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Does the DCU v UCD rivalry still exist? It’s the generational grudge that keeps giving, gifted in a divine procession when you tick the CAO while waving goodbye to your school pals, knowing you’ll never see them again once ensconced in a rival tribe on the other side of the Liffey.
The campuses have long been pitted against each other. North v south, both 5km from the city centre. Let’s not even factor Trinity into the equation, swanning around with its Hogwarts-esque library and its cricket lawns.
Having both spent our undergrad years in the northern reaches of the city at DCU, UCD in the leafy south always seemed exotic. A massive campus more than double
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