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05/06/2026

Have you ever encountered a ‘Debbie Downer’ or a ‘Negative Nigel’ at work? These people seem to enjoy complaining, and Dr Paolo Yaranon of DCU Business School, has met more than a few.

For example, when Dr Yaranon worked in healthcare, he had a colleague who never stopped moaning.

“In that workplace, we worked 12-hour shifts with a 40-minute break, and that colleague filled those breaks with a litany of negativity,” he says. “It ruined the morale of everyone having lunch to the extent that people stopped taking their lunch breaks in the canteen. You couldn’t rest or relax there, because you absorbed so much of their negative energy.”

As an academic who focuses on interpersonal dynamics at work, he now understands why such pessimism is so hard to take. It’s to do with what he calls emotional contagion. “The default human setting is to absorb and imitate the emotions expressed around us. We’re built to tune into the emotional tone of others.”

He explains that we may be especially prone to soaking up negative emotions “because our drive to survive primed us to pay more attention to threats and problems”.

Read more in the Irish Examiner: https://launch.dcu.ie/4uREBv1

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04/06/2026

🏅 DCU was named Student Sports College of the Year 2025—and it’s easy to see why!
We’re proud to offer state-of-the-art sports facilities across our campuses:
📍 DCU Sports Complex (Glasnevin)
📍 DCU Sports Grounds
📍 St Patrick’s Campus Sports Complex
📍 Morton Stadium (Santry)

From pitches and pools to arenas and athletics tracks, DCU Sport has something for everyone— whether you are a student, alumni or living nearby!

👉 Learn more and explore our facilities and membership: https://www.dcu.ie/dcusport/membership

04/06/2026

Reduced Inequalities is number 10 on the United Nations list of Sustainable Development Goals - one area of DCU research aimed at delivering this goal is ‘The challenges of audio description in Ireland: uniting education, users and industry (ADESI) (2023-2025)'.

In Ireland, 296,000 people, that is, over 6% of the population or 1 in 20 people, are blind or visually impaired and while Ireland is making steady progress in audio description and media accessibility, significant challenges remain to ensuring inclusive access to culture, media, and entertainment not only as a legal requirement, but as a social responsibility.

Audio description, a key accessibility service, is specifically designed to make visual content accessible to people who are blind or have vision impairments, and is defined as “a verbal commentary that provides information about the visual elements of a performance, event, or visual art object for the benefit of blind and partially sighted people.” The aim of audio description is to ensure that those who cannot access the visuals can still understand and enjoy films, television, theatre, museums, exhibitions, sports, and other visual media or live events as fully as possible.

Led by Dr Lucía Pintado Gutierrez, a recognised leader in the field of audio description, the ADESI (Audio Description in Ireland) project contributes valuable insight into current accessibility practices in Ireland. This report resulted in consultations with public bodies and industry stakeholders including Coimisiún na Meán, RTÉ Accessibility Office, and Arts & Disability Ireland, and helps to forge research-policy-practice bridges, and it reflects DCU’s mission for research with tangible social impact. It has also led to invitations for further consultation from unexpected quarters, including football clubs and media regulators, expanding the reach of translation and accessibility research into new domains.

Read more: https://launch.dcu.ie/4g0w8Bb

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04/06/2026

We've one more open day in the calendar and that's our DCU Change of Mind Open Day on Wednesday June 24th from 10am to 1pm on our Glasnevin Campus 🤩

This 3 hour event can ease your final CAO stress 🫣

• Get your questions answered by our Faculty Staff
• Tour the DCU Campuses
• Hear from our Student Ambassadors and SU
• Gain advice from Dean of Students, Dr Claire Bohan, on how to navigate the First Year Journey 🎓

Register now via the link in our bio or head to dcu.ie/openday 🔗

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04/06/2026

Did you know that weight training for just 90 minutes a week 'cuts the risk of early death'?

Researchers led from Harvard analysed 147,373 people in the US over 30 years and found that strength training over an extended period can significantly lower the chance of death from heart disease and stroke by 19%. The benefits also reduce the risk of death from neurological disease.

Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, DCU's Prof Niall Moyna expressed no surprise at the study's findings, highlighting that its unique 30-year tracking method with questionnaires filled out every two years makes the data highly reliable. He noted that while people in Ireland often focus on getting their steps in for cardiovascular health, they frequently neglect muscle mass, which naturally declines by about 10% per decade between the ages of 40 and 70 if not actively maintained.

This loss of a quarter of one's muscle mass leads to a more sedentary lifestyle and a higher risk of chronic conditions, however, Prof Moyna emphasised that committing to 60 to 120 minutes of strength training per week can combat this decline, drastically reducing all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, as well as cutting the risk of neurological diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia by almost 30%.

Listen to the full interview: https://launch.dcu.ie/3Q7dr4a

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03/06/2026

Meet the food bugs which could ruin your summer.

The popularity of 'ready-to-eat' meals, more vulnerable elderly citizens and a warming climate have contributed to a rise in food infections.

Piece by Dr Kiefer Ramberg, Assistant Professor in Biochemistry at DCU, for RTÉ Brainstorm.

As a sweltering European summer approaches, foodborne infections from bacteria like Listeria, Salmonella, and Campylobacter are on the rise, driven by a warming climate, an ageing population, and the popularity of ready-to-eat meals. While these 'usual suspects' look similar under a microscope, they affect different foods and carry risks ranging from a ruined holiday to serious hospitalisation. Tracking these threats and adopting safer food habits has never been more difficult, or more critical.

Read more: https://launch.dcu.ie/3Qj3z7B

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03/06/2026

Complex bone fractures present significant challenges in healthcare, often requiring complex surgical intervention and leading to poor clinical outcomes.

OsStic™ Synthetic Injectable Bone Void Filler, a bone adhesive product for treating fractures, co-developed by DCU researchers Prof Nicholas Dunne and Dr Tanya Levingstone of DCU Biodesign Europe, has been approved by the UK’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for a first-in-human clinical study evaluating its safety and performance.

The forthcoming clinical investigation will be conducted at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the United Kingdom, the Principal Investigator being Professor Peter Giannoudis.

Read more: https://launch.dcu.ie/4fUoKXV

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03/06/2026

The United Nations warns of an 80% chance for ‘El Niño’ developing between June and August.

According to DCU's Dr Darren Clarke on Newstalk's 'The Hard Shoulder', El Niño is a naturally occurring phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean that happens every two to seven years, marked by an unusual warming of the Eastern Pacific sea surface. This shift occurs when the region's typical trade winds reverse direction, flipping to blow from west to east instead of east to west.

Dr Clarke highlighted a World Meteorological Organisation warning that a new El Niño cycle is likely beginning, mirroring a previous cycle that triggered record-breaking global temperatures. This phase is expected to cause temperature increases worldwide, with indirect, though less certain, impacts for Ireland, alongside severe disruptions to global weather, bringing heavy rainfall to some regions and intense droughts to others.

Listen to the full interview: https://launch.dcu.ie/4uiBCLb

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02/06/2026

Funding changes threaten existence of criminal legal aid lawyers.

There is a disconnect between the public perception of criminal defence lawyers and what really happens in Garda stations and courtrooms.

In an opinion piece for the Irish Examiner, DCU's Prof Yvonne Daly warns that proposed Department of Justice funding changes could trigger a major crisis in the Irish legal system. The plan to introduce a flat-fee scheme for District Court legal aid means defence lawyers would receive the exact same payment regardless of how many times they must appear in court for a client.

Prof Daly highlights a deep disconnect between public perception and the reality of legal aid. While flat fees might work for straightforward cases, she argues they fail to account for complex, prolonged matters involving vulnerable defendants, making them economically unviable for practitioners.

Read more: https://launch.dcu.ie/4vnvqTc

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