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NEWS & VIEWS
Four in a row for men’s MBA rugby team
IN April, the men’s UCD Michael Smurfit
Graduate Business School rugby team won the
MBA World Cup for the fourth year in a row
by beating the competition favourites, London
Business School, 11-3 in the final. The UCD
team also got the better of teams from
Chicago, Berkeley, Columbia and Harvard in
the course of the event, which is hosted by
Duke University in North Carolina each
spring.
The women’s team, which was knocked out
in the quarter finals, came joint seventh overall
in its event. UCD Smurfit School was repre-
sented by a combined squad of 46 players
drawn from the MBA and a number of other
The winning men’s team in action
programmes within the school.
UCD School of Business welcomes
new Professor of Accounting
PROFESSOR Ciarán Ó hÓgar- of Wellington, New Zealand, BComm graduate from National
taigh is the new Professor of having previously taught at University of Ireland Galway
Accounting at UCD School of graduate and executive levels in and holds a PhD in Accounting
Business. In his new role, he has Ireland, the US and France. He from University of Leeds. He is a
responsibility for enhancing the chaired the Audit Committee of Fellow of the Institute of
accounting research programme the Department of Marine, Chartered Accountants in
at faculty and doctoral levels at Communications & Natural Ireland and the American
UCD Quinn School and UCD Resources from 2003 to 2006 Accounting Association
Michael Smurfit Graduate and, in 2004, led a research Doctoral Consortium. He was a
Business School. team reporting to the Comm- Fulbright Fellow of
Professor Ó hÓgartaigh has ission on Electronic Voting. Northeastern University in
joined from Victoria University He is a first-class honours Boston in 2000/2001.
Prof Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh
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