The University Observer

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The University Observer

University Observer, April 18, 2005
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Editor(s) Rob Lowney
Location Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
Founded 1994
Frequency Fortnightly
Circulation 10,000
Format Broadsheet
Mailing address UCD Student Centre, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Web address http://www.ucd.ie/observer/

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.[1] and The Irish Independent[2][3]

The paper was founded by dual editors Pat Leahy, now of the Sunday Business Post, and Dara Ó Briain, now of BBC and RTÉ comic fame. It has provided a number of notable Irish journalists their first break, including Roddy O'Sullivan, 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), Ciara Plunkett(Kfm),Emmet Ryan (Sunday Business Post), Sorcha Nic Mhathuna (The Daily Star), and Stephen Carroll (RTÉ News).

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The Observer and its contributors have consistently won a number of Oxegen Student Media Awards.[4][5]

The University Observer has won the Oxegen Smedia Newspaper of the Year Award more than any other student newspaper in Ireland.[6]

The University Observer is the only Irish student paper to win an award in the Best Newspaper category at the Guardian Student Media Awards, which are held annually. The Observer took runner-up spot for the Best Newspaper in 2002 (Volume 8).

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