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The University Observer is a fortnightly Berliner-sized newspaper distributed throughout the campus of University College, Dublin (U.C.D.). It was launched in 1994 by University College Dublin Students' Union. It was an immediate successor to the publication Students' Union News, and was granted complete editorial independence from UCD Students' Union.

The paper was founded by dual editors Pat Leahy, now of the Sunday Business Post, and Dara Ó Briain, now of BBC and RTÉ comic fame. It has provided a number of notable Irish journalists their first break, including Roddy O'Sullivan and Shane Hegarty, now of The Irish Times; Declan Walsh, now of The Guardian; Alan Torney of RTÉ Radio 1; Sinéad Ingoldsby of BBC Northern Ireland; Daniel McConnell Chief Reporter with the Sunday Independent; Juno McEnroe of The Irish Examiner; Steve Cummins, editor of NME Ireland; Samantha Libreri of RTÉ News; Nathalie Márquez-Courtney of KISS magazine; Stephen Carroll of Sky News; Gillian Fitzpatrick, Features Editor at the Irish Daily Mail, Richard Waghorne of the British Daily Mail and Gavan Reilly of TheJournal.ie.