33 Notable alumni of
Dublin City University
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Dublin City University is 1212th in the world, 423rd in Europe, and 5th in Ireland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 33 notable alumni from Dublin City University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Laura Whitmore
- Occupations
- modelradio personalityactortelevision presenter
- Biography
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Laura Whitmore is an Irish media personality and model based in London. She was a video jockey for MTV in 2008, and has since presented television shows, such as This Morning (2014), Survival of the Fittest (2018) and Love Island (2020–2022). In 2020, Whitmore became a team captain on the comedy panel show Celebrity Juice. In 2023, Laura hosted her first ITV1 chat show 'Laura Whitmore's Breakfast Show' and released her own ITVX documentary series 'Laura Whitmore Investigates'.
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John Connolly
- Occupations
- writernovelistscreenwriterplaywrightjournalist
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John Connolly is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker.
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Clare Daly
- Occupations
- peace activistpoliticianpropagandist
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Clare Daly is an Irish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the Dublin constituency since July 2019. She is a member of Independents 4 Change, part of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL.
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Tadhg Furlong
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Tadhg Vincent Furlong is an Irish professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for United Rugby Championship club Leinster and the Ireland national team.
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Jamie Heaslip
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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James Heislip is an Irish former rugby union player who played for Leinster and Ireland. He played as a number 8. Heislip earned 95 caps for Ireland during his international career from 2006 to 2017, making him one of the most capped players in Irish national team history.
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Helen McEntee
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Helen McEntee is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Minister for Justice since June 2020. Between April to November 2021 and November 2022 to June 2023, she was a minister without portfolio during two periods of maternity leave. She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath East constituency since 2013. She previously served as Minister of State for European Affairs from 2017 to 2020 and Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People from 2016 to 2017.
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Stephen Cluxton
- Occupations
- Gaelic football playerassociation football playerteacher
- Biography
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Stephen Cluxton is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays as a goalkeeper at senior level for the Dublin county team.
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Angela Nagle
- Occupations
- journalistwriteropinion journalist
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Angela Nagle is an American-born Irish academic and non-fiction writer who has written for The Baffler, Jacobin, and others. She is the author of the book Kill All Normies, published by Zero Books in 2017, which discusses the role of the internet in the rise of the alt-right and incel movements. Nagle describes the alt-right as a dangerous movement, but she also criticizes aspects of the left that have, she says, contributed to the alt-right's rise. Since 2021, she has been publishing articles on a wide range of personal, political and cultural topics via the online publishing platform Substack.
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Michael Murphy
- Occupations
- Gaelic football player
- Biography
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Michael Murphy is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays as a full forward for Glenswilly and, formerly, for the Donegal county team, which he captained from December 2010 until his retirement from inter-county football in November 2022. His predecessors as Donegal players, such as Manus Boyle, Brendan Devenney and Anthony Molloy, regard Murphy as the county's greatest ever footballer. Outside his county he is often regarded as one of the sport's all-time best players. With more than 500 points, Murphy is Donegal's all-time record scorer and he is also the county's top goalscorer, with a points-per-game average that is higher even than Martin McHugh.
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Seán Ó Fearghaíl
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- politicianfarmer
- Biography
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Seán Ó Fearghaíl is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as the Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann since March 2016. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare South constituency since 2002. He was a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from 2000 to 2002.
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Neil Delamere
- Occupations
- comedian
- Biography
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Neil Delamere is an Irish comedian. He is a regular on the BBC Northern Ireland television show The Blame Game, and the reigning BBC Fighting Talk Champion of Champions.
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Seán Óg Ó hAilpín
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- Gaelic football playerhurler
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Seán Óg Ó hAilpín is a Fijian-Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer.
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Sarah Rowe
- Occupations
- Australian rules football player
- Biography
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Sarah Rowe is a triple code sportswoman. She is a former Republic of Ireland women's association football international. In addition to association football, Rowe has also played two other football codes at a senior level. She has played ladies' Gaelic football for Mayo and women's Australian rules football for Collingwood in the AFLW. At club level, Rowe has played association football for Castlebar Celtic, Raheny United, Shelbourne, Bohemians in the Women's National League and for Melbourne Victory in the A-League Women. Rowe was a member of the Republic of Ireland U19 team that won their group at the 2014 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship and qualified for the semi-finals. In 2016, she was also a member of the Shelbourne Ladies team that won a Women's National League/FAI Women's Cup double. In 2023, she returned to association football briefly playing for Melbourne Victory and then for Bohemians.
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Donna Traynor
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Donna Traynor was born in October 1964 and is a journalist and broadcaster in Northern Ireland. She is best known as the former main anchor of BBC Newsline.
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Catherine Murphy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Catherine Murphy is an Irish Social Democrats politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare North constituency since the 2011 general election, and previously from 2005 to 2007. She previously served as founding joint Leader of the Social Democrats from 2015 to 2023. In February 2023, she announced that she would stand down as co-leader of the Social Democrats.
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Bernard Jackman
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Bernard Jackman is an Irish former rugby union player who played for Connacht, Leinster and Sale Sharks. At international level, he has also played for Ireland. He released his autobiography, Blue Blood in 2011. He was dismissed as the head coach of Welsh Pro14 side the Dragons in December 2018. Jackman is the current head coach of Bective Rangers FC.
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Samantha Barry
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Samantha Barry is the current editor-in-chief for Glamour magazine.
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David Robert Grimes
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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David Robert Grimes is an Irish science writer with professional training in physics and cancer biology, who contributes to several media outlets on questions of science and society. He has a diverse range of research interests and is a vocal advocate for increased public understanding of science. He was the 2014 recipient of the Sense about Science/Nature Maddox Prize for "Standing up for Science in the face of Adversity". He is a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
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Mary Banotti
- Occupations
- politiciannurse
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Mary Elizabeth Banotti is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 1984 to 2004.
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Noel Curran
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- television producerinternational forum participant
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Noel Curran is an Irish CEO, Chairperson and a former radio and television producer and journalist who has been the Director-General of the European Broadcasting Union since October 2017. He previously served as the Director-General of RTÉ (Ireland's national broadcaster) from 2011 to 2016. He has worked in the Editorial, Management and Commercial areas of media.
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Noel Rock
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Noel Rock is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency from 2016 to 2020. He previously served as Chair of the Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government from 2019 to 2020.
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Lorraine Twohill
- Occupations
- international forum participant
- Biography
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Lorraine Twohill is an Irish marketer who is the CMO of Google.
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Tom Clonan
- Born in
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Ireland - Occupations
- military personnel
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Thomas Martin Clonan is an Irish senator, security analyst, author and retired Irish Army Captain. He was elected to Seanad Eireann in March 2022 in the 2022 Dublin University by-election.
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Alan Farrell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alan Farrell is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Fingal constituency since 2016, and previously from 2011 to 2016 for the Dublin North constituency. He previously served as Chair of the Committee on Children and Youth Affairs from 2016 to 2020.
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Philip Moriarty
- Enrolled in Dublin City University
- 1990-1993 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Philip Moriarty is an Irish physicist and professor of physics at the University of Nottingham. He is known for his work on nanostructures and his collaboration with Brady Haran on the YouTube video series Sixty Symbols.
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Paddy Burke
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paddy Burke is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel since 1993. He previously served as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from 2011 to 2016 and Leas-Chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from 2002 to 2011.
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Bernard Brogan
- Occupations
- Gaelic football player
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Bernard Brogan is a Gaelic footballer from the St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh club who previously played for the Dublin county team. He is originally from the Battery Heights. From a famous footballing family, he is the son of former All-Ireland winning and All Star player Bernard Brogan Snr and is the brother of former Dublin players Alan and Paul. His uncle Jim was also an inter-county footballer for Dublin. Alongside most of his family, Brogan has attended St. Declan's College on Navan Road.
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Kathryn Reilly
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kathryn Reilly is an Irish Sinn Féin politician and former member of Seanad Éireann.
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Ruairí Ó Murchú
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ruairí Ó Murchú is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency since the 2020 general election.
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Úna-Minh Chaomhánach
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- 1991-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Úna-Minh Kavanagh, is an Irish travel writer, journalist, and social media manager.
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Cathal Gurrin
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Cathal Gurrin is an Irish Professor and lifelogger. He is the Head of the Adapt Centre at Dublin City University, a Funded Investigator of the Insight Centre, and the director of the Human Media Archives research group. He was previously the deputy head of the School of Computing.
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Donal Hughes
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- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Donal Hughes is an Irish sport broadcaster, influencer, and athlete. Originally a sports writer, Hughes turned his hobby into an alternative career when he becamd ths golfing "SpinDoctor" with the Irish Examiner. Later, he became head of the satirical golf website GolfCentralDaily.com. He also curates social media and works as an influencer for sports companies involved in Golf, Gaelic Football, and Triathlon. In addition, he is the chief equipment reviewer of Golfbidder, with over 9.6 million views on his YouTube videos as of late 2020. He holds a degree in chemistry and biology.
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Tadhg Cooke
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
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Tadhg Cooke is an Irish musician, also known by his stage name "Tiger Cooke".
