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Type | Student Newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
School | University College Dublin |
Founder(s) | Vincent Browne |
Staff writers | c. 150 |
Founded | 1989 |
Language | English, Irish |
Headquarters | John Henry Newman Building |
City | Dublin |
Country | Ireland |
Circulation | 6,000 |
Readership | 28,000 print + 17,000 online |
Website | collegetribune |
Free online archives | Publication |
The College Tribune is a student newspaper which serves Ireland's largest third level institution, University College Dublin. It was established in 1989[1] with the assistance of journalist and broadcaster Vincent Browne who was attending the university as an evening student at the time. Browne noted the campus' lack of a news outlet which was independent of both the university and University College Dublin Students' Union and alongside founding editor Eamon Dillon set up the Tribune to correct this. Initially, a close working relationship was maintained between the Tribune and the Sunday Tribune which was at the time edited by Browne. This relationship afforded the paper the use of professional production facilities in its fledgling years. Ultimately however, the student newspaper would outlast its national weekly counterpart with the Sunday Tribune having ceased publication in 2011. The College Tribune is UCD's oldest surviving newspaper having been published continuously for over 30 years.[citation needed]