EGA Panel Discussion on Digital Future for Ireland

On October 14th next at 6pm we are hosting our Autumn Panel Discussion on 'What will the Digital Future mean for Ireland?' in the Clinton Auditorium, Belfield. To see a copy of the event brochure link here.

Our Keynote Speaker this year is the Chief Executive of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) Dr Brian Motherway.   SEAI is the state body charged with transforming Ireland into a society based on sustainable energy structures, technologies and practices.

This year, we are privileged to have as Expert Panel Anne O'Leary CEO Vodafone, Ronan Harris Vice President Google Europe, Middle East & Asia, Dr Eleni Pratsini Director IBM Research and Dr Helen McBreen Investment Director at Atlantic Bridge Capital.  

 

 

According to the World Economic Forum, Ireland’s digital economy is expected to be worth €21.1bn by 2020, making up some 10% of GDP and creating 150,000 jobs.  It is clear that no sector of the Irish economy and no profession or job will remain untouched by the future digital advance.

There is little doubt that The Internet of Things (IoT) will represent a paradigm shift in our way of living by 2020 and beyond when some 35 - 50 billion devices will be connected and an entirely automated and interconnected world by 2050. Urban populations are predicted to grow by an estimated 2.3 billion people over the next 40 years and as much as 70% of the world population will live in our cities and towns.

The business areas most impacted by this transformation will be Communications, Energy, Buildings, Commerce, Healthcare, Food, Entertainment/Music, Transport, Water, Environment and Manufacturing. The integration of all of these systems will represent the Smart City model. In fact it is predicted that there will be more devices connected than there are people on the planet.

We need to prepare ourselves, our families and our businesses for this digital future and the smarter systems and cities that will be transformed. On October 14th next we are pleased to have in UCD some of the leading Irish and global players in the ICT business to give their take on the dynamic and fascinating future that we face.  At the same time, our world will still be run by humans who strive for sustainable employment, a high quality environment and healthy lifestyles assisted by tools of the digital age.

What is the Internet of Things? What are ‘wearables’? What will future Smart Cities resemble? What is Big Data? What is Cloud Computing? How critical are sensor devices to monitor behaviour? What is Assisted Health? What is an Ambient Assisted City? What are Digital traces of human/city interactions?  What is the Sharing Economy?  Collaborative Consumption?

All these questions and more will be answered at this ambitious event in UCD next month. 

This live topic is expected to attract a large audience so please register on ega@ucd.ie to secure your place.  Please note you do not have to be a graduate of UCD to attend this event but you do need to preregister with us.

 

 

UCD Engineering Class of 1975 Celebrate

The UCD Engineering Class of 1975 celebrated their 40th reunion in the Shelbourne Hotel on Friday night last.  There were 65 former classmates in attendance from all over the world some of whom travelled from UK, other parts of Europe, Middle East, North America and Australia. Many had not seen their colleagues since graduation day on July 14th 1975! That was in Earlsfort Terrace for conferring at the time and when the UCD School of Engineering was then in Merrion St. - now the Taoiseach's Office in Government Buildings.

Ed Hanlon - Principal Organiser

The Reunion event was judged by attendees to be a great success organised to a huge extent by Eddie Hanlon supported by Colm Bannon and to a lesser extent myself.



We had the dinner tables in the Shelbourne appropriately named after former Professors and Lecturers in each discipline - Dooge, de Courcy and Dowley for Civil, Morrissey for Electrical, Timoney and McCabe for Mechanical and O'Donnell for Chemical.

I would not normally post an EGA blog on a particular UCD Engineering Class Reunion but this one was fairly unique in lots of ways - firstly 4 of the 12 UCD EGA Presidents to date came from the Class of 1975 - Colm Bannon Civil (1999 - 2001), Simon Kelly Mechanical (2004 - 2008), Michael Loughnane Electrical (2008 - 2012) and myself Civil (2012 - 2016).

4 EGA Presidents from Class of 1975
L to R: Simon Kelly, Michael Loughnane, PJ Rudden & Colm Bannon

Because we were all taught in UCD Merrion St, by kind permission of the Department of the Taoiseach we were given a specially organised guided tour of Government Buildings prior to dinner in the Shelbourne. We were very privileged that our guide for the tour was Marc McManus who has been in the Taoiseach's Office since 2001 and is highly informed on the recent history of Government Buildings.

Department of the Taoiseach, formerly UCD School of Engineering

We marvelled at the iconic refurbishment of the building that was once our UCD School of Engineering, now transformed by the OPW to meet the needs of Ireland's Head of Government, where Taoiseach Enda Kenny greeted Queen Elizabeth in May 2011. This was very fitting as the then Royal College of Science (later UCD) was opened in Summer 1911 by her grandfather King George V almost exactly 100 hundred years earlier.

 

The building was integrated into UCD in the 1920s. It became Irish Government Buildings in 1991 after UCD Engineering moved to Belfield (and partly back to Earlsfort Terrace for Civil Engineering and then later to Newstead Clonskeagh close to Belfield Campus where Civil currently remains).

Also notable visitors to the building in recent years were US President Clinton, South African President Nelson Mandela, British Prime Ministers Major, Blair and Cameron and other world leaders.

We greatly admired the Evie Hone window depicting 'The Four Green Fields' up the steps inside the front door, the Sycamore Meeting Room and the Government Press Centre where all major press conferences are held. We visited the once well-frequented canteen down the steps from the foyer which is now the Press Briefing Room. Oh the memories came flooding back ... 

Morrissey Table: (Front Row L-R) Paddy Cully, John Power and Brian Fitzsimons.
(Back Row L-R) Michael Loughnane, Paul Murphy, Niall O'Reilly and Niall Lynch.

Eddie Hanlon welcomed all his colleagues and especially thanked our Sponsors.  This were in alphabetical order - CRH, Clifton Scannell Emerson, ESB, FIMAK, Dirk Folens, Irish Cement, Mott McDonald, Nicholas O'Dwyer, O'Dwyer  Wines and RPS.  On behalf of UCD EGA, I thanked and congratulated Eddie Hanlon in particular and proposed a toast to UCD to which Professor Michael Bruen, School of Civil Engineering responded.



de Courcy Table: (Front Row L-R) Sean McCarthy, Colm Bannon and Gerard Dalton.
(Back Row L-R) Gerard McGuire, Peter Fagan, Gerry Noonan, Frank McGovern, Michael Bruen and Tom Duffy.

Michael thanked the organising committee and briefed us on developments in UCD College of Engineering since we graduated including the many organisational and accommodation changes affecting Civil and Biosystems Engineering in particular.



O'Donnell Table: (Front Row L-R) Ed Simpson, Chris Kelly and Alan Barrett.
(Back Row L_R) James O'Brien, Joe Watson, Aidan Daly, Joe Huggard, Derek O'Neill and Alan Dixon.

In my few words I addressed the variety of enterprise and events undertaken by the EGA.  We also cooperated with Engineers Ireland on launch of our Gender Balance Report last Autumn. The need for greater gender balance was not recognised in the 1970s and it still needs awareness raising with students, teachers and parents though the gender balance improved greatly in the 80s and 90s.   Only now do the public appreciate the critical role that Engineers play in 'making the world go round' in every sense from waking in the morning to day's end in terms of services we now take for granted -iPhones, Water, Energy, Transport, quality of Environment and so on.

Timoney Table: (Front Row L-R) Paddy Callaghan, Pat Connolly and Pat Murphy.
(Back Row L-R)  Donal Waddell, Simon Kelly, Declan Williams, John Finn, Henry Morris and Richard Berney.

I mentioned that for the first time UCD has a civil engineer President Professor Andrew Deeks and an electronics engineer as UCD Vice President Professor Orla Feely responsible for Research Innovation and Impact. I spoke briefly about the slow but sure economic recovery now impacting positively on job creation in engineering especially in the civil and construction areas which suffered severe recession until recently.

Dooge Table: (Front Row L-R) Joe Collins, Bernard Murray and David O'Flaherty.
(Back Row L-R) Tom Beglin, Ciaran de Bhaldraithe, Larry Wolohan, Ed Hanlon, Donal O'Dwyer and Jim Hayes.

We were very grateful to our many sponsor firms but special thanks goes to colleague Donal O'Dwyer who supplied the red wine from his Clara Valley vineyard in Adelaide, Southern Australia.

McCabe Table: (Front Row L-R) Liam Nugent, Dirk Folens and Russell Kelly.
(Back Row L-R) Pearse Buckley, Kevin Barry, Iggy O'Kane, Paul O'Duffy, Joe Byrne, Conor O'Donovan and Paul Dolan.

There was a further social event with partners on Saturday night in Oil Can Harry's in Mount Street and golf in Woodbrook on Monday.







Dowley Table: (Front Row L-R) PJ Rudden, Seamus O'Sullivan and Damien Treanor.
(Back Row L-R) John O'Rourke, Rick Crowe, Ciaran McGill, Martin Kelly, Frank Clarke and Sean Carey.







EGA Gold Medal Ceremony is Best Attended to Date

Last Monday August 31th was UCD Conferring Day for engineering and architectural graduates together with their proud parents and friends. Each year in advance of the main ceremony, the EGA host a prize winning event for the highest achievers in each discipline.

 

This was originally only involving EGA Gold Medals each sponsored by an engineering company - Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical and Biosystems Engineering. Increasingly there is now a far greater variety of specialisms eg Biomedical, Structures with Architecture, Business and Engineering. In addition there are also scholarships, travel bursaries, prizes donated by a large host of companies who all wish to endow UCD and its best students with coveted awards.

Left to Right: John Waldron, Chemical Engineering (father of Conor), Richard Jenkinson, Structural Engineering with Architecture,
Darragh Hanlon, Civil Engineering, Professor David Fitzpatrick, UCD Dean of Engineering, Shane Gubbins, Engineering with Business,
PJ Rudden, EGA President, Irene Danti Lopez, Cathy Swanton, Biomedical Engineering and Cillian Briody, Architecture

 

This year's EGA event was the best endowed and attended event to date with a total of 18 Awards to complement the 9 Gold Medals in Architecture and the principal Engineering disciplines - Civil, Structural with Architecture, Chemical, Electrical, Electronic, Biomedical, Mechanical, Engineering with Business. These medals were awarded to Cillian Briody, Darragh Hanlon, Richard Jenkinson, Conor Waldron, Irene Danti Lopez, Cathy Swanton, Niall Donnelly, Eanna McHugh and Shane Gubbins respectively.

 

The sponsoring companies of the Gold Medals were Arup (2 awards) for Architecture and  for Structural with Architecture, RPS for Civil, BMS for Chemical and Process, SSE Airtricity for Electrical, S3 for Electronic, Crospon for Biomedical, CRH for Mechanical, FDT for Biosystems (from 2016) and new Sponsors Abbvie for Engineering with Business.
 

Other Sponsors for Scholarships, Bursaries and Prizes were Roughan and O'Donovan, Martin McAdam, PM Group, Mark Carthy, Deloitte, Institution of Mechanical Engineering, Cylon and Xilinx.

 

It was a tremendously successful event all due to the generosity of our growing cohort of Sponsors who wish to grow their corporate relationship with UCD as a centre of academic excellence.

Deloitte Master in Engineering Management Medal winner
Keith Kavanagh & David Hearn, Managing Partner Deloitte

Fionán de Barra, Architecture Graduates Association Treasurer,
Cillian Briody, winner of Arup AGA Architecture Medal &
sponsor Fergus Monaghan, Director Arup

EGA RPS Civil Engineering medal winner Darragh Hanlon
& Larry O'Toole, Director RPS Group

 



EGA SSE Airtricity Electrical Engineering medal winner
Irene Danti Lopez & Jillian Saunders, Marketing Manager at SSE Airtricity

 



EGA Crospon Biomedical Engineering medal winner
Cathy Swanton & Dr. Eoin O'Cearbhaill,
Biomedical Engineering Programme Director



EGA S3 Electronic Engineering medal winner
Ronan Scally & Mike Murray, S3 Business Manager

EGA AbbVie Engineering with business Medal Winner Shane Gubbins
& Angela Haran, AbbVie Senior Talent Acquistion Specialist

Roughan O'Donovan Prize winner Conor Lyons
& Séamus Mac Gearailt, RO'D Director

EGA CRH Mechanical Engineering medal winner
Niall Donnelly  & Jack Golden, CRH Organisation
Development Director

Norah Gallagher, mother of Pat McAdam Scholarship awardee
Colm Ó Riada & Dr. Kate McAdam





John Waldron, father of PM Group Kevin Kelly Design Awardee
Conor Waldron & Alex Sweeney, PM Group's Process Group Manager

Carthy Graduate Research Project awardee Niamh Mac Fhionnlaoich &
Prof. Eoin Casey, Head of UCD School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering







Carthy Travel Awardee Amy O'Keeffe & Dr. Patricia Kieran,
UCD School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering

Cillian Hayde, winner of Cylon Award for Excellence
(Electrical Engineering Project)
& Seán Giblin, Cylon Managing Director







Bringing the Berkeley students home

Clockwise from top left: Eimear Walsh, Olivia Burke, Ashley Donohue,
Lorcán Miller, Niccolai Schuster and Eoghan Culligan

 

'They lived and laughed and loved and left - we will not forget them' said UCD President Andrew Deeks quoting lines from Joyce's Finegans Wake at the memorial service held in Belfield last Friday for the young Dublin students who died tragically at Berkeley California while there on J1 visas for the summer.

 

I was away last Tuesday when I heard the tragic news on social media that evening and I immediately placed a message of profound sympathy on Twitter to the families and friends of the six students on behalf of UCD EGA. I could see that President Deeks was there before me clearly empathising with the entirely unexpected tragedy affecting the global UCD community. 'We lost six wonderful young people, and the lives of a generation of students were completely changed' he said and then quoting fittingly from  UCD alumnus James Joyce in Finegan's Wake as the students died tragically on Bloomsday June 16th 2015.

 

The national outpouring of grief was huge, immediate and heartfelt. Flags on Government Buildings were lowered to half mast. The Irish Government sent Diaspora Minister Jimmy Deenihan to San Francisco who having attended the scene and met grieving family and friends called the six students 'the Children of Ireland' as they had brought the Irish global community together with this sad event. Aer Lingus is kindly flying them home with their parents and relatives as a courtesy to Dublin this weekend for burial this Tuesday and Wednesday.

 

This was not the start of an exciting new life experience in Summer 2015 in a welcoming country that the students and their parents expected. All due apparently to defective timbers on an apartment block balcony with gave way to some 10 students who fell four stories to their death and terrible injury. It positively galls me as a civil engineer that the building regulatory system in California allowed these defects to go unchecked on a relatively new structure.

 

I have empathy with how their young lives were shattered as I too was a J1 student from UCD who aged 19 went to NewYork to spent the summer working and enjoying US life in Manhattan and upstate New York. I remember flying over the Statue of Liberty and landing in JFK and being met by USIT officials who brought us to a hotel off Times Square for 'an orientation course'. Then onto a job in a condo on Central Park West next to the block where John Lennon was shot and where TV detective series Kojak was filmed. Then up to the Catskills Mountains where many Irish New Yorkers had vacation homes when the August daytime humidity exceeded 90 degrees in Manhattan.

 

It was a trip in a lifetime that I could never forget and therefore I was deeply touched by the events in Berkeley. Hoping that the injured students make a good recovery and again deepest sympathy to the bereaved family and friends.

 

I will end with the most poignant but beautiful message I read on social media this weekend. It was written as a tribute from the girlfriend of 21-year-old Eoghan Culligan who died in the tragedy. Sarah McCarthy grappling for words to express how she felt, simply exclaimed : 'See you on the other side, my boy'. It was perhaps for her a message that had its own consolation.

 

 

Nine Presidents bid farewell to Director General of Engineers Ireland

Last Monday night there was a very special occasion. The current President and Director General of Engineers Ireland presented a Gold Presidential Pin to eight of his predecessors commencing with John McGowan (2006/07) up to the current President Bill Grimson (2015/16).  It was a unique occasion where nine past Presidents and current President paid tribute to John Power who has been our Director General for the past 8 years.

 

Before this event on the same evening I chaired a meeting of the EGA Board in Belfield UCD. There we discussed and agreed on a theme for the 2015 Autumn Panel Discussion 'What the Digital Economy 2020 means for Engineering in Ireland' to be led by a senior Minister and supported by a panel of 4 Irish experts drawn from the principal ICT disciplines. We hope to have this event held on campus sometime around mid October subject to availability of speakers.

 

We also set up an EGA Board Subcommittee to work on the Growing of Corporate Membership chaired by Dr Aisling Harkin together with Prof David Fitzpatrick, Tina Pittock and George Young.

 

Back to Engineers Ireland later that evening. It was a unique occasion as the photograph below shows. Unfortunately two of our recent female Presidents Anne Butler (2005/06) and Regina Moran (2014/2015) were unavoidably absent abroad on business. 

 

The former Presidents present were John McGowan (2006/07), Jack Golden (2007/08), Jim Browne (2008/09), Chris Horn (2009/10), Martin Lowery (2010/11), P J Rudden (2011/12), Michael Phillips (2012/13), John O'Dea (2013/14) and current President Bill Grimson.  John Power Director General was also present has served in that position since 2007  and has decided to step down after 8 very fruitful years. He will be replaced by Caroline Spillane current CEO of the Irish Medical Council next month.

 

 

Front Row: Bill Grimson, John Power, Michael Phillips, John O'Dea
2nd Row: Chris Horn, Martin Lowery, PJ Rudden
Back Row: Jack Golden, John McGowan and Jim Browne

 

UCD Student Scoops Prestigious European Award

Killian McKenna, a UCD PhD student from Dublin, and member of the UCD Engineering Graduates Association Board, has fought off competition from students from across Europe to win a prestigious European award in Berlin.

Killian, who is representing the all-island electricity sector at a European level, was awarded the 2015 EURELECTRIC Student Award. At the official award ceremony in Berlin, he presented his winning submission to the 400 delegates.

 

Pat O'Doherty, ESB Chief Executive, Killian McKenna, and Hans ten Berge, Secretary General of EURELECTRIC - the European Electricity Association 

Aged 25 and from Glenageary, Killian was chosen as the Electricity Association of Ireland (EAI) entrant for this year’s Award. It followed his success in the national competition sponsored by ESB in which students from Northern Ireland and Ireland participated.

Entrants to the European stage of the competition were invited to submit an essay with the title ‘Dinosaurs of the past or innovators of the future? Designing digital strategies for electricity companies to engage domestic customers.’ An expert panel judged Killian’s entry to be the overall winner from among those entered across Europe.

EAI Chief Executive Owen Wilson said: “We’re delighted to see Killian win this award. It’s a wonderful recognition of the standard of young graduates on the island, on a par with those across Europe. Delivering sustainable energy is critical for the future of all our economies and the environment and it’s wonderful that we have a new generation of people, like Killian, with the knowledge and enthusiasm to help solve some of the many challenges facing the industry.”

Killian, a PhD student at the Electricity Research Centre at University College Dublin (UCD), said: “I’m thrilled to receive this award. It’s a real pleasure to represent my island and our electricity industry in Europe. I’ve found the whole experience extremely thought provoking and enjoyable. I’ll be leaving Berlin with lots of ideas, which I hope to be able to apply to my own research.”

ESB Chief Executive, Pat O’Doherty added: “I would like to congratulate Killian on winning this coveted award. We at ESB are immensely proud to see such talent from Ireland being recognised on the international stage. The 2015 EURELECTRIC Student Award is just the beginning for Killian and we wish him enormous success in his career.”

Introducing the award Hildegarde Mueller, Secretary General of the German electricity industry association said “the finalists today are the future of the industry. They will provide the innovative solutions to the challenges of delivering a sustainable, secure and affordable energy supply”.

EURELECTRIC is the sector association which represents the common interests of the electricity industry at a pan-European level. EAI is the representative body for the electricity sector operating within the Single Electricity Market (SEM) on the island of Ireland. 

Killian’s own research looks at the potential impacts for the distribution network of customers taking greater control over their electricity demand.

UCD Vice President Orla Feely wins 2015 EGA Distinguished Graduate Award

The UCD Vice President Professor Orla Feely was a worthy winner of the 2015 EGA Distinguished Graduate Award presented at our Annual Dinner in The National Concert Hall last week. At the same event the Founder of the EGA Professor John Kelly was presented with an EGA Lifetime Achievement Award.

EGA founder Professor John Kelly, EGA President P.J. Rudden and UCD Vice President Professor Orla Feely, Winner of the 2015 Distinguished Graduate Award

The EGA Distinguished Graduate Award recognises a UCD graduate in active service who is making an outstanding contribution to Irish Society. This contribution can be in the fields of Public Policy Development or in Entrepreneurship, Manufacturing, Information Technology, Research Innovation or Job Creation with a strong public profile who can act as a role model for young members of the profession.

Orla Feely shares her memories of UCD as a student

Professor Orla Feely is UCD Vice President for Research Innovation and Impact and was Chair of the Irish Research Council from 2012 to 2015 set up by Government to support research across a broad range of scholarship in any academic discipline including Engineering, Science, Business, Law, Medicine, Humanities and Social Science. During her three years the IRC supported the work of more than 1,400 researchers and made 4,000 awards, about 3,000 of them in support of PhDs and Masters students.

Since becoming UCD Vice President Orla has supported President Andrew Deeks in the new UCD Strategy 2015 - 2020. Only last week the Taoiseach launched the latest UCD study 'Delivering Impact' showing the huge economic and educational impact of Ireland's largest university. UCD currently has 30,000 students some 13% of them international. It has a total monetary value of some €1.3 billion to the Irish economy generated by UCD and its students.

Orla qualified with an Hons BE Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1986. She then went to Berkeley University California US where she obtained an MS and PhD in electrical engineering.

EGA President P.J. Rudden, UCD Vice President Professor Orla Feely and UCD Professor Tom Brazil

She joined UCD as Lecturer in 1992 graduating to Professor of Electronic Engineering in 2010. She became a Fellow of IEEE in 2009, a Fellow of Engineers Ireland by Presidential Invitation in 2012, a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering in 2013 and on the following day to this event she was formally admitted to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy - Ireland's highest academic accolade.

Also at the Annual Dinner we presented the Founder of the UCD Engineering Graduates Association Professor Emeritus John Kelly with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his achievement in setting up the EGA in 1980. He had the vision to see the benefit of closer university cooperation with industry to further research and innovation and thus set up the University Industry Centre (UIC) with funds raised from engineering graduates and firms.

John Kelly remembers his time as Dean of Engineering and the move from Merrion St. to Belfield

The UIC was officially opened by Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald in May 1985 and this in turn contributed to the establishment of NovaUCD and NexusUCD, which now successfully incubate and nurture emerging new spin out and spin in companies which create value added products and jobs for the Irish economy.

John Kelly was UCD Dean of Engineering from 1979 until 1986 when he became UCD Registrar and was later Professor of Chemical Engineering.

The Annual Dinner in the ambiance of the John Field Room in National Concert Hall was a great success, thanks mainly to the generosity of our many Sponsors - Coillte, CRH, Energia, Engineers Ireland, ESB, RPS and Siemens.

P.J. Rudden welcomes the attendance in National Concert Hall

Also, we were delighted to be joined again by EGA Board Member Sean Murphy and friends and by a full table of the BE Class of 1983 led by former first EGA Secretary Clodagh O'Donnell and colleagues.

The Class of 1983 led by Clodagh O'Donnell (fourth from left)

Jane O'Callaghan, Sarah Lynn and Mary O'Carroll

Gary O'Callaghan and Greg Duggan from Siemens

Apart from our Founder John Kelly, we had the honour of four former EGA Presidents with us - Dr Liam Connellan, Pat Mercer, Tony O'Brien and Michael Loughnane. Indeed two of them Liam and Pat were previous recipients of the EGA Distinguished Graduate Awards.

Past and Current Presidents of EGA: Michael Loughnane, Liam Connellan, P.J. Rudden, Tony O'Brien and Pat Mercer

It was a highly social occasion as the photographs clearly show. We hope to grow this event further next year with further increased Corporate Member involvement. We are also hopeful of having the pleasure again of the lively 1983 class or and any other past BE Class who will use the event to meet old friends and colleagues while recognising an outstanding graduate of national stature.

Sarah McFarlane, Sylvia Kenna and Dee Keogh from Engineers Ireland

Ciara Murphy RPS, Anne Marie McCague EirGrid and Neasa Kane-Fine RPS

I was proud indeed opening last Saturday's Irish Times to find the photograph of our 2015 Distinguished Graduate at her induction to the Royal Irish Academy on Friday. It all seems so right and timely as we look forward to the continued leadership of Vice President Orla Feely supporting President Andrew Deeks in guiding UCD to being truly Ireland's Global University.

Majella Henchion, Ellen Diskin and Derek Hynes from ESB