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UCD2010 - 2011 CONNECTIONS alumni magazine Advocates Abroad SPORTING HEROES A LIFE OF CRIME working in forensic science Suds’ Law Peter Sutherland on Europe, the Economy and Education UCD2010-2011 connections alumni magazine CONTENTS laW science 10 tHe supreMes 52 tHe tipping Some of Ireland’s Big 4 point Wigs went to UCD Tackling climate change on the 14 advocates home front abroad The lure of law overseas 56 tHere Will be sHoWers 18 a liFe oF criMe Ireland’s brightest Three UCD forensic forecasting stars scientists 58 a burning issue 22 suds’ laW The Target- As construction on Melanoma project the Sutherland School of Law begins, 60 WHatever Peter Sutherland Happened to talks frankly about HuMe street? his extraordinary UCD’s new Charles life and work Institute becomes a centre of excellence 76 22 28 ON THE COVER: a visualisation of the new UCD Sutherland School of Law by artist Jorge Colombo, using the iPhone Brushes application - he used the same technique to create a number 32 of memorable covers for the new Yorker. UCD CONNECTIONS ALUMNI MAGAZINE | 1 | CONTENTS | university alumni people update 4 JoHn HENRY 51 JOIn tHe ALUMNI NEWMAN, a SAINT ASSOCIATION and AND SCHOLAR receive all sorts of FOR OUR TIMES benefits The founder of UCD 70 giving as good is beatified as tHeY get The 6 a YEAR IN tHe philanthropic mindset SPOTLIGHt 73 Adopt a booK Who shone in 2010? Support UCD’s latest Many of UCD’s library campaign alumni it seems 74 COMPETITION 28 TALKING FOR Win a stay at one of the IRELAND Radisson Blu hotels Men in media with 48 the gift of the gab: guess where they went to university? life on 48 tHe DRaMa campus OF IT ALL 32 public Memories of spectacles DramSoc and its a tour of UCD’s art illustrious dramatis collection personae 36 36 sporting 64 UCd FaMILIES Heroes A stellar TREE year for UCD sports Campus dynasties 43 sports sHorts School of Medicine’s 88 RE-CONNECTIONS events Athletics update Alumni Gala Reunion Catch up with From conferrals (page 80); Student classmates 87 student to “Characters in Awards (page 82); revolution 95 aluMnus Conversation”, Bloomsday Conferrals Belfield’s brand new at large ceremonies to (page 83); Annual Student Centre Niall O’Dowd celebrations: Rugby Dinner (page remembers his 96 pages in “Characters in 84); EGA Annual friend Senator HISTORY the Conversation’’ (page Lunch and Lecture Ted Kennedy iconic St Stephen’s 76); Newman Fellows’ (page 85); Ruby magazine Dinner (page 78); the Jubilee (page 86). ucd editorial board contributors UCD Connections is published by Gloss Publications Ltd, AINE GIBBONS, EILIS O’BRIEN, DR PADRAIC CONWAY The Courtyard, 40 Main Street, Blackrock, Co Dublin, 01 275 5130, SINEAD DOLAN, BILLY MURPHY, EAMON DELANEY fax 01 275 5131. Distributed by the Irish Times. To order a copy, go to www. VINCENT WALL RORY FITZGERALD ucdconnections.ie. Printed by Spectrum Print. Colour origination by Typeform. RORY EGAN Copyright 2010 Gloss Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole ucd alumni relations or in part without written permission is strictly prohibited. This magazine can be SINEAD DOLaN ELEANOR FITZSIMONS ANTONIA HART recycled either in your Green Bin kerbside collection or at a local recycling point. Publisher CaTHERINE HEANEY JANE MC DONNELL BRIDGET HOURICAN In the compilation of this publication, every care is taken to ensure accuracy. Any editor DEIRDRE O’BRIEN errors or omissions should be brought to the attention of the UCD Development & SaRAH MC DONNELL JOHN O’DONNELL Alumni Relations Office. However, UCD does not accept any liability to any person for NIALL O’DOWD loss or damage arising from anything contained in this publication or for any error art director or omission in it, even if such loss and damage is caused by the negligence of SINEAD LEAHY KEVIN O’SULLIVAN CaROLINE SCOTT UCD or its servants and agents. 2 | UCD CONNECTIONS ALUMNI MAGAZINE | WELCOME | ConneCtions ... and Re-ConneCtions FOND MEMORIES OF UNIVERSITY LIFE tend to come flooding back when you see a familiar face or hear a name that hasn’t been spoken in years. Busy making waves in what have become stormy seas of late, many of UCD’s 130,000 alumni have made their mark in all areas of industry, science, culture, sport and public life, in Ireland and abroad. In UCD Connections we talk to some of them, hear their stories, celebrate their success and prompt the idea of re-connection with class mates and staying involved with UCD. As the annual alumni magazine for University College Dublin, UCD Connections is about two aspects of the university: our alumni and life on campus. Law features strongly in this issue and we will celebrate the centenary of the School in 2011. We are delighted that construction on the new UCD Sutherland School of Law building will commence this autumn. However, it is with great sadness that we acknowledge the recent passing of Rory Brady SC (BCL 1978) who was so involved in the development of the new law school. Fundraising is integral to University life to preserve and enhance UCD for the next generation. We have enclosed a gift envelope as a gentle reminder that we need your support. All gifts big and small are greatly appreciated and donors are acknowledged on the Donor Roll. Check your details on: www.ucd.ie/foundation. The Belfield Campus is maturing beautifully and the art and sculpture located throughout enhance the halcyon environment – we have included a feature (Public Spectacles, page 32) to demonstrate its diversity. Gifts and loans of contemporary Irish art are always very welcome and much needed at the moment to put the finishing touches to all the new buildings underway. Please contact UCD Foundation for an informal discussion. UCD Connections is being distributed with The Irish Times as a means to circulate cost-effectively. We are happy to post a copy to any graduate who requests one, but please don’t assume we have your up-to-date contact details. Update your details now online at www.ucd.ie/alumni. Your feedback is welcome as we strive to improve our alumni relations programme and magazines and e-zines. Let us hear your views. We hope to see you at one of our ‘Characters in Conversation’ events – please check www.ucd.ie/alumni for the 2010/2011 programme which commences on campus this month. ÁIne GIbbons, Vice-president for deVelopment And AlUmni relAtions UCD CONNECTIONS ALUMNI MAGAZINE | 3 | THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY | | THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY | JOHN HENRY NEWMAN A Saint and Scholar for Our Times On September 19 2010, John Henry Newman will become the first English non-martyr to be beatified since the Reformation. UCD Vice-President and Director of the UCD International Centre for Newman Studies, DR PÁDRAIC CONWAY assesses his legacy. he founding rector of the Catholic with Cullen, translated to the See of Dublin in 1852, was also a University of Ireland, the antecedent brief one. Undaunted, Newman threw himself into preparations institution of University College Dublin, for the opening of the university. He started the University Gazette, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was a many articles from which were subsequently published as Lectures leading theologian who published many and Ideas on University Subjects. He began a scholarly magazine volumes of sermons as well as formal The Atlantis, engaged professors and secured premises for the first Ttheological writings. This reflects the motto which he took on Catholic medical school in Dublin. becoming a cardinal in 1879: cor ad cor loquitur or “heart speaks to The Catholic University of Ireland was officially opened heart”. Born into the Church of England and a leader of its Oxford on November 3 1854, with Newman as rector, in what is today Movement, Newman converted to Roman Catholicism in 1845 Newman House, St Stephen’s Green. On May 1 1856, the adjoining and was ordained an Oratorian priest in 1847. He subsequently University Church was opened, funded in various ways by Newman founded the Birmingham Oratory which continues to flourish. His himself after he was refused a loan by the bishops. He also donated letters and diaries have been published in 32 volumes by Oxford a large part of his salary to student support and is reported as University Press. Newman is remembered in Ireland for perhaps having had the support of his entire professorial staff. (Neither trait the most benign of failed interventions on the part of prominent has been omnipresent in the subsequent history of Irish university Englishmen in the affairs of Ireland. With momentum gathering leadership.) After struggling on for four years, during which time in the process that will almost certainly lead to his canonisation, it the Catholic University failed to gain a charter or attract many is timely that we should begin to re-assess his Irish contribution students, Newman resigned formally on November 12 1858. which, while a failure in terms of its overt objectives, has left a While Newman today is more likely to be invoked, at least in lasting legacy to UCD and to the world. theological circles, as a traditionalist and guardian of orthodoxy, Newman’s career in Dublin began with a visit to the it is not long since he was being trumpeted as the herald of Birmingham Oratory in July 1851 by Paul Cullen, then Archbishop aggiornamento, or “bringing up to date”. The folly of any partisan of Armagh. Cullen asked Newman to become Rector of the approach to Newman scholarship is underscored, however, when John Henry Newman, “The Young Rector”, portrayed in his early fifties, when he proposed Catholic University of Ireland.