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College Tribune
TypeStudent Newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)n/a
EditorColman Hanley
Founded1986
HeadquartersUniversity College Dublin
Websitewww.ucd.ie/tribune

The College Tribune is a student newspaper based in University College Dublin. Established in 1986 by one of Ireland's best known print journalists, Vincent Browne, it is UCD's oldest surviving newspaper. It is currently edited by Cathy Buckmaster and Philip Connolly.

The various sections throughout the paper include news, sport, features, opinion, music, books, film, health and fashion. Volume 20 saw the introduction of a full colour entertainment supplement, The Siren.

The College Tribune is UCD’s only independent newspaper and has a proud tradition in college journalism. Like the minority of Irish student newspapers, the Tribune receives no funding from the Students' Union. The Tribune survives purely on advertising revenue.

It has produced a number of high-profile journalists that can be seen in the national media today. Previous editors include Conor Lally, crime correspondent for The Irish Times, The Sunday Times journalist Richard Oakley, Irish Independent soccer correspondent Daniel McDonnell, Roddy O'Sullivan deputy news editor of The Irish Times, Paul Lynch, film critic of the Sunday Tribune, Emmet Oliver, Deputy Business Editor of the Irish Independent, brothers Gary and Fergus O'Shea, both now in The Sun, who were editors in 1996–97 and 2001–02 respectively and ex- Sunday Tribune reporter Eoghan Rice [who subsequently joined the Football Association of Ireland as a press officer.]

Other past contributors include Dave Kelly, now chief sports analysis writer with the Irish Independent and Katherine Smyth, a former associate producer with BBC Current Affairs. The College Tribune was tied to the national Sunday Tribune through its connections with Vincent Browne, but such links ended in 1999. The Tribune has also been distinguished on several occasions at national student media awards, particularly in sports writing, where it has a strong tradition. The paper won the Student Newspaper of the Year at the first USI/Irish Independent media awards in 1996. Editor at the time Conor Lally was also named as Student Journalist of the Year in 1996. Tribune stalwart Peter Lahiff was a recipient of a Guardian Award for Diversity in 2003.

The Tribune is famous for the launch of the satirical page The Evil Gerald, a "paper within a paper". The Gerald was succeeded by The Turbine in 2003, and they have featured such satirical stories as the Provisional IRA dropping its pursuit of a United Ireland in favour of occupation of the Isle of Man, and Osama bin Laden stealing the Magic Door from Bosco, which allowed him access to anywhere in the world.

List of editors

  • 2010-2011 Colman Hanley
  • 2008-09: Jennifer Bray (co-edited with Simon Ward for eight issues)
  • 2007–08: Caitrina Cody
  • 2006–07: Colin Gleeson
  • 2005–06: Eoin MacAodha
  • 2004–05: Andrew McGuinness
  • 2003–04: Daniel McDonnell
  • 2002–03: Peter McGuire and Cormac Delaney
  • 2001–02: Eoghan Rice and Fergus O'Shea
  • 2000–01: Thomas Geoghegan and Bernard Cantillon
  • 1999–00: Alan Caulfield and Caroline Gibney
  • 1998–99: Sorcha Hamilton and Arnold Dillon
  • 1997–98: Peter Lahiff and Richard Oakley
  • 1996-97: Gary O'Shea (co-edited with Keith Woods for six issues)
  • 1995-96: Conor Lally
  • 1994-95: Alison Moore & Mary-Therese Kelly
  • 1994: Emmet Oliver
  • 1993-94: Roddy O'Sullivan
  • 1992-93: Sarah Binchy
  • 1990-92: Michelle Thomas
  • 1988-90: Eamon Dillon