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The University Observer is a broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout campus of University College Dublin fortnightly. It was launched in the early 1990s by University College Dublin Students' Union and stories from it are regularly quoted in national newspapers such as the Irish Times [1] [2] and The Irish Independent [3] [4].

The paper was founded by dual editors Pat Leahy, now of the Sunday Business Post, and Dara O'Briain, now of BBC and RTÉ comic fame. It has provided a number of journalists their first break, including [Roddy O'Sullivan], now of the Irish Times, [Declan Walsh], now of the Guardian, [Shane Hegarty] (The Irish Times), Alan Torney (RTÉ Radio 1), Sinead Ingoldsby (BBC NI), Daniel McConnell (Sunday Independent), Juno McEnroe (Irish Examiner), Steve Cummins, now editor of NME Ireland, Samantha Libreri (RTÉ News), Emmet Ryan (Sunday Business Post), Sorcha Nic Mhathuna (The Daily Star), and Stephen Carroll (RTÉ News).

Awards

The Observer and its contributors have consistently won a number of Oxegen Student Media Awards.[5] [6]

The University Observer has won the Oxegen Smedia Newspaper of the Year Award more than any other student newspaper in Ireland. [7]

External links

http://www.ucd.ie/observer Official website of The University Observer

http://netsoc.ucd.ie/~observer/ — former student-run website of The University Observer

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