Donald Fitzmaurice, a professor of nanomaterials at University College Dublin, and the founder of Nanomat, believes that thin films made of metal-oxide nanoparticles could have a promising future in solar cells and batteries.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

Another promising nanotech company, spawned on the campus of University College in Dublin, is privately owned Ntera .

FORBES: Magazine Article

Ian O'Donnell, of University College Dublin, blames the increase on migration (labourers coming back from London), growing social inequality, and a rapid increase in beer consumption.

ECONOMIST: Murder

It is not only in the debating halls of Trinity College and University College Dublin where lively opinion-bashing can be heard.

BBC: Dublin's underground literary scene

Mark Keane, Chair of Computer Science in University College Dublin, and Aaron Gerow, an MSc candidate in computer science, used a computer model to plot distributions of words from financial articles published between 2006 and 2010.

FORBES: Study: Financial Reporters' Bubbly Word Choice Predicts Stock Market Bubbles

Professors Don Bergh from the University of Denver and Patrick Gibbons from University College Dublin set out to examine exactly this question.

FORBES: Does the stock market appreciate management consultants?

Dr Eoin O'Malley, who lectures in politics at University College Dublin, suggests Sinn Fein has the added burden of managing two constituencies on this issue.

BBC: Abortion on Sinn Fein conference agenda

Former Republic of Ireland Under-21 international Sammon began his career with University College Dublin before moving to Derry City.

BBC: Conor Sammon turns down Scunthorpe move

By the time he got his degree, from University College, Dublin, in 1902, the family was living in the northern suburb of Cabra.

NEWYORKER: Silence, Exile, Punning