells, the Cliffs of

Moher – and Garret FitzGerald.

I started writing this piece in early May around the time of the death of Garret

FitzGerald and just thinking about him helped me define the qualities of a national

treasure. During this year’s election in March, the satirical website, Broadsheet.ie,

| heroes || heroes |

National Treasures

No further explanation given or

required. Broadsheet knew that everyone

in the country seeing that photograph

would register: “Garret – nutty professor –

statistics – stamina – patriotism – political

objectivity”.

All national treasures are famous,

loveable, and embody what we like to

consider our best national traits (eg grit and

wit) but most importantly they’re authentic.

In every situation they’re themselves. They

may be grumpy or eccentric; they’re never

smarmy or insincere. A national treasure

is someone whose image is at once highly

idiosyncratic and highly recognisable,

someone whose qualities are manifest from

one photograph.

Comfortable with my definition, I

started on this piece. Then Garret died

and all the papers rushed to crown him

with that title, “national treasure”. Death

always brings new layers of understanding

– from my reaction and the reaction of the

country I got a deeper insight: a national

treasure is someone with whom everyone

feels a personal connection. In my case I

did have a personal connection to Garret

because my father was press secretary

in his first government, so I’ve known

him since I was small. But I don’t think I

actually met him more than ten times in

my life, not enough times, on paper, to

explain how bereft I felt. In the days after

his death I kept coming across people

who like me had met him infrequently

and briefly but felt they knew him, and

he them. Some of these stories were

intriguing.

The last time I saw him was 18

months before he died, at the launch

of the Dictionary of Irish Biography. He

asked with warm interest after my love

life. I told him it was all over the place.

He roared laughing and said in that

inimitable, high-speed, super-energetic

voice: “You should have settled the

question at college. At no other time in

your life do you have so much time and so

much choice” and then he recounted the

Why leave a good place?” asks

UCD history and French

graduate Maeve Binchy

rhetorically of her decision to live in

Dalkey, close to her siblings and a few

hundred yards from where she grew up. In

a world of angst-ridden Irish writers, with

their terrible, abusive childhoods, Maeve

is a relief, a happy reminder that you can

have an idyllic Irish childhood, adore your

parents, and still write compelling family

dramas. She’s borne a charmed writing

life – her letters home from a kibbutz

landed her a job in The Irish Times; her

first novel, Light a Penny Candle, earned

what was then the biggest sum ever paid

for a first-time novel (£52,000stg in

1983). Her writing has no airs and graces

– “Always write as if you are talking to

someone. Don’t put on any fancy phrases

or accents or things you wouldn’t say in

real life” – and she’s adored because she’s

as down to earth in life as in art. When the

money came in she paid off her mortgage

but didn’t move house: “What would two

middle-aged people do that for?” She

remains not only stoical but positively

jolly in the face of often crippling pain

from osteoarthritis. And she’s more than

just an Irish national treasure – the UK-

based Romantic Novelists Association

has claimed her as their own, while Oprah

couldn’t get enough of her ...

story, familiar to readers of

his memoirs, of compiling

a list of suitable girls in his

third year of UCD. [The

first refused; Joan was

second on the list.] This,

for me, is a quintessential

“Garret story”. There’s his

remarkable memory (he

asked not just after me but

after all five of my siblings),

his humour, his warm

interest in the most human

and important matters,

that list (with Garret there

was always a list), and his

pragmatism (he was dead right about

college; as a friend said on hearing the

story, “Yes! It’s like being in a sweet shop.

You think it’s going to be like that for the

rest of your life, and it isn’t”). But Garret,

though only 19 at the time, didn’t assume

it would be like that for the rest of his life –

he ran the stats and acted decisively.

And of course, as a child having had the

privilege to meet Garret, I was his for life.

I’ve seldom met anyone with more time for

children, and they responded like Pavlov’s

dog to his natural charisma. My six-year-

old brother sent him all his Communion

money and was proud to receive in return

an official letter thanking him for his

contribution to the state coffers. Which

brings me to the last quality of a national

treasure: children are crazy about them.

So when I consider the four other

UCD national treasures we’ve chosen

(yes, only four, a national treasure is a

rare accolade), they’re all very different.

What connects Maeve Binchy to Brian

O’Driscoll or Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh?

Garret FitzGerald to Rosaleen Linehan?

The similarity is in the idiosyncrasy. They

are too much themselves to resemble each

other, but each is similarly authentic.

In BOD’s words they “stopped trying

to please everyone a long time ago”, and

in so doing found themselves pleasing

everyone.

posted a photograph of him helping tally

the vote at the RDS polling station. Hair

dishevelled, he’s wearing an extraordinary

garish tie and peering over his glasses as

he jots down stats on paper. The caption

ran: “Garret FitzGerald. Totting them up

as he has done since the Renaissance.

When you’re an elder statesman you can

wear any damn tie you want.”

Garret FitzGeraldStatesman (with economist TK Whitaker)

Maeve BinchyAuthor


Who are the men and women who deserve to be called National Treasures? Who are the idealists, the achievers and the original thinkers who make us proud to be Irish?

Bridget Hourican calls the roll.

Definition of a national treasure: “a piece of architecture, a

landscape, document, or other artefact that is considered to be of

national significance and an embodiment of the national heritage;

by extension, a public figure accorded this importance”. (OED).

For instance: the Ardagh Chalice, the Book of Kells, the Cliffs of

Moher – and Garret FitzGerald.

I started writing this piece in early May around the time of the death of Garret

FitzGerald and just thinking about him helped me define the qualities of a national

treasure. During this year’s election in March, the satirical website, Broadsheet.ie,

| heroes || heroes |

National Treasures

No further explanation given or

required. Broadsheet knew that everyone

in the country seeing that photograph

would register: “Garret – nutty professor –

statistics – stamina – patriotism – political

objectivity”.

All national treasures are famous,

loveable, and embody what we like to

consider our best national traits (eg grit and

wit) but most importantly they’re authentic.

In every situation they’re themselves. They

may be grumpy or eccentric; they’re never

smarmy or insincere. A national treasure

is someone whose image is at once highly

idiosyncratic and highly recognisable,

someone whose qualities are manifest from

one photograph.

Comfortable with my definition, I

started on this piece. Then Garret died

and all the papers rushed to crown him

with that title, “national treasure”. Death

always brings new layers of understanding

– from my reaction and the reaction of the

country I got a deeper insight: a national

treasure is someone with whom everyone

feels a personal connection. In my case I

did have a personal connection to Garret

because my father was press secretary

in his first government, so I’ve known

him since I was small. But I don’t think I

actually met him more than ten times in

my life, not enough times, on paper, to

explain how bereft I felt. In the days after

his death I kept coming across people

who like me had met him infrequently

and briefly but felt they knew him, and

he them. Some of these stories were

intriguing.

The last time I saw him was 18

months before he died, at the launch

of the Dictionary of Irish Biography. He

asked with warm interest after my love

life. I told him it was all over the place.

He roared laughing and said in that

inimitable, high-speed, super-energetic

voice: “You should have settled the

question at college. At no other time in

your life do you have so much time and so

much choice” and then he recounted the

Why leave a good place?” asks

UCD history and French

graduate Maeve Binchy

rhetorically of her decision to live in

Dalkey, close to her siblings and a few

hundred yards from where she grew up. In

a world of angst-ridden Irish writers, with

their terrible, abusive childhoods, Maeve

is a relief, a happy reminder that you can

have an idyllic Irish childhood, adore your

parents, and still write compelling family

dramas. She’s borne a charmed writing

life – her letters home from a kibbutz

landed her a job in The Irish Times; her

first novel, Light a Penny Candle, earned

what was then the biggest sum ever paid

for a first-time novel (£52,000stg in

1983). Her writing has no airs and graces

– “Always write as if you are talking to

someone. Don’t put on any fancy phrases

or accents or things you wouldn’t say in

real life” – and she’s adored because she’s

as down to earth in life as in art. When the

money came in she paid off her mortgage

but didn’t move house: “What would two

middle-aged people do that for?” She

remains not only stoical but positively

jolly in the face of often crippling pain

from osteoarthritis. And she’s more than

just an Irish national treasure – the UK-

based Romantic Novelists Association

has claimed her as their own, while Oprah

couldn’t get enough of her ...

story, familiar to readers of

his memoirs, of compiling

a list of suitable girls in his

third year of UCD. [The

first refused; Joan was

second on the list.] This,

for me, is a quintessential

“Garret story”. There’s his

remarkable memory (he

asked not just after me but

after all five of my siblings),

his humour, his warm

interest in the most human

and important matters,

that list (with Garret there

was always a list), and his

pragmatism (he was dead right about

college; as a friend said on hearing the

story, “Yes! It’s like being in a sweet shop.

You think it’s going to be like that for the

rest of your life, and it isn’t”). But Garret,

though only 19 at the time, didn’t assume

it would be like that for the rest of his life –

he ran the stats and acted decisively.

And of course, as a child having had the

privilege to meet Garret, I was his for life.

I’ve seldom met anyone with more time for

children, and they responded like Pavlov’s

dog to his natural charisma. My six-year-

old brother sent him all his Communion

money and was proud to receive in return

an official letter thanking him for his

contribution to the state coffers. Which

brings me to the last quality of a national

treasure: children are crazy about them.

So when I consider the four other

UCD national treasures we’ve chosen

(yes, only four, a national treasure is a

rare accolade), they’re all very different.

What connects Maeve Binchy to Brian

O’Driscoll or Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh?

Garret FitzGerald to Rosaleen Linehan?

The similarity is in the idiosyncrasy. They

are too much themselves to resemble each

other, but each is similarly authentic.

In BOD’s words they “stopped trying

to please everyone a long time ago”, and

in so doing found themselves pleasing

everyone.

posted a photograph of him helping tally

the vote at the RDS polling station. Hair

dishevelled, he’s wearing an extraordinary

garish tie and peering over his glasses as

he jots down stats on paper. The caption

ran: “Garret FitzGerald. Totting them up

as he has done since the Renaissance.

When you’re an elder statesman you can

wear any damn tie you want.”

Garret FitzGeraldStatesman (with economist TK Whitaker)

Maeve BinchyAuthor

| heroes |


This UCD graduate of arts and

commerce never moved from

radio to television; he didn’t need

to – his fans simply “turned the sound down

on the telly and turned up the radio”. For

60 years, Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh

brought GAA into the kitchen, his rich

Kerry timbre quickening in excitement

when the pace picked up: “Has any human

being ever needed so little oxygen?” asked

journalist Mary Hannigan. He digressed

seamlessly into players’ lives and county lore

at slower moments: “He can take the ball

from one end of the field to the other with

just the player’s occupations,” says Kerry

footballer, Jack O’Shea. Ó Muircheartaigh’s

switch from English to Irish is trademark,

his off-the-cuff humour legendary: “Seán

Óg Ó hAilpín, his father’s from Fermanagh,

his mother’s from Fiji, neither one of them

a hurling stronghold” ... “Pat Fox has it on

his hurl and is motoring well now ... but

here comes Joe Rabbitte hot on his tail ...

I’ve seen it all now, a Rabbitte chasing a Fox

around Croke Park!”

When he retired last year, aged 80

(but looking 50), the switchboards were

jammed with tributes. What other sports

commentator is on YouTube reciting a

Prince song and ad-libbing the line: “But

he’s a fool, an amadán, because nothing

compares, nothing compares to you.”

We can prove that not all

national treasures are at

retirement age – although

admittedly, at 32, and with 112 caps

for Ireland (75 as captain), Brian

O’Driscoll is a senior statesman among

sportsmen.

He has more records than HMV:

highest scorer of all time in Irish rugby,

highest try scorer in the Six Nations,

eighth-highest try scorer in Rugby Union

history, and the highest scoring centre

of all time. Phew! But that wouldn’t be

(quite) enough to make him a national

treasure. He earns that title for his

stoicism, directness, and humour, and

because he grew up in the public eye – he

made his debut for Ireland aged 20, just

out of UCD and before even signing for

Leinster.

We’ve seen him transform from a

dyed-blonde, baby-faced novice to a

calm, restrained captain who (literally)

shoulders injury, disappointment, and

victory. He “stopped trying to please

everyone a long time ago”, which includes

telling Prince William that, sorry, he can’t

attend the royal wedding because he’ll be

training for the Heineken Cup semi-final.

As a result: “In BOD we trust”. n

In 1981, after decades of making Ireland

laugh, Rosaleen Linehan decided

it was time to go straight and took the

part of Arkadina in Tom Kilroy’s version

of Chekhov’s tragedy, The Seagull: “When

I came on and said ‘Constantine has been

shot’, the audience started laughing.” But

within a decade she was being nominated

for a Tony award for her role as Kate in

Friel’s heartrending Dancing at Lughnasa.

Linehan had achieved the impossible for a

comedian: kept her audience and stopped

them laughing.

She studied economics and politics in

UCD in the late 1950s. “My father wanted

me to have a career in external affairs” –

but she joined Dramsoc on her first day

and started acting professionally within

two years of leaving college. “I was never a

glamour type; I haven’t the face for it.” Her

long-term comedy partnership with Des

Keogh, in revues written by her husband,

Fergus Linehan, made her a household

name in the 1970s – and a national

treasure. Tony awards? They come and go,

but who could forget the song Soap your

Arse and Slide Backwards up a Rainbow?

“I’ve arranged to have my son play it as a

Bach fugue at my funeral,” says Linehan,

deadpan as ever.

Mícheál Ó MuircheartaighBroadcaster

Brian O’DriscollIrish International Rugby Player

Rosaleen LinehanActor

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Aidan Cotter was appointed CEO of Bord Bia, the trade development and promotion

organisation for the Irish food, drink

and horticulture industry, in July 2004.

He had previously held the position of

Director of Operations and had also

served as Bord Bia’s European Director.

Cotter acknowledges the challenges

facing all business at the moment but

feels the food industry is uniquely placed

to weather the storm. “In a year in which

the world’s population will reach seven

billion, growth in global demand is set

to underpin food markets well into the

future, albeit with the exception of some

volatility. The challenge for the Irish

food and drink industry is to maintain its

current momentum, particularly in the

areas of cost competitiveness, innovation

and marketing.” Cotter has a masters

degree in both economic science and

agricultural economics from UCD. He

retains close links with his alma mater

and last year oversaw an innovative

collaboration between Bord Bia and the

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business

School, offering 25 marketing fellowships

which allow participants to be based

full-time in overseas markets, working

on commercial assignments on behalf

of 100 Irish food and drink companies,

while also completing academic modules

and assessments at the Smurfit School.

Fellows can avail of a fully-funded bursary

and tuition fees and upon successful

completion will be awarded an MSc in

marketing practice from UCD Michael

Smurfit Graduate Business School.

Owen Doorley and his Italian-born wife, Valentina, opened Il Valentino Italian Bakery and

Café in Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, just over three years ago. A brave move in a downturn but one that has proven successful due to the couple’s commitment to quality, natural ingredients and the invaluable experience that Owen gained during his years working overseas. “We opened at the worst possible time,” Owen laughs, “and spent the first couple of years spreading the word and building up customer loyalty.” After graduating with a BComm from UCD, Owen completed a diploma in export marketing at the College of Marketing in Parnell Square. He was chosen to participate in the Export Orientation Programme and went to Germany to work with a distributor in the Irish Distillers Group. He stayed for five years before heading for Italy where he gained experience of a business start-up as a partner in an Italian coffee roasting company. “I was marketing director and export director too. Over eight years we grew from exporting to five countries, to 45.” In 2005, keen to set up his own business and faced with the choice of

moving to Florence or Dublin, he chose the latter and opened Il Valentino. “I had worked in the coffee industry for a long time and seen a lot of different business models. The chains operating in Ireland all offered the same, quite limited thing, and good bread was hard to find.” Il Valentino’s range of artisan bread, cakes and delicious coffee has earned the operation a Top 50 Store Award in the 2010 Retail Excellence Awards, and a loyal and growing customer base. Of his

time in UCD, Owen says, “I was with a good group; we shared a lot of great experiences.” An active member of UCD rugby club, he values the networking opportunities that college life affords.

G roup Managing Director of Glanbia, John Moloney graduated with a BAgrSc degree

from UCD in 1978 and subsequently added an MBA to his qualifications. During his time at Glanbia, he has held a number of senior management

positions, including Chief Executive of Food Ingredients and Agribusiness. He was appointed to the Board in 1997 and was appointed Deputy Group Managing Director in 2000. He became Group Managing Director Designate and Chief Operating Officer in April 2001 before succeeding Ned Sullivan as Group Managing Director in July 2001. Glanbia is a leading international dairy foods and nutritional ingredients group and employs almost 4,500 people worldwide across its three operating divisions of Agribusiness and Property, Consumer Foods and Food Ingredients. The group, whose headquarters are in Kilkenny, has operations across Europe and in the USA and Canada. Glanbia is also involved in international joint ventures in the UK, USA and Nigeria and opened a facility in China in 2008. When picking up the Business & Finance Company of the Year Award at a function in O’Reilly Hall in 2008, Moloney modestly said: “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it – and this to a degree could be said of this win.”

Barry Fitzgerald has been “food mad” ever since he can remember. “My mother tells me I would ask

what was for dinner before I had finished

my breakfast. Eating good food was

always an important part of family life, but

especially for me. One Sunday, aged 14, I

decided to make the whole roast dinner

from scratch – that became a fairly regular

occurrence.” Barry enjoyed economics at

school and like many 17-year-olds didn’t

know what he wanted to do in the future.

He almost took a course in hospitality, but

opted for a BComm, as it would provide

more career options. “I always envisaged

myself running my own business and

was interested in the entrepreneurial side,

so it seemed the most obvious choice. I

graduated with honours but could never

see myself working in an office so I decided

to follow my passion and took a summer

job after university in Mint restaurant in

Dublin, at which point I realised how much

I needed to learn. I went to Australia, did

a crash course in culinary arts and ended

up in London working at some of its best

restaurants.” Fitzgerald’s CV includes a

spell in the kitchens of the innovative St

John’s restaurant in Clerkenwell as well as

three years as sous chef at the Michelin-starred Wild Honey restaurant in Mayfair. He was recently appointed head chef at the Harwood Arms in Fulham, London’s only Michelin-starred pub where, with the help of Brett Graham (Harwood Arms co-director and head chef of the two-starred Ledbury), he devises and cooks seasonal British menus. The day is long and challenging but customers leave with a smile and return for second helpings. Of his degree he says: “My BComm hasn’t had a major impact yet. The first few years as a chef are about perfecting skills. However, as I’ve progressed I’ve thought more about the bigger picture: cost, profit margins and business strategy. My goal has always been to set up my own food business, and my background in BComm will become more useful in the future.”

Caroline Keeling fondly remembers her childhood on the family farm. “The Keeling family have

strong and deep roots in food since 1896. I grew up on a farm and spent a lot of time picking fruit in the summertime. Also, as a young child I cooked a lot. That’s how I developed my passion for food.” The BSc undergraduate degree course suited Caroline perfectly. “As I hadn’t decided which area I wanted to focus on, I choose to study science at UCD as I could wait until my second year to choose a discipline, when I opted to specialise in chemistry. I think it was one of my best decisions. Even today, when Keelings are seeking to recruit graduates – either directly or as part of our graduate manager scheme – a candidate with a degree from UCD is of great interest

to us.” She believes that a degree in science

is particularly helpful: “Understanding

the science and biochemistry of our

products enables us to ensure high quality

produce. We have several international

accreditations that acknowledge these

high standards, including certification

for our packing and grower processes.”

Keelings is dedicated to sustainable

growth and uses renewable resources,

including coconut coir, in which all of their

soft fruit is grown. “Our production of

strawberries accounts for 50 per cent of all

Irish-grown strawberries, approximately

150 million a year! Our state-of-the-art

glasshouse is designed to be highly energy

efficient and even captures rainwater to

water the crop. This kind of innovative

work is set to continue as the company

makes improvements in production and

R&D.” Caroline remembers more than her

time in the lab at UCD. “The main thing

about doing a degree at UCD is the friends

you make for life. My 20-year class reunion

took place this July – I travel a lot but I was

sure to make it back to Ireland to catch up

with the friends I made.”


| fooD for thoUght |

BARRY FITZGERALD Head Chef, The Harwood Arms

(BComm 2004)

Life Skills to Knife SkillsFrom a Michelin-starred restaurant to a state-of-the-art fruit growing

and distribution business and an award-winning bakery ... alumni apply everything they learned at university to successful careers in the

food industry. Eleanor Fitzsimons reports.


AIDAn coTTERCheif Executive, Bord Bia

(BAgrSc 1975, MAgrSc 1977, MEconSc 1978)

owEn DooRLEY Owner of Il Valentino Italian Bakery & Café

(BComm 1982)

john moLonEYGroup Managing Director, Glanbia Plc

(BAgrSc 1978)

cARoLInE kEELInGManaging Director, Keelings Ltd

(BSc 1990)

UCD ConneCtions alUmni magazine | 19

n

Aidan Cotter was appointed CEO of Bord Bia, the trade development and promotion

organisation for the Irish food, drink

and horticulture industry, in July 2004.

He had previously held the position of

Director of Operations and had also

served as Bord Bia’s European Director.

Cotter acknowledges the challenges

facing all business at the moment but

feels the food industry is uniquely placed

to weather the storm. “In a year in which

the world’s population will reach seven

billion, growth in global demand is set

to underpin food markets well into the

future, albeit with the exception of some

volatility. The challenge for the Irish

food and drink industry is to maintain its

current momentum, particularly in the

areas of cost competitiveness, innovation

and marketing.” Cotter has a masters

degree in both economic science and

agricultural economics from UCD. He

retains close links with his alma mater

and last year oversaw an innovative

collaboration between Bord Bia and the

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business

School, offering 25 marketing fellowships

which allow participants to be based

full-time in overseas markets, working

on commercial assignments on behalf

of 100 Irish food and drink companies,

while also completing academic modules

and assessments at the Smurfit School.

Fellows can avail of a fully-funded bursary

and tuition fees and upon successful

completion will be awarded an MSc in

marketing practice from UCD Michael

Smurfit Graduate Business School.

Owen Doorley and his Italian-born wife, Valentina, opened Il Valentino Italian Bakery and

Café in Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, just over three years ago. A brave move in a downturn but one that has proven successful due to the couple’s commitment to quality, natural ingredients and the invaluable experience that Owen gained during his years working overseas. “We opened at the worst possible time,” Owen laughs, “and spent the first couple of years spreading the word and building up customer loyalty.” After graduating with a BComm from UCD, Owen completed a diploma in export marketing at the College of Marketing in Parnell Square. He was chosen to participate in the Export Orientation Programme and went to Germany to work with a distributor in the Irish Distillers Group. He stayed for five years before heading for Italy where he gained experience of a business start-up as a partner in an Italian coffee roasting company. “I was marketing director and export director too. Over eight years we grew from exporting to five countries, to 45.” In 2005, keen to set up his own business and faced with the choice of

moving to Florence or Dublin, he chose the latter and opened Il Valentino. “I had worked in the coffee industry for a long time and seen a lot of different business models. The chains operating in Ireland all offered the same, quite limited thing, and good bread was hard to find.” Il Valentino’s range of artisan bread, cakes and delicious coffee has earned the operation a Top 50 Store Award in the 2010 Retail Excellence Awards, and a loyal and growing customer base. Of his

time in UCD, Owen says, “I was with a good group; we shared a lot of great experiences.” An active member of UCD rugby club, he values the networking opportunities that college life affords.

G roup Managing Director of Glanbia, John Moloney graduated with a BAgrSc degree

from UCD in 1978 and subsequently added an MBA to his qualifications. During his time at Glanbia, he has held a number of senior management

positions, including Chief Executive of Food Ingredients and Agribusiness. He was appointed to the Board in 1997 and was appointed Deputy Group Managing Director in 2000. He became Group Managing Director Designate and Chief Operating Officer in April 2001 before succeeding Ned Sullivan as Group Managing Director in July 2001. Glanbia is a leading international dairy foods and nutritional ingredients group and employs almost 4,500 people worldwide across its three operating divisions of Agribusiness and Property, Consumer Foods and Food Ingredients. The group, whose headquarters are in Kilkenny, has operations across Europe and in the USA and Canada. Glanbia is also involved in international joint ventures in the UK, USA and Nigeria and opened a facility in China in 2008. When picking up the Business & Finance Company of the Year Award at a function in O’Reilly Hall in 2008, Moloney modestly said: “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it – and this to a degree could be said of this win.”

Barry Fitzgerald has been “food mad” ever since he can remember. “My mother tells me I would ask

what was for dinner before I had finished

my breakfast. Eating good food was

always an important part of family life, but

especially for me. One Sunday, aged 14, I

decided to make the whole roast dinner

from scratch – that became a fairly regular

occurrence.” Barry enjoyed economics at

school and like many 17-year-olds didn’t

know what he wanted to do in the future.

He almost took a course in hospitality, but

opted for a BComm, as it would provide

more career options. “I always envisaged

myself running my own business and

was interested in the entrepreneurial side,

so it seemed the most obvious choice. I

graduated with honours but could never

see myself working in an office so I decided

to follow my passion and took a summer

job after university in Mint restaurant in

Dublin, at which point I realised how much

I needed to learn. I went to Australia, did

a crash course in culinary arts and ended

up in London working at some of its best

restaurants.” Fitzgerald’s CV includes a

spell in the kitchens of the innovative St

John’s restaurant in Clerkenwell as well as

three years as sous chef at the Michelin-starred Wild Honey restaurant in Mayfair. He was recently appointed head chef at the Harwood Arms in Fulham, London’s only Michelin-starred pub where, with the help of Brett Graham (Harwood Arms co-director and head chef of the two-starred Ledbury), he devises and cooks seasonal British menus. The day is long and challenging but customers leave with a smile and return for second helpings. Of his degree he says: “My BComm hasn’t had a major impact yet. The first few years as a chef are about perfecting skills. However, as I’ve progressed I’ve thought more about the bigger picture: cost, profit margins and business strategy. My goal has always been to set up my own food business, and my background in BComm will become more useful in the future.”

Caroline Keeling fondly remembers her childhood on the family farm. “The Keeling family have

strong and deep roots in food since 1896. I grew up on a farm and spent a lot of time picking fruit in the summertime. Also, as a young child I cooked a lot. That’s how I developed my passion for food.” The BSc undergraduate degree course suited Caroline perfectly. “As I hadn’t decided which area I wanted to focus on, I choose to study science at UCD as I could wait until my second year to choose a discipline, when I opted to specialise in chemistry. I think it was one of my best decisions. Even today, when Keelings are seeking to recruit graduates – either directly or as part of our graduate manager scheme – a candidate with a degree from UCD is of great interest

to us.” She believes that a degree in science

is particularly helpful: “Understanding

the science and biochemistry of our

products enables us to ensure high quality

produce. We have several international

accreditations that acknowledge these

high standards, including certification

for our packing and grower processes.”

Keelings is dedicated to sustainable

growth and uses renewable resources,

including coconut coir, in which all of their

soft fruit is grown. “Our production of

strawberries accounts for 50 per cent of all

Irish-grown strawberries, approximately

150 million a year! Our state-of-the-art

glasshouse is designed to be highly energy

efficient and even captures rainwater to

water the crop. This kind of innovative

work is set to continue as the company

makes improvements in production and

R&D.” Caroline remembers more than her

time in the lab at UCD. “The main thing

about doing a degree at UCD is the friends

you make for life. My 20-year class reunion

took place this July – I travel a lot but I was

sure to make it back to Ireland to catch up

with the friends I made.”



BARRY FITZGERALD Head Chef, The Harwood Arms

(BComm 2004)

Life Skills to Knife SkillsFrom a Michelin-starred restaurant to a state-of-the-art fruit growing

and distribution business and an award-winning bakery ... alumni apply everything they learned at university to successful careers in the

food industry. Eleanor Fitzsimons reports.


AIDAn coTTERCheif Executive, Bord Bia

(BAgrSc 1975, MAgrSc 1977, MEconSc 1978)

owEn DooRLEY Owner of Il Valentino Italian Bakery & Café

(BComm 1982)

john moLonEYGroup Managing Director, Glanbia Plc

(BAgrSc 1978)

cARoLInE kEELInGManaging Director, Keelings Ltd

(BSc 1990)


n

airport in Paul’s Fiat 127, when Longford

was known for, and invited to speak on,

his views on pornography rather than as

a distinguished historian.

The annual Northern Ireland debate

had become bland, invariably themed

around the merits of power sharing or

the repeal of Articles Two and Three.

We opted for a much more controversial

motion condemning the British

Government’s treatment of the H-Block

protest, then in its early stages. To their

discredit, not one of the main political

parties in Dublin was willing to volunteer

a speaker. A packed house witnessed an

extraordinarily powerful speech from

Bernadette McAlliskey, a demonstration

of how oratory can sway a crowd whose

instinctive beliefs were strongly against

the protest due to the IRA campaign of

the time.

The black tie is now gone, the

Montrose is no more, the debates

moved from Thursday, the auditorship

no longer the preserve of law students

| law society || law society |

and the inaugural address not

necessarily on a serious legal

topic. I doubt the sherry has

survived either. Celebrities

are enticed to come to receive

honorary life memberships

of one of the largest student

societies in Europe. There is

significant corporate sponsorship,

something which had its roots in my

time when we cajoled a modest few

bob from Pat O’Shea, Student Officer at

Bank of Ireland.

On my rare returns to the society it

seems that, in many other ways, little

has changed. The paranoia, the ego and

the unadulterated hackery of it all is still

there in abundance. In these times of

remote communication, through various

social media, and seemingly infinite

access to opinions on every possible topic

via the internet, the need for real debate

in a face-to-face setting has never been

more acute. The current generation

have much to be proud of, not least the

manner in which they have marked the

centenary. The Society is in good hands

as it enters its second century.

On thinking back on my time in the

Society, I thought of those who are no

longer with us. My direct contemporaries

Rory Brady, Eamonn Leahy and Declan

Madden all passed away much too

young, as did former auditors Peter

Shanley and Helen O’Connor who I

knew. Since the centenary celebrations

got underway, we have also lost Declan

Costello, a TD, Attorney General and

President of the High Court, Colm Allen

SC, auditor in 1970/71, who took part in

the centenary debate in November of last

year and Judge Vivian Lavan, Auditor

in 1967/68, who ajudicated that debate.

They are in my thoughts as I wallow one

more time in the happiest of memories

from the best of times. n

Eugene McCague was auditor of the

68th session of UCD Law Society 1978-79

and honorary vice-president of the society. He

is chairman of Arthur Cox Solicitors.

The UCD Law

Society, which

is celebrating its

100th session,

was established

as the Legal and

Economics Society. As with its great

rival, the Literary and Historical Society,

which was founded shortly after the

opening of the Catholic University in

1854, the new society followed the

establishment of a new university, UCD,

a constituent college of the National

University of Ireland, having opened its

doors at 86 St Stephen’s Green in 1909.

Little is known of the early days of

the society as, regrettably, the records

are no longer available. James Meenan,

in his biography of George O’Brien,

one of the early auditors of the society,

stated that “it discussed papers; it held

serious debates. It was, by comparison

with the L&H, highbrow. It aimed at the

serious discussion of serious subjects

and everybody spoke as well as he

possibly could”.

It is clear, from the roll call of

early auditors, including Cecil Lavery,

Cathbar Davitt and Arthur Cox that,

from the outset, the society attracted

many students who would go on to have

distinguished careers in the law.

The list of auditors over the 100

years includes two who would become

Chief Justice, TF O’Higgins, auditor in

1936/37, and Thomas Finlay, auditor in

1942/43, as well as many other judges

of the High Court and Supreme Court

and numerous Attorneys General, most

recently Michael McDowell. O’Higgins,

McDowell and Declan Costello (auditor

in 1945-46) combined careers in the

law and in politics. As Mr Justice Donal

O’Donnell of the Supreme Court gave

elegant testimony to, in a wonderful

address to the centenary dinner earlier

this year, there were many members of

the society who did not become auditors

but who were equally distinguished and

deserving of recollection.

By the time I joined UCD in

1975,the college was going through

yet another rebirth of sorts. Belfield,

apart from a few pioneers in the science

faculty, was only five years old, a

modern, forbidding concrete place onto

which decades of history were foisted.

In the Law Society, the committee clung

to the “tradition” of black tie for the

gentlemen and evening dresses for the

ladies, each debate preceded by copious

amounts of cheap, tepid sherry, a tipple

none of us would have considered

drinking on any other occasion.

There were nights when guests didn’t

show or, worse still, did show and were

truly dreadful. There were nights when

hardly any audience turned up and

those who did quickly left. I have erased

those nights from my memory. What

I do recall is the sheer fun of it all, the

innocence of it all. The weekly comedy

routine that was the supposed report on

the previous meeting, the rivalry with the

L&H over speakers and audiences, the

post-debate analysis in the Montrose, the

plotting and scheming at election time,

the elaborate election candidate “stunts”

(comedy sketches) and, the Law Ball,

the debating often secondary to intrigue,

politics and occasional romance.

There were also great debates. I

recall a packed Theatre L in David

Hardiman’s year for the first Oscar

Wilde debate, when the guests

included Hilton Edwards and Michael

MacLiammoir. I remember Paul Kelly

and I collecting Lord Longford at the

20 | UcD connections alUmni magazine UcD connections alUmni magazine | 21

I remember Paul Kelly and I collecting Lord Longford at the

airport in Paul’s Fiat 127.

The paranoia, the ego and the

unadulterated hackery of it all is still there

in abundance.

Clockwise from left: At the 1965 Inaugural Address (left to right) Professor Sydney Ayler, Mr Vincent Grogan, Professor WD Finlay SC, Mr Harry Whelehan (Auditor), Mr Sean McEntee TD, Mr John A. Costello SC TD; PIctured at Nominations Night 1974, (left to right) Mr John Costello, Mr Tom Slattery, Ms Cliona O Tuama, Mr Gerry Cum-miskey (63rd Auditor), Mr Frank O’Riordan, Mr Michael McDowell (62nd Auditor).

At the 1965 Inaugural Address (left to right) Mr John A Costello SC TD, Mr Sean McEntee TD, Mr Harry Whelehan (Auditor), Mr Vincent Grogan BL.

SHERRY, ANYONE?

As the UCD Law Society celebrates its centenary, former auditor Eugene McCague remembers the atmosphere of fun

and formality and the fierce debate.

One hundred years ago: society proceedings in 1911. Document kindly lent by Niall Webb.

airport in Paul’s Fiat 127, when Longford

was known for, and invited to speak on,

his views on pornography rather than as

a distinguished historian.

The annual Northern Ireland debate

had become bland, invariably themed

around the merits of power sharing or

the repeal of Articles Two and Three.

We opted for a much more controversial

motion condemning the British

Government’s treatment of the H-Block

protest, then in its early stages. To their

discredit, not one of the main political

parties in Dublin was willing to volunteer

a speaker. A packed house witnessed an

extraordinarily powerful speech from

Bernadette McAlliskey, a demonstration

of how oratory can sway a crowd whose

instinctive beliefs were strongly against

the protest due to the IRA campaign of

the time.

The black tie is now gone, the

Montrose is no more, the debates

moved from Thursday, the auditorship

no longer the preserve of law students

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and the inaugural address not

necessarily on a serious legal

topic. I doubt the sherry has

survived either. Celebrities

are enticed to come to receive

honorary life memberships

of one of the largest student

societies in Europe. There is

significant corporate sponsorship,

something which had its roots in my

time when we cajoled a modest few

bob from Pat O’Shea, Student Officer at

Bank of Ireland.

On my rare returns to the society it

seems that, in many other ways, little

has changed. The paranoia, the ego and

the unadulterated hackery of it all is still

there in abundance. In these times of

remote communication, through various

social media, and seemingly infinite

access to opinions on every possible topic

via the internet, the need for real debate

in a face-to-face setting has never been

more acute. The current generation

have much to be proud of, not least the

manner in which they have marked the

centenary. The Society is in good hands

as it enters its second century.

On thinking back on my time in the

Society, I thought of those who are no

longer with us. My direct contemporaries

Rory Brady, Eamonn Leahy and Declan

Madden all passed away much too

young, as did former auditors Peter

Shanley and Helen O’Connor who I

knew. Since the centenary celebrations

got underway, we have also lost Declan

Costello, a TD, Attorney General and

President of the High Court, Colm Allen

SC, auditor in 1970/71, who took part in

the centenary debate in November of last

year and Judge Vivian Lavan, Auditor

in 1967/68, who ajudicated that debate.

They are in my thoughts as I wallow one

more time in the happiest of memories

from the best of times. n

Eugene McCague was auditor of the

68th session of UCD Law Society 1978-79

and honorary vice-president of the society. He

is chairman of Arthur Cox Solicitors.

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The paranoia, the ego and the

unadulterated hackery of it all is still there

in abundance.

Clockwise from left: At the 1965 Inaugural Address (left to right) Professor Sidney Z Ehler, Mr Vincent Grogan, Professor WD Finlay SC, Mr Harry Whelehan (Auditor), Mr Sean McEntee TD, Mr John A. Costello SC TD; PIctured at Nominations Night 1974, (left to right) Mr John Costello, Mr Tom Slattery, Ms Cliona O Tuama, Mr Gerry Cum-miskey (63rd Auditor), Mr Frank O’Riordan, Mr Michael McDowell (62nd Auditor).

At the 1965 Inaugural Address (left to right) Mr John A Costello SC TD, Mr Sean McEntee TD, Mr Harry Whelehan (Auditor), Mr Vincent Grogan BL.

One hundred years ago: society proceedings in 1911. Document kindly lent by Niall Webb.


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A scholarship to UCD in the 1960s was just the first step on the path to success for businessman Dr George G Moore, who left Ireland after graduation to make his fortune in the US. The

Virginia-based founder and CEO of marketing software company Targusinfo and owner of The Belleek Group,

tells Margaret E Ward the story.

When Louth businessman George

Moore was just a boy in Pearse Park,

Dundalk a local priest was inspired by

a Cooley peninsula legend to launch a

hurling competition. In the epic Táin

Bó Cuailgne the Irish warrior Cúchulainn, who was then a boy

called Setanta, set out from his home by hitting his sliotar (ball)

before him and then running ahead at

great speed to catch it.

In 1961, the first Poc Fada distance

hurling competition took place over a

5km course in the Cooley Mountains.

Contestants then, as now, must hit the

sliotar as far as possible and the person

who finishes the course in the fewest

pucks wins. George Moore did it twice.

Growing up with legendary competitions

like that, perhaps it’s no surprise that

George Moore’s life has gone further, faster, than anyone in

Dundalk might reasonably have expected.

Although the 60-year-old entrepreneur now spends most

of his days working as chairman and chief executive of his

Washington DC-based real time information services company

Targusinfo, overseeing his investment in The Belleek Group and

n By The nuMBerS n

Targusinfo, a privately held company, had an estimated

value of D200 million in 2005 and has grown 25o per cent

since then. The company employs close to 500 people in 13

offices ... Belleek was purchased for around $6.1 million

in 1990. Today the combined Belleek Group has estimated

sales of $28 million a year ... awards: In 2007, Queen

elizabeth II awarded him an honorary CBe in recognition

of his contribution to northern Ireland’s economy and his

international work supporting Ireland .... he has also been

awarded the influential Irish America magazine’s “US Top 100 in Business: 1991-2006” and university College Dublin’s

“Outstanding Alumnus 1991 Award” ... scholarship

funds: In 2009, Moore announced a D100,000 third-level

scholarship fund over five years for qualifying students at his

alma mater, De La Salle College in Dundalk.

dabbling in a few angel investments, his wee county origins are

still important to him.

The ScholarShip kidAs a young man, he worked hard at school and says academic

scholarships played a key part in shaping his future. “If I did

not have that I’d probably be a bank teller in Dundalk. It was

significant. I was always a scholarship

kid. After school [De La Salle College,

Dundalk] I won a scholarship to uCD.”

At university College Dublin, he

studied economics and commerce and

he was mentored by Professor Tony

Cunningham and Cooley Distillery

Chairman, John Teeling. Thanks

to another scholarship, this time

to George Washington university,

Moore found himself in America’s

political power centre, Washington DC. Although the 1970s

was one of the most turbulent decades in American history, the

newly married young Irishman kept his head down and quickly

completed a PhD.

After graduation, he and his wife Angela, originally from

northern Ireland on the other side of the Cooley mountains,

As a young man, he worked hard at school

and says academic scholarships played a

key part in shaping his future.

sought their fortune on the west coast. he worked for

California Analysis Centers Inc (CACI) International, a good

training ground for entrepreneurs.

In 1983, he started at national Decision Systems (nDS)

in San Diego, a marketing software company. The innovative

company did extremely well and seven years later Moore sold

it to equifax for more than $100 million.

Shaping The BUSineSS: from software to potteryTwenty-one years on, Moore’s business interests range from

high-tech software to traditional pottery reflecting both the

new and old images of Ireland abroad.

how did it all come about? The proceeds of the sale of nDS

became Moore’s springboard into a number of businesses. It

was also fortuitous for struggling county Fermanagh-based

Belleek Pottery Limited. Moore was already running a new

software company but he was never one to shy away from a

challenge. Besides, he thought he could turn Belleek around

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| interview || interview |

A scholarship to UCD in the 1960s was just the first step on the path to success for businessman Dr George G Moore, who left Ireland after graduation to make his fortune in the US. The

Virginia-based founder and CEO of marketing software company Targusinfo and owner of The Belleek Group,

tells Margaret E Ward the story.

When Louth businessman George

Moore was just a boy in Pearse Park,

Dundalk a local priest was inspired by

a Cooley peninsula legend to launch a

hurling competition. In the epic Táin

Bó Cuailgne the Irish warrior Cúchulainn, who was then a boy

called Setanta, set out from his home by hitting his sliotar (ball)

before him and then running ahead at

great speed to catch it.

In 1961, the first Poc Fada distance

hurling competition took place over a

5km course in the Cooley Mountains.

Contestants then, as now, must hit the

sliotar as far as possible and the person

who finishes the course in the fewest

pucks wins. George Moore did it twice.

Growing up with legendary competitions

like that, perhaps it’s no surprise that

George Moore’s life has gone further, faster, than anyone in

Dundalk might reasonably have expected.

Although the 60-year-old entrepreneur now spends most

of his days working as chairman and chief executive of his

Washington DC-based real time information services company

Targusinfo, overseeing his investment in The Belleek Group and

n By The nuMBerS n

Targusinfo, a privately held company, had an estimated

value of D200 million in 2005 and has grown 25o per cent

since then. The company employs close to 500 people in 13

offices ... Belleek was purchased for around $6.1 million

in 1990. Today the combined Belleek Group has estimated

sales of $28 million a year ... awards: In 2007, Queen

elizabeth II awarded him an honorary CBe in recognition

of his contribution to northern Ireland’s economy and his

international work supporting Ireland .... he has also been

awarded the influential Irish America magazine’s “US Top 100 in Business: 1991-2006” and university College Dublin’s

“Outstanding Alumnus 1991 Award” ... scholarship

funds: In 2009, Moore announced a D100,000 third-level

scholarship fund over five years for qualifying students at his

alma mater, De La Salle College in Dundalk.

dabbling in a few angel investments, his wee county origins are

still important to him.

The ScholarShip kidAs a young man, he worked hard at school and says academic

scholarships played a key part in shaping his future. “If I did

not have that I’d probably be a bank teller in Dundalk. It was

significant. I was always a scholarship

kid. After school [De La Salle College,

Dundalk] I won a scholarship to uCD.”

At university College Dublin, he

studied economics and commerce and

he was mentored by Professor Tony

Cunningham and Cooley Distillery

Chairman, John Teeling. Thanks

to another scholarship, this time

to George Washington university,

Moore found himself in America’s

political power centre, Washington DC. Although the 1970s

was one of the most turbulent decades in American history, the

newly married young Irishman kept his head down and quickly

completed a PhD.

After graduation, he and his wife Angela, originally from

northern Ireland on the other side of the Cooley mountains,

As a young man, he worked hard at school

and says academic scholarships played a

key part in shaping his future.

sought their fortune on the west coast. he worked for

California Analysis Centers Inc (CACI) International, a good

training ground for entrepreneurs.

In 1983, he started at national Decision Systems (nDS)

in San Diego, a marketing software company. The innovative

company did extremely well and seven years later Moore sold

it to equifax for more than $100 million.

Shaping The BUSineSS: from software to potteryTwenty-one years on, Moore’s business interests range from

high-tech software to traditional pottery reflecting both the

new and old images of Ireland abroad.

how did it all come about? The proceeds of the sale of nDS

became Moore’s springboard into a number of businesses. It

was also fortuitous for struggling county Fermanagh-based

Belleek Pottery Limited. Moore was already running a new

software company but he was never one to shy away from a

challenge. Besides, he thought he could turn Belleek around

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n A dAy in the life n

Rising time:

Moore is an early bird. “i’m up at 6.15am; in the office by 8am.”

Turning off the lights:

“i like to go to bed at 11pm … i sleep seven to eight hours

if i can.”

On the way to work:

he might use his iPad to read the newspapers.

Relaxation:

Swimming in a pool or walking in the mountains.

Reading material:Moore likes popular novels by detail-oriented authors like

tom Clancy, Robert ludlum and Bill flynn.

Something you might expect:

he has a knack for anything mechanical and likes to figure out

how it all works.

Favourite quote:

“‘do what you love and love what you do.’ if you don’t

like what you’re doing, do something else.”

Advice for students:

Study the hard sciences if you can. “in all developed economies

we’ve seen a trend of graduates going into business and law. We

need to make sure there is a balance between hard science and

business. the cross-over between those two disciplines is where

all economies have grown.”

quickly and flip it for a profit. he bought the legendary pottery

producer for an estimated $6.1 million.

Since then, Belleek has been rebranded from the ornamental

porcelain with shamrocks displayed by your granny to everyday

pottery through its Belleek living range. the company, which

is overseen by a fermanagh-based executive team, has also

expanded to more than ten times its original size.

things are ramping up at Belleek in 2011, with a new US-

based sales and distribution operation just outside Washington

dC in northern Virginia. the Belleek Group, which comprises

Belleek Pottery, Galway Crystal and Aynsley China, has estimated

sales turnover of $5 million a year. the company is projecting a

15 per cent growth in sales over the next three years.

targusinfo is also once again expanding its headquarters and

offerings in Vienna, Virginia. Although Moore sold a percentage of

targus to a private equity firm a few years ago, he remains in charge

and seems to have little taste for selling it and running it as a public

company. “i’m going to run it the way i think it should be run. if

shareholders want to run it they should choose a different CeO.”

LOOking FOR The nexT big ideAhis advice for anyone looking to start their own company? “When

i started my own companies, i never took on debt or external

equity. the concept is to prove your idea first with prospective

customers, see if they will make commitments, then over-deliver

on the promise. Once you have proven the concept, get money to

accelerate the growth.”

Meanwhile, the self-confessed explorer keeps looking for

new things to play with or fix. “for me, there are shades of grey

between working and relaxing. i have a number of investments

that i really enjoy.” his latest business baby, called eades, is a

single malt whiskey producer based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“We’re producing a boutique whiskey in the US. it will mirror the

styles of Scotland and ireland,” says Moore.

giving bAck TO ucdSuch is Moore’s passion for UCd and for education, he and

Angela made a gift of $5.3 million to realise the dream of the UCd

Science Centre. Moore explains their reasons for support. “We

live in information and technology economies – the tremendous

productivity and affluence growth over the past 20 years has

been fuelled by great achievements in these areas. ireland as a

small nation must compete by excelling in the sciences and, just

as importantly, compete to share in the commercial upsides. the

UCd Science Centre will be a tremendous catalyst to achieving

these goals and Angela and i are delighted that we helped ‘pave the

last mile’ to make the UCd Science Centre a world-class facility

and a key national resource for science.”

the new UCd Science Centre (see page 40) is a d300m

initiative divided into three distinct phases. Phase i will open

in September 2011. Phase ii development will commence

in autumn 2011, thanks in no small measure to the generous

support of George and Angela Moore.

nO pLAce Like hOmeMoore had a few landmark events earlier this year: he turned 60

and became a grandfather. his two daughters and one son have

all completed their education; the youngest just graduated with

a degree in medicine from UCd. Carlingford, where they have

a second home, remains the place they choose when they want

a break. “for the last 30 years, we’ve come back to ireland five or

six times a year for a couple of weeks. the US is home – it’s where

our kids live – but when we come home to ireland i’m not sure we

ever left,” he says. Cúchulainn would be proud. n

Paul Gottfried Johannes (John) Hennig (1911-

1986), born in Leipzig on March 3 1911, fled Nazi

Germany in 1939 with his Jewish wife, Kläre Meyer.

They were offered a safe haven in Ireland. Hennig

became a journalist, author and leading authority

on German-Irish literature and intercultural

studies. He was on the academic staff at UCD and

was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 1947

but left Ireland for Switzerland in 1956.

Peter Birch (1911-1981) Catholic Bishop of

Ossory, was a passionate educationalist with a well developed

social conscience. He became provincial

director of UCD’s extramural course in

social science in 1949 and established the

Kilkenny Social Service Centre alongside

Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, a social science

graduate of UCD.

In March 1911 Dublin County Council

votes in favour of extending

Greenwich Mean Time to

Ireland. Dublin Mean Time

– 25 minutes behind London – remains until 1916. A

speed limit of ten mph is proposed for Dublin that

year. The Titanic leaves Belfast on April 2 and Roald

Amundsen’s expedition reaches the South Pole on

December 14.

UCD Architecture graduate Desmond

Fitzgerald (1911-1987) studied town planning in

London before joining the staff of the Department

of Industry and Commerce in the 1930s. He headed

the OPW team of architects that

designed Dublin airport and later

held the chair of Architecture at

UCD from 1954-1973.

One of Ireland’s most celebrated

authors, Brian O’Nolan (1911-1966),

is born on October 5 in Strabane, Co

Tyrone. He is later an enthusiastic

member of the UCD L&H and a

contributor to and rotating editor of

the student magazine Comhthrom Féinne. After completing an

MA thesis on Gaelic nature poetry he joined the Civil Service,

serving as Private Secretary to the Minister of Local Government

and later as Principal Officer for town planning.

He wrote prolifically, often under the pseudonyms

Myles Na gCopaleen and Flann O’Brien, to hide his

endeavours from his overseers. His literary legacy

includes such masterworks as At Swim-Two-Birds,

The Third Policeman, the Dalkey Archive, An Béal

Bocht, and his Irish Times column, Cruiskeen Lawn.

Fr Michael O’Carroll (1911-2004) joined the teaching staff

of Blackrock College in 1939, too late to encounter past pupil

Brian O’Nolan. He had studied philosophy in UCD and theology

in Fribourg, Switzerland and taught religion, French, English

and history to generations of Blackrock boys who affectionately

called him “Doc”.

The government established the Irish Manuscripts

Commission (IMC) in 1928, a public body charged with the

preservation of original source materials documenting the history

and cultural heritage of Ireland. Donal Francis Creegan (1911-

1995), a Vincentian priest and former

Chairman of the IMC, graduated from

UCD in 1933 with a BA, later obtaining

an MA and PhD. Appointed Prefect of

Studies in Castleknock College in 1944

and College President in 1950, he was

Chairman of the Catholic Headmasters

Association from 1952 until 1957.

Another important documenter of

Irish history was Franciscan priest, Fr

Canice Mooney (1911-1963). The historian and Irish language

scholar graduated from UCD with an MA (Celtic Studies) and

authored a plethora of authoritative books.

In July 1911, King George V spends six days on a royal visit

to Dublin. Another imperial outpost, Southern Rhodesia, now

Zimbabwe, later played host to Bishop Donal Lamont (1911-2003)

a staunch opponent of white minority rule. Armed with an HDipEd

and MA (English) from UCD, he arrived in Southern Rhodesia as

a missionary in 1946 and strongly opposed the separatist policies

of Prime Minister Ian Smith. Deported to Ireland in 1977, he was

nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.

Music and drama has always formed a vital element in the

fabric of Irish life. Thomas Joseph Walsh (1911-1988), medical

doctor, UCD graduate and passionate amateur musician, founded

the Wexford Opera Festival in 1951. The theatrical Rex Mackey

(1911-1999), born in Bray, Co Wicklow, was a keen and talented

boxer for UCD. As a history undergraduate he earned pocket

money playing minor parts with the Gate Theatre Company, later

joining the Abbey. He was called to the Irish Bar and practised

law until the end of his life, becoming Dublin’s oldest practising

barrister and having a hand in several celebrated cases.

The year 1911 was a significant year in our history; in a wider

world characterised by unrest we were part of an empire but

poised on the brink of independence. Many extraordinary people

were born that year and a comprehensive census of the citizenry

of Ireland allows us to trace the origins of the few mentioned

here and their many thousands of compatriots. Find out much

more at www.census.nationalarchives.ie n

It is 1911 and the world is unwittingly poised on the

brink of war. An arms race between Britain and

Germany has infected the rest of Europe and between

1908 and 1913, European military spending increases

dramatically as major powers devote their industrial

resources to weapons production. In September

1911 Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. Europe is

characterised by ambition and unrest.

Gender conflict is evident too. On March 19 International

Women’s Day is celebrated for the first time and more than

a million men and women take to the streets to demand equal

rights, including suffrage, for women. Lorna Reynolds is born in

Jamaica in December of that year. She returns to Ireland aged ten

following the death of her father and later studied English at UCD,

where Cyril Cusack, Brian O’Nolan and Mary Lavin were among

her contemporaries. She obtained a BA in 1933, an MA in 1935

and completed her PhD thesis on the Bible in 1940. Education

became her passion and she taught for 30 years at University

College Dublin before being appointed Professor Emeritus of

Modern English at the National University of Ireland, Galway. A

committed feminist, she also wrote poetry and was the author of

a critical biography of novelist Kate O’Brien.

Revolution is in the air. In China an uprising against the

ruling Qing Dynasty in the city of Wuchang sparks the Xinhai

Revolution that will lead ultimately to the emergence of the

Republic of China. Mexican President Porfirio is deposed and

the bloody Mexican revolution is underway.

There is unrest here too. Sinn Féin holds a meeting at the

Customs House condemning Irish participation in coronation

ceremonies for King George V. On February 12 a son is born to

the Ó Dálaigh family. His shopkeeper father has little interest in

politics but Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911 – 1978), graduate of UCD

(BA Celtic Studies) and former auditor of the L&H, becomes

Chief Justice and fifth President of the Irish Republic. His is not

the only presidential birth in February

1911 – Ronald Reagan was born six

days earlier.

The vibrant labour movement was

pioneered in the early twentieth century by James Larkin and

James Connolly, foreigners born to Irish parents who radically

changed the experiences and expectations of Irish workers. The

Irish Women Workers’ Union is founded in 1911. Its first general

secretary is Delia Larkin, sister of Jim. His ITGWU, established

in 1909, has 18,000 members by 1911. A wave of unrest and

strike action will lead inevitably to the lockout of 1913.

In the midst of this turmoil Sean (Jackie) Brosnahan (1911-

1988), teacher and trade unionist, is born. As a young teacher he

was central to the 1946 teachers’ strike, later serving as General

Secretary of the INTO. He enrolled as a night student in UCD

in 1961, graduating with a BA, and served as an independent

Senator from 1969 until 1977.

UCD historian Paul Rouse describes

the Dublin of 1911 as “a city of genuine

diversity: rich and poor; immigrants

and natives; nationalists and unionists;

Catholic and Protestant and Jews

and Agnostics and so many more, all

bound together in the life of this city”.

All rubbed shoulders amidst the wide

boulevards and crumbling tenements

of our colonial port city.

The census of 1911 reveals that

the waiting staff of the Shelbourne

Hotel comprised eight Germans,

three Austrians, one native of Bohemia (now

the Czech Republic) and one Englishman.

Alois Hitler, half brother to Adolf had left the

hotel’s employ the previous year.

As we celebrate Flann O’Brien’s centenary we wonder what life was like in Dublin in 1911. What were the issues of the day and which other well-known UCD graduates share his birth year? Eleanor Fitzsimons looks back 100 years.

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King George V and Queen Mary parade through Dublin.

The Irish Women Workers’ Union.

Roald Amundsen.

The Titanic.

Flann O’Brien.

Dublin Airport.

International Women’s Day was celebrated

for the first time. Men and women demanded equal rights, including suffrage, for women.

Paul Gottfried Johannes (John) Hennig (1911-

1986), born in Leipzig on March 3 1911, fled Nazi

Germany in 1939 with his Jewish wife, Kläre Meyer.

They were offered a safe haven in Ireland. Hennig

became a journalist, author and leading authority

on German-Irish literature and intercultural

studies. He was on the academic staff at UCD and

was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 1947

but left Ireland for Switzerland in 1956.

Peter Birch (1911-1981) Catholic Bishop of

Ossory, was a passionate educationalist with a well developed

social conscience. He became provincial

director of UCD’s extramural course in

social science in 1949 and established the

Kilkenny Social Service Centre alongside

Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, a social science

graduate of UCD.

In March 1911 Dublin County Council

votes in favour of extending

Greenwich Mean Time to

Ireland. Dublin Mean Time

– 25 minutes behind London – remains until 1916. A

speed limit of ten mph is proposed for Dublin that

year. The Titanic leaves Belfast on April 2 and Roald

Amundsen’s expedition reaches the South Pole on

December 14.

UCD Architecture graduate Desmond

Fitzgerald (1911-1987) studied town planning in

London before joining the staff of the Department

of Industry and Commerce in the 1930s. He headed

the OPW team of architects that

designed Dublin airport and later

held the chair of Architecture at

UCD from 1954-1973.

One of Ireland’s most celebrated

authors, Brian O’Nolan (1911-1966),

is born on October 5 in Strabane, Co

Tyrone. He is later an enthusiastic

member of the UCD L&H and a

contributor to and rotating editor of

the student magazine Comhthrom Féinne. After completing an

MA thesis on Gaelic nature poetry he joined the Civil Service,

serving as Private Secretary to the Minister of Local Government

and later as Principal Officer for town planning.

He wrote prolifically, often under the pseudonyms

Myles Na gCopaleen and Flann O’Brien, to hide his

endeavours from his overseers. His literary legacy

includes such masterworks as At Swim-Two-Birds,

The Third Policeman, the Dalkey Archive, An Béal

Bocht, and his Irish Times column, Cruiskeen Lawn.

Fr Michael O’Carroll (1911-2004) joined the teaching staff

of Blackrock College in 1939, too late to encounter past pupil

Brian O’Nolan. He had studied philosophy in UCD and theology

in Fribourg, Switzerland and taught religion, French, English

and history to generations of Blackrock boys who affectionately

called him “Doc”.

The government established the Irish Manuscripts

Commission (IMC) in 1928, a public body charged with the

preservation of original source materials documenting the history

and cultural heritage of Ireland. Donal Francis Creegan (1911-

1995), a Vincentian priest and former

Chairman of the IMC, graduated from

UCD in 1933 with a BA, later obtaining

an MA and PhD. Appointed Prefect of

Studies in Castleknock College in 1944

and College President in 1950, he was

Chairman of the Catholic Headmasters

Association from 1952 until 1957.

Another important documenter of

Irish history was Franciscan priest, Fr

Canice Mooney (1911-1963). The historian and Irish language

scholar graduated from UCD with an MA (Celtic Studies) and

authored a plethora of authoritative books.

In July 1911, King George V spends six days on a royal visit

to Dublin. Another imperial outpost, Southern Rhodesia, now

Zimbabwe, later played host to Bishop Donal Lamont (1911-2003)

a staunch opponent of white minority rule. Armed with an HDipEd

and MA (English) from UCD, he arrived in Southern Rhodesia as

a missionary in 1946 and strongly opposed the separatist policies

of Prime Minister Ian Smith. Deported to Ireland in 1977, he was

nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.

Music and drama has always formed a vital element in the

fabric of Irish life. Thomas Joseph Walsh (1911-1988), medical

doctor, UCD graduate and passionate amateur musician, founded

the Wexford Opera Festival in 1951. The theatrical Rex Mackey

(1911-1999), born in Bray, Co Wicklow, was a keen and talented

boxer for UCD. As a history undergraduate he earned pocket

money playing minor parts with the Gate Theatre Company, later

joining the Abbey. He was called to the Irish Bar and practised

law until the end of his life, becoming Dublin’s oldest practising

barrister and having a hand in several celebrated cases.

The year 1911 was a significant year in our history; in a wider

world characterised by unrest we were part of an empire but

poised on the brink of independence. Many extraordinary people

were born that year and a comprehensive census of the citizenry

of Ireland allows us to trace the origins of the few mentioned

here and their many thousands of compatriots. Find out much

more at www.census.nationalarchives.ie n

It is 1911 and the world is unwittingly poised on the

brink of war. An arms race between Britain and

Germany has infected the rest of Europe and between

1908 and 1913, European military spending increases

dramatically as major powers devote their industrial

resources to weapons production. In September

1911 Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. Europe is

characterised by ambition and unrest.

Gender conflict is evident too. On March 19 International

Women’s Day is celebrated for the first time and more than

a million men and women take to the streets to demand equal

rights, including suffrage, for women. Lorna Reynolds is born in

Jamaica in December of that year. She returns to Ireland aged ten

following the death of her father and later studied English at UCD,

where Cyril Cusack, Brian O’Nolan and Mary Lavin were among

her contemporaries. She obtained a BA in 1933, an MA in 1935

and completed her PhD thesis on the Bible in 1940. Education

became her passion and she taught for 30 years at University

College Dublin before being appointed Professor Emeritus of

Modern English at the National University of Ireland, Galway. A

committed feminist, she also wrote poetry and was the author of

a critical biography of novelist Kate O’Brien.

Revolution is in the air. In China an uprising against the

ruling Qing Dynasty in the city of Wuchang sparks the Xinhai

Revolution that will lead ultimately to the emergence of the

Republic of China. Mexican President Porfirio is deposed and

the bloody Mexican revolution is underway.

There is unrest here too. Sinn Féin holds a meeting at the

Customs House condemning Irish participation in coronation

ceremonies for King George V. On February 12 a son is born to

the Ó Dálaigh family. His shopkeeper father has little interest in

politics but Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911 – 1978), graduate of UCD

(BA Celtic Studies) and former auditor of the L&H, becomes

Chief Justice and fifth President of the Irish Republic. His is not

the only presidential birth in February

1911 – Ronald Reagan was born six

days earlier.

The vibrant labour movement was

pioneered in the early twentieth century by James Larkin and

James Connolly, foreigners born to Irish parents who radically

changed the experiences and expectations of Irish workers. The

Irish Women Workers’ Union is founded in 1911. Its first general

secretary is Delia Larkin, sister of Jim. His ITGWU, established

in 1909, has 18,000 members by 1911. A wave of unrest and

strike action will lead inevitably to the lockout of 1913.

In the midst of this turmoil Sean (Jackie) Brosnahan (1911-

1988), teacher and trade unionist, is born. As a young teacher he

was central to the 1946 teachers’ strike, later serving as General

Secretary of the INTO. He enrolled as a night student in UCD

in 1961, graduating with a BA, and served as an independent

Senator from 1969 until 1977.

UCD historian Paul Rouse describes

the Dublin of 1911 as “a city of genuine

diversity: rich and poor; immigrants

and natives; nationalists and unionists;

Catholic and Protestant and Jews

and Agnostics and so many more, all

bound together in the life of this city”.

All rubbed shoulders amidst the wide

boulevards and crumbling tenements

of our colonial port city.

The census of 1911 reveals that

the waiting staff of the Shelbourne

Hotel comprised eight Germans,

three Austrians, one native of Bohemia (now

the Czech Republic) and one Englishman.

Alois Hitler, half brother to Adolf had left the

hotel’s employ the previous year.

As we celebrate Flann O’Brien’s centenary we wonder what life was like in Dublin in 1911. What were the issues of the day and which other well-known UCD graduates share his birth year? Eleanor Fitzsimons looks back 100 years.

Born in1911


| born in 1911 || born in 1911 |

King George V and Queen Mary parade through Dublin.

The Irish Women Workers’ Union.

Roald Amundsen.

The Titanic.

Flann O’Brien.

Dublin Airport.

International Women’s Day was celebrated

for the first time. Men and women demanded equal rights, including suffrage, for women.

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| LAW |

The first purpose-built law school in Ireland in 200 years, the UCD SUTHERLAND SCHOOL OF LAW is an exciting new departure.

IN THE NAME OF THE LAW

The UCD School of Law will mark 100 years of

Law graduates at UCD with a year of celebrations

starting this month. From small beginnings it

has grown into the leading university law school

in Ireland and, in the process, has produced

several generations of graduates who have gone on to become

lawyers, judges, legal scholars, politicians, public servants,

business people and journalists, many leaders in their fields,

nationally and internationally.

The start of its second century will see a major new expansion

for the School with a change of name and a move to a new site at

the heart of the campus. The name will change to ‘UCD Sutherland

School of Law’, to honour the founding gift of the family trust of

Peter Sutherland which kick-started the campaign to raise funds

for the new building and which has been fundamental in making

it happen.

The UCD Sutherland School of Law will be the first purpose-

built law school in Ireland in more than two centuries. It will

provide new opportunities for clinical legal education at all

levels of study and for new forms of research, made possible by

the innovative design and facilities of its new home. All teaching

and related activities will take place under one roof, reflecting

the commitment to excellence in scholarship and teaching with

student break-out spaces for study and space for collaborative

research projects.

With clinical legal education now seen as fundamental to

legal education in many common law jurisdictions, it is entirely

appropriate that at the heart of the UCD Sutherland School of

Law there will be a clinical legal education centre with court

and preparation facilities, as well as client counselling learning

activities. It will facilitate mock arbitration, use of simulation

software (SIMPLE) and mooting in a purpose-built moot

court room.

The new building represents a major commitment by UCD

both to legal education and to the enhancement of the Belfield

campus. The campaign to raise the d27m necessary to build the

Law Gaelige.indd 30 17/08/2011 09:57


| LAW |

The first purpose-built law school in Ireland in 200 years, the UCD SUTHERLAND SCHOOL OF LAW is an exciting new departure.

IN THE NAME OF THE LAW

The UCD School of Law will mark 100 years of

Law graduates at UCD with a year of celebrations

starting this month. From small beginnings it

has grown into the leading university law school

in Ireland and, in the process, has produced

several generations of graduates who have gone on to become

lawyers, judges, legal scholars, politicians, public servants,

business people and journalists, many leaders in their fields,

nationally and internationally.

The start of its second century will see a major new expansion

for the School with a change of name and a move to a new site at

the heart of the campus. The name will change to ‘UCD Sutherland

School of Law’, to honour the founding gift of the family trust of

Peter Sutherland which kick-started the campaign to raise funds

for the new building and which has been fundamental in making

it happen.

The UCD Sutherland School of Law will be the first purpose-

built law school in Ireland in more than two centuries. It will

provide new opportunities for clinical legal education at all

levels of study and for new forms of research, made possible by

the innovative design and facilities of its new home. All teaching

and related activities will take place under one roof, reflecting

the commitment to excellence in scholarship and teaching with

student break-out spaces for study and space for collaborative

research projects.

With clinical legal education now seen as fundamental to

legal education in many common law jurisdictions, it is entirely

appropriate that at the heart of the UCD Sutherland School of

Law there will be a clinical legal education centre with court

and preparation facilities, as well as client counselling learning

activities. It will facilitate mock arbitration, use of simulation

software (SIMPLE) and mooting in a purpose-built moot

court room.

The new building represents a major commitment by UCD

both to legal education and to the enhancement of the Belfield

campus. The campaign to raise the d27m necessary to build the

Law Gaelige.indd 30 17/08/2011 09:57


| LAW |

PROFESSOR IAN O’DONNELL is director

of UCD’s Institute of Criminology and is

Ireland’s foremost expert and commentator on

criminology with a worldwide reputation in his

field. Professor O’Donnell is an active researcher

and is widely published.

PROFESSOR IMELDA MAHER is Sutherland

Professor in European Law at UCD and a leading

international expert in European Law and

Governance. She joined UCD following an international career

in Australia and the UK. Her research straddles the two domains

of competition law and EU law.

SUZANNE EGAN is a barrister and lecturer in

International and European Human Rights Law

at the School of Law since 1992. Egan has been a

member of the Irish Human Rights Commission

since 2000 and is recognised internationally for

work in Human Rights law. (continued overleaf)

since 2000 and is recognised internationally for

field. Professor O’Donnell is an active researcher

WHO’S WHO IN THE UCD SCHOOL OF LAW

new school commenced with the substantial gift from the trustees

of the Sutherland family trust acting in response to the wishes of

Dr Peter Sutherland SC, one of the School’s most distinguished

alumni. It has been supported generously by the Government

and by the major law firms – A&L Goodbody, Arthur Cox, Mason

Hayes & Curran, William Fry and Matheson Ormsby Prentice

– as well as prominent members of the legal profession and law

graduates from every generation.

The campaign has been a great success; so far it has raised

d26,300,000 with only d700,000 to go to completion.

The new Sutherland building will enable the School to realise

its ambitions and to build on its historic strengths, such as its

fostering of the links between the study of law and public service

and its positive engagement with the European and international

dimensions of law and public affairs. The strategic development

of its clinical education capabilities will ensure the School remains

at the forefront of legal education in Ireland. To fully realise the

vision for the new School of Law, UCD Foundation is seeking the

support of UCD alumni to complete the campaign on schedule

this autumn.

If you would like to make a donation to the UCD School of

Law Campaign, for key facilities within the UCD Sutherland

School of Law and for much-needed scholarships, please fill out

the donation form overleaf. Your support is greatly appreciated.

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| LAW |

YOUR DETAILS This gift is from: Name (title, fi rst name, surname) __________________________________________________

Address_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Class of _____________ Degree ___________________________ Name on Bookplate _______________________________________

Tel Number _________________________________________ Email ______________________________________________________

*All donors will be acknowledged on the Donor Roll on our website. If you wish your gift to remain anonymous, please tick here

Please send your gift to: UCD Foundation, Room 102, Tierney Building, University College Dublin, Belfi eld, Dublin 4, Ireland.

For more information email: [email protected].

University College Dublin Foundation Ltd. Registered in Dublin. No. 266667

Chy 12448

UCD SCHOOL OF LAW CAMPAIGN

I wish to donate: t50 t100 t250 t500 t1,000 Other amount ______________________________ (In words)

I would like to donate by: VISA MasterCard Laser Cheque (Cheque or Postal Order made payable to UCD Foundation)

Name on Card _________________________________________

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Signature _____________________________________________ Date _______________________

PROFESSOR BLANAID CLARKE, is Professor

of Corporate Law at UCD. Her main research

interests are corporate governance, securities

law and takeovers regulation. She has published

widely in these areas. She has been a visiting

scholar at the Universities of Queensland, Sydney and Toronto.

A founding member of the Centre for Corporate Governance at

UCD, she has been involved both at national and international

level in the regulation of takeovers and a member of the Central

Bank Commission.

PROFESSOR COLIN SCOTT is Dean of UCD

School of Law and Professor of EU Regulation

& Governance. He is the founding director of

UCD’s Centre for Regulation and Governance.

He is also a research associate of the ESRC Centre

for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), based at the

London School of Economics where he previously lectured.

He has also held appointments at Warwick University and in

Australia and has published widely.

TJ MCINTYRE is a barrister, a solicitor and

a lecturer at the School of Law where he

specialises in issues involving information

technology law and civil liberties. TJ is chairman

of the independent civil liberties group Digital

Rights Ireland and regularly appears in the national media

discussing issues of law and technology.

ANTHONY KERR is a barrister and senior

lecturer at the School of Law. He is one of the

country’s leading experts on employment law

and has published widely on the subject. He is

on the Executive Committee of the International

Society for Labour and Social Security Law, and is a member of

the Council of the Financial Services Ombudsman.





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| LAW |

YOUR DETAILS This gift is from: Name (title, fi rst name, surname) __________________________________________________

Address_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Class of _____________ Degree ___________________________ Name on Bookplate _______________________________________

Tel Number _________________________________________ Email ______________________________________________________

*All donors will be acknowledged on the Donor Roll on our website. If you wish your gift to remain anonymous, please tick here

Please send your gift to: UCD Foundation, Room 102, Tierney Building, University College Dublin, Belfi eld, Dublin 4, Ireland.

For more information email: [email protected].

University College Dublin Foundation Ltd. Registered in Dublin. No. 266667

Chy 12448

UCD SCHOOL OF LAW CAMPAIGN

I wish to donate: t50 t100 t250 t500 t1,000 Other amount ______________________________ (In words)

I would like to donate by: VISA MasterCard Laser Cheque (Cheque or Postal Order made payable to UCD Foundation)

Name on Card _________________________________________

Card Number __________________________________________ Expiry Date _________________

Signature _____________________________________________ Date _______________________

PROFESSOR BLANAID CLARKE, is Professor

of Corporate Law at UCD. Her main research

interests are corporate governance, securities

law and takeovers regulation. She has published


scholar at the Universities of Queensland, Sydney and Toronto.

A founding member of the Centre for Corporate Governance at

UCD, she has been involved both at national and international

level in the regulation of takeovers and a member of the Central

Bank Commission.

PROFESSOR COLIN SCOTT is Dean of UCD

School of Law and Professor of EU Regulation

& Governance. He is the founding director of

UCD’s Centre for Regulation and Governance.


for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), based at the

London School of Economics where he previously lectured.

He has also held appointments at Warwick University and in

Australia and has published widely.

TJ MCINTYRE is a barrister, a solicitor and

a lecturer at the School of Law where he

specialises in issues involving information

technology law and civil liberties. TJ is chairman


Rights Ireland and regularly appears in the national media

discussing issues of law and technology.

ANTHONY KERR is a barrister and senior

lecturer at the School of Law. He is one of the

country’s leading experts on employment law

and has published widely on the subject. He is


Society for Labour and Social Security Law, and is a member of

the Council of the Financial Services Ombudsman.





Law Gaelige.indd 32 17/08/2011 09:58

| LAW |

Le ceiliúradh a dhéanamdh ar 100 bliain a bunaithe

déanfaidh Scoil Dlí UCD comóradh ar feadh

bliana ar an scoil, comóradh a thosóidh an mhí

seo. Cé gur beag a bhí nuair a bunaíodh í tá an

scoil anois ar an scoil dlí ollscoile is fearr in Éirinn

agus sa tréimhse ó bunaíodh í tá oiliúnt curtha sa scoil ar ghlúnta

céimithe – dlíodóirí, breithimh, scoláirí dlí, polaiteoirí, fostaithe

sa tseirbhís phoiblí, lucht gnó agus iriseoirí, go leor acu ina

gceann ródaithe sa réimse lena mbaineann siad, go náisiúnta

agus go hidirnáisiúnta.

Anois is an scoil sa dara céad tá síneadh mór le cur uirthi,

déanfar a hainm a athrú agus lonnófar í ar láthair nua i lár an

champais. ‘Scoil Dlí Sutherland UCD’ a thabharfar anois uirthi

mar aitheantas ar an gcabhair a thug iontaobhas theaghlach

Peter Sutherland a chuir dlús le feachtas chun airgead a bhailiú

don fhoirgneamh nua agus a bhí ríthábhachtach don tionscadal.

Beidh Scoil Dlí Sutherland UCD ar an gcéad scoil saintógtha

dlí in Éirinn le breis is dhá chéad bliain. Leis sin cuirfear

deiseanna nua ar fáil maidir le hoideachas dlí cliniciúil ag

gach leibhéal staidéir agus éascóidh sí bealaí nua taighde nach

mbeadh ar fáil murach leagan amach nuálach an tí nua agus na

saoráidí a bheidh ar fáil. Déanfar an mhúinteoireacht agus na

gníomhaíochtaí ar fad a bhaineann léi faoi aon díon amháin,

léiriú é seo ar thiomantas UCD don scoth a bhaint amach ó

thaobh scoláireachta agus múinteoireachta agus beidh áiteanna

stáidéir ann do mhic léinn chomh maith le spás le tabhairt faoi

thionscadail i gcomhar.

Anois go bhfuil an tuiscint ann go bhfuil oideachas dlí

cliniciúil ina chuid thábhachtach d’oideachas dlí i go leor dlínsí

den dlí coiteann tá sé thar a bheith oiriúnach go mbeadh ionad

oideachais dlí chliniciúil i lár Scoil Dlí Sutherland UCD ina

mbeidh saoráidí ullmhúcháin chomh maith le gníomhaíochtaí

foghlama comhairleoireachta cliant. Beidh an deis ann eadrán

bréige a chleachtadh, leas a bhaint as bogearraí ionsamhlaithe

(SIMPLE) agus beifear ábalta cúirt bhréige a reachtáil i seomra

cúirte saindéanta.

Léiriú é an foirgneamh nua ar thiomantas ollmhór UCD

d’oideachas dlí agus do Champas Belfield a fhorbairt. Bronntanas

suntasach ó ‘Intaobhaithe Iontaobhas Theaghlach Sutherland’ ag

éirí as iarratas ón Dr Peter Sutherland, duine de alumni céimiúla

UCD, a chuir tús leis an bhfeachtas le d27m a theastaíonn leis

an scoil nua a thógáil. Tá tacaíocht ghnaíúil faighte ag an Scoil

ón Rialtas agus ó ghnólachtaí móra dlí - A&L Goodbody, Arthur

Cox, Mason Hayes & Curran, William Fry agus Matheson

Ormsby Prentice – chomh maith le lucht dlí agus céimithe dlí de

gach glún.

D’éirigh thar cionn leis an bhfeachtas; go dtí seo tá d26,300,000

bailithe agus gan ach d700,000 de dhíth lena chríochnú.

Cuirfidh foirgneamh nua Sutherland ar chumas na Scoile a

cuid uaillmhianta a bhaint amach agus cur leis na láidreachtaí a

bhí aici riamh – naisc idir léann an dlí agus an tseirbhís phoiblí a

chothú mar shampla chomh maith le ceangal dearfach le gnéithe

de dhlí na hEorpa agus go hidirnáisiúnta agus gnóthaí poiblí.

Cinnteoidh an fhorbairt straitéiseach a dhéanfar ar chumais

oideachas cliniciúil na Scoile go leanfaidh sí de a bheith ina

ceannródaí in oideachas dlí na hÉireann. Chun fís na Scoile nua

Dlí a thabhairt chun fíre tá Fondúireacht UCD ag lorg cúnaimh

ó alumni UCD chun an feachtas seo a thabhairt chun críche, de

réir sceidil, an Fómhar seo.

Más maith leatsa cúnamh airgid a thabhairt d’Fheachtas Scoil

Dlí UCD ar mhaithe le saoráidí tábhachtacha laistigh a chur ar

fáil i Scoil Dlí Sutherland UCD agus i dtreo scoláireachtaí atá go

mór de dhíth a chur ar fáil comhlánaigh an fhoirm thall. Táthar

fíorbhuíoch as do thacaíocht. n


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Why Law at UCD? I did my leaving when I was 16. I

remember being in Dingle when I

got my results and my father said I

should be a doctor but I said I didn’t

like the sight of blood. Veterinary

was next up, but my father’s a

Kerryman and he goes, ‘No, not

great with animals.’ And then he

said, ‘Law?’ I said, ‘OK, I’ll be a

lawyer!’ I went to UCD at 16 with

my best friend from school, (which

was great) but I was pretty miserable

initially. I didn’t join many societies.

I finished the degree by 18 and a half,

then went to Blackhall Place.

Law to television?

I assumed I was going to be a solicitor

for the rest of my life but I had no actual

love of law. I was too young. Then I

saw a job advertised in The Guardian

and became a researcher with Eamonn

Andrews. I had great fun there but

realised I needed to get a bit serious so

I applied for the producer course and

became a BBC producer and worked on

different current affairs shows. Then,

of course, if you don’t look like the

back of a bus and have half a brain,

everybody says, ‘Ah, you need to be

on television’. I started working as a

presenter on youth programmes and

was spotted by the guy who runs

Newsnight for the BBC. I worked for

Newsnight for the next ten years.

Broadcaster or journalist? I am a journalist. A lot of students

come here looking for a job – I

hope they’ll say, ‘I really want to

be a researcher on Prime Time’ and

they go, ‘I want to be a presenter on

Prime Time’ and my heart sinks. It’s

like saying, ‘I want to be a model’. It

won’t last. I look at people like Katie

Couric of CBS and those who were

originally journalists and who then

became presenters. I would say to

those students, ‘Go and do a real job

before you become a presenter.’

Is your legal training useful?

Very useful. Much of what I do is

mastering a brief. For instance, when

I interviewed Brian Cowen or Brian

Lenihan or Enda Kenny on the bailout,

I knew everything I needed to know at

that moment, but don’t ask me about

it the following morning. I park it on a

bit of my brain for when I need to take

it out again. I don’t use notes when I’m

on air. I have a bit of a photographic

memory, which I got from my father –

it’s very handy.

Saturday Night with Miriam and

Prime Time – they’re so different?

Which do you prefer? I don’t think they are that different.

It’s still me interviewing people. I

prefer doing Prime Time. I wouldn’t

give it up.

You’ve been with the programme


| in the hotseat |

Current affairs broadcaster and chat show host Miriam O’Callaghan, (BCL 1979,

DipEurl 1981), studied Law at UCD, later doing a postgraduate diploma in European Law. After beginning her television

career at the BBC in the UK, she left to join RTÉ in 1993.

| in the hotseat |

Q Alumni&A Favourite Alumnus Quizzed

since 1996, during some of the most

interesting periods of modern history.

Was there ever a time when you felt you

were experiencing a part of history?

Yes. The Good Friday agreement. I was

very emotionally involved with the North

because I covered the Northern story for

Newsnight in the 1990s. People forget

how horrible it was. I always remember

covering the whole story on the day of

the Good Friday agreement and literally

being reduced to tears in the studio

because it meant so much to me. My

husband Steve [Carson] is a Northern

Protestant and we had covered it a bit

together so it meant a lot. It’s also why I

recently campaigned to get John Hume

‘Ireland’s Greatest’ award. John Hume

is one of the politicians I spent my life

being tough on. It’s the only aspect of my

career I have real qualms about.

That you were too tough on him?

He’s busy trying to prevent people being

killed and this smart-ass presenter comes

along picking holes in his deal.

But isn’t that part of your approach.

You can’t give people a free ride?

It is, I suppose. But it still makes you feel

bad.

What would you say to the fact that

someone like Vincent Browne takes

sides on his programme? He does that brilliantly, but he doesn’t

have the same requirements I do. I am

a public service broadcaster. I think his

show is brilliant, it’s incredibly engaging

television but if I held opinions like that I

wouldn’t last a second in Prime Time. The

rules are different.

People you admire?

There was a very moving time just a

couple of weeks before Garret FitzGerald

died; he was on Prime Time and he had

the desk in the studio covered with

papers like an eccentric professor. I

turned to him to ask a question and he

continued looking through his papers. A

minute on television is a very long time

so I would say, ‘I’ll come back to you,

Garret’ and he’d suddenly go, ‘I’ve found

it’. I loved it because he was so relaxed on

air. He was an exceptional person.

I always had a soft spot for Brian

Lenihan because all I could think when

I was interviewing him was ‘You’re ill’

and maybe that’s where my chat show

‘Miriam’ crosses over into my current

affairs ‘Miriam’. Because I couldn’t

divorce the minister from the man and

I often used to end my interviews on

Prime Time, having given him grief for 20

minutes and adding to his stress, I used

to say, ‘And how are you?’ I think it’s very

hard to separate the two.

Your company produced a

documentary on Charles Haughey and

Bertie Ahern?

I met Haughey but as he was just slightly

before my time, I never got to interview

him for Prime Time. He had kind of

slipped out of politics around 1992 and

I was only coming into RTÉ around

1993, with a financial programme called

Marketplace so our paths never really

crossed. For our documentary series,

both myself and my husband said we

must interview him. The programme

would be Hamlet without the prince.

Unfortunately, the entire world was

trying to get him to do an interview.

We used to go and see him at his house

in Kinsealy, to try to persuade him. I

found him fascinating, I have to say. I

remember one very moving scene, when

he went into his office and The Irish Times

and the Irish Independent were on his

desk and the headlines were all about

him. He often used to say he didn’t read

the papers but no-one believes that. On

top of his laptop were some Lotto tickets.

He was sitting in his office, and there he

was doing the Lotto. It was actually quite

poignant.

I have interviewed Bertie Ahern a

number of times in a number of leaders

debates. I’ve interviewed him on my chat

show and in different circumstances and

we interviewed him on our series Bertie.

Look, it’s very hard to judge people. I’m

not sure how history is going to judge

him now.

Your sister Anne passed away in 1995

when you were relatively young. Did

that change your life?

Profoundly. I was a different person

afterwards. Because we were a year apart

in age and we had kids at same time,

it changed me completely. The lovely

thing is that our two babies are now best

friends. That doesn’t usually happen

with cousins. My parents were of that

generation – my father was a senior civil

servant, my mother, a national school

teacher and principal – both worked all

their lives, came from poor families, who

believed that if you had a strong work

ethic and you were good, and you went

to mass on a Sunday, life would treat you

fair. But it didn’t. I was so angry.

Has it changed your view of religion?

No, I’m quite religious. Do I go to mass

every Sunday? Did I baptise all my

kids? Yes. Did they make their first Holy

Communion? Yes. Did they make their

Confirmation? Yes. Do I say prayers and

encourage them to say a prayer going

to sleep? Yes. Do I pray when there’s

turbulence on an aeroplane? Oh, boy. Do

I? – Yes. Jeremy Paxton said, ‘I hate you

Catholics, you always have that bloody

Memorare to say when there’s turbulence

in an aeroplane!’ If there’s some guy

running down a street after me, or I’m

scared at night, I’ll say the Memorare.

Before I go on air to the leaders’ debate

– I’ll say the Memorare. But, yes, the

death of my sister was utterly the most

profound experience of my life because

it really makes you not sweat the small

stuff. If I presented my show without

any preparation and I didn’t even know

who was on, I’d be grand. I’d get through

it. It’s not life and death. When you

come across death so harshly early in

life it changes you. Sadly it changes us,

the people left behind, for the better. I

always say to my husband, whose mum

Why Law at UCD? I did my leaving when I was 16. I

remember being in Dingle when I

got my results and my father said I

should be a doctor but I said I didn’t

like the sight of blood. Veterinary

was next up, but my father’s a

Kerryman and he goes, ‘No, not

great with animals.’ And then he

said, ‘Law?’ I said, ‘OK, I’ll be a

lawyer!’ I went to UCD at 16 with

my best friend from school, (which

was great) but I was pretty miserable

initially. I didn’t join many societies.

I finished the degree by 18 and a half,

then went to Blackhall Place.

Law to television?

I assumed I was going to be a solicitor

for the rest of my life but I had no actual

love of law. I was too young. Then I

saw a job advertised in The Guardian

and became a researcher with Eamonn

Andrews. I had great fun there but

realised I needed to get a bit serious so

I applied for the producer course and

became a BBC producer and worked on

different current affairs shows. Then,

of course, if you don’t look like the

back of a bus and have half a brain,

everybody says, ‘Ah, you need to be

on television’. I started working as a

presenter on youth programmes and

was spotted by the guy who runs

Newsnight for the BBC. I worked for

Newsnight for the next ten years.

Broadcaster or journalist? I am a journalist. A lot of students

come here looking for a job – I

hope they’ll say, ‘I really want to

be a researcher on Prime Time’ and

they go, ‘I want to be a presenter on

Prime Time’ and my heart sinks. It’s

like saying, ‘I want to be a model’. It

won’t last. I look at people like Katie

Couric of CBS and those who were

originally journalists and who then

became presenters. I would say to

those students, ‘Go and do a real job

before you become a presenter.’

Is your legal training useful?

Very useful. Much of what I do is

mastering a brief. For instance, when

I interviewed Brian Cowen or Brian

Lenihan or Enda Kenny on the bailout,

I knew everything I needed to know at

that moment, but don’t ask me about

it the following morning. I park it on a

bit of my brain for when I need to take

it out again. I don’t use notes when I’m

on air. I have a bit of a photographic

memory, which I got from my father –

it’s very handy.

Saturday Night with Miriam and

Prime Time – they’re so different?

Which do you prefer? I don’t think they are that different.

It’s still me interviewing people. I

prefer doing Prime Time. I wouldn’t

give it up.

You’ve been with the programme


| in the hotseat |

Current affairs broadcaster and chat show host Miriam O’Callaghan, (BCL 1979,

DipEurl 1981), studied Law at UCD, later doing a postgraduate diploma in European Law. After beginning her television

career at the BBC in the UK, she left to join RTÉ in 1993.

| in the hotseat |

Q Alumni&A Favourite Alumnus Quizzed

since 1996, during some of the most

interesting periods of modern history.

Was there ever a time when you felt you

were experiencing a part of history?

Yes. The Good Friday agreement. I was

very emotionally involved with the North

because I covered the Northern story for

Newsnight in the 1990s. People forget

how horrible it was. I always remember

covering the whole story on the day of

the Good Friday agreement and literally

being reduced to tears in the studio

because it meant so much to me. My

husband Steve [Carson] is a Northern

Protestant and we had covered it a bit

together so it meant a lot. It’s also why I

recently campaigned to get John Hume

‘Ireland’s Greatest’ award. John Hume

is one of the politicians I spent my life

being tough on. It’s the only aspect of my

career I have real qualms about.

That you were too tough on him?

He’s busy trying to prevent people being

killed and this smart-ass presenter comes

along picking holes in his deal.

But isn’t that part of your approach.

You can’t give people a free ride?

It is, I suppose. But it still makes you feel

bad.

What would you say to the fact that

someone like Vincent Browne takes

sides on his programme? He does that brilliantly, but he doesn’t

have the same requirements I do. I am

a public service broadcaster. I think his

show is brilliant, it’s incredibly engaging

television but if I held opinions like that I

wouldn’t last a second in Prime Time. The

rules are different.

People you admire?

There was a very moving time just a

couple of weeks before Garret FitzGerald

died; he was on Prime Time and he had

the desk in the studio covered with

papers like an eccentric professor. I

turned to him to ask a question and he

continued looking through his papers. A

minute on television is a very long time

so I would say, ‘I’ll come back to you,

Garret’ and he’d suddenly go, ‘I’ve found

it’. I loved it because he was so relaxed on

air. He was an exceptional person.

I always had a soft spot for Brian

Lenihan because all I could think when

I was interviewing him was ‘You’re ill’

and maybe that’s where my chat show

‘Miriam’ crosses over into my current

affairs ‘Miriam’. Because I couldn’t

divorce the minister from the man and

I often used to end my interviews on

Prime Time, having given him grief for 20

minutes and adding to his stress, I used

to say, ‘And how are you?’ I think it’s very

hard to separate the two.

Your company produced a

documentary on Charles Haughey and

Bertie Ahern?

I met Haughey but as he was just slightly

before my time, I never got to interview

him for Prime Time. He had kind of

slipped out of politics around 1992 and

I was only coming into RTÉ around

1993, with a financial programme called

Marketplace so our paths never really

crossed. For our documentary series,

both myself and my husband said we

must interview him. The programme

would be Hamlet without the prince.

Unfortunately, the entire world was

trying to get him to do an interview.

We used to go and see him at his house

in Kinsealy, to try to persuade him. I

found him fascinating, I have to say. I

remember one very moving scene, when

he went into his office and The Irish Times

and the Irish Independent were on his

desk and the headlines were all about

him. He often used to say he didn’t read

the papers but no-one believes that. On

top of his laptop were some Lotto tickets.

He was sitting in his office, and there he

was doing the Lotto. It was actually quite

poignant.

I have interviewed Bertie Ahern a

number of times in a number of leaders

debates. I’ve interviewed him on my chat

show and in different circumstances and

we interviewed him on our series Bertie.

Look, it’s very hard to judge people. I’m

not sure how history is going to judge

him now.

Your sister Anne passed away in 1995

when you were relatively young. Did

that change your life?

Profoundly. I was a different person

afterwards. Because we were a year apart

in age and we had kids at same time,

it changed me completely. The lovely

thing is that our two babies are now best

friends. That doesn’t usually happen

with cousins. My parents were of that

generation – my father was a senior civil

servant, my mother, a national school

teacher and principal – both worked all

their lives, came from poor families, who

believed that if you had a strong work

ethic and you were good, and you went

to mass on a Sunday, life would treat you

fair. But it didn’t. I was so angry.

Has it changed your view of religion?

No, I’m quite religious. Do I go to mass

every Sunday? Did I baptise all my

kids? Yes. Did they make their first Holy

Communion? Yes. Did they make their

Confirmation? Yes. Do I say prayers and

encourage them to say a prayer going

to sleep? Yes. Do I pray when there’s

turbulence on an aeroplane? Oh, boy. Do

I? – Yes. Jeremy Paxton said, ‘I hate you

Catholics, you always have that bloody

Memorare to say when there’s turbulence

in an aeroplane!’ If there’s some guy

running down a street after me, or I’m

scared at night, I’ll say the Memorare.

Before I go on air to the leaders’ debate

– I’ll say the Memorare. But, yes, the

death of my sister was utterly the most

profound experience of my life because

it really makes you not sweat the small

stuff. If I presented my show without

any preparation and I didn’t even know

who was on, I’d be grand. I’d get through

it. It’s not life and death. When you

come across death so harshly early in

life it changes you. Sadly it changes us,

the people left behind, for the better. I

always say to my husband, whose mum

died of cancer when he

was four, that you often

don’t think of the person

who died because you’re

so sad thinking about

your own loss. They’re

not around to moan or

be sad. I don’t hang out

with people who are

negative. I don’t like

negativity.

Do you despair for

Ireland at the moment?

I feel very anxious for

the people I interview

who have lost jobs and

who are in dire financial

straits, whose kids are

emigrating. But maybe it comes

back to my sister Anne’s death. I feel

if you can get up in the morning, if

you can walk, talk and be with your

family you will get through this.

No matter how bad the situation is,

even if you have to leave the country

to get a job for a couple of years, it

isn’t that bad. I went to England for

ten years. It wasn’t the worst thing I ever

did. Actually, it was a good thing to do. If

you’re having trouble with the mortgage,

talk to the bank. And if they won’t talk to

you, talk to us. We’ll publicise it if they

try and put you out of your home.

What makes you angry? I do a lot of charity work for children and

people with special needs in particular

and sometimes I feel sorry that people

should have to beg for things that should

be theirs as of right. I know it’s not

Utopia we live in and it’s frankly worse

in some countries, but I do feel angry

when I see the parents of an autistic

child having to beg to get a special needs

assistant in their school. I have to stand

back because I’m meant to be an objective

anchor and yet I do get angry about that

because it’s about kids and kids’ lives.

How do you do it all? I am very privileged because I have a

good job and a good income now and

I got that largely through my own hard

graft. I’ve brilliant help in my life and I’m

blessed with eight healthy children. There

isn’t a day I don’t thank God for that. I

keep saying to my kids, 99 per cent of

life is hard graft if you want to get where

you want to be. You can always be – as

my sister Anne was – unlucky. But, by

and large, it’s hard work that gets you

anywhere you want. I have a good job

which I never want to give up.

Are you competitive?

I remember seeing Pat Kenny sitting in

my seat, nicely minding it for me, when

I gave birth to my twins in Holles Street

– I said I’m going to get out of this bed

now. I’m seen as incredibly competitive

because I am hardworking. You couldn’t

do what I do and not be incredibly

competitive. I have two women who

have worked with me at home since

1997. They job-share because I wouldn’t

expect anyone to work

my hours, so one will

come in during the day

and one will come in

during the evening if I’m

not there because I don’t

get home till eleven after

Prime Time, even if I

dash out of the studio.

What are your

interests?

We have a husky who

we take on long walks.

I play the piano a lot

at the weekend – I’m

delighted my kids play

too. I actually love to

hang out and do nothing. I don’t go

to the gym. We always go out on a

Saturday night. I love sitting down

with a glass of wine. I am not one of

those people who’s always cleaning.

I like to relax when I can.

Miriam as President. Any interest

in that particular gig?

It’s such an extraordinarily important

role. I am flattered and honoured, I know

this sounds like PR, that anyone would

consider me for it. I said I wouldn’t stand

because my youngest is five and I don’t

want a Euan Blair scenario where one of

my kids could be falling out of Wesley

with too much Lucozade on them. You

do have to think of that. I did say that if

people still like me in seven years, you

never know.

Your thoughts on any of the

candidates?

Like I’m going to tell you ... I’m going to

be interviewing them. It’s a very important

role and people want someone they will be

proud of who will represent them well both

here and abroad. It’s going to be fun. We’re

going to have to get a bigger studio. n

I’m seen as incredibly competitive because I am hardworking. You couldn’t do what I do and not be incredibly competitive.


| in the hotseat |

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UCD in NUMBERS

7,000 Postgraduate Students.

The Belfi eld campus covers an area of 365 acres, one for every day of the year.

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education providers in 6 jurisdictions - China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, and Sri Lanka.

UCD is included amongst the top 100 universities. In 2010

UCD was ranked 94th in the world and 26th in Europe,

according to The Times Higher Education Supplement.

broadcasting across the campus on 89.9 FM and online at the station’s website. The station is funded by the students’ union, and current RTÉ presenters Ryan Tubridy and Rick O’Shea cut their teeth there.

UCD also has1radio station, Belfi eld FM,

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1With just short of 25,000 students enrolling last year, UCD is the most popular destination for Irish school-leavers. UCD has developed the

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There are 122 nationalities on campus, the same number as are represented at the Université

Catholique de Louvain – recognised as one of the most culturally diverse universities in the world.

6The University has 2 student papers;

the University Observer (co-founded by Dara O’Briain) which has to date won 29 Irish

Student Media Awards, and the College Tribune (founded in 1988 with help from

Vincent Browne).

25%of staff members employed by UCD are from overseas.

The University’s graduates have had a signifi cant impact on Irish political life - 4 of the 8 Presidents of

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The Financial Times European Business School Rankings 2010 places the UCD Smurfi t Business School 30th in

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<< Science Strategy for the futureThe new UCD Science Centre is Ireland’s most ambitious capital project in the history of third-level education – an iconic 67,000-square-metre building with 20 lecture theatres and dozens of state-of-the-art labs, home to 2,000 undergraduates, 1,500 masters and PhD students and 1,000 researchers. With more than 200 industry partnerships already fostered, the Science Centre supports the life-cycle of the scientist from student to career scientist, not just on a field-specific basis but with a major inter-disciplinary focus. According to Dr Hugh Brady, President of UCD, this strategy is aligned with Ireland’s needs: “By creating a critical mass of the brightest scientific minds, we will mainstream innovation into science and engineering and propel Ireland to the next level of competitiveness on the world stage.” The UCD Science Centre will support the objectives of the smart economy and the development of this country as a destination for foreign direct investment.

The refurbishment of existing buildings completed Phase l. Construction of new facilities form the cornerstone of Phase ll. Forming Global Minds, a multi-million euro fundraising campaign to provide the infrastructure for this innovative plan for education, has been successful. The University has mobilised the support of its most successful and entrepreneurial alumni to help realise its vision of creating one of the world’s most dynamic science districts: an environment that will inspire future generations to engage in science.

Mission science


| sCienCe |

As UCD’s vision to create a world-class teaching, research and innovation “science district” becomes a reality, this month sees the opening of Phase I, with the iconic development of Phase II to start later in the year …


| sCienCe |

<< Science Strategy for the futureThe new UCD Science Centre is Ireland’s most ambitious capital project in the history of third-level education – an iconic 67,000-square-metre building with 20 lecture theatres and dozens of state-of-the-art labs, home to 2,000 undergraduates, 1,500 masters and PhD students and 1,000 researchers. With more than 200 industry partnerships already fostered, the Science Centre supports the life-cycle of the scientist from student to career scientist, not just on a field-specific basis but with a major inter-disciplinary focus. According to Dr Hugh Brady, President of UCD, this strategy is aligned with Ireland’s needs: “By creating a critical mass of the brightest scientific minds, we will mainstream innovation into science and engineering and propel Ireland to the next level of competitiveness on the world stage.” The UCD Science Centre will support the objectives of the smart economy and the development of this country as a destination for foreign direct investment.

The refurbishment of existing buildings completed Phase l. Construction of new facilities form the cornerstone of Phase ll. Forming Global Minds, a multi-million euro fundraising campaign to provide the infrastructure for this innovative plan for education, has been successful. The University has mobilised the support of its most successful and entrepreneurial alumni to help realise its vision of creating one of the world’s most dynamic science districts: an environment that will inspire future generations to engage in science.

Mission science


| sCienCe |

As UCD’s vision to create a world-class teaching, research and innovation “science district” becomes a reality, this month sees the opening of Phase I, with the iconic development of Phase II to start later in the year …


science and societyResearch initiatives to improve human health are underway in the new Science Centre. Professor Mike Gibney, Director of the institute of Food and Health, focuses on four research themes: processing for safe and healthy foods, functional food ingredients, targeted nutrition and the sustainable food chain. From analysing food intake in Ireland to teasing out the interactions between food and genes or collaborating with UCD Earth Systems to log the carbon footprint of the Irish diet, the discipline is at the forefront of the country’s aims for science. Dolores O’Riordan, Professor of Food Science and lead researcher, is working closely with industry to develop functional foods that combine health, convenience and taste for consumers. “The importance of this for Ireland is that we have some of the largest dairy producers in the world here,” she says. “They are working closely with us to develop commercial advantage. We can give them access to excellent research facilities and together help Ireland become a world leader in the field.” Likewise, the link between molecules and medicines is key. “It is important that we work on areas of science that are important for humanity,” according to Pat Guiry, Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry. “Chemistry plays a really important role in society in terms of drug development. The new Science Centre facilities will help us train and enthuse the chemists and scientists of the future.”

| sCienCe | | sCienCe |

<< drug discovery One of the key objectives in the design of the new Science Centre is to support collaborations between scientists working in the Centre and colleagues in the pharmaceutical and food industries. People working in different areas of science can interact – not just in the labs but in the social spaces within this “city-like” environment. Students will witness firsthand the avenues that can open up in terms of research, the exciting prospects offered by academic-industry collaborations and the broad spectrum of opportunities to work with international teams of scientists. Based in the Science Centre, the newly opened Centre for molecular innovation and Drug Discovery encompasses nanoscience, food and health sciences, and biopharma and drug discovery; three distinct areas with many opportunities for overlap. For Professor Gil Lee, a nanoscientist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at UCD, it was the Science Centre that attracted him from the US: “Ireland wants to build high-tech jobs to keep their best and brightest – we have a facility here that is one of only a dozen in the world, where everything is integrated.”

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science and societyResearch initiatives to improve human health are underway in the new Science Centre. Professor Mike Gibney, Director of the institute of Food and Health, focuses on four research themes: processing for safe and healthy foods, functional food ingredients, targeted nutrition and the sustainable food chain. From analysing food intake in Ireland to teasing out the interactions between food and genes or collaborating with UCD Earth Systems to log the carbon footprint of the Irish diet, the discipline is at the forefront of the country’s aims for science. Dolores O’Riordan, Professor of Food Science and lead researcher, is working closely with industry to develop functional foods that combine health, convenience and taste for consumers. “The importance of this for Ireland is that we have some of the largest dairy producers in the world here,” she says. “They are working closely with us to develop commercial advantage. We can give them access to excellent research facilities and together help Ireland become a world leader in the field.” Likewise, the link between molecules and medicines is key. “It is important that we work on areas of science that are important for humanity,” according to Pat Guiry, Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry. “Chemistry plays a really important role in society in terms of drug development. The new Science Centre facilities will help us train and enthuse the chemists and scientists of the future.”

| sCienCe | | sCienCe |

<< drug discovery One of the key objectives in the design of the new Science Centre is to support collaborations between scientists working in the Centre and colleagues in the pharmaceutical and food industries. People working in different areas of science can interact – not just in the labs but in the social spaces within this “city-like” environment. Students will witness firsthand the avenues that can open up in terms of research, the exciting prospects offered by academic-industry collaborations and the broad spectrum of opportunities to work with international teams of scientists. Based in the Science Centre, the newly opened Centre for molecular innovation and Drug Discovery encompasses nanoscience, food and health sciences, and biopharma and drug discovery; three distinct areas with many opportunities for overlap. For Professor Gil Lee, a nanoscientist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at UCD, it was the Science Centre that attracted him from the US: “Ireland wants to build high-tech jobs to keep their best and brightest – we have a facility here that is one of only a dozen in the world, where everything is integrated.”

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| science | | science |


research clusters The new Science Centre will bring together some of the world’s most talented scientists under one roof with the intention of forging links. One example of a strategic collaborative environment is the complex and adaptive systems laboratory (CASL) where 30 principal investigators and 170 postgraduate and postdoctoral students from nine different disciplines are located. Professor of Physics and CASL Director, David Croker, believes the days of research being a predominantly solitary pursuit are gone: “We have research clusters that bring biologists together with mathematicians, computer scientists and others to tackle big problems – it’s a real synergy.” Likewise, the earth sciences mission to find solutions to key challenges in sustainable energy, climate change, natural hazards and nature conservation means that engineers, agronomists, economists, computer and computational scientists are all involved. One of the Science Centre’s core objectives is the strategic integration of science with related disciplines, including information and communications technology. Professor Barry Smyth leads a ground-breaking research body, clarity, within the Science Centre, which focuses on the “sensor web” and aims to develop systems that can sense, process and analyse what is happening in the real world and respond in an appropriate manner. “The team we have brought together in Clarity provides a unique combination of multi-disciplinary expertise – essential for progress in this field.”

centre of excellenceThe Science Centre acts as a highly visible, high-quality centre of excellence with the capacity to deliver on the scale required to meet the national objectives, including those set out by the government in the Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation.

As well as providing top third- and fourth-level education and world-class research programmes, executive education programmes led by guest academics from the highest echelons of global science are aimed at providing Ireland’s industrial and scientific leaders with exposure to the best of thought leadership.

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| science | | science |


research clusters The new Science Centre will bring together some of the world’s most talented scientists under one roof with the intention of forging links. One example of a strategic collaborative environment is the complex and adaptive systems laboratory (CASL) where 30 principal investigators and 170 postgraduate and postdoctoral students from nine different disciplines are located. Professor of Physics and CASL Director, David Croker, believes the days of research being a predominantly solitary pursuit are gone: “We have research clusters that bring biologists together with mathematicians, computer scientists and others to tackle big problems – it’s a real synergy.” Likewise, the earth sciences mission to find solutions to key challenges in sustainable energy, climate change, natural hazards and nature conservation means that engineers, agronomists, economists, computer and computational scientists are all involved. One of the Science Centre’s core objectives is the strategic integration of science with related disciplines, including information and communications technology. Professor Barry Smyth leads a ground-breaking research body, clarity, within the Science Centre, which focuses on the “sensor web” and aims to develop systems that can sense, process and analyse what is happening in the real world and respond in an appropriate manner. “The team we have brought together in Clarity provides a unique combination of multi-disciplinary expertise – essential for progress in this field.”

centre of excellenceThe Science Centre acts as a highly visible, high-quality centre of excellence with the capacity to deliver on the scale required to meet the national objectives, including those set out by the government in the Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation.

As well as providing top third- and fourth-level education and world-class research programmes, executive education programmes led by guest academics from the highest echelons of global science are aimed at providing Ireland’s industrial and scientific leaders with exposure to the best of thought leadership.

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| people at UCD |

UCD doesn’t list comedy

as part of its varied

and comprehensive

curriculum but the

evidence suggests that

it has certainly turned out more than

its fair share of comedians, stand-up or

otherwise. Dara O’Briain, Frank Kelly,

Dermot Morgan, Karen Egan, Jarlath

Regan and many more, are all alumni

of UCD.

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what has

contributed to this fact but perhaps it is

that humour thrives on irreverence and

UCD has always had a healthy measure

of that. There’s a respect for ceremony at

UCD, but no devotion to pomp.

There is no doubt that humour

cannot be taught – but it can be

learned. Parents and family are

usually the strongest influences but

our environment, our schools and

universities inevitably play a huge

part. Humour alone won’t make you

a stand-up comedian. It is humour

colouring real experiences, observed or

participated in, that creates the magic of

a good routine.

In many ways, a career in comedy

is one of the hardest paths to follow.

There’s an old stand-up line used

occasionally to start routines that goes –

“When I told my friends I was going to

become a comedian, they all laughed …

Well, they’re not laughing now!”

It is possible that UCD has been a

bigger influence than we think on our

successful comedians. Most comedy is

honed on trial and rejection. Comedians

lie awake at night trying to think of an

angle on anything that is original, true

and can make people laugh. You’re never

sure about the last part until you try it

in front of an audience, no matter how

small. UCD has some unique venues

that may well have given them the

ambition to take their talents further.

Dara O’Briain, right, probably our

most successful comedian ever, claims

that being auditor of the Literary and

Historical Society was the best stand-

up comedy experience a comedian

could have. There is no society in the

country that can match the L&H for

sheer biting satire and stinging rhetoric.

The legendary battles between Gerry

Stembridge, Gerry Danaher and Frank

Callanan in the 1970s did much to make

it the most popular, and yet feared,

venue in the University’s social life.

As auditor, O’Briain knew that he had

to have new and funny material every

week or his audience would tire of him.

“Most stand-ups have to travel around

to comedy clubs and pubs around the

country, to new and sometimes hostile

audiences. At the L&H you have a loyal

crowd waiting for you to perform every

week.”

O’Briain’s career has been nothing

short of meteoric since then. Having

worked the Irish comedy scene he

conquered the UK with appearances on

the topical satire show Have I Got News

For You and QI, and recently hosted

Mock the Week and The Apprentice: You’re

Fired on BBC.

The L&H was also the scene of a

“light-bulb moment” for Jarlath Regan,

the author and stand-up comedian who

eventually went on to be auditor as well.

“It was love at first sight, getting on

stage and giving your seven minutes of

funny. I found that, in a debate, it was

more powerful to be funny than to be

right and that really spoke to me.”

But then again Jarlath also did

his degree in philosophy and politics

and we know that all comedians are

philosophers. Or to be completely

truthful, all philosophers are comedians

– without the sense of humour.

However, what you study in UCD

doesn’t seem to affect whether you go on

to a career of comedy or not. O’Briain

studied mathematics and theoretical

physics and occasionally refers to

it in his routines. It has to be the

environment, not the course topic, that

has been the influence.

Another UCD alumnus who has had

an impressively successful summer this

year is Chris O’Dowd, opposite, star of

the ITV comedy series FM and Channel

4’s The IT Crowd. He studied politics

| people at UCD |

Some thingS you juSt can’t teachComedians on campus – UCD has bred so many, from Chris O’Dowd to Dara O’Briain to Fred Cooke. What’s so funny about Belfield, wonders Rory Egan.


| people at UCD |

UCD doesn’t list comedy

as part of its varied

and comprehensive

curriculum but the

evidence suggests that

it has certainly turned out more than

its fair share of comedians, stand-up or

otherwise. Dara O’Briain, Frank Kelly,

Dermot Morgan, Karen Egan, Jarlath

Regan and many more, are all alumni

of UCD.

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what has

contributed to this fact but perhaps it is

that humour thrives on irreverence and

UCD has always had a healthy measure

of that. There’s a respect for ceremony at

UCD, but no devotion to pomp.

There is no doubt that humour

cannot be taught – but it can be

learned. Parents and family are

usually the strongest influences but

our environment, our schools and

universities inevitably play a huge

part. Humour alone won’t make you

a stand-up comedian. It is humour

colouring real experiences, observed or

participated in, that creates the magic of

a good routine.

In many ways, a career in comedy

is one of the hardest paths to follow.

There’s an old stand-up line used

occasionally to start routines that goes –

“When I told my friends I was going to

become a comedian, they all laughed …

Well, they’re not laughing now!”

It is possible that UCD has been a

bigger influence than we think on our

successful comedians. Most comedy is

honed on trial and rejection. Comedians

lie awake at night trying to think of an

angle on anything that is original, true

and can make people laugh. You’re never

sure about the last part until you try it

in front of an audience, no matter how

small. UCD has some unique venues

that may well have given them the

ambition to take their talents further.

Dara O’Briain, right, probably our

most successful comedian ever, claims

that being auditor of the Literary and

Historical Society was the best stand-

up comedy experience a comedian

could have. There is no society in the

country that can match the L&H for

sheer biting satire and stinging rhetoric.

The legendary battles between Gerry

Stembridge, Gerry Danaher and Frank

Callanan in the 1970s did much to make

it the most popular, and yet feared,

venue in the University’s social life.

As auditor, O’Briain knew that he had

to have new and funny material every

week or his audience would tire of him.

“Most stand-ups have to travel around

to comedy clubs and pubs around the

country, to new and sometimes hostile

audiences. At the L&H you have a loyal

crowd waiting for you to perform every

week.”

O’Briain’s career has been nothing

short of meteoric since then. Having

worked the Irish comedy scene he

conquered the UK with appearances on

the topical satire show Have I Got News

For You and QI, and recently hosted

Mock the Week and The Apprentice: You’re

Fired on BBC.

The L&H was also the scene of a

“light-bulb moment” for Jarlath Regan,

the author and stand-up comedian who

eventually went on to be auditor as well.

“It was love at first sight, getting on

stage and giving your seven minutes of

funny. I found that, in a debate, it was

more powerful to be funny than to be

right and that really spoke to me.”

But then again Jarlath also did

his degree in philosophy and politics

and we know that all comedians are

philosophers. Or to be completely

truthful, all philosophers are comedians

– without the sense of humour.

However, what you study in UCD

doesn’t seem to affect whether you go on

to a career of comedy or not. O’Briain

studied mathematics and theoretical

physics and occasionally refers to

it in his routines. It has to be the

environment, not the course topic, that

has been the influence.

Another UCD alumnus who has had

an impressively successful summer this

year is Chris O’Dowd, opposite, star of

the ITV comedy series FM and Channel

4’s The IT Crowd. He studied politics

| people at UCD |

Some thingS you juSt can’t teachComedians on campus – UCD has bred so many, from Chris O’Dowd to Dara O’Briain to Fred Cooke. What’s so funny about Belfield, wonders Rory Egan.

| PEOPLE AT UCD |


DEGREES OF HUMOUR

KAREN EGAN

Law

FRED COOKE

MusicFRANK KELLY

Law

KAREN EGANCHRIS O’DOWD

Politics

DARA O’BRIAIN Maths and

Theoretical

Physics

JARLATH REGANPhilosophy and Politics

DERMOT MORGANEnglish and

Philosophy

for his degree but went on to carve out a

Hollywood career. Not only is he starring

alongside Jack Black as General Edward

in Gulliver’s Travels but he is also in the

genuinely funny comedy hit Bridesmaids,

which came out this year.

Fred Cooke of The Republic of Telly

studied music in his student years but

comedy has been a more rewarding

career for him as both a writer and

performer. Cooke is regarded as one

of the most respected stand-ups in the

country despite the near fatal handicap

of bringing life to the persona of the

gormless Fergus, in the embarrassingly

successful Spar advertising campaign.

Not exactly what you would expect from

an accomplished musician. So subject

matter is not the common quality of our

comedians. Even Frank Kelly, Father Jack

of Father Ted fame, studied law.

If it isn’t common interests or

education, then environment seems to

be the common factor. However, the

L&H wasn’t the only creative incubator.

The comedienne, musician and cabaret

artiste, Karen Egan, found Dramsoc a

real help to her career. Egan, one of the

funniest women on the comedy scene,

saw her career take off as one of The

Nualas in the 1980s. A former UCD

law student, Karen’s more subtle and

incisively dry humour thrived in Dramsoc

rather than the brash, all-out war of the

L&H debating chamber. “Perversely, as a

law student, the L&H was not a success

for me. I found out I’m a terrible debater.

Not the greatest confidence boost to a

potential barrister.” However this small

setback didn’t prove too off-putting.

“UCD was full of comedy and really

funny people but Dramsoc was a great

experience for me. It made me want to

learn more.”

There’s no doubt that it has had many

successes. The late Dermot Morgan first

worked with Gerry Stembridge there and

they went on to create Scrap Saturday,

the greatest political and satirical radio

show this country has ever produced. So

controversial was it that RTÉ famously

denied they had axed it because it was

too politically cutting. “The show is not

being axed,” RTÉ said, “it’s just not being

continued!”

Later, of course, Morgan became

the star of Father Ted, one of the most

successful comedy series in British

television history but he too always talked

about how he honed his skills in college.

Whether it’s Dramsoc, the L&H or

even the Student Union Bar, the truth is

that UCD has always had a penchant for

humour, whether deliberate or not. It’s

also fair to say that humour gravitates

towards humour and so it’s certainly no

accident that so many comedians have

emerged from the campus.

Perhaps the venues are only half the

ingredients in the comedy mix. Perhaps

it is just part of a culture that was not

stifled and, in some respects, was actively

encouraged. And while many people like

to think that students do nothing but party

in their spare time, others are observing,

refining and incubating stories they

may later entertain the world with. And,

eventually, to the delight of audiences all

over Ireland, a Mara, a Gobnait O’Lunacy

or a Father Jack emerges years later. ■

“In a debate, it was more powerful to be funny than to be right,” says Jarlath Regan.

Comedy.indd 48 16/08/2011 11:23

| QUOTABLE UCD |

Over more than a century, hundreds of writers, politicians, barristers, actors and broadcasters have passed through the halls of Earlsfort

Terrace and Belfi eld, their memories giving rise to many a bon mot. We’ve raided the archives …

Quote, Unquote


“The L&H ... was as exciting to us

as sex – and remember, we hadn’t

had sex. There was a huge frisson

about who you were going to

meet.” Author Maeve Binchy

● “I began directing plays

at UCD – it feels like three

weeks ago. It’s what I’ve

being doing ever since.”

Playwright and director Conor

McPherson ● “For me UCD

was exhilarating. I came from

a convent school, I was 17,

punk was in. I met all sorts of

people. I was involved in Dramsoc,

societies, magazines, everything.”

Commissioning Editor for young

people’s programming in RTÉ, Sheila de

Courcy ● “I am honoured to be in the same

company as the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Noam

Chomsky ... and Sporty Spice.” Comedian Will Ferrell

accepts the James Joyce award at an uproarious session of

LawSoc ● “I had absolutely the most blissful four years. I

was able to indulge all my interests. I was in Dramsoc and

the Literary and Historical Society.” Mary Finan, Chairman

of the ESRI and Director of Cheshire Ireland ● “My friends

and I were all interested in politics, especially in Latin

congregated in the Belfi eld Bar

on a Friday night, to drink and

chat up girls and talk about

Nicaragua.” Author Joseph

O’Connor ● “I was profoundly

grateful ... when I learned

this Institute was to be built

in my name. I still can’t

get used to anything with

my name on it.” Former US

President Bill Clinton at the

Clinton Institute ● “UCD

is good at accommodating

sports people at various levels.

But at the end of the day, you

still have to do the essay; you still

have to do the exam.” Leinster and

Ireland Rugby Player Gordon D’Arcy ● “I

wasn’t Dr Evil sitting with my cat and plotting

how to take over the world. I was simply a comfortable

nerd. I drank and met girls and read books and had a ball.”

Broadcaster Ryan Tubridy ● “I spoke fi rst and Gerry [the

late Gerald Barry] second, but Gerry was so enthusiastic

Lord Denning said that the UCD team, while being by

far the best, had exceeded the time limit so much that it

couldn’t be considered. We had such a good time it didn’t

matter.” Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman ■

Quotables.indd 49 16/08/2011 12:08


| james joyCe Centenary | | james joyCe Centenary |

James Joyce once commissioned the artist Patrick Tuohy to

paint his father. He was so pleased with the result he agreed

to sit for a portrait of himself. As Tuohy muttered on about

hoping he could capture his soul, Joyce silenced him saying,

“Never mind my soul, make sure you get the tie right.”

He would hardly quibble with the image of him now conjured

up by Robert Ballagh. We see Joyce, as if interrupted during a stroll

on Sandymount Strand, where his protagonist Stephen Dedalus

once walked. He is leaning forward on a cane, perhaps about to say

something, a quizzical smile on his face. His hair is slicked back and

he sports a red polka-dot bow-tie.

The portrait is vertical but on a T-shaped canvas, allowing a wide

view of Howth Head on the horizon where Molly Bloom uttered

her soliloquy. The tide is out and pages from Portrait of the Artist,

Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are scattered on the rippled sand like

stepping stones, perhaps blown by the wind.

“I was trying to create the mood of a Dublin day where skies

can be ‘as unpredictable as a baby’s bottom’,” says Ballagh. “I think

Joyce liked to present himself as a dapper fellow, ‘a hand-me-down

dandy’, so I decided to give him a nonchalant pose. There’s a funny,

An irregular-shaped canvas, the trompe l’oeil effect, a hyper-surreal style – Robert Ballagh’s centenary portrait of

James Joyce is uniquely personal, says Ciarán Carty.

Down To A almost vaudevillian vibe about it, with the

cane and the bow-tie.”

Archival photographs frequently show

Joyce wearing a bow-tie, but the red-polka

dot version is invented by Ballagh to echo

the red of the Poolbeg lighthouse in the

background. The pose was prompted by a

contre jour shot by Giselle Freund showing

Joyce standing with Sylvia Beach, his hand

leaning against the doorway of her Paris

bookshop. The lavish rings on his fingers

were suggested by other photographs.

“But, to get his stance right I persuaded

a friend, Gerry Keenan – who is about the

same size and weight as Joyce – to put on a suit and pose for a photo

session,” he says.

The portrait, which he worked on while successfully undergoing

chemotherapy, has a strong personal resonance for Ballagh who

grew up in nearby Ballsbridge. “I was a frequent walker on the

strand all those years ago without knowing I was emulating Stephen

Dedalus,” he says. “The view hasn’t changed, and in the 1950s the

streets hadn’t really changed either. The shops Joyce talked about

were still there, like Helys, where I’d buy model aeroplanes. These

connections are terribly strong and that’s why it was such a joy to be

asked to do this portrait by Joyce’s own university.”

Joyce has been a recurring inspiration in Ballagh’s emergence as

one of Ireland’s foremost and most controversial artists. His 1988

painting, In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis, shows Ballagh,

wearing jeans, joining Joyce in a walk along Sackville Street on

June 16 in 1904, the day Ulysses takes place, while his 1981 book of

photographs of Dublin uses quotes from Ulysses as captions.

“Joyce succeeded in making a statement of universal significance

by dealing honestly with his own experience and by concentrating

on things he knew intimately,” he says. “Ulysses is terribly important

to me. When I go away for any period of time I take Ulysses with me,

just to read a few passages to remind me of the city that I remember

but is not there anymore.”

Just as irregular-shaped canvases are characteristic of Ballagh –

for instance, his portrait of scientist James Watson, the man who

cracked the DNA code, is a diamond format, while he framed Dr

Noel Browne in a cruciform – so too is his

use of trompe l’oeil effects.

“I like to emphasise the connection

between art and life by introducing a three-

dimensional element on a two-dimensional

surface, whether in giving Louis Le Brocquy

a real palette or putting a 3D pint in Michael

Farrell’s hands. Thus one of the pages in the

Joyce portrait, the title page of Finnegans

Wake, actually slips off the picture plane into

the actual world of the spectator.”

He achieved this effect by using a very

thin sheet of cast bronze, which was then

sand-blasted and painted over with several

glazes to give it the same satin feel of the other pages.

“I’m nearly embarrassed to admit that the idea of pages as

stepping stones came from a very early pop video of Michael

Jackson singing ‘Billie Jean’. He’s moving along a sidewalk and

every paving stone he steps on lights up so he leaves behind this

pattern of lights.”

This is not Ballagh’s first portrait of Joyce. He painted him for

the £10 Irish banknote in 1992, which was in currency until Ireland

adopted the euro in 2002. The Central Bank insisted Joyce should

be smiling and with his eyes clear, although they were anything

but clear. “He was tormented by bad eyesight and as a relatively

young man wore very thick glasses. I was determined this time not

to falsify. His right-hand eye is pretty clear whereas the other eye is

nearly twice the size because of the lens, and it’s also slightly out of

focus, which is very difficult to paint.”

Often a distinguishing physical imperfection brings a portrait

alive. Ballagh achieves this with Joyce’s bad eye, just as he did with

James Watson’s distorted lip. Such meticulous attention to detail

has earned Ballagh a reputation as a realist painter. The paradox

is that his portraits couldn’t happen in reality. For instance, Joyce

never came to Ireland in his forties as Ballagh depicts him, nor had

he published the books from which the pages are taken.

Ballagh prefers to be seen as a hyper surrealist, or what in

literature is called a magic realist. “It seems very real when you’re

reading it but it’s juxtaposing utterly impossible things,” he says.

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RobeRt ballagh’s portrait of uCD’s most famous graduate, James Joyce, was hung in the o’reilly hall on June 16 as part of

the university’s bloomsday celebrations. after the unveiling of the painting – a commission by Deirdre and thomas lynch via the

uCD Foundation, which is indebted to them for their generosity – ballagh and professor Declan Kiberd answered questions on art,

Joyce, literature and Dublin from those who had travelled to belfield eager to view the t-shaped portrait for the first time and listen

to the critic and the artist. uCD curator, ruth Ferguson, said the painting was a “great addition” to the university’s art collection.

“the portrait by a Dublin born, bred and based artist and depicting the archetypal Dubliner, James Joyce, is a fine tribute to the

author and uCD alumnus,” she said. “it is proving a very popular image throughout the university community.”

Earlier in the day, uCD had bestowed its highest honour, the ulysses medal, on poet Seamus heaney, as well as conferring

honorary doctorates on the five holders of the ireland Chair of poetry: John Montague, nuala ní Dhomhnaill, paul Durcan,

Michael longley, harry Clifton; poet Ciarán Carson and cartoonist garry trudeau.


| james joyCe Centenary | | james joyCe Centenary |

James Joyce once commissioned the artist Patrick Tuohy to

paint his father. He was so pleased with the result he agreed

to sit for a portrait of himself. As Tuohy muttered on about

hoping he could capture his soul, Joyce silenced him saying,

“Never mind my soul, make sure you get the tie right.”

He would hardly quibble with the image of him now conjured

up by Robert Ballagh. We see Joyce, as if interrupted during a stroll

on Sandymount Strand, where his protagonist Stephen Dedalus

once walked. He is leaning forward on a cane, perhaps about to say

something, a quizzical smile on his face. His hair is slicked back and

he sports a red polka-dot bow-tie.

The portrait is vertical but on a T-shaped canvas, allowing a wide

view of Howth Head on the horizon where Molly Bloom uttered

her soliloquy. The tide is out and pages from Portrait of the Artist,

Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are scattered on the rippled sand like

stepping stones, perhaps blown by the wind.

“I was trying to create the mood of a Dublin day where skies

can be ‘as unpredictable as a baby’s bottom’,” says Ballagh. “I think

Joyce liked to present himself as a dapper fellow, ‘a hand-me-down

dandy’, so I decided to give him a nonchalant pose. There’s a funny,

An irregular-shaped canvas, the trompe l’oeil effect, a hyper-surreal style – Robert Ballagh’s centenary portrait of

James Joyce is uniquely personal, says Ciarán Carty.

Down To A almost vaudevillian vibe about it, with the

cane and the bow-tie.”

Archival photographs frequently show

Joyce wearing a bow-tie, but the red-polka

dot version is invented by Ballagh to echo

the red of the Poolbeg lighthouse in the

background. The pose was prompted by a

contre jour shot by Giselle Freund showing

Joyce standing with Sylvia Beach, his hand

leaning against the doorway of her Paris

bookshop. The lavish rings on his fingers

were suggested by other photographs.

“But, to get his stance right I persuaded

a friend, Gerry Keenan – who is about the

same size and weight as Joyce – to put on a suit and pose for a photo

session,” he says.

The portrait, which he worked on while successfully undergoing

chemotherapy, has a strong personal resonance for Ballagh who

grew up in nearby Ballsbridge. “I was a frequent walker on the

strand all those years ago without knowing I was emulating Stephen

Dedalus,” he says. “The view hasn’t changed, and in the 1950s the

streets hadn’t really changed either. The shops Joyce talked about

were still there, like Helys, where I’d buy model aeroplanes. These

connections are terribly strong and that’s why it was such a joy to be

asked to do this portrait by Joyce’s own university.”

Joyce has been a recurring inspiration in Ballagh’s emergence as

one of Ireland’s foremost and most controversial artists. His 1988

painting, In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis, shows Ballagh,

wearing jeans, joining Joyce in a walk along Sackville Street on

June 16 in 1904, the day Ulysses takes place, while his 1981 book of

photographs of Dublin uses quotes from Ulysses as captions.

“Joyce succeeded in making a statement of universal significance

by dealing honestly with his own experience and by concentrating

on things he knew intimately,” he says. “Ulysses is terribly important

to me. When I go away for any period of time I take Ulysses with me,

just to read a few passages to remind me of the city that I remember

but is not there anymore.”

Just as irregular-shaped canvases are characteristic of Ballagh –

for instance, his portrait of scientist James Watson, the man who

cracked the DNA code, is a diamond format, while he framed Dr

Noel Browne in a cruciform – so too is his

use of trompe l’oeil effects.

“I like to emphasise the connection

between art and life by introducing a three-

dimensional element on a two-dimensional

surface, whether in giving Louis Le Brocquy

a real palette or putting a 3D pint in Michael

Farrell’s hands. Thus one of the pages in the

Joyce portrait, the title page of Finnegans

Wake, actually slips off the picture plane into

the actual world of the spectator.”

He achieved this effect by using a very

thin sheet of cast bronze, which was then

sand-blasted and painted over with several

glazes to give it the same satin feel of the other pages.

“I’m nearly embarrassed to admit that the idea of pages as

stepping stones came from a very early pop video of Michael

Jackson singing ‘Billie Jean’. He’s moving along a sidewalk and

every paving stone he steps on lights up so he leaves behind this

pattern of lights.”

This is not Ballagh’s first portrait of Joyce. He painted him for

the £10 Irish banknote in 1992, which was in currency until Ireland

adopted the euro in 2002. The Central Bank insisted Joyce should

be smiling and with his eyes clear, although they were anything

but clear. “He was tormented by bad eyesight and as a relatively

young man wore very thick glasses. I was determined this time not

to falsify. His right-hand eye is pretty clear whereas the other eye is

nearly twice the size because of the lens, and it’s also slightly out of

focus, which is very difficult to paint.”

Often a distinguishing physical imperfection brings a portrait

alive. Ballagh achieves this with Joyce’s bad eye, just as he did with

James Watson’s distorted lip. Such meticulous attention to detail

has earned Ballagh a reputation as a realist painter. The paradox

is that his portraits couldn’t happen in reality. For instance, Joyce

never came to Ireland in his forties as Ballagh depicts him, nor had

he published the books from which the pages are taken.

Ballagh prefers to be seen as a hyper surrealist, or what in

literature is called a magic realist. “It seems very real when you’re

reading it but it’s juxtaposing utterly impossible things,” he says.

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RobeRt ballagh’s portrait of uCD’s most famous graduate, James Joyce, was hung in the o’reilly hall on June 16 as part of

the university’s bloomsday celebrations. after the unveiling of the painting – a commission by Deirdre and thomas lynch via the

uCD Foundation, which is indebted to them for their generosity – ballagh and professor Declan Kiberd answered questions on art,

Joyce, literature and Dublin from those who had travelled to belfield eager to view the t-shaped portrait for the first time and listen

to the critic and the artist. uCD curator, ruth Ferguson, said the painting was a “great addition” to the university’s art collection.

“the portrait by a Dublin born, bred and based artist and depicting the archetypal Dubliner, James Joyce, is a fine tribute to the

author and uCD alumnus,” she said. “it is proving a very popular image throughout the university community.”

Earlier in the day, uCD had bestowed its highest honour, the ulysses medal, on poet Seamus heaney, as well as conferring

honorary doctorates on the five holders of the ireland Chair of poetry: John Montague, nuala ní Dhomhnaill, paul Durcan,

Michael longley, harry Clifton; poet Ciarán Carson and cartoonist garry trudeau.

The 2010/2011

rugby season

marked the

centenary

of the

establishment

of University College Dublin

RFC and, as part of the Club’s

Centenary celebrations, a Team

of the Century was selected from

among the many outstanding

players that have worn the St

Patrick’s blue down through the decades.

“We looked for nominations from each

decade of the Club’s existence from fellow

players and others closely involved with

the club,” says Billy Murphy, a longtime

member of the Club and coordinator of the

initiative. Although many of the names that

made the final list are familiar, players from

the very early years of the club’s history

were harder to identify. “Nominations from

earlier decades came from individuals who

look after the historical records and have a

keen appreciation of the history of the Club,”

Murphy explains.

A shortlist of 222 nominated

players from every era since 1910

was circulated to club members

and scrutinised by selectors

Edmund Van Esbeck and Jim

Glennon, both experienced

rugby people from outside the

Club. The 15 starters and seven

substitutes ultimately selected were

announced at the Club’s Centenary

Dinner in March at the O’Reilly

Hall, Belfield, attended by more than

600 members and friends. UCD President,

Dr Hugh Brady, who is also President of

UCD RFC, spoke warmly of the special

attributes, ethos and culture of the Club

and presented UCD RFC Alumni Awards

to Billy Murphy and Paul Keenan for their

service to the Club.

On the night each selected member of

the UCD RFC Team of the Century or

their representative was given a special

presentation to mark their selection

and a souvenir brochure was produced,

sponsored by marketspreads.ie, and

circulated to all Club members. n

| looking back |


9.

Captained Ireland out of UCD

winning 11 caps in the early 1960s,

Jimmy Kelly.

10.

A legendary player in the 1920s and

1930s with 35 caps at out half and

centre, eugene Davy.

11.

Captained UCD in 1957/58,

a Lion in 1959 and 1962

winning 20 Irish caps,

niall Brophy.

12.

Played 25 times for Ireland

and toured twice with the

Lions in the 1960s, Barry

Bresnihan.

13. Captained the Lions and

his country with 111 caps to

date, Brian o’Driscoll

(Captain).

14.

A tourist on the 1974 tour

to South Africa and 25

times capped right winger,

Tom grace.

15.

With a quarter of a century of caps thus far,

starting in all tests in the 2009 tour to South

Africa, roB Kearney.

16.

Winner of eight caps at hooker,

harry harBison.

19.

Winning 20 caps for Ireland,

during the 1990s, second row

gaBriel Fulcher.

17.

Captained UCD in 1970 and Ireland

in 1977 winning eight caps at

flanker, shay Deering.

20.

Scrum half who made his

international breakthrough in the

late 1990s, ciaran scally.

18.

Winning six caps in the early 1950s

prop Willie “BolDy” o’neill.

21.

A Lion, with a stellar Irish

career winning 62 caps,

Denis hicKie.

22.

Utility back par excellence

for Ulster and Ireland,

paDDy Wallace.

1.

Winner of five caps for Ireland

between 1960 and 1964, loose

head prop, pJ DWyer.

2.

Capped nine times as hooker

in the 1970s,

John canTrell.

3.

Eight times Captain of Ireland

and twice a tourist with the

Lions, ray mcloughlin.

4.

Capped 35 times for Ireland,

touring in 1959 and 1962 with the

Lions, Bill mulcahy.

5.

Connacht stalwart who played for

Ireland versus Argentina in 1973,

leo galvin.

6.


the late micK Doyle featured

on the 1968 Lions tour to

South Africa.

7.

A Lions legend who

captained Ireland 17 times,

Fergus slaTTery.

8.

One of the leading players of

the 1950s, capped 35 times for

Ireland, ronnie Kavanagh.

Team Team of the CenTury1910 – 2010

When UCD’s rugby club gathered to select itsDream Team of all time, there were few surprises ...

CenTuryof the~ ~


| looking back |

From top: Ray Mc Loughlin – Ireland vs The All Blacks, 1973; Tom Grace

scores at Murrayfield, 1972. Opposite: Aidan Bailey with LB McMahon in close

support, Ireland vs Scotland, 1937.

The 2010/2011

rugby season

marked the

centenary

of the

establishment

of University College Dublin

RFC and, as part of the Club’s

Centenary celebrations, a Team

of the Century was selected from

among the many outstanding

players that have worn the St

Patrick’s blue down through the decades.

“We looked for nominations from each

decade of the Club’s existence from fellow

players and others closely involved with

the club,” says Billy Murphy, a longtime

member of the Club and coordinator of the

initiative. Although many of the names that

made the final list are familiar, players from

the very early years of the club’s history

were harder to identify. “Nominations from

earlier decades came from individuals who

look after the historical records and have a

keen appreciation of the history of the Club,”

Murphy explains.

A shortlist of 222 nominated

players from every era since 1910

was circulated to club members

and scrutinised by selectors

Edmund Van Esbeck and Jim

Glennon, both experienced

rugby people from outside the

Club. The 15 starters and seven

substitutes ultimately selected were

announced at the Club’s Centenary

Dinner in March at the O’Reilly

Hall, Belfield, attended by more than

600 members and friends. UCD President,

Dr Hugh Brady, who is also President of

UCD RFC, spoke warmly of the special

attributes, ethos and culture of the Club

and presented UCD RFC Alumni Awards

to Billy Murphy and Paul Keenan for their

service to the Club.

On the night each selected member of

the UCD RFC Team of the Century or

their representative was given a special

presentation to mark their selection

and a souvenir brochure was produced,

sponsored by marketspreads.ie, and

circulated to all Club members. n

| looking back |


9.

Captained Ireland out of UCD

winning 11 caps in the early 1960s,

Jimmy Kelly.

10.

A legendary player in the 1920s and

1930s with 35 caps at out half and

centre, eugene Davy.

11.

Captained UCD in 1957/58,

a Lion in 1959 and 1962

winning 20 Irish caps,

niall Brophy.

12.

Played 25 times for Ireland

and toured twice with the

Lions in the 1960s, Barry

Bresnihan.

13. Captained the Lions and

his country with 111 caps to

date, Brian o’Driscoll

(Captain).

14.

A tourist on the 1974 tour

to South Africa and 25

times capped right winger,

Tom grace.

15.

With a quarter of a century of caps thus far,

starting in all tests in the 2009 tour to South

Africa, roB Kearney.

16.

Winner of eight caps at hooker,

harry harBison.

19.

Winning 20 caps for Ireland,

during the 1990s, second row

gaBriel Fulcher.

17.

Captained UCD in 1970 and Ireland

in 1977 winning eight caps at

flanker, shay Deering.

20.

Scrum half who made his

international breakthrough in the

late 1990s, ciaran scally.

18.

Winning six caps in the early 1950s

prop Willie “BolDy” o’neill.

21.

A Lion, with a stellar Irish

career winning 62 caps,

Denis hicKie.

22.

Utility back par excellence

for Ulster and Ireland,

paDDy Wallace.

1.

Winner of five caps for Ireland

between 1960 and 1964, loose

head prop, pJ DWyer.

2.

Capped nine times as hooker

in the 1970s,

John canTrell.

3.

Eight times Captain of Ireland

and twice a tourist with the

Lions, ray mcloughlin.

4.


touring in 1959 and 1962 with the

Lions, Bill mulcahy.

5.

Connacht stalwart who played for

Ireland versus Argentina in 1973,

leo galvin.

6.


the late micK Doyle featured

on the 1968 Lions tour to

South Africa.

7.

A Lions legend who

captained Ireland 17 times,

Fergus slaTTery.

8.

One of the leading players of

the 1950s, capped 35 times for

Ireland, ronnie Kavanagh.

Team Team of the CenTury1910 – 2010

When UCD’s rugby club gathered to select itsDream Team of all time, there were few surprises ...

CenTuryof the~ ~


| looking back |

From top: Ray Mc Loughlin – Ireland vs The All Blacks, 1973; Tom Grace

scores at Murrayfield, 1972. Opposite: Aidan Bailey with LB McMahon in close

support, Ireland vs Scotland, 1937.

sports shorts2011 was another successful sporting year at UCD.

UCD golfers had a fantastic year, enjoying both team and individual success. The UCD first team won the Irish Intervarsity

Strokeplay Team event in Enniscrone, while in the individual strokeplay, John Greene won the Roger Greene Cup. Stephen Walsh won the 2010 Ulster Youths Amateur Open Championship and was crowned South of Ireland Amateur Open Champion this year. John Greene and Stephen Walsh have recently been selected for the Irish four-man team

that will represent Ireland at the World University Games in China this summer.

It Is fIttIng that in the club’s centenary season, UCD’s rugby teams enjoyed tremendous success. The first XV won the

Leinster Senior Cup and retained the Dudley Cup. They finished second in Division 2 of the Ulster Bank All Ireland league and were subsequently promoted to Division 1B. The Under-21 team won the All Ireland Cup for the first time in the Club’s history and beat Lansdowne to win the Fraser McMullen Cup. The Smurfit School team beat Harvard Business School 13-10 in the final of the MBA Rugby World Championship.

UCD gAA and UCD Sport hosted the final stages of the centenary Ulster Bank Sigerson Cup competition in Belfield in March. The Sigerson Cup

is the premier Gaelic Football Competition for third level institutions, named after Dr George Sigerson who was Professor of Biology in the Catholic University School of Medicine and later the National University. In addition to hosting the Ulster Bank Sigerson Cup, UCD also hosted the latter stages of the Trench Cup, Corn na Mac Leinn and the Further Education Championship.

thIs UCD ClUb had a remarkable year winning the elusive double – the University

Championships and the Superleague National Cup. The Cup victory was a first for the club, beating reigning champions Killester 60-57 in a nail-biting game in the National Arena in January. The club then went on to secure the University Championship in Belfield on April 4 when they beat the reigning champions NUI Galway 69-51 in the final.

the Men’s AnD lADIes’ ClUbs hosted a very well-organised University Championships in Belfield last

October, with the Ladies securing the Chilean Cup after a 2-0 victory over reigning

champions, University of Ulster, Jordanstown.

the A teAM won the Football Association of Ireland A

League, beating Bohemians 2-1 in the final in November

2010. The freshman team won a remarkable double by winning both the Harding Cup

and the Leinster Senior League Premier 1 Saturday Division title. The club also completed

a magnificent double in May when the Leinster Senior League Sunday side picked up the

Gilligan Cup following their 2-1 defeat of Templeogue United.

the UCD boAt ClUb swept the premier races in the 2011

National Rowing Championships, winning both the Men’s

and Women’s Senior VIII events. This year’s victory in the Men’s Senior VIII event was

the first in 37 years. President of UCD, Dr Hugh Brady, said the wins were “inspirational”.

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Stephen Walsh.

First XV after winning the Leinster Senior Cup.

Ciaran Lyng in action in The Sigerson Cup Semi Final.

UCD Soccer A Champions.

UCD Rowing Champions.

UCD National Cup Winners.

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UCD and sport have

been synonymous

for many decades,

but particularly

from the time the

University relocated

to Belfield over 40 years ago. Since then,

if it wasn’t Eugene McGee blazing a trail

winning Sigerson Cups in the 1970s, it

was his soccer counterpart, the late Dr

Tony O’Neill, getting the UCD team to

punch way above its weight in the League

of Ireland (even winning an FAI Cup )

or on the rugby front, a legion of names

including the late Mick Doyle, playing and

coaching Ireland, and bringing credit by

association to the University.

That has been UCD’s gift to Irish sport.

The University prides itself on spreading

sport to as wide a student body as possible

and it has always placed an emphasis on

recreation as well as having a great elite

athlete tradition.

Professor Colin Boreham, Director of

the UCD Institute for Sport and Health,

arrived first in our consciousness in the

back-room team of a former Ireland

rugby coach called Jimmy Davidson. In

the sporting culture of the late 1980s,

where planning on the hoof was about

as much as Ireland could aspire to,

Davidson’s preaching of scientific analysis

and statistical evidence drew the wry

comment: “That’s all right in practice,

now let’s see how it will work in theory.”

As events would unfold, it became

clear that the late Ulsterman suffered from

Martin Peters syndrome – he was indeed

ten years ahead of his time.

Boreham also knew there was a

reason other than ethnicity why Ireland

would indeed give it a lash against the All

Blacks or France or South Africa for 60

minutes before being overrun in the final

20 minutes. Over the last decade or so it

became increasingly clear that success

at elite sport level could no longer be a

hostage to the vicissitudes of fortune.

Furthermore, there was a growing

acceptance that general planning had to

be supplemented by rigorous, systematic

science, as in medicine, or many other

areas of life.

To compete at the highest level, Ireland

has to seek out its talent, engage it and

develop it much more systematically than

countries such as the US, where the high

school and college network is so vast, it

is only a matter of time before the cream

rises to the top. Australia was one of the

first nations to follow the systematic

approach and the results are there for all to

see. The UK is also catching up fast on a

number of levels.

“I would say one of the critical

moments in the development of Irish

sport came with the professionalisation

of rugby in the mid-1990s,” explains

Professor Boreham. “Rugby is a big game

in Ireland and the rugby authorities

simply had to adapt or die. There was

no choice. So they had to catch up with

the Australians, the All Blacks, the

South Africans who had been using this

approach through the amateur years.”

To their credit, the IRFU saw what

was needed and provided the framework

to allow the sport here to catch up. The

effective way they did it is testament to

the fact that any society can undertake

such improvement. There’s nothing

special about New Zealand; it’s the proper

approach that counts.

As it happened, there was a confluence

in UCD which expedited the birth of the

Elite Athlete Academy. The University

started a BSc undergraduate programme

in Health and Performance Science and

around the same time set up an Institute

for Sport and Health, with Professor

Boreham appointed as its director.

The Institute has three main

programmes with an emphasis on

research into health, exercise and

sporting performance. It also majors in

teaching and helping undergraduates

who have access to the laboratories and

gym facilities. The other area – service

provision – includes the development

of elite programmes, the monitoring

of performance and the generation of

excellence within the University setting.

Nurturing and developing talent

is good for the University but also for

wider Irish society. With the setting up

of the BSc programme and the Institute

for Sport and Health, the Elite Athlete

Academy was born. Universities play

a critical role in incubating sporting

talent. Probably half or more of our

Olympians are in third-level education so

by definition, third-level education must

have a part to play in elite sport.

The years between 18 and 22 are

critical in the transition from junior to

senior elite. Students enter university

at 18 having represented their country

at junior level, but the step-up to senior

level can be very challenging – the

university years are when that takes

place. The Elite Athlete Academy plays a

vital role during that particular period of

an athlete’s development.

Why ElitE AcAdEmy Works?

The average undergraduate attending

University is out of his or her normal

environment and comfort zone. Arriving

into a much bigger pond can be quite a

challenge for them.

For the first time, life is experienced

away from the cocoon of home. Often the

students are away from their coach and the

support systems that have been in place.

The Elite Athlete Academy is an attempt

to soften that transition and to provide

back-up across a range of important areas

| sport || sport |

era of the eliteTime was when the terms “Corinthian Spirit” and “give it a lash”

largely defined Ireland’s approach to sporting glory. We grew up with haphazard systems which took whatever talent was available, trained it and called it “Celtic Passion”. Nowadays, even the most amateur

of GAA junior teams understands the requirements of scientific preparation. Strength coaches are no longer confused with upmarket buses that go to Croke Park and, in an age where there is a growing

consensus that you are what you eat, there is an ever increasing focus on nutrition. PJ Cunningham explores the role of

UCD’s Elite Academy.


has to seek out its talent and develop it

systematically.


UCD and sport have

been synonymous

for many decades,

but particularly

from the time the

University relocated

to Belfield over 40 years ago. Since then,

if it wasn’t Eugene McGee blazing a trail

winning Sigerson Cups in the 1970s, it

was his soccer counterpart, the late Dr

Tony O’Neill, getting the UCD team to

punch way above its weight in the League

of Ireland (even winning an FAI Cup )

or on the rugby front, a legion of names

including the late Mick Doyle, playing and

coaching Ireland, and bringing credit by

association to the University.

That has been UCD’s gift to Irish sport.

The University prides itself on spreading

sport to as wide a student body as possible

and it has always placed an emphasis on

recreation as well as having a great elite

athlete tradition.

Professor Colin Boreham, Director of

the UCD Institute for Sport and Health,

arrived first in our consciousness in the

back-room team of a former Ireland

rugby coach called Jimmy Davidson. In

the sporting culture of the late 1980s,

where planning on the hoof was about

as much as Ireland could aspire to,

Davidson’s preaching of scientific analysis

and statistical evidence drew the wry

comment: “That’s all right in practice,

now let’s see how it will work in theory.”

As events would unfold, it became

clear that the late Ulsterman suffered from

Martin Peters syndrome – he was indeed

ten years ahead of his time.

Boreham also knew there was a

reason other than ethnicity why Ireland

would indeed give it a lash against the All

Blacks or France or South Africa for 60

minutes before being overrun in the final

20 minutes. Over the last decade or so it

became increasingly clear that success

at elite sport level could no longer be a

hostage to the vicissitudes of fortune.

Furthermore, there was a growing

acceptance that general planning had to

be supplemented by rigorous, systematic

science, as in medicine, or many other

areas of life.


has to seek out its talent, engage it and

develop it much more systematically than

countries such as the US, where the high

school and college network is so vast, it

is only a matter of time before the cream

rises to the top. Australia was one of the

first nations to follow the systematic

approach and the results are there for all to

see. The UK is also catching up fast on a

number of levels.

“I would say one of the critical

moments in the development of Irish

sport came with the professionalisation

of rugby in the mid-1990s,” explains

Professor Boreham. “Rugby is a big game

in Ireland and the rugby authorities

simply had to adapt or die. There was

no choice. So they had to catch up with

the Australians, the All Blacks, the

South Africans who had been using this

approach through the amateur years.”

To their credit, the IRFU saw what

was needed and provided the framework

to allow the sport here to catch up. The

effective way they did it is testament to

the fact that any society can undertake

such improvement. There’s nothing

special about New Zealand; it’s the proper

approach that counts.

As it happened, there was a confluence

in UCD which expedited the birth of the

Elite Athlete Academy. The University

started a BSc undergraduate programme

in Health and Performance Science and

around the same time set up an Institute

for Sport and Health, with Professor

Boreham appointed as its director.

The Institute has three main

programmes with an emphasis on

research into health, exercise and

sporting performance. It also majors in

teaching and helping undergraduates

who have access to the laboratories and

gym facilities. The other area – service

provision – includes the development

of elite programmes, the monitoring

of performance and the generation of

excellence within the University setting.

Nurturing and developing talent

is good for the University but also for

wider Irish society. With the setting up

of the BSc programme and the Institute

for Sport and Health, the Elite Athlete

Academy was born. Universities play

a critical role in incubating sporting

talent. Probably half or more of our

Olympians are in third-level education so

by definition, third-level education must

have a part to play in elite sport.

The years between 18 and 22 are

critical in the transition from junior to

senior elite. Students enter university

at 18 having represented their country

at junior level, but the step-up to senior

level can be very challenging – the

university years are when that takes

place. The Elite Athlete Academy plays a

vital role during that particular period of

an athlete’s development.

Why ElitE AcAdEmy Works?

The average undergraduate attending

University is out of his or her normal

environment and comfort zone. Arriving

into a much bigger pond can be quite a

challenge for them.

For the first time, life is experienced

away from the cocoon of home. Often the

students are away from their coach and the

support systems that have been in place.

The Elite Athlete Academy is an attempt

to soften that transition and to provide

back-up across a range of important areas

| sport || sport |

era of the eliteTime was when the terms “Corinthian Spirit” and “give it a lash”

largely defined Ireland’s approach to sporting glory. We grew up with haphazard systems which took whatever talent was available, trained it and called it “Celtic Passion”. Nowadays, even the most amateur

of GAA junior teams understands the requirements of scientific preparation. Strength coaches are no longer confused with upmarket buses that go to Croke Park and, in an age where there is a growing

consensus that you are what you eat, there is an ever increasing focus on nutrition. PJ Cunningham explores the role of

UCD’s Elite Academy.


has to seek out its talent and develop it

systematically.

| SPORT |


to benefit their sporting goals.

Chief of these is the availability of

practical financial assistance where living

on campus for the first year is an advised

option. Some of the University’s elite

names get up at 5.30am, train for five or

six hours a day, must get to swimming

pools or other practice areas and literally

don’t have either the time or the energy to

cook or shop for themselves. There is also

study to be considered – and UCD puts

huge emphasis on the academic side of

life too.

There is an acknowledgement that

athletes have to sacrifice a significant

amount of time to their sport and the

University allows a small concession

in terms of CAO points. This is to give

them a little buffer in recognition of the

time spent training and competing. Yet it

is worth stressing that the vast majority

of athletes do not need that concession

because they are already very goal-

orientated, disciplined and good at time

management.

Supplying an academic mentor

to help balance students’ academic

and sporting lives is key. It can mean

anything from getting a little bit of extra

tuition if necessary to facilitating exams

and assessments if they clash with a

particularly important competition or

schedule.

This is a critical part of the scheme

because the demands on young

sportspeople now are considerable. A

Leinster Academy and Ireland U-20

rugby player could be absent for long

stretches on Six Nations duty when

training camps beforehand are factored

in. The rugby authorities understandably

are limited in what they can do because

they have to slot it in to a strict schedule,

which puts the onus on the University

to facilitate students so that they are not

disadvantaged.

Other major areas of support are

nutritional advice and monitoring, which

are very important.

The Academy also provides

physiological testing and monitoring of

fitness on a regular basis in the state-of-

the-art human-performance laboratory.

Hand in hand with that is the access to a

high-performance gymnasium staffed by

well-experienced and qualified strength

and conditioning coaches. When these

are underpinned with a top level sports

medicine back-up, including a sports

psychologist, it is a package which caters

for the A-Z of the modern performer.

The Elite Athlete Academy is part of

a wider fourth-level education scheme

within the University called the Ad Astra

programme, established to offer unique

opportunities and support to highly

talented students. Through membership

of the Academy, students displaying elite

potential in academic pursuits, sports

or performing arts will be encouraged

to further develop their talents. Eligible

students will join the Academy on

acceptance of a place on a UCD

undergraduate programme, but there

will also be opportunities for outstanding

students to join the Academy as they

progress through their studies.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

Students who are competing at the

highest level in their sport and who

have identifiable potential for further

improvement are eligible. The following

minimum standards of entry are required.

ATHLETICS: Junior international

representation.

RUGBY: Age grade international and/or

provincial representation.

SOCCER: Junior international

representation/attached to an academy.

GAA: Normally county minor level and

capable of competing at a higher age level.

HOCKEY: Junior international

representation.

ROWING: Junior international

representation.

OTHERS: As defined by the recognised

sporting body.

WHO’S WHO IN THE ACADEMY

There are three Ireland U-20 rugby

players in the Academy. Athlete

David Campbell is hoping to get to

the Olympics next year in the 800

metres event. Three of the lady hockey

players in the national squad are in

Olympic preparation. The Gaelic intake

contains intercounty players only with

Laois star John O’Loughlin the most

recognised name on that list. The

one modern pentathlete in the stable

is Arthur Lanigan-O’Keeffe who is

training hard in the hope of making it

to next year’s Olympics. The Academy

contains two international rowers,

both of whom have already rowed

at the world championships. There

is genuine hope that one will get to

London in 2012.

ROWING - Claire Lambe

RUGBY James Tracey

HURLING Joseph Lyng

UCD ELITE ATHLETE ACADEMY

2010: back row, from left, Niamh Atcheler,

Chloe Watkins and Brenda Flannery; middle

row, from left, Sean Jacob, Arthur Lanigan-

O’Keeffe, John O’Loughlin, Robert Hynes,

Luke Chadwick and David Campbell; and

front row, from left, Matthew O’Hanlon, Sam

Coughlan Murray, Eoin Joyce, Robert Hynes

and David Doyle.

Elite.indd 58 16/08/2011 12:25

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to benefit their sporting goals.

Chief of these is the availability of

practical financial assistance where living

on campus for the first year is an advised

option. Some of the University’s elite

names get up at 5.30am, train for five or

six hours a day, must get to swimming

pools or other practice areas and literally

don’t have either the time or the energy to

cook or shop for themselves. There is also

study to be considered – and UCD puts

huge emphasis on the academic side of

life too.

There is an acknowledgement that

athletes have to sacrifice a significant

amount of time to their sport and the

University allows a small concession

in terms of CAO points. This is to give

them a little buffer in recognition of the

time spent training and competing. Yet it

is worth stressing that the vast majority

of athletes do not need that concession

because they are already very goal-

orientated, disciplined and good at time

management.

Supplying an academic mentor

to help balance students’ academic

and sporting lives is key. It can mean

anything from getting a little bit of extra

tuition if necessary to facilitating exams

and assessments if they clash with a

particularly important competition or

schedule.

This is a critical part of the scheme

because the demands on young

sportspeople now are considerable. A

Leinster Academy and Ireland U-20

rugby player could be absent for long

stretches on Six Nations duty when

training camps beforehand are factored

in. The rugby authorities understandably

are limited in what they can do because

they have to slot it in to a strict schedule,

which puts the onus on the University

to facilitate students so that they are not

disadvantaged.

Other major areas of support are

nutritional advice and monitoring, which

are very important.

The Academy also provides

physiological testing and monitoring of

fitness on a regular basis in the state-of-

the-art human-performance laboratory.

Hand in hand with that is the access to a

high-performance gymnasium staffed by

well-experienced and qualified strength

and conditioning coaches. When these

are underpinned with a top level sports

medicine back-up, including a sports

psychologist, it is a package which caters

for the A-Z of the modern performer.

The Elite Athlete Academy is part of

a wider fourth-level education scheme

within the University called the Ad Astra

programme, established to offer unique

opportunities and support to highly

talented students. Through membership

of the Academy, students displaying elite

potential in academic pursuits, sports

or performing arts will be encouraged

to further develop their talents. Eligible

students will join the Academy on

acceptance of a place on a UCD

undergraduate programme, but there

will also be opportunities for outstanding

students to join the Academy as they

progress through their studies.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

Students who are competing at the

highest level in their sport and who

have identifiable potential for further

improvement are eligible. The following

minimum standards of entry are required.

ATHLETICS: Junior international

representation.

RUGBY: Age grade international and/or

provincial representation.

SOCCER: Junior international

representation/attached to an academy.

GAA: Normally county minor level and

capable of competing at a higher age level.

HOCKEY: Junior international

representation.

ROWING: Junior international

representation.

OTHERS: As defined by the recognised

sporting body.

WHO’S WHO IN THE ACADEMY

There are three Ireland U-20 rugby

players in the Academy. Athlete

David Campbell is hoping to get to

the Olympics next year in the 800

metres event. Three of the lady hockey

players in the national squad are in

Olympic preparation. The Gaelic intake

contains intercounty players only with

Laois star John O’Loughlin the most

recognised name on that list. The

one modern pentathlete in the stable

is Arthur Lanigan-O’Keeffe who is

training hard in the hope of making it

to next year’s Olympics. The Academy

contains two international rowers,

both of whom have already rowed

at the world championships. There

is genuine hope that one will get to

London in 2012.

ROWING - Claire Lambe

RUGBY James Tracey

HURLING Joseph Lyng

UCD ELITE ATHLETE ACADEMY

2010: back row, from left, Niamh Atcheler,

Chloe Watkins and Brenda Flannery; middle

row, from left, Sean Jacob, Arthur Lanigan-

O’Keeffe, John O’Loughlin, Robert Hynes,

Luke Chadwick and David Campbell; and

front row, from left, Matthew O’Hanlon, Sam

Coughlan Murray, Eoin Joyce, Robert Hynes

and David Doyle.

Elite.indd 58 16/08/2011 12:25

UCD’s Centre of

exCellenCe opens its doors

to rugby’s elite this autumn as the

Heineken Cup champions leinster

write a new game plan which brings

sport, science and learning into the

one set scrum. Brian o’Driscoll,

Jonathan sexton, Jamie Heaslip,

rob Kearney et al turn up on

campus this season as part of their

daily work routine.

It’s a mix that works on several

levels for both sides. “Just having the

presence of those great players on

campus, training, mixing … I think

it’s going to add a tremendous buzz

to the campus, ” explains Director

of UCD’s Institute for sport and

Health, Professor Colin Boreham.

the University is very keen that

this isn’t merely a case of a major

team parachuting in and using the

facilities and not interacting in other

ways with the University. the good

news is that leinster are very keen that

doesn’t happen either.

Already there are a lot of synergies

between the University and leinster. for

example, UCD runs a series of educational

programmes which are very suitable for

athletes in general, and rugby players

in particular. there is even an Msc

programme in rugby Management.

since the professional era was

ushered in over 15 years ago, there was a

fairly instant dawning that rugby players

would need two careers – during their

time on the pitch and life after they hang

up their boots.

Unlike big-league soccer, the level of

wages and other earning possibilities via

sponsorship doesn’t stretch far enough.

You only get one Brian o’Driscoll

every generation, meaning that for the

overwhelming majority of players, it is

important to keep one eye on the ball and

one eye on life after the final whistle is

blown on their career.

It is to leinster’s credit that it has

prioritised longer term player welfare.

Becoming part of an educational

establishment with a strong sporting

component gives players the opportunity

to engage with degree programmes in a

flexible way.

It could be that a player wants to do

as little as one module a year, but at the

end of the five or six years, that would be

one year of their degree out of the way, if

they are doing an undergraduate degree.

Players can cut their academic cloth to

suit their particular measure and then at

the end of their playing careers, top up

or indeed enhance their studies to degree

level and beyond.

on a more hands-on basis, the sports

science side at UCD can be of great benefit

in providing facilities to test players on a

regular basis in the human performance

laboratory. there are plans to expand that

range of services to them.

they say that the hardest thing in

sport is not reaching the top, but staying

there. that’s where leinster are now

and people in UCD like Professor

Boreham want to ensure they

maintain their status as kingpins by

keeping ahead of the game.

Increasingly that means a

more sophisticated, science-based

approach, not just to training but to

monitoring of training, monitoring

of performance, nutrition, sports

psychology, facilities and so on.

research is something which is at the

core of any university programme but

this is an area where leinster would

have no expertise. leinster’s goal is to

win games; UCD’s research will aim

to help them on that score.

“All of these things have to be

brought together in an integrated

way,” says Professor Boreham. “We

plan to play our part with leinster

because we can provide some of the

bits of the jigsaw that they can’t,” he

emphasises.

leinster in turn will show

the hundreds of athletes from the

various sports in Belfield an example of

preparation and dedication that will be

like a daily class in observation. A case of,

if you want to get to the top of your own

sport, this is what Jonathan sexton and

his teammates do.

sexton studied at UCD as a regular

undergraduate before the notion of “elite”

status became operational. He knows the

two sides of study and sport and would

have a huge wealth of knowledge to

deliver to those wanting to get to the top.

It would be wrong, though, to think

that the Centre of excellence is just

an oval ball thing. the Irish Hockey

Association is also based on campus,

and the University plays a central part in

their olympic preparation programme

by providing sports science support and

gym facilities for them. UCD also works

with Ireland’s modern pentathlon team

and triathlon Ireland. there are already

many governing bodies based at UCD but

leinster brings the wow factor. n


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CENTRE ofEXCELLENCE

Internationally recognised researchers and practitioners, a world class human performance

laboratory and exceptional training facilities draw Leinster

rugby to the campus this season. PJ Cunningham reports.

RE-CONNECTIONSWhether it’s four years or 40 since you graduated, fi nd out what your fellow classmates are up to. Our thanks to all who submitted details, some of which are reproduced here. For more, see www.ucd.ie/alumni.


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Emma Ross, BSocSc 2004.

John Jennings, BA 1999 HDip EqualSt 2001.

James McBennettBSc Architecture 2007.

Grainne BarronMBA 2007.

Naboth NamaraHDip Remedial and Special Education, 2002 MA Women’s Studies, 2004.

Martin Colreavy, MSc Urban Design 2004.

2000s

Alan KeatingBBLS 2001, LLM 2002.

Emma Ross, BSocSc 2004.

VISITwww.ucd.ie/alumni

to RE-CONNECTwith more classmates

2000s EMMA ROSS

BSocSc 2004

The All Island Institute for Hospice

and Palliative Care is an all-island

organisation comprising a consortium

of hospices and universities, all working

to improve the experience of palliative

and end-of-life care by developing

knowledge, promoting learning, and

influencing and shaping policy. “I have

been appointed as communications

and information officer for the newly

established AIIHPC, where I will be

responsible for developing its profile

and establishing a press office function,

as well as shaping the communications

strategy. I will also be responsible for

the ongoing communication between

the AIIHPC and its key stakeholders.

I have over six years’ experience in

the PR and communications industry,

and prior to my appointment with

the AIIHPC, I was a senior account

manager at Bespoke with Direction.”

BARRY WHELAN

MBS 1998, MSc 2010

Associate Partner with IBM Global

Business Services. “My role involves

business development and programme

delivery leadership of IBM’s services

and solutions across the travel and

transport, retail, consumer packaged

goods and pharma industries.

Prior to this, I was service

line leader with IBM Ireland’s

Application Innovation Services.”

MARTIN COLREAVYMSc Urban Design 2004

Chief Architectural Advisor for the

Department of Arts, Heritage and

the Gaeltacht, and the co-chair of the

Government Policy on Architecture

Committee (GPAAC). “Following

new departmental structures agreed

by Government in March of this year,

built heritage and architectural policy

functions have now been transferred

into a new department under Mr Jimmy

Deenihan TD, who is Minister for

Conor Magee, BE 1984, MBA 2000.

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Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. It is

anticipated that he will further advance

the objectives and strategies within the

policy in tandem with the GPAAC.”

DESMOND GIBNEYMBA 2007

“I am currently taking a PhD at

Manchester Business School in the

University of Manchester on the topic

of public sector budgeting. I was

runner-up in the Irish Accounting &

Finance Association Doctoral Funding

Competition for 2011, which was held as

part of the IAFA Annual Conference in

UCC. In June 2011, I presented a paper

at the ENROAC Conference in Lisbon.”

KAYAWE NKUMBWAHDip DevStudies 2000, MDevStudies 2002

“After graduating from UCD, I worked

as regional coordinator for the EC-

Microprojects Programme in Zambia.

When the project was phased out in

2004, I took up an appointment at

the University of Zambia as strategic

planning manager under the vice-

chancellor’s office. I live in Kaoma

in the western part of the country. I

recently graduated from the University

of South Africa with an honours

degree in development studies. I plan

to pursue a PhD in this subject.”

CONOR MAGEEBE 1984, MBA 2000

Recently promoted to Managing

Director at Cargotec China, which

is based in Shanghai. “I previously

worked as plant director of Cargotec

at Moffett Engineering in Dundalk.”

NABOTH NAMARAHDip Remedial and Special Education

2002, MA Women’s Studies 2004

“I graduated with a PhD in gender

and education from the University of

Limerick in January 2011. I am currently

the director of a research unit at Kabale

University in south-west Uganda.”

JENNIFER SULLIVANBA 2005, MLitt 2007

“I received a PhD in Linguistics from

the University of Edinburgh in June

2011. I am now working as a lecturer and

consultant in linguistics and transferable

skills. I am extremely grateful to the

NUI for awarding me a Travelling

Studentship to fund my PhD studies.”

GAVAN REILLYBComm 2009

“Since graduation I have moved into the

field of journalism, first as full-time deputy

editor of The University Observer and more

recently as a senior writer at TheJournal.

ie, an online publication specialising in

breaking news from Ireland and abroad

in current affairs, business and sport.”

ANDREW O’BRIENBA 2000, HDip EntrepS 2001

“I recently accepted a position as sales

director at Little Dish, which is located

in London. Little Dish is embarking on

the challenge of doubling its business

over the next two years. The high-quality

product, which I have been using every

day for my two-year-old, has huge

potential to support working parents

in giving their children variety in their

evening meals. Little Dish is available in

Superquinn and Tesco in Ireland, but we

are looking to expand its presence. The

company was started by John Stapleton,

who got his BSc from UCD in 1986.”

PETER FRANCEVMA 2001

“2010 to 2011 has been another busy

academic year. I continue to research

and publish journal and book articles on

Lord Byron and Camus. I have assumed

the general editorship of the Journal of

Camus Studies, as well as the presidency

of the Albert Camus Society of

the US, and I am waiting on PhD

research confirmation. In addition to

academia, I enjoy spending time with

my family, and I will be travelling to

Europe for a conference and holiday

in the fall and winter, respectively.”

JAMES MC BENNETTBSc Architecture 2007

“I recently spoke at the TED Full Spectrum

event in New York. I presented my project

on digitally printed bricks, proposing

evolving the regular construction brick

from six sides to 60. The talk was well

received, and director of TED, Chris

Anderson, asked me to apply for a

prestigious TED fellowship. I am also

preparing to swim the English Channel

this summer, and have recently completed

the NYC swim in the Hudson River.”

GRAINNE BARRONMBA 2007

Foxframe went head-to-head with other

shortlisted companies to secure the title

of Best Investment Proposal for 2011 and

a prize of d10,000 at the 2011 Docklands

Innovation Park Enterprise Awards.

“I am a media industry professional

with more than 15 years’ experience in

traditional video advertising, production

and digital media coupled with sales

management expertise and I am the

founder of Foxframe. Foxframe enables

businesses worldwide to create their own

professional video ads online using its

Content-as-a-Service (CaaS) software

application, which automates the entire

video production and distribution

process. Foxframe is currently part of the

Bolton Trust Incubator Programme.”

www.foxframe.com

NIAMH MULHOLLANDBBLS 2006

“I am taking a senior leadership role in

the Rotary International organisation in

Ireland this year. It is a voluntary position

and I will be one of the youngest ever

holders of this office. Our motto in Rotary


is ‘Service Above Self ’ and our core focus

is to use our abilities and skills to assist

those less fortunate locally, nationally and

internationally. As an organisation we

run several educational programmes; our

flagship in this regard is the Ambassadorial

Scholarship, which grants an Irish student

circa $26,000 to study abroad (usually

at masters level). We welcome and host

scholars from abroad to study at our 3rd

level institutions. We currently have a

scholar on the MBA programme in The

UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.”

JOHN JENNINGSBA 1999, HDip EqualSt 2001

“Since my last update, I have been

making more movies and writing. I

am now a published haiku writer. I

have had haiku published in Galway

Xposed, Old Moore’s Almanac and Ropes

2011, a postgraduate review of English

studies. I have also set up an online

haiku magazine called Haiku J.”

www.haikuj.blogspot.com

1990s IAN GRAHAM MA Film Studies 1994

Film and television director. “I have

directed four documentaries about James

Joyce for RTÉ, which have been screened

at film festivals throughout the world.

Other films include Conscience of A City

about the Irish writer James Plunkett,

and The Troubled Dean on the subject of

Jonathan Swift. I have received a number

of Arts Council awards and a Gregory Peck

Scholar Award. I was involved in various

arts initiatives in connection with Dublin:

One City, One Book in 2009, and several

of my films on Irish literary subjects were

screened at 2010 Bloomsday events.

Following on from my previous writing

and academic research on the subject,

I have written a biography of Dublin-

born Herbert Brenon, one of the leading

creative forces in early American cinema.”

[email protected]

PAUL PRENDERGASTBA 1992

“After several years of

working in London and

the Far East, I got myself

together and took off

to Flanders to follow a

long-standing ambition

of working towards

an MA in European

studies at Leuven.”

MARY BRENNANBE 1998

“I have recently been awarded my

PhD by Newcastle University. On

completion of my degree at UCD, I

moved to Newcastle and have been

there ever since. I am currently a senior

lecturer in food marketing, and I am

looking forward to a number of new

challenges now the PhD is finished,

including directing a food marketing

and nutrition degree programme. I am

also looking forward to spending more

time with the friends and family who

have supported me over the last eight

years while I was working on the PhD.”

GILLIAN DOHERTYBA German, Linguistics 1995

“I have been appointed director of

education for Accounting Technicians

Ireland, the professional body for

accounting technicians. I will have

responsibility for the development and

implementation of the educational strategy

for the professional body. The organisation

represents over 10,000 people working

in accounting and finance roles on an

all-island basis and currently has 5,000

students and its syllabus is taught in over

80 colleges nationwide. I was previously

the director of professional services with

the Insurance Institute of Ireland, where

I worked for ten years. I was a founding

member of the Professional Standards

Advisory Board, and I am a member

of the Institute of

Directors in Ireland.”

IRENE O’GORMANBA 1989, DBS 1990, MBS 1997

“I am director of marketing and business

development in Deloitte. Deloitte won

the award for best student marketing

campaign at the gradireland Graduate

Recruitment Awards 2011. The firm was

also announced as Ireland’s most popular

graduate recruiter. We are truly delighted

to be recognised at these important

awards. Deloitte is extremely committed

to its graduate recruitment programme

and we recognise its importance to our

own future success and to that of the Irish

economy. Recruitment of top performing

graduates remains highly competitive

among professional service firms.”

PETER MATHEWS BComm 1972, MBA 1995

TD Dublin South. “I have decades of

experience in business, accounting and

finance. I am a chartered accountant and

a member of the Institute of Taxation

Ireland. As a new face in politics, I believe

it is time for people who have the necessary

ability and integrity to step forward and

help clean up the mess in our political

institutions and economy. For the last few

years, I have challenged the government’s

reckless banking and economic policies.

I am one of the very few individuals who

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Colma BrioscúBA 1980.

Irene O’GormanBA 1989, DBS 1990, MBS 1997.

Gillian DohertyBA German,

Linguistics 1995.

Ian Graham, MA Film Studies 1994.

1990s


analysed the crises

correctly and got

the figures right as

far back as 2008. I

have made many

appearances on

Vincent Browne

and Prime Time. I

have also written in

national newspapers,

and have contributed

to the International

Herald Tribune, New York Times and Wall

Street Journal. My advice and analysis

on the Irish economy and banking

system has been sought internationally

by numerous organisations.”

www.petermathewsfg.ie

DARRAGH KELLYBA English History 1994

“I live in Tulsk, Co Roscommon, and am

the Fine Gael north-western regional

organiser with responsibility for the

management of six Dáil constituencies

on behalf of the party. Since June 2003,

I have helped to revitalise the fortunes

of Fine Gael. It now stands as the

largest political party in the state. After

graduation, I worked for the Longford

News newspaper for three years before

moving to Shannonside Radio in 1998,

working as a broadcast journalist. I

recently helped organise the centenary

celebrations of Tulsk National School.

I enjoy a day’s horse racing and am a

regular theatre- and concert-goer. I am

a travel enthusiast, and have visited

many of the capitals of central and

eastern Europe, where I enjoy sampling

the local history and architecture.”

1980s THOMAS G TREANORB Comm 1978, DipPrAcc 1980

“Uniting the areas of communication and

organisation have been my main interests

since graduation and I have written several

software and cloud-based solutions. I

am currently setting up Zen Telecom as

I would like to bring business-quality

VoIP and hosted PBX to a wider market.

I also run eClubOrg, which manages

sporting clubs, aids communication and

collects the members’ subscriptions all

from one source that can be controlled

by the designated committee. Lately I

have been accepted to the Enterprise

Ireland Mentor program and would like

to share any useful knowledge I have

gained with others. I keep in contact

with UCD and while all three of my

children were there in 2010, trips to

Belfield for football or lectures were

once again part of my daily routine.”

www.ecluborg.ie

COLMA BRIOSCÚ BA 1980

“After graduating with a BA in Music and

Irish, I was awarded a French Government

scholarship to study pianoforte at École

Normale de Musique de Paris. After

winning second prize in Concours

International des Femmes Artistes

Musiciennes, I continued performing and

have given many recitals in the National

Concert Hall over the past 25 years. I have

fond memories of travelling to Belfield on

the number 10 bus, and meeting students

from all faculties. I sang in the UCD

choir under Professor Anthony Hughes.

Dublin. I frequently travel with the

National Concert Hall on cultural tours.

This year we are going to New York.”

MYRA GARRETBCL 1984

“I was formally elected to the board of

the Institute of Directors in Ireland.

I have held the position of managing

partner of William Fry, one of Ireland’s

leading corporate law firms, since 2008.

I have over 20 years’ experience as a

corporate lawyer, advising Irish and

international companies and their boards

on corporate finance projects, corporate

governance and general compliance. I am

a director of the Road Safety Authority

and a number of private companies.”

SUSAN TOWERSBA 1987

“In 2010, I co-founded a business called

OMHU (Danish for ‘with great care’) that

is bringing style and design to products

for seniors. OMHU was just named one

of Entrepreneur magazine’s 100 Brilliant

Companies, and the OMHU walking cane

recently won a prestigious iF product

design award. OMHU is on sale at the

Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, as well

as online at www.omhu.com and in select

international locations. We are about to

launch a new round of funding and the

challenges are many, but it’s never dull.”

JOHN MC NEIL SCOTTBA 1987

“After many years without contact

with UCD, I am now co-operating

on a project with the John Hume

Institute, and preparing a conference

on comparative area studies with a

focus on Ireland and Taiwan.”

www.irelandtaiwanproject.net

www.johnmcneilscott.com

SEAN MC CORMACKMB BCh BAO 1986, DipChildHealth 1989

“I have been a GP in Wales for 20 years,

but am also an ultra-distance runner,

having made my international debut in

2010 in the Anglo-Celtic Plate (100k)

in Boddington. I took over an hour off

my time in the equivalent fixture in

Perth in March this year. I have been

selected for the Welsh team for the

Commonwealth Mountain and Ultra-

distance Championships in September.”

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Colma BrioscúBA 1980.

Darragh KellyBA English History 1994.

Thomas G TreanorBComm 1978, DipPrAcc 1980

1980s


1970s TERENCE O’ROURKEBComm 1975

Now Managing Partner of KPMG,

“I have spent 30 years with the firm,

including two years in Boston, and am

part of KPMG’s Global Executive Team.”

Dublin Contemporary 2011, Ireland’s

first major international contemporary

art event, takes place from September 6

until the end of October. The exhibition,

co-sponsored by KPMG, will have as its

base the old UCD building at Earlsfort

Terrace and will feature emerging and

established Irish and international

artists. As education sponsor of Dublin

Contemporary, KPMG is proud of the

fact that its support helps make art more

accessible. An event on the scale of

DC sends out a positive message about

Dublin as a vibrant, exciting city. As a

UCD graduate, I hope visitors get as

much enjoyment from the event and its

location as we will from supporting it.”

www.dublincontemporary.ie

NIGEL MC DONAGHBComm 1975

“I have worked in finance, corporate

treasury, and compliance and regulatory

roles with a number of well-known

corporate and banking institutions. I

am currently chief compliance officer of

Wells Fargo Bank International in the

IFSC, Dublin. I am a qualified certified

public accountant and a member

of the Association of Compliance

Officers in Ireland. I have been out

of the graduate loop for a while now,

but I will keep an eye out for any 1975

reunions and would be delighted to hear

from any 1975 BComm graduates.”

JOHN MARTIN DWYERBA 1971

“After selling Dwyer’s Restaurant

in Waterford, I recently bought Le

Presbytère, Chambre et Table d’Hôte,

which is located in Thézan les Béziers,

Languedoc, 34490, France. Síle

Ronayne (also BA 1971) and I are at

last fulfilling our dream of living and

working in the south of France.”

TOM BYRNEBComm 1971

“I have been appointed to the position of

president of the Institute of Directors in

Ireland and will serve a two-year term.

I am a chartered director and chartered

accountant, and was elected to the

board of the Institute of Directors in

Ireland in June 2010 and subsequently

took up the role of vice-president. I

am on the board of the Irish Takeover

Panel and am a non-executive director

of a number of both quoted and private

companies. In the midst of what is a

tremendously difficult period in Irish

business, I firmly believe that directors

have a meaningful and significant

leadership role to play in our country’s

recovery, and so I am honoured to

have been appointed as president of

the Institute of Directors in Ireland.

Directors can provide that leadership

by demonstrating a robust commitment

to the highest professional and ethical

standards and by fostering a culture

of honesty, integrity and transparency

within their organisations. If we are

to rebuild confidence, then the tone of

behaviour must be set from the top.”

ITA GIBNEY

BA 1974

“Following my graduation from UCD,

I completed an MA in English at

McMaster University in Canada having

secured a teaching assistantship there.

Two years later I won a scholarship to

study for an MSc in communications

as Ireland’s John F Kennedy Scholar

at Boston University. On completion,

I returned to Dublin to work in a PR

agency and in house at Greencore

PLC. In 1995, I founded Gibney

Communications, an independent

public relations firm that I continue to

lead as managing director, supported by

the newly appointed deputy managing

director, Donnchadh O’Neill. The

agency – which recently marked its

15th year serving clients in Ireland

– is a niche, senior-led firm, with a

15-strong team specialising in corporate

and financial PR. I was formally

elected to the board of the Institute

of Directors in Ireland this year.”

PJ RUDDENBE 1975

“I was recently elected president of

Engineers Ireland. We represent

some 24,000 engineers in Ireland and

worldwide in all fields of engineering.

My ‘day job’ is group business director

for RPS in Ireland, who are leading

planning, engineering, environmental

and communications consultants. I

won the UCD Engineering Graduates

Association Inaugural Distinguished

Graduate Award in 2003 for public

communications on national and

regional waste management.”

1960s EDWARD G ABINADERMB BCh, BAO 1962

“I was a medical graduate in 1962,

a MRCPI in 1965 and later became

a fellow of the Royal College of


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JohnP Byrne

Patrick QuinnBArch 1954.

Maria HayesBA 1951.

Tom ByrneBComm 1971.

Con Power, BComm 1963, MEconSc 1965.

1970s

1960s

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Physicians. I established and directed the

department of cardiology in Haifa, Israel

and became professor of cardiology at

the Technion University. I married my

dear Claude from Bethlehem in 1970,

and am blessed with three children and

five grandchildren. I have published

hundreds of articles in the field of

cardiology, but I always remember and

thank UCD and the great teachers, such

as DK O’Donovan, Harry Counihan and

the Fitzgerald brothers, and many others

at St Vincent and Richmond hospitals.

I have lectured at conferences all over

the world but my love for the Emerald

Isle tops the list. Fellow students such

as Martin Carey, Cumin Doyle, Michael

O’Gorman, Seamus O’Friel and many

others are in my memory bank and I

have managed to contact some. I would

love to contact any of the old classmates.”

CORNELIUS POWERBComm 1963, MEconSc 1965

“After being a member of the regulatory

and disciplinary panel of the Association

of Chartered Certified Accountants

(ACCA) for ten years, I was appointed

deputy chairman in March 2011. I will be

chairman of the worldwide disciplinary

committee from January 2012. ACCA has

147,000 qualified members and 424,000

registered students in 170 countries,

and operates internationally through

83 offices and centres. I received an

MA in religion and culture (ethics for

professionals) from Mater Dei Institute,

Dublin City University on November

25, 2010. First Class Honours!”

YACKOOB KASSIM SEEDATMB BCh BAO 1957 MD 1967

“I was a professor and head of medicine at

the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South

Africa from 1978 to 1994. I won the South

African Medical Association Merit Award

for extraordinary service in medicine

in September 2007. I have published

hundreds of articles and presented

papers at national and international

conferences. In my spare time, I enjoy

walking, music, travelling and writing.”

[email protected]

1950s HANNAH O’CONNELLBComm 1955 MEconSc 1956

“I have been granted a 2011 Emerald Literati

Outstanding Paper Award for Excellence.”

PATRICK QUINNBArch 1954

“I am editing the modern Christian

section of Cambridge University Press’

World History of Religious Architecture.

I am also planning two panels of

artists and theologians for the 50th

anniversary celebration of the Society

for Arts, Religion and Contemporary

Culture, which was founded by Alfred

Barr (curator at MOMA) and M

Halverson (professor of theology at

Harvard) in 1951. I recently competed

in the 1,650-yard freestyle at the

New England Masters Swimming

Championship in the 80-plus age group.”

JAMES FLANAGANBE 1951

“I would like to pay tribute to Professor

Freddie Lewis, who was at the

engineering school when I was there

from 1947 to 1951. He taught descriptive

geometry and three-dimensional

geometry. In 1964 I was working for

a company in Los Angeles that got

the contract to design the launch

platform for the Saturn V rocket,

which brought the astronauts to the

moon in 1968. I was one of several

lead civil engineers in the company.

An American graduate was assigned as

lead civil on the Saturn V project, but

the complexity of designing the routing

of all the services to the rocket with

exacting clearance criteria proved to

be impossible for him, even when we

built a model. By default I was made

the lead civil, as there wasn’t actually a

rush for the job. Based on the grounding

I got at UCD from Freddie Lewis, an

excellent teacher, I was able to work it

out because of the three-dimensional

geometry he taught me so well.”

MARIE HAYESBA 1951

“I would like to express my gratitude

to UCD for its part in launching me on

the road of life many years ago. I have

many happy memories of my years in

Earlsfort Terrace. English and history

were my subjects. At times the schedule

and the work were demanding, but

our professors were supportive and

encouraging. Dr TP Dunning, Professor

Hogan, Professor Denis Donoghue

and Dr Joshua Reynolds are some

of those that come to mind from the

English department, while Professor

Williams, Dudley Edwards and Mr

Nolan are a few of those I credit with

giving me a love of history. Shortly

after graduation, I was sent to teach in

Rhode Island, USA. While in America,

I attended Boston College, obtaining

an MA degree in 1967. The late 1960s

found me back in my native Limerick.

As well as teaching there, I studied in

UCC for the HDipEd. I am, of course,

retired now for quite some time. The

writings of John Henry Newman always

inspired me and one of my great delights

was to witness his beatification last

September. I am sure he would be proud

of the illustrious University that has

grown from the tiny seed he planted.”

HAROLD NAYLOR SJBSc 1956

“I have spent some time writing my

memoirs of my days at the College

of Science, Merrion Place, where I

spent three happy years, graduating

in natural history (botany, geology

and zoology). I have been in Hong

Kong since 1960 as an Irish Jesuit,

and am a Form Three teacher.”



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Matheson Ormsby Prentice ALAN KEATINGBBLS 2001, LLM 2002

Alan Keating was recently promoted to

US resident counsel at Matheson Ormsby

Prentice, and relocated to the group’s New

York office in June 2011. He is a senior

associate in the firm’s tax department and

a member of the firm’s structured finance

and derivatives group and the inward

investment group. He advises international

corporations who are doing business in

Ireland on all aspects of corporate tax.

STANLEY WATSONBCL 1984

Stanley Watson is a partner at Matheson

Ormbsy Prentice and is head of the firm’s

London office. He advises on mergers and

acquisitions, venture capital, management

buyouts and transactions for private and

public limited companies. He is recognised

as a leading lawyer by the international

legal directory PLC Which Lawyer.

JOHN RYANBAgrSc 1987

John Ryan is head of Matheson Ormsby

Prentice’s US offices and practises

corporate tax focusing principally on

advising foreign corporations doing

business in Ireland. He has represented

numerous US and other foreign

corporations in establishing their Irish

operations, and is standing counsel to a

number of Ireland-based multinationals

across a range of industries. He is a

frequent speaker on taxation law topics.

Mason Hayes & Curran ROBERT MC DONAGHBBLS 2000

Robert McDonagh is a partner in Mason

Hayes & Curran’s commercial department,

having joined in 2002. He is a committee

member of the Irish Society for European

Law and is on the organising committee

of the Procurement Law Forum. He

contributed the Irish chapter of B2B

e-marketplaces: A legal analysis of unfair

trade practices within the European Union,

published by the Office for Official

Publications of the European Communities.

ROBERT HENSONBComm 2002, MAcc 2003

Robert Henson joined Mason Hayes

& Curran’s tax team in 2010 as a

senior associate. In April 2011 he was

promoted to the position of partner.

Prior to joining Mason Hayes & Curran,

he worked in the financial services tax

department of KPMG. He has significant

experience in advising clients on cross-

border transactions and structuring

inward investment into Ireland.

BRIAN HORKANBCL 1998, DipEurConv&HR Law

2003, DipArbitration 2004

In April 2011, Brian Horkan joined the

administrative unit of the litigation

department at Mason Hayes & Curran.

He specialises in healthcare law, in

particular in relation to child protection,

adoption, mental health, environmental

health and wardship. He has advised

on public and private inquiries, consent

to treatment, confidentiality, freedom

of information and data protection.

MARK BROWNEBBLS 1996

In July 2010, Mark Browne joined

Mason Hayes & Curran as a partner in

its investment funds department. He

has over ten years’ experience in the

funds industry and advises on all aspects

of the structuring, establishment and

ongoing operation of investment funds

in Ireland. He previously worked in the

investment funds department of another

leading law firm. He is also a regular

contributor to financial journals.

EIMEAR COLLINSBA 1991, MA 1994

In November 2010, Eimear Collins

joined Mason Hayes & Curran as

a partner in commercial litigation.

Her particular areas of expertise

include contract disputes, professional

negligence claims and insurance.

JAMES BARDONBA 1993, MEconSc 1994

In April 2011, James Bardon became a

partner in the administrative law unit

of the litigation department of Mason

Hayes & Curran. He is a specialist

in the areas of administrative law,

constitutional law and public health law.

RACHEL KAVANAGHBCL 1994

In April 2011, Rachel Kavanagh joined

Mason Hayes & Curran as a partner in

the litigation department. She specialises

in insurance defence litigation and her

appointment has strengthened this

practice area. She advises Irish and

international insurance companies and

self-insured corporations in relation to all

aspects of personal injuries litigation.

JANE PILKINGTONBA 1991

In April 2011, Jane Pilkington was

promoted to partner, practising in the

commercial litigation practice of Mason

Hayes & Curran. She has extensive

experience in dispute resolution with a

particular focus on professional liability

claims, and she is a recognised expert

in the area of corporate immigration.

She lectures in the Law Society and has

contributed articles to various publications.

JUDITH RIORDANBCL 1999Judith Riordan was recently promoted to partner at Mason Hayes & Curran, practising in corporate and personal insolvency law and related litigation. She focuses on acting for secured creditors, usually financial institutions, and unsecured creditors of companies in financial distress. She routinely represents insolvency office-holders appointed to such companies in distressed situations. She is admitted as an attorney in New York, as well as a solicitor in Ireland.



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BOOKS CANICE O’MAHONY BE 1947 Retired engineer Canice O’Mahony looks back at his career in Dundalk in An

Engineer Remembers.

ANNE CLARE BA 1958, MA 1960, HDipEd 1963 Anne Clare’s Unlikely Rebels, The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom recalls how the Gifford girls – who came from a Protestant Unionist background – became involved in the

Republican movement.

MARIANNE MANAHAN GALLAGHER BA 1962, HDipEd 1964Marianne Manahan Gallagher wrote A Ballylanders Rebel: Liam Manahan 1916 for her father. It is the story of a family

prepared to sacrifice everything to achieve freedom for Ireland.

JANE STANFORD BA 1966, HDipEd 1967This biography of John O’Connor Power, That Irishman: The Life and Times of John O’Connor Power, was published by The

History Press Ireland in May 2011. It was launched by Professor Luke Gibbons in the Royal Irish Academy.

MICHAEL MACDONALD BAgrSc 1959Michael MacDonald lives in Mullingar, Co Westmeath. He grew up on a farm in Co Cork and later took a degree in Agricultural Science at University College Dublin. A compulsive poet, Michael has published three collections of poetry to date. Face to the Wind reflects concern for the destiny of man. Celtic Fire is a considerable volume which deals with a wide range of subjects concerning Ireland in the 1990s. In Take It Easy and Harmony, Michael offers a sense of optimism.

www.michaelmacdonald.com

PHILIP RYAN BSc 1967, PhD 1971Since retiring from UCD in 2005, Philip Ryan switched from scientific writing under his own name to science fiction under the pen name, Richard Rydon. His latest novel, The Palomar Paradox: A SETI Mystery, coincides with the golden anniversary of SETI – the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. The book was published earlier this year and is available from www.lulu.com and

from www.amazon.com.

MICHAEL CASEY BA 1965, MA 1967After finishing a masters in UCD, Michael Casey went to Cambridge and completed a PhD in economics. He returned to the Central Bank and was seconded to the executive board of the IMF in Washington DC for several years. Now retired, he occasionally writes for The Irish Times and other newspapers. His latest book, Ireland’s Malaise: The Troubled Personality of the

Irish Economy, was published by the Liffey Press late last year.

PHILIP DONNELLY BE 1956One of Philip Donnelly’s most recent projects is the publication of his memoir, The Eyes That Shone – From Ireland to Canada in the 1950s. Ireland’s ambassador in Canada, Declan Kelly, hosted the launch at his residence in Ottawa on April 2010. For more

information, visit www.donnellycanada.com.

BRENDAN CARDIFF BA 1966, MA 1967Brendan Cardiff received his MA at UCD and then an MBA at Louvain University in Belgium. He worked at the Institute for Public Administration in Dublin and the Industrial Development Authority before moving to Brussels to work for the European Commission as a policy analyst from the mid-1970s until his retirement in 2004. His entertaining and lively memoir, Roots & Routes, describes the characters, landscapes and formative events during Ireland’s remarkable late 20th-century renaissance.

GET IN TOUCHPATRICK BARRETT BComm 1976“Many thanks to Seamus O’Dalaig and Ian Murray for organising the recent BComm 1976

reunion in O’Donoghues. After 35 years it was great to turn the clock back and meet so

many ‘old faces’.”

PETER BYRNE BAgrSc 1975, MAgrSc 1989“This is my fi rst time leaving a message on the UCD Alumni page. It would be great to

know where all our classmates from 1975 Ag Sc degree are today.”

BELFIELD BABIES

GERALDINE BYRNE BA 1989Geraldine Byrne and Mark Lysaght are proud to announce the birth of a of baby boy – Dara Corven Joseph Lysaght. He was born on October 2 at Mount Carmel Hospital, Dublin, and weighed 7lb.

DEALGA O’CALLAGHAN BSc 1973, PhD 1977Dealga O’Callaghan is delighted to announce the birth of his second grandchild – a baby boy, Shae. He was born on December 15, 2010 in Liverpool, and weighed 10lb, 2oz. He is a brother to Cian Joseph.

JOE HOUGHTON MBA 2004Joe Houghton and Penny are proud to announce the birth of a baby boy, Daniel Miles. He was born on April 18, 2011 in The Coombe, Dublin, and weighed 8lb.

Dara Corven Joseph Lysaght.

WEDDINGSMELISSA KELLY BBLS 2008Antonio Buccellato and Melissa Kelly are happy to announce their engagement. The wedding ceremony will take place in New York in May 2012. Melissa is moving to New York, and taking the bar exam.

JOHN GREENE BComm 2005John Greene and Helen Mahony (2005) are happy to announce their engagement. The wedding ceremony will take place in summer

2012!

YIBO HU BSc 2006Yibo Hu and HuaHui Li, are happy to announce their marriage, which took place on February 7, in China. They currently reside in Dublin.

SANDRA KENNYBAgrSc 1998Sandra Kenny and Dr Wei Gao are happy to announce their marriage, which took place on March 22, in Dublin.

Sandra Kenny

& Dr Wei Gao.

Since retiring from UCD in 2005, Philip Ryan switched from scientific writing under his own name to science fiction under the

For further updates from alumni, visit www.ucd.ie/

alumni.

the Central Bank and was seconded to the executive board of the IMF in Washington DC for several years. Now retired, he the Central Bank and was seconded to the executive board of the IMF in Washington DC for several years. Now retired, he occasionally writes for occasionally writes for

Irish EconomyIrish Economy

PHILIP DONNELLY One of Philip Donnelly’s most recent projects is the publication of his memoir, the 1950s


BRENDAN CARDIFF BRENDAN CARDIFF

One of Philip Donnelly’s most recent projects is the publication of his memoir, the 1950s


BRENDAN CARDIFF Brendan Cardiff received his MA at UCD and then an MBA at Louvain University in Belgium. He worked at the Institute for Public Administration in Dublin and the Industrial Development Authority before moving to Brussels to work for the European Commission as a policy analyst from the mid-1970s until his retirement in 2004. His entertaining and lively memoir, events during Ireland’s remarkable late 20th-century renaissance.

Brendan Cardiff received his MA at UCD and then an MBA at Louvain University in Belgium. He worked at the Institute for Public Administration in Dublin and the Industrial Development Authority before moving to Brussels to work for the European Commission as a policy analyst from the mid-1970s until his retirement in 2004. His entertaining and lively memoir,


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the mba networkStrength in Numbers

entrepreneurshipthe key to

future suCCess

alumni abroadDoing the Business Overseas

Taking sTOck

an outsider’s view

in this issue

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The MBA NeTworkAn MBA degree can enhance and stimulate an already successful career

or open up new opportunities for someone constrained by their experience to date. The business training and knowledge gained are complemented by the

networks that form – a result of the sharing of an intense and challenging experience. These connections are deep, lasting and of huge benefit to

graduates in both their professional and personal lives. We meet graduates of the MBA programme at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, at 45 years in existence, the longest-running MBA programme in

Europe. As Ireland’s only internationally ranked MBA, the programme has a particularly valuable role to play in Ireland’s economic recovery.


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Jim Joyce

CEO and Founder,

Point of Care

Tom marren

Managing Director,

CESenergy and owner,

Marren Engineering

Dave Grennell

Managing Director

and Owner, Blue Chip

Financial Consultants

SeamuS mc Gowan

Managing Director,

The Pallet Network Having completed his undergraduate studies in his native USA, Jim Joyce was keen to do an MBA. “I had no notion of doing one in Ireland but was introduced to UCD when the college

was presenting in Boston,” he says, acknowledging that the decision to study in Dublin was as much a lifestyle as an academic one. “I could join a big queue in the US or do something really exciting and different – like study in Dublin.”

Jim formed a strong and instant bond with the other members of his study group, Tom Marren, Dave Grennell, Seamus McGowan and fifth member, Romy Cullen. Seamus, a chartered accountant whose motivation was, “instead of keeping the score, you’d like to influence the score”, believes that the five were similarly entrepreneurial and wanted ultimately to run their own companies. He characterises the group as “ambitious but all sharing a good sense of humour”. All four men came to the MBA with broad-based international experience: Jim in the US, Seamus in Poland, and Tom and David in the Middle East.

For Jim the workload came as something of a surprise. “I

thought the year would be interesting, rich and diverse and

I was quite shocked at the amount of work we were expected

to do.” Tom, engineering graduate turned entrepreneur, has since recruited recent MBA graduates, confident that they too will be no strangers to very hard work.

All four agree that the catalyst for their continuing strong connection is Jim’s return from the US where he spent ten years after graduation. For Jim, the ready-made network that awaited him was invaluable. “The part they played in allowing me to break back in to Ireland was huge.” Trust is a big issue when doing business and the absolute trust that exists

between the four and their wider classmates makes for strong and lasting business connections. As Jim says: “You bond intensely with the group and see people at their rawest – strengths and weaknesses are on display. You are no longer labelled a CEO, an investor etc. You

are a full-time student again.”There are tangible benefits associated with these networks.

Seamus’ wife, Anna de Courcy, also a classmate, set up The Classic Group Ltd, a business enabling service that numbers both Dave and Jim among its clients. Seamus and Tom have done business together and are both involved in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year network. Dave confirms that “the most valuable aspect of the MBA is the business contacts that add value to future endeavours.”

JIM JOYCE (CEO and Founder, Point of Care), TOM MARREn (Managing Director, CESenergy and owner of Marren Engineering), DAvE GREnnELL (Managing Director and Owner, Blue Chip Financial

Consultants), SEAMUS McGOwAn (Managing Director, The Pallet Network)

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or open up new opportunities for someone constrained by their experience to date. The business training and knowledge gained are complemented by the

networks that form – a result of the sharing of an intense and challenging experience. These connections are deep, lasting and of huge benefit to

graduates in both their professional and personal lives. We meet graduates of the MBA programme at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, at 45 years in existence, the longest-running MBA programme in

Europe. As Ireland’s only internationally ranked MBA, the programme has a particularly valuable role to play in Ireland’s economic recovery.


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Jim Joyce

CEO and Founder,

Point of Care

Tom marren

Managing Director,

CESenergy and owner,

Marren Engineering

Dave Grennell

Managing Director

and Owner, Blue Chip

Financial Consultants

SeamuS mc Gowan

Managing Director,

The Pallet Network Having completed his undergraduate studies in his native USA, Jim Joyce was keen to do an MBA. “I had no notion of doing one in Ireland but was introduced to UCD when the college

was presenting in Boston,” he says, acknowledging that the decision to study in Dublin was as much a lifestyle as an academic one. “I could join a big queue in the US or do something really exciting and different – like study in Dublin.”

Jim formed a strong and instant bond with the other members of his study group, Tom Marren, Dave Grennell, Seamus McGowan and fifth member, Romy Cullen. Seamus, a chartered accountant whose motivation was, “instead of keeping the score, you’d like to influence the score”, believes that the five were similarly entrepreneurial and wanted ultimately to run their own companies. He characterises the group as “ambitious but all sharing a good sense of humour”. All four men came to the MBA with broad-based international experience: Jim in the US, Seamus in Poland, and Tom and David in the Middle East.

For Jim the workload came as something of a surprise. “I

thought the year would be interesting, rich and diverse and

I was quite shocked at the amount of work we were expected

to do.” Tom, engineering graduate turned entrepreneur, has since recruited recent MBA graduates, confident that they too will be no strangers to very hard work.

All four agree that the catalyst for their continuing strong connection is Jim’s return from the US where he spent ten years after graduation. For Jim, the ready-made network that awaited him was invaluable. “The part they played in allowing me to break back in to Ireland was huge.” Trust is a big issue when doing business and the absolute trust that exists

between the four and their wider classmates makes for strong and lasting business connections. As Jim says: “You bond intensely with the group and see people at their rawest – strengths and weaknesses are on display. You are no longer labelled a CEO, an investor etc. You

are a full-time student again.”There are tangible benefits associated with these networks.

Seamus’ wife, Anna de Courcy, also a classmate, set up The Classic Group Ltd, a business enabling service that numbers both Dave and Jim among its clients. Seamus and Tom have done business together and are both involved in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year network. Dave confirms that “the most valuable aspect of the MBA is the business contacts that add value to future endeavours.”

JIM JOYCE (CEO and Founder, Point of Care), TOM MARREn (Managing Director, CESenergy and owner of Marren Engineering), DAvE GREnnELL (Managing Director and Owner, Blue Chip Financial

Consultants), SEAMUS McGOwAn (Managing Director, The Pallet Network)

CLASS OF 1996

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One of the key advantages an MBA offers over other post-graduate qualifications is that it’s designed specifically

for professionals with industry experience.

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Fionnuala Croke

Director, Chester

Beatty Library

Peter ClanCy

Owner, Business

Development

Consultancykevin Murray

Managing Director,

Eirpost

karen Hennessy

CEO, Crafts Council

of Ireland

All four were well established in their various careers when

they decided to undertake the part-time MBA. Peter Clancy, an

engineer by training, saw the programme as an opportunity to

broaden his business experience and describes the MBA as “a

real eye-opener”. Likewise, accountant Kevin Murray “felt that

things were static and I needed a new challenge”, adding: “At

that stage I had a good level of expertise and I needed to move

on in a structured way.” He

particularly welcomed “the

opportunity to engage with

people of a like mind, of a

similar age and with similar

experience ... the diversity

of the class and the cross-

fertilisation of ideas was of

immense benefit. A mutual

respect was built up. Like a

group of marathon runners

we all went through the trauma together.”

Fionnuala, art historian and then Keeper and Head of

Collections in the National Gallery of Ireland, juggled study

with her challenging role and describes how “classes were held

at the weekends … as you might imagine, with our busy jobs

and weekly assignments to prepare, it was a pretty intense

couple of years.” She believes that “the classroom situation

brings everyone back to basics: no matter what each of us had

achieved in our careers to that point, every Friday and Saturday

we were simply students, often out of our comfort zone.”

Karen Hennessy, an accountant, echoes this. “We needed to

put in 30 hours a week over and above our full-time work for a

First and more than 15 for a pass.” However, she is certain that the

MBA challenges in a very healthy and progressive way. “Anyone

who comes to the MBA is ambitious and hungry and innovative.”

All four have done well since graduation and credit some of

this success to the close ties formed. Karen, recently appointed

CEO of the Crafts Council of Ireland and currently immersed

in the Year of Craft, believes that “the connections have become

even stronger during the past two years”. On a professional

level she feels particularly close to Fionnuala who also values

the relationship. “As my own career has progressed, I’ve turned

to my classmates for advice and

support, and often for practical

help in business. I trust them

completely.”

The MBA instilled in Peter

the desire and confidence to

establish BDC, a sales and

marketing consultancy targeted

at helping SMEs. He can tap

into a wealth of expertise at the

highest levels through retaining

links with former classmates. Kevin benefits from these

business connections too and believes that the intensity of the

MBA programme “fast-tracked the networking process”.

CLASS OF 2002

FIONNuALA CrOKE (Director, Chester Beatty Library), KArEN HENNESSY (CEO, Crafts Council of Ireland), PETEr CLANCY (Owner, Business Development Consultancy), KEvIN MurrAY (Managing Director, Eirpost)

“As my own career has progressed, I’ve turned to my

classmates for advice and support, and often for practical help in business. I trust them

completely.”

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the MBA at

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School,

a special dinner for MBA alumni will be held on

Thursday 10th November at the Conrad Hotel.

Guest speakers include Christoph Mueller,

CEO, Aer Lingus.

For event information and tickets,

see www.ucd.ie/businessalumni


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One of the key advantages an MBA offers over other post-graduate qualifications is that it’s designed specifically

for professionals with industry experience.

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Fionnuala Croke

Director, Chester

Beatty Library

Peter ClanCy

Owner, Business

Development

Consultancykevin Murray

Managing Director,

Eirpost

karen Hennessy

CEO, Crafts Council

of Ireland

All four were well established in their various careers when

they decided to undertake the part-time MBA. Peter Clancy, an

engineer by training, saw the programme as an opportunity to

broaden his business experience and describes the MBA as “a

real eye-opener”. Likewise, accountant Kevin Murray “felt that

things were static and I needed a new challenge”, adding: “At

that stage I had a good level of expertise and I needed to move

on in a structured way.” He

particularly welcomed “the

opportunity to engage with

people of a like mind, of a

similar age and with similar

experience ... the diversity

of the class and the cross-

fertilisation of ideas was of

immense benefit. A mutual

respect was built up. Like a

group of marathon runners

we all went through the trauma together.”

Fionnuala, art historian and then Keeper and Head of

Collections in the National Gallery of Ireland, juggled study

with her challenging role and describes how “classes were held

at the weekends … as you might imagine, with our busy jobs

and weekly assignments to prepare, it was a pretty intense

couple of years.” She believes that “the classroom situation

brings everyone back to basics: no matter what each of us had

achieved in our careers to that point, every Friday and Saturday

we were simply students, often out of our comfort zone.”

Karen Hennessy, an accountant, echoes this. “We needed to

put in 30 hours a week over and above our full-time work for a

First and more than 15 for a pass.” However, she is certain that the

MBA challenges in a very healthy and progressive way. “Anyone

who comes to the MBA is ambitious and hungry and innovative.”

All four have done well since graduation and credit some of

this success to the close ties formed. Karen, recently appointed

CEO of the Crafts Council of Ireland and currently immersed

in the Year of Craft, believes that “the connections have become

even stronger during the past two years”. On a professional

level she feels particularly close to Fionnuala who also values

the relationship. “As my own career has progressed, I’ve turned

to my classmates for advice and

support, and often for practical

help in business. I trust them

completely.”

The MBA instilled in Peter

the desire and confidence to

establish BDC, a sales and

marketing consultancy targeted

at helping SMEs. He can tap

into a wealth of expertise at the

highest levels through retaining

links with former classmates. Kevin benefits from these

business connections too and believes that the intensity of the

MBA programme “fast-tracked the networking process”.

CLASS OF 2002

FIONNuALA CrOKE (Director, Chester Beatty Library), KArEN HENNESSY (CEO, Crafts Council of Ireland), PETEr CLANCY (Owner, Business Development Consultancy), KEvIN MurrAY (Managing Director, Eirpost)

“As my own career has progressed, I’ve turned to my

classmates for advice and support, and often for practical help in business. I trust them

completely.”

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the MBA at

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School,

a special dinner for MBA alumni will be held on

Thursday 10th November at the Conrad Hotel.

Guest speakers include Christoph Mueller,

CEO, Aer Lingus.

For event information and tickets,

see www.ucd.ie/businessalumni

Christine heffernan

Head of PR, Bord Gáis

Bryony

Carroll

Group Financial

Controller, SoftCo

Jane o’Connor

Executive to SISK

Group CEO

rosemary lalor

Account Manager at

ESB Telecoms Ltd.

It was perhaps inevitable that these four women gravitated together. As Christine Heffernan

explains, “There were only six girls in the class of 36.” A PR and communications specialist,

Christine moved from Vodafone to Bord Gáis earlier this year. “The MBA definitely helped

my career. During the course, I changed roles twice – firstly to cover my manager’s maternity

leave, and secondly, at the end of the course, to a new organisation. Part of the reason I was

successful in changing roles was because, in addition to communications experience, I had a good

understanding of how the business world operates. The MBA gave me the confidence and skills to

operate at a more senior level.”

Christine is convinced that it’s all about the network: “You spend so much time together that

you naturally bond.” There are benefits beyond the obvious social ones and “you learn as much

from your classmates as you do from the lecturers. People have come from diverse roles and have

a broad range of experience.” All

four women keep in touch with

the wider class. “There’s always

a big event – a housewarming

or an engagement,” says Bryony

Carroll who admits, “I never

imagined I would develop such

strong friendships – I actually

miss going to college”.

Bryony’s boss at SoftCo

actively encouraged her to enrol.

“I’m Group Financial Controller

– an MBA would mean I could

participate at board level.”

Rosemary Lalor was keen to

broaden her horizons within the

ESB and turned to her former

classmates when contemplating

an internal move. “There was

always someone who could

help you; with your CV, with

the interview and, when you

got the job, there were people

with advice.” She dispels the

notion of cutthroat competition

in the classroom. “We weren’t

competitive with each other,”

she says, “We co-operated to get

through the workload: people

brought different skills to bear.”

Jane O’Connor, whose degree

is in Diagnostic Radiography,

was looking to branch out of

the healthcare industry and

was able to change direction

entirely as a result of her MBA.

She now works in a strategic

role at SISK Group. “I thought

the MBA would offer me wider

scope, which it did. It gives you

the confidence to believe you can

tackle any role.”

The four have remained close

since graduating last December.

“We’re busy but we always

make time for each other,” says

Rosemary. And the business

benefits follow, every time

they meet. n


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CHRISTInE HEFFERnAn (Head of PR, Bord Gáis), BRYOnY CARROLL (Group Financial Controller, SoftCo), JAnE O’ COnnOR (Executive to SISK Group

CEO at SISK Group), ROSEMARY LALOR (Account Manager at ESB Telecoms Ltd)

CLASS OF 2010

When you

read about

bondholders

in the

f i n a n c i a l

pages, you may not imagine one is

the son of a famous Irish author and

brother of a leading Irish journalist.

But Desmond Mac Intyre, son of

playwright Tom Mac Intyre and twin

brother of undercover journalist Donal

Mac Intyre, originally from Celbridge,

Co Kildare, heads a leading investment

management firm serving sophisticated

fixed income investors. He is president

and chief executive officer of Standish

Mellon Asset Management which

manages about $85 billion of fixed

income investments.

Standish is headquartered in

Boston, where Mac Intyre (45) now

resides with his wife Linda and three

daughters. He grew up with his mum

Margaret McCarthy Mac Intyre and

his four brothers and sisters. He recalls

a wonderful Huckleberry Finn-type

childhood, referring to his schooldays

in Clane. There would be a week off

to attend the Punchestown races and

a week off at Christmas to go turkey

plucking, he says.

Mac Intyre’s school reports can’t

have been too bad, his mother’s

individual approach to education

paying dividends when he secured a

place studying economics at UCD.

Mac Intyre got his first job with

the London Stock Exchange after

graduating in 1988. Hired on the so-

called graduate “milk-round”, he would

later return the favour and hire UCD

graduates himself.

Mac Intyre spent five years working

in the Stock Exchange’s “think tank”

division, surviving when the Stock

Exchange culled 2,000 of its 3,000

staff. He later worked as a consultant

investment manager advising Middle

Eastern development authorities

on asset allocation strategies, prior

to going to General Motor Asset

Management. After a short stint at

publishing house Asset International

as chief financial officer in 2001, he

joined Deutsche Asset Management,

a company with about 200 clients in

both public and private sectors, as

head of European pensions strategy.

He then joined Pareto Partners, a

currency and fixed income specialist,

as Chief Operating Officer. Pareto

was later acquired and became part of


He rules out the likelihood of Ireland

leaving the euro, saying that exiting

the euro is “unfathomable”.

| BUSINESS |

Taking STockDesmond Mac Intyre, Chief Executive of Boston-based fixed income investment management business gives an outsider’s

view of the global economy. Kathleen Barrington interviews the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School Honoree.

Des McIntyre.indd 76 19/08/2011 17:20

BNY Mellon Asset Management, the asset

management arm of BNY Mellon.

BNY Mellon is a global financial

services company with $1.3 trillion under

management and $26.3 trillion in assets

under custody or administration. It also has

a significant operation in Ireland employing

about 1,700 people in Dublin’s IFSC and at

offices in Cork, Wexford and Navan.

The Irish company offers a broad

range of services to asset managers, banks,

pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and

insurance companies, though Mac Intyre is

not involved in the Irish operation.

BNY Mellon is active in corporate

philanthropy in Ireland through its

sponsorship of an exhibition at the Irish

Museum of Modern Art, “Frieda Kahlo &

Diego Rivera: Masterpieces of the Jacques

and Natasha Gelman Collection”.

Mac Intyre believes Ireland will not

need any more funding until 2013.

While Ireland and other countries

are reeling from the impact of the global

financial crisis, the crisis has presented

huge opportunities for companies like

Standish to advise on investment strategies

as well as valuing and liquidating assets.

Standish’s taxable fixed income assets

business has expanded by 83 per cent

over the last two years, while Mac Intyre

has extended Standish’s franchise in 40

countries, including 20 sovereign wealth

funds and central banks.

Commenting on the origins of the

financial crisis, he says it was clear there

was a bubble in Ireland when you heard

taxi drivers talking about buying homes in

Bulgaria. He also notes the Irish propensity

towards home ownership: “My home, my

kids, my castle.’’

He points to our membership of the

eurozone as a contributory factor. “One

could take the view that what was good for

Germany and France wasn’t so good for

Ireland.” He asks if there is a need for a two-

tier Europe in the absence of a common

fiscal approach, but he rules out the

likelihood of Ireland leaving the euro, saying

that exiting the euro is “unfathomable”.

While he sees membership of the

eurozone as a contributory factor in the

crisis, Mac Intyre also believes that Europe

wants Ireland to succeed.

Looking forward, Mac Intyre thinks

the new European Stability Mechanism

will help ensure greater financial stability

in Europe while the idea of issuing

European debt would also help. Asked

if the Germans would agree to the idea

of issuing Eurobonds, making financing

cheaper for the peripheral European

countries, he believes the Germans are the

biggest beneficiaries of the euro. The need

to postpone EU political decisions due

to electoral considerations and political

gamesmanship, he stresses, has not helped

resolve the euro crisis.

Mac Intyre says he expects the National

Asset Management Agency (NAMA) will

bundle up the loans that it has bought from

Irish banks and turn them into tradeable

securities known as Collateralised Loan

Obligations (CLOs). He doesn’t think

the Irish government will hold on to the

NAMA assets in the long term.

As far as fiscal policy is concerned, Mac

Intyre has advised Ireland to hold firm on

the 12.5 per cent corporation tax and to

give tax benefits for patents and research

and development. “We don’t want to be a

mere producer economy,’’ he says.

Does he think there would be buyers

for Irish banks? He says that ultimately

there is a clearing price for everything.

Mac Intyre acknowledges that we have

been here before, notably in 1988 when

unemployment hit about 18 per cent. “I

came out of UCD with the expectation of

having to leave Ireland,’’ he recalls.

Mac Intyre says the effect of the crisis

in Ireland is that a “degree of complacency

and hubris will be eliminated’’ and he sees

grounds for optimism.

He does not see the reputation of Irish

business being damaged: “I don’t think

the Irish should be whipping themselves

over that.”

Besides his economics degree, Mac

Intyre holds an MPhil in Management

Studies from the University of Exeter,

where he served as an honorary research

fellow. When questioned about what

people should study at university, he says

he is “a believer in the liberal arts’’. In the

US and the UK there are many executives,

with degrees ranging from classics to

engineering, running finance companies.

Mac Intyre also has words of praise

for the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate

Business School. Asked why he thought he

was honoured by the School at an event in

New York in October, he answers simply:

he thought it was because he was “a local

boy done well’’. ■

Mac Intyre says the effect of the crisis in Ireland is that a “degree of complacency

and hubris will be eliminated’’ and

he sees grounds for optimism.

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TAKING STOCK

FACT FILE

DESMOND MAC INTYRE

• Runs a business with 129

employees and $85 billion under

management

• Visits Ireland fi ve times a year

• Reads, jogs, kayaks and enjoys

summer sprint triathlons

• Has three black labradors

• Grows his own vegetables

Mac Intyre says he expects the National

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ALUMNI ABROAD


| BUSINESS |

In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s the UCD diaspora was exceptionally opportunistic, forging careers around the globe. We talk to twelve successful graduates working overseas ...

MICHAEL SHEEHAN CEO

systems@work Ltd. (BComm 1987)

lives in LONDON. My role is ... I’m

CEO of systems@work. We specialise

in developing and implementing expense

management software for corporate and public

sector organisations. Recently we implemented

the MPs’ expenses system in Westminster and that was an

exciting and very high-profile project for us. A typical day ...

starts at 6am when I reply to the overnight emails and prepare

for the day’s meetings. I meet potential or existing clients to

discuss their requirements and plan new projects. The majority

of our customers are in the UK but we also have clients in places

like New York, San Francisco and Moscow so I

do travel quite a bit. Why did you move abroad?

I left Ireland straight after UCD in 1988. At

the time the Irish economy was struggling.

Thatcher’s Britain was in full swing so it was a

magnet for many of my generation. Looking back

... I have very happy memories of my time in

UCD. I was lucky enough to be Auditor of the C+E (1987/1988)

and Finance Chairman of Commerce Day (1986/1987) both of

which proved to be invaluable training grounds for the world

that awaited us. The closest bonds I have today are still drawn

from the friendships I made (including my wife!) during the

1980s at UCD.

MICHAEL SHEEHAN

systems@work Ltd. (BComm 1987)

lives in

CEO of systems@work. We specialise

ALAN ENNIS President and CEO

Revlon Inc (BComm 1991) lives in

Scotch Plains NEW JERSEY

and commutes to New York City each

day. My role is ... Since May 2009, I am President

and CEO of Revlon Inc, and am on the Board

of Directors. Revlon is a global market-leading

cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, and personal care products

company with products sold in over 100 countries. Listed on the

NYSE and majority-owned by Ronald O Perelman, Revlon had

net sales of $1.3bn in 2010 and employed 5,000 people. A typical

day … After taking a 6.20am train into the city, my day is spent

interacting with my team – setting direction, making resource

allocations, evaluating opportunities, and dealing with crises that

pop up. I also spend a significant amount of time engaging with

stakeholders, including retailers, suppliers, our Board, financial

institutions, and investors. I thoroughly enjoy what I do, but

make sure to leave the office no later than 6pm so that I can get

home before my children go to bed. Why move abroad? ... After

reaching manager level with a Big Six accounting

firm in Dublin, I emigrated in 1997 a few years after

completing my Associate Chartered Accountancy

exams. I moved to the UK and met my future wife,

Michelle, who was on a one-year secondment to

Manchester. She returned to the US in late 1999; I

followed her and we got married in 2002. We now

have three children: Bridget (7), Timothy (5) and Daniel (3).

Having been out of Ireland for 14 years now, I missed the boom

(and subsequent correction) of the Celtic Tiger, but watched with

interest from a distance. I have no doubt Ireland will rise again to

be a formidable force within Europe. I am also on the board of the

Ireland-US Council, founded in 1963 by Irish and US business

leaders with the purpose of building business links between the

US and Ireland. Looking back ... I have very fond memories of

my time at UCD, both in the halls of the commerce building and

the library, and rowing with the UCD Boat Club. I visit Ireland

regularly and always take the opportunity to jog through UCD to

remind me of the fun we had there.

ALAN ENNIS

Revlon Inc (BComm 1991)

Scotch Plains

and commutes to New York City each

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GEMMA O’ DOHERTY Executive

Director, Finance at Goldman Sachs

International (BComm 1993) lives in

... LONDON. My role is ... Executive

Director, Finance at Goldman Sachs International.

My official title is “European Coordinator for

Federal Reserve Reporting” which essentially

means I spend a lot of time on the phone with people in the US,

Asia, Bangalore and across Europe discussing US Regulatory

Reporting Issues, processes and training requirements. A typical

day ... starts in the gym at the office. I get to my desk at about

8.30am and generally finish at about 6.30pm. Why did you leave

Ireland? I moved abroad in order to see how far

my accountancy qualification with KPMG would

take me and to see a little more of the world. I have

been lucky enough to travel extensively and have

worked in our offices in New York, Hong Kong,

Tokyo and Bangalore. I also spent a year living in

Zurich. Looking back ... Fond memories of UCD

include Commerce Day fundraising events, student balls, freezing

at the Saturday morning hockey matches, hanging out by the

“Blob” and the fine student bar and more than a little at the library

and large lecture theatres too. A lasting legacy of UCD has been the

firm friends I made there.

COLIN MAC DONALD Managing

Director, Fine Grain Property (BComm

1989) lives in SINGAPORE. My

role is ... Managing Director, Fine Grain

Property. We invest in property in Singapore and

also manage property investments on behalf of our

partners – our focus is on commercial property. I’m

on the board of the Irish Chamber of Commerce in Singapore,

having served as its president for twelve years until 2011. A

typical day … starts at 8am, and finishes sometime after 6pm. My

office is in Singapore’s Central Business District, overlooking

the Singapore River, and the old houses of Parliament, which

were designed by George Coleman, an Irishman, in 1827. Why

did you move abroad? I left Ireland after graduation

in 1989, and spent the first seven of my 22 years

in Asia working in international banking with

HSBC in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and

Bahrain. I’ve lived in Singapore for 16 years and

set up Fine Grain in 2007. Looking back … Rugby

and other sports were a big part of my life at UCD.

My parents live near Belfield, and I still run around the campus

when I am back in Ireland, two or three times a year. I recall that

we managed to fit in a very active social life amid our studies!

The BComm class of 1989 was a tight-knit cohort, and lifetime

friendships were formed – the intervening years melt away when

we get back together!

COLIN MAC DONALD

Director, Fine Grain Property (BComm

1989)

role is ...

GEMMA O’ DOHERTY

Director, Finance at Goldman Sachs

International (BComm 1993)

...

JOE LYNAM BBC Business

Correspondent and Presenter (BComm

1992) lives in Chelsea, LONDON. My

role is … BBC Business Correspondent

and presenter – covering business, financial,

economic and personal finance news for all the

BBC’s network TV, radio and online coverage. A typical day …

involves switching on my iPhone at 7am to see who has emailed me

overnight, checking Google Finance, BBC Business and Twitter to

see what the business news is. Our morning editorial meeting is

at 10am and I hate attending this without contributing something.

If there’s no breaking business news which I have to cover

immediately, I’ll get my sales hat on and go to the editors of various

programmes with some ideas I might be kicking around. Once I

get a commission, I need to start phone-bashing to get appropriate

guests and thinking about how it would look on screen or sound on

radio. The bit I love but which also fills me with dread is when I get

an exclusive or ‘scoop’. This is when you (and your employer) put

your collective necks on the line and reveal something brand new.

Like the time when I broke the news that Ireland was in bailout

talks with the IMF and EU last November. That was flatly denied

by the then Irish government, which demanded

that I retract a 100 per cent true story. Thankfully,

the BBC hires the best editors in the business who

backed me fully, so together we were very publicly

vindicated. Why did you move abroad? Straight

after graduation in 1992, I moved to Roermond in

The Netherlands, followed by Germany (where I owned a chain of

pubs) until 1998. Between 1998 and 2000 I worked in Ireland as

a freelance journalist until I got my job in the BBC in London in

February 2001. Looking back ... I was in the first group of people

(23 of us) to do the BComm (International) which includes a year

studying abroad. Twenty-three years after we first met, all nine of

the guys in that group are still more than just in touch. Once a year –

come hell or high water – we spend a weekend together somewhere

nice. It’s an integral part of my year and I’d never miss it. As for my

degree and UCD, I have only fond memories of that time and that

place. My mother, Christina Lynam, did her Pharmacy degree there

in 1977. One of my brothers Rory (and his FourPlay crew) were the

headline DJs at the UCD Ball this year and my youngest brother

Paul is the UCD Students’ Union President. So you could say it’s

the family alma mater.

JOE LYNAM

Correspondent and Presenter (BComm

1992)

role is …



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DAVID STEINEGGER CEO of Lombard

International Assurance SA (BComm

1982) lives in LUXEMBOURG and

is married with three teenagers. My role is

... CEO of Lombard International Assurance SA,

Luxembourg’s largest cross-border life assurance

company, which has grown at 25 per cent per anum for the last ten

years, and has just reached d20bn in assets under management.

Luxembourg is a great base for an international business – we

employ 26 nationalities and work in eight languages – there is never

a dull moment! A typical day … starts around 7.30am and ends

twelve hours later. Each day is different, but what I most enjoy is

being with people – the key to success is the team, and

I am privileged to work with a great one. I also travel a

great deal, mainly within Europe. Dealing with a few

hundred emails a day is one of the least fun parts of my

job. Why did you move abroad? We are an international

family: I am of Swiss/Irish nationality and my wife is

English. So in some ways we have not really moved abroad – Europe

is home, and Luxembourg, with a population of 511,000, and 40-

plus nationalities, is a microcosm of Europe. Looking back ... I have

fantastic memories of my years at UCD – I worked hard but also

had a great time. Almost 30 years on, my eldest son hopes to start at

UCD in the autumn. I am sure he will enjoy it just as much as I did.

DAVID STEINEGGER

International Assurance SA (BComm

1982)

is married with three teenagers.

PHILIP BERBER Co-Chair of A

Glimmer of Hope (BComm 1979) lives

in Austin, TEXAS. My role is ... Co-

Chair of A Glimmer of Hope, a family

foundation and social venture that takes

an entrepreneurial approach to international aid

and development and which helps the remote

rural poor in Ethiopia lift themselves out of poverty. A typical

day … starts with meditation, exercise and taking my 13-year-

old to school. After that my days are varied – some Glimmer

work might include working with major donors, finance and

investments, planning and review, preparing board meetings

and the usual phone calls and emails. I give talks, usually on

social entrepreneurship and philanthropy, from time to time.

I often work from home, and go into the office when needed.

Why did you move abroad? I left for London after graduating

in 1979. I felt there were better opportunities outside Ireland

at the time and was concerned that Ireland was limited and

restrictive compared to London and the UK. It also

had to do with wanting to spread my wings and

be all that I could be, and I did not feel I could do

that in Dublin. I moved from London to Texas in

1991, seizing the opportunity to move to the land

of entrepreneurship and adventure. Looking back ...

When I think back to UCD, I think back to Belfield

and the old combined arts and commerce block. The people in

my class stand out – what a wonderful bunch of young guys and

girls, a few of whom I have stayed in close touch with, notably

Paul Kidney and Gerry Breen. There were 500 in the first year

BComm class which filled those large lecture theatres. A number

of the lecturers and subjects stood out for me – Frank Roche,

John Teeling, John Murray and Frank Bradley, in marketing and

entrepreneurship – all of whom had a great impact on me. And

I will never forget walking to and from Belfield every day with

my dear friend, Colm O’Reilly, who died some years later, and

whose photo I still have on my desk.

PHILIP BERBER

Glimmer of Hope (BComm 1979)

in

Chair of A Glimmer of Hope, a family

foundation and social venture that takes

NIGEL LAMBE Owner WJ King & Co

Brewery (BComm 1991, MBS 1992) lives in

BRIGHTON. My role is ... after 17 years

of corporate life I am now carving out a more

entrepreneurial existence. After UCD I worked for

a number of big multinationals; Jefferson Smurfit,

PepsiCo, Grampian Foods, and Capita. In 2008 I was recruited

by a private equity firm to turn around a failing but high-profile

London-based logistics firm, eCourier. After turning this around,

then selling it, I decided it was time to try to fly solo and fulfilled

every man’s dream by buying a brewery! We took control of a

small microbrewery based near Gatwick, WJ King, in 2010 and

it is now growing at about 80 per cent per annum. I also invested

in and serve as Executive Chairman of a niche coffee roastery,

Small Batch Coffee, which has just opened its fourth store. I still

act as an adviser to both eCourier and its new owners, TNT. I sit

on the Board of Mill End Hotel, a boutique hotel in Devon, and

Parcelpal, a logistics firm. A typical day ... I don’t

really have a typical day or week any more, but I tend

to try to spend two days per week at the brewery,

one day on the coffee business and one looking for

new opportunities, which leaves a little free time

for reacting to whatever occurs that week. Why did

you move abroad? When I was at UCD, I desperately wanted to

remain in Dublin and only moved abroad under great pressure

from Jefferson Smurfit and agreeing to a maximum stay of three

months. That was March 1994. The right opportunity to return

never materialised and now, together with my Dublin-born wife,

Orla (BA 1990), and three little redheaded children, love living

right on the beach – with Dublin only a couple of hours away.

Looking back ... I look back on UCD with very fond memories –

although some of them are quite hazy. Brighton is a city with a lot

of cherry blossom trees and each year as the blossoms emerge, I

think to myself, it must be time to start revising.

NIGEL LAMBE

Brewery (BComm 1991, MBS 1992)

BRIGHTONof corporate life I am now carving out a more



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MARGARET CONROY (BBLS

1996, MAcc 1997) lives in Stamford,

CONNECTICUT. My role is ...

within the UBS IB Business Controlling

team, where I head up the regional team focused

on Credit Fixed Income products. A typical day … usually starts

around 8.30am, involves lots of meetings with internal clients,

project work and dealing with changes in accounting standards

and industry regulations that impact the credit fixed income

trading market. The one thing I love about my job ... is that

no one day is the same as the next! Why did you move

abroad? My husband and I moved to the US nearly

eleven years ago, for what we thought at the time would

be a two-year stint and change of scenery from our lives

and jobs in Dublin. We’ve so enjoyed the lifestyle, career challenges

and weather that clearly that plan has gone right out the window!

Looking back ... The thing I remember most fondly about UCD is

those lovely sunny summer days sitting on the grass by the lake!

LIAM MC CARTHY President

and Chief Operations Officer of

Molex Inc (BComm 1976) lives in

Hinsdale, ILLINOIS, a suburb

of Chicago. My role is ... President and Chief

Operations Officer of Molex Inc, which is

listed on NASDAQ. A typical day … often involves travelling

to one of our 50 global plants or customer visits. When in the

office it’s an early start: I leave home at 6.15 am. Visiting our

operations, while tiring, is also most rewarding, as we have

over 35,000 people working in the company and it’s great to see

the energy level in all parts of world in our operation driving

many great improvement initiatives. Why did you move abroad?

Initially to get more global experience, first to Japan for a one-

year assignment with Molex. Later, after

my return to Ireland, Molex asked my wife

Olive and I to move to Singapore – she

moved as head of IT in Asia and I moved

as head of Materials in Singapore – an

assignment we expected to last just three

years but ended up lasting nine. After that, we were asked to

move to the US, where we stayed for three years. We wanted to

live in Ireland and we managed to do so for five years, which was

great for our children to get to know their grandparents better.

Then we were asked to come back to the US again, where we have

been for the past six years. Looking back … Some great lecturers,

loved the ad hoc lunchtime concerts in Theatre L (Planxty, Thin

Lizzy, Christy Moore) and of course soccer and rugby. ■

LIAM MC CARTHY

and Chief Operations Officer of

Molex Inc (BComm 1976)

Hinsdale

ANDREW MC KEE Deputy Head

Strategy and Business Development

ING Asia/Pacific Ltd (DBS 1994)

lives in HONG KONG. My role

is … I am responsible for Strategy &

Business Development for ING Asia/Pacific (a

financial institution of Dutch origin offering

banking, insurance and asset management services), covering

nine businesses in seven markets across the Asia Pacific Region.

A typical day … depends upon whether I am in Hong Kong or

travelling, but ideally starts with an early morning dog walk

before meetings and calls take over. My office is on the 82nd

floor of Hong Kong’s tallest building so getting

to my desk in the morning can take a while.

Why did you move abroad? I moved abroad

upon graduation in 1994 to work for HSBC

Bank and have spent the subsequent 17 years

working in Europe, North America and Asia.

I have yet to work in Ireland! Looking back

... I remember during my time at UCD, where I completed a

one-year postgraduate Higher Diploma in Business Studies, I

thought the wisest course of action was gracefully retiring from

a potential boxing career after my first and only – abbreviated –

training session with the UCD Boxing Club.

ANDREW MC KEE

lives in

MARGARET CONROY

1996, MAcc 1997)

CONNECTICUTwithin the UBS IB Business Controlling

MICHAEL BOURKE Chairman of

Parex Bank, Latvia (BComm 1977) lives

in LATVIA and Dublin. My role is ...

Chairman of Parex Bank. I resigned as CEO

of Rietumu Bank in September 2006 as I had run

the bank for nine years and needed to get back to

Dublin. When I was just starting to relax back in

Dublin, the credit crisis hit and I was asked by the

Prime Minister of Latvia to return to the Board of Parex Bank

in Latvia, the equivalent of Anglo Irish Bank – taken over by the

Latvian State. I have worked on the Board of Parex

Bank since July 2009 and we restructured the bank

into a good bank/bad bank last July 2010 and I am

now Chairman of the bad bank (Parex Bank). At

the moment, I live half in Dublin and half in Riga.

Looking back … The memories I have of UCD were

the debates in Economics about the role of the IMF

and the Central Bank in a country. Little did I know

I would end up working for both; nor did I realise how important

both would be for Ireland.

MICHAEL BOURKE

Parex Bank, Latvia (BComm 1977)

in

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The Foundation Day Dinner took place in

November 2010 in the O’Reilly Hall at UCD.

Eddie O’Connor, renewable energy entrepreneur

and CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power,

was honoured with the 2010 UCD Foundation Medal for his

outstanding contribution to engineering. Fellow alumnus Pat

Kenny delivered the citation.

The Foundation Day Medal was established in 2004 and is

presented to distinguished UCD graduates who have made an

outstanding contribution in their field of expertise. The medal

is presented to the recipient at the annual Foundation Day

Dinner, held every year in November to mark the foundation

of the Catholic University in 1854. The theme for the 2010

Foundation Day Medal was “Mission Science”, to support

the University’s fundraising campaign to

complete the development of UCD’s new

Science District.

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4T he UCD School of Business has been educating world leaders in business for more

than a century. Since 1991, the school has celebrated and recognised the business

achievements and success of graduates through the Alumnus of the Year award.

In April, more than 350 guests gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel in Dublin for a

special black-tie fundraising dinner to publicly recognise the 2011 Alumnus of the Year award

winners. The award winners for 2011 are: Patrick Kennedy, (BComm 1990, DipPrAcc 1991)

CEO, Paddy Power, UCD Smurfit School Alumnus of the Year and Senator Feargal Quinn,

(BComm 1959) UCD Quinn School Alumnus of the Year. Also honoured at the event were

Michael Healy, BComm 2010, who was awarded Student of the Year from the UCD Quinn

School of Business and Tehsheena Shams, MMgt 2010, who was recognised as the UCD

Michael Smurfit Business School Student of the Year.

1: Leahanne Harrington, Debbie Cowe and Niamh O’Regan. 2: Dermot Hanley, representing Platinum Sponsor, Barclays Bank Ireland, Patrick Kennedy, Tara Collins, Paul Haran, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Michael Healy, Tehsheena Shams, Michael Dowling, Senator Feargal Quinn, UCD President Dr Hugh Brady and former Dean of UCD Business Tom Begley. 3: Alumni Award winners Senator Feargal Quinn and Patrick Kennedy.

4: Aine Whelan and Mark Bannon. 5: Sadhbh Crowley and Gordon Collins. 6: Liadhan Collins and Richard Hoare. 7: Jennifer Goodman, Paul McDormack and Caoimhe Cox. 8: Damien McLoughlin, Frank Bradley and Aidan Connolly. 9: Emma Forysth and Warren Collins. 10: Tom Begley and Debbie Cowe. 11: Clare and Gerry Looby. 12: Sean Hayden and Niamh Boyle.

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CORK: 1: Tony Fitzgerald. 2: Celine McLoughlin, Bertie Hourihane and Caitriona Johansson.

1: Florence Sia, Natty Ng, Gerard Lee, Jenny Oh, Joanne Ng, Robert Lim and Leslie Tan. 2: Professor Pat Gibbons and Marc Nerva. 3: Justin Wong andDr Jim Jackson. 4: The Irish Ambassador, His Excellency Joseph Hayes, former Dean Professor Tom Begley and Amy Tee.

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Professional Accounting Programme has educated professionals

who have shaped the development of accounting and

business in Ireland and throughout the world. In May,

at the Conrad Hotel in Dublin, alumni gathered for a special

30th anniversary dinner to acknowledge the rich history of this

programme, celebrate its continuing success and honour Professor Frank

O’Brien on his retirement from UCD. The celebration, sponsored by the

Big 4 accountancy firms – Deloitte, Ernst &Young, KPMG and PWC – was

attended by over 200 graduates and friends of the programme.

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the Class of 1971’s Ruby Jubilee celebrations in June.

After a welcome address by President of UCD Dr

Hugh Brady, Building Planning Manager Liz Dunne

gave a short presentation on campus developments. Undeterred by

the rain, the guests then enjoyed a tour that took in the refurbished

Belfield House and its artwork.

In a speech given on behalf of his fellow graduates, Sean Finlay

further celebrated the continued modernisation of UCD. Praising the

development of a “consolidated, suburban campus” since his time as

an undergraduate, he encouraged the Class

of 1971 to “enjoy the rest of the journey”.

The evening concluded with a reception,

allowing the class to catch up after 40 years.

RUBY JUBILEE The Class Of 1971 Reunites After 40 Years

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4: Mary Moynihan, Mary Stokes and Sister Eileen Mullin. 5: Brian Harrington, John Powell, Austin Shinnors and Ray Bannigan (back). 6: Philomena Cronin and Anne Seagrave. 7: Carmel Buttimer and William Martin. 8: Joe McLaughlin and Anthony Cassidy. 9: Christy Boylan and Lorcan Murphy. 10: John McCardle, Áine Gibbons and Richard Sinnott. 11: Dolores McIntyre and Nigel Murtagh.

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UCD President, Dr Hugh Brady,

welcomed more than 20

corporate donors to celebrate

UCD’s pioneering postdoctoral

research initiative, the Newman Fellowship

Programme, in April. The donors, primarily

from the pharmaceutical sector, each fund

a two-year postdoctoral fellow who has

the freedom to pursue a particular area of

research. During the dinner, Dr Aoibhlinn

O’Toole, the Abbott Laboratories Newman

Fellow in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and Dr

Andrew Hogan, the sanofi-aventis Newman

Fellow in Diabetes, presented their research to

representatives from industry and academia.

The Newman Fellowship Programme is vital

to UCD’s long-term commitment to support

world-class research across a wide spectrum of

disciplines. It enables the University to expand

the boundaries of existing knowledge and to

benefit the Irish and global economy, while

fostering valuable partnerships with industry

and the wider community.

NEWMAN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMMETwenty-two Years Of Funding Success

1: UCD president, Dr Hugh Brady, with the 2011 Newman Fellows. 2: Alan Bass, Ipsen and Professor Donal O’Shea. 3: Dr Andrew Hogan, sanofi -aventis Newman Fellow. 4: Dr Cara

Dunne, Darren Gibbons Newman Fellow; Áine Gibbons and Dr Hugh Brady. 5: Dr Andrew Roy, Actelion Pharmaceuticals Newman Fellow; Dr Aoibhlinn O’Toole, Abbott Laboratories;

Dr Adrian Murphy, Seamus Dargan Newman Fellow and Dr Len Harty, Janssen-Biologics Newman Fellow. 6: Conor McCarthy, Baxter and Julie O’Neill, Gilead. 7: Professor Diarmuid

O’Donoghue, Dr Aoibhlinn O’Toole, Abbott Laboratories Newman Fellow and Carmel Donohue, Abbott Laboratories. 8: The Old Physics Theatre at Newman House.

9: Dr Aoibhlinn O’Toole. 10: Tom Lynch, Amarin; Dr Andrew Hogan, sanofi -aventis Newman Fellow and Dr Cheryl Sweeney, Janssen-Cilag Newman Fellow.

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was the guest of honour and keynote

speaker for the outstandingly

successful UCD Sigerson Centenary

Dinner in the O’Reilly Hall in March.

With more than 600 in attendance, the

dinner, in association with Ulster Bank and the

GAA, honoured the Sigerson Cup Team of the

Century. Dr Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh acted

as Master of Ceremonies, introducing each

team member or their representative while the

presentation was conducted by Criostóir Ó

Cuana, Uachtarán, Chumann Lúthchleas Gael.

The Team of the Century was congratulated

by President McAleese who also expressed

gratitude to all those who help to “make the

tournament such a success, decade after decade”.

Dr Hugh Brady paid tribute to Dr George

Sigerson and the invocation was given by Peter

Kelly, UCD Gaelic Football Captain. The special

occasion drew to a close with a performance by

the UCD Choral Scholars.

THE SIGERSON CENTENARY DINNER

Honouring The Team Of The Century

21: Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh. 2: Criostóir Ó Cuana, Uachtarán, Chumann Lúthchleas Gael and Mary McAleese, President of Ireland. 3: Peter Kelly. 4: The guests gather.

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The special “robing” ceremony at UCD marked the progression of 240 medical students into their full-time clinical training.

Speaking at the ceremony, Dean of Medicine Professor Bill Powderly highlighted the white coat’s significance as a symbol of the physician’s professional code and the “privilege of being a doctor”. UCD graduate Dr Louise Ivers emphasised this theme in her keynote speech, describing the ceremony as the “crossroads” of student and professional life. Inspired by her work as the Chief of Mission for Partners in Health in Haiti, she encouraged the students to become the “compassionate, mindful and caring physicians of the future”.

Of the students robed, 80 returned to Penang Medical College in Malaysia. The remainder chose to continue their training at UCD through the University’s six major teaching hospitals or

at one of the other affiliated health–care facilities around the

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Gala Reunion. The tours explored the new Medical School while

copies of Farewell to the Terrace were available to remind the 150 guests of their time as undergraduates at Earlsfort Terrace. At the evening’s celebratory dinner, guests were welcomed by UCD Dean of Medicine, Professor Powderly. After the meal, The MGA Patrick Meenan Award was granted to Dr Robert Byrne and the Liam O’Connell Award to Dr Roisin Dolan, while Dr Louise Ivers was presented with the Distinguished Graduate Award.

1: Professor Doyle and Professor Powderly. 2: Class of 1986. 3: Class of 1951. 4: Dr Louise Ivers, Dr Robert Byrne, Dr Roisin Dolan.

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After 76 years at Earlsfort

Terrace, the Kevin Barry

Memorial Window

was unveiled at its new

Belfield location by the Minister for

Education and Skills, Mr Ruairí Quinn

TD, in June. The relocation of this

historic artwork marks the final stage of

UCD’s move to Belfield which began in

1970. Described by UCD President, Dr

Hugh Brady as “an integral part of the

heritage of the University”, the stained

glass window depicts prominent people

and events associated with the Irish

nationalist struggle. Its design, which

includes the UCD crest, emphasises this

important association.

Kevin Barry was a medical student

at UCD in 1920 when he was arrested

and subsequently executed by the

British Army during the War of

Independence at just 18 years old. In

the years following his death, his fellow

UCD students raised funds for the

creation of a memorial window, which

was originally unveiled in 1934 by the

then President of Ireland Eamon de

Valera. Since 2007, alongside the City

of Dublin Skin and Cancer Hospital

Charity, UCD alumni have raised funds

to restore and transfer the window to

Belfield.

At the ceremony, attended by

invited guests and some of Barry’s

own relatives, Mr Quinn observed the

cultural resonance of the memorial:

“It is important that we protect

monuments to the past to remind us all

of what we can achieve as a people even

when faced by the hardest of times.”

HISTORY IN THE MAKINGThe Kevin Barry Window Moves To A New Home At Belfi eld

1: Kevin Barry’s nephew, Kevin Barry Junior; the President of UCD, Dr Hugh Brady; the Minister for Education, Ruairí Quinn TD; and Kevin Barry’s nephew, Michael O’Rahilly. 2: Kevin Barry’s grandnieces, Sinead Barry and Niamh

Barry, viewing the stained glass window. 3. Minister for Education, Ruairí Quinn TD and Kevin Barry’s nephew, Michael O’Rahilly. 4: A detail of the window. 5: Richard O’Rahilly, age 12, views the stained glass window featuring his great–great–grandfather Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, known as “The O’Rahilly”. 6: Kevin Barry’s niece, Ruth Sweetman; his nephew, Michael O’Rahilly; his great–grand nephew, Richard O’Rahilly; and his nephew, Kevin Barry Junior.

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1: Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh and Colm O’Rourke. 2: Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh, Hugh Brady and Colm O’Rourke. 3: Joan, Grace and Anne O’Mahony and Declan Lynch. 4: David and Norita Casey. 5: Eddie and Mary Hegarty. 6: Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh chats to the audience. 7: Anne Marie, Anne and Pat Chapman. 8: Billy McCarthy and Séan Webb. 9: Niamh Campbell and Catherine Macenri.

The iconic voice of GAA, Micheál

Ó Muircheartaigh, spoke to RTÉ

panellist and former GAA player,

Colm O’Rourke, as part of the hugely

popular UCD Alumni Relations’ Characters in

Conversations programme in February. The

now-retired Ó Muircheartaigh, who commentated

on his final game in October 2010, completed a

BA degree in UCD in 1952, before going on to

earn a HDipEd, a DPA and a BComm from the

University. The two men remembered battles

in Devlin Park for the Duke Cup; Paddy Keogh,

who was head porter at Earlsfort Terrace; and

the antics at Sigerson dinners. Members of the

sell-out audience asked the pair their views on a

variety of subjects, including the new rules in the

game, winter training and why hurling is localised.

“Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh is a sporting legend

in Ireland. He truly captured the nation’s heart as a

result of passion for GAA and his humorous turns

of phrase,” remarked Áine Gibbons, UCD

Vice-President for Development.

MICHEÁL Ó MUIRCHEARTAIGHIn Conversation With Colm O’Rourke

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PETER SUTHERLANDIn Conversation With Rory Egan

1: Peter Sutherland in conversation with Rory Egan. 2: Sandra Moran and Jane Kelly. 3: Philip Lee and Laura Reddy. 4: Peter Sutherland with Rory Egan. 5: Grant Leech and Garret FitzGerald. 6: Maruja Sutherland. 7: Elizabeth Gleeson and Cliona DeBhaldraithe-Marsh. 8: Finbar and Jo Costello.9: Ronan and Ursula Owens. 10: Peter Sutherland, Judge Frank O’Donnell, Alan Duggan and Michael McDowell.

MORE THAN 200 ALUMNI MADE THEIR WAY to

the Belfield campus in September 2010 to hear Peter

Sutherland, one of UCD’s most distinguished alumni,

speak to journalist and lawyer Rory Egan. They

kept the audience enthralled, covering a wide range

of topics, from Sutherland’s time as Ireland’s

youngest Attorney General and Europe’s youngest

European Commissioner, to more recent events and

controversies as well as tapping into fond memories of

the alma mater.

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about the Belfield of the 1970s with broadcaster Myles Dungan. The pair

looked back fondly on Friday night debates, bedsit living and The Canterbury

Tales during the November 2010 Characters in Conversation event.

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LEGENDARY RACEHORSE TRAINER DERMOT WELD returned to

UCD 41 years after he graduated to take part in the April 2011 Characters

in Conversation event with RTÉ sports commentator Tracy Piggott.

Weld, who studied veterinary medicine, has saddled big-race winners

across four continents, including all five Irish Classics as well as the Ascot

Gold Cup, the American Derby and the prestigious Melbourne

Cup. Weld remembered his time at UCD and looked back

at his extraordinarily successful career. Vice-President for

Development, Áine Gibbons, said: “Dermot Weld is one of

horse racing’s greatest legends and a superb ambassador for

Ireland. We are delighted to welcome him back.”

1: Dermot Weld and Tracy Piggott. 2: Emmeline Hill, Pieter and Margot Brama. 3: Katie McAleenan and Siobhan McQuillan. 4: Suzanne Naughton and Natasha O’Malley Moore. 5: Dermot Weld in conversation with Tracy Piggott. 6: Dr Walter Halley, Michael Leahy, Professor Michael Gilchrist and Manuel Forero.

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Murphy and Margaret Spelman. 5: Dr Joan Cullen and Bernadette Murdoch. 6: Sinead Kelly, Simon Keogh and Lauren O’Toole. 7: Eileen Hall, Delores Jordan and Anne O’Sullivan. 8: Sheena Savage and Gavin Hannon.

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conferrings at UCD honoured

the five holders of the

Ireland Chair of Poetry:

John Montague (1998-2001), Nuala Ní

Dhomhnaill (2001-2004), Paul Durcan

(2004-2007), Michael Longley (2007-

2010) and Harry Clifton (2010-2013).

Poet Ciaran Carson, Professor of Poetry

at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry

at Queens University Belfast, and Pulitzer

prize-winning American cartoonist and

creator of Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau,

also received honourary doctorates. The

University’s highest award, the Ulysses

Medal, was presented to poet Seamus

Heaney. He stated that the role of the

Ireland Chair of Poetry is “to manifest the

value of poetry within our cultural and

intellectual life, north and south”.

It was thus highly fitting that the

conferrings coincided with the first showing

of Robert Ballagh’s new portrait of UCD’s

most famous graduate James Joyce (BA

1902). The painting now hangs in the UCD

O’Reilly Hall, a commission by Deirdre and

Thomas Lynch via the UCD Foundation.

The President of UCD, Dr Hugh Brady,

noted that, while the writing of both Joyce

and those receiving honorary doctorates

“draws from their Irishness, their messages

transcend the geographical boundary of

the island and strike a note of resonance

that has a truly global reach”.

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2011 EGA Lecturer Dr Lisa Amini, Director, IBM Research and EGA President Michael Loughnane (ESB)

Although the Government Buildings complex on

Merrion Street is one of most important and

most widely recognised buildings in Ireland,

relatively few are aware of its role in the history

of science and technology in the country.

This year marked the building’s centenary; it was opened

by King George V on July 8 1911 to house the Royal College of

Science for Ireland as well as government activities devolved

from London to Dublin. The College was absorbed into

University College Dublin (UCD) in 1926, with science and

engineering research and education continuing in the building

until 1989. From the 1920s the headquarters of the Irish

government were located in the Merrion Street complex

The EGA 2011 Annual Lecture

was delivered in April by Dr

Lisa Amini, Director, IBM

Research–Ireland. Dr Amini’s

illuminating talk on Smarter Cities gave

background on IBM Research’s Smarter

Cities Technology Centre (SCTC) in

Dublin, of which she is the first Director.

The EGA Lecture audience heard from Dr

Amini, an IBM Distinguished Engineer,

how SCTC Researchers based in Dublin

focus on advancing science and technology

for intelligent urban and environmental

systems, with a current focus on

analytics, optimisations, and knowledge

representation for sustainable energy, water,

and transportation. The talk was followed

by a reception, and EGA President Michael

Loughnane (ESB) extended warm thanks

to Dr Amini on behalf of UCD EGA for her

wide-ranging presentation.

UCD EGA’s Annual Lunch was held

again in 2011 in the John Field Room at the

National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace in

May, and was preceded by the Association’s

AGM which saw the election of new

Board member, Peter Brabazon of Forfás

(Programme Director, Discover Science

& Engineering). EGA President Michael

Loughnane welcomed alumni from a wide

range of graduating years to this year’s

lunch, along with guests from sponsoring

organisations including ESB, CRH, and

Engineers Ireland.

ENGINEERINGUCD In Merrion Street – The Building Of The State

If you worked or studied in UCD Merrion Street, we would love to hear from you. Please send your memories and photographs to [email protected] or send an email with your contact details, so that we can keep you up-to-date with news from UCD.

alongside the University facilities.

The story of science and

engineering innovation in Merrion

Street from 1911 to 1989 mirrors

in many ways the story of the country over that time, reflecting and

facilitating national priorities through world wars, the creation of an

independent state and the development of a technology sector known

and respected throughout the world.

Over the course of its lifetime, the building played host to

international research leaders such as Walter Hartley, Vincent Barry,

Dervilla Donnelly and Jim Dooge. It saw thousands of graduates

such as Thomas McLaughlin, Pat Kenny, David O’Reilly and Dervilla

Mitchell begin journeys of discovery that would leave a mark on

Ireland and on the world.

Some of their stories are recounted on www.ucd.ie/merrionstreet

and in the accompanying book, which can be downloaded as a PDF

from the site.

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