Be careful
I just cracked open number 2
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Just read a piece about this case today, sounds like yer one just didnât want to do any exams and kept coming up with excuses. UCD seem to have been very accommodating in fairness.
Iâm now assuming she posted these pictures herself?
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The usual suspects made eejits of themselves over this.
Seamie Culleton mark 2.
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B o n k e r s
The fact that so many restrictions are being imposed to protect a liar only leads to more questions
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The I DONT EVER BELIEVE HER crew are all over the shop today 
The story of the student accused of deception against UCD and the allegations of image-based sexual harassment
UCDâs handling of studentâs efforts to progress to next year of study had come under fire. Now further details are emerging
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UCD students protesting in March to call for systemic change in how the university responds to sexual violence and gender-based harm. Photograph: Sam Boal/Collins Photos
[Ellen OâRiordan]
Tue Aug 04 2026 - 06:00â˘7 MIN READ
It was a horrific and unnerving case of alleged rape and intimate image abuse that garnered immediate widespread sympathy when raised in the DĂĄil last February.
Socialist Party TD Ruth Coppinger said an image of the ânude, bruised and unconsciousâ body of a female University College Dublin (UCD) medical student, allegedly taken in the aftermath of a violent rape, had been sent to the collegeâs staff and students.
The woman (20s) did not report her claim of rape by an unidentified fellow student, knowing she âwould probably not be believedâ, said Coppinger. UCD and the woman said they reported the intimate pictures to gardaĂ.
UCDâs handling of the studentâs efforts to progress to her next year of study came under fire from Coppinger, the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, the National Womenâs Council and the collegeâs students union, among others. More than a thousand people, mainly UCD students, rallied in early March chanting âwe stand with herâ and calling for systemic change in how the university responds to sexual violence.
The woman herself said: âBeing raped was life changing. UCDâs lack of support has been life shattering. To them I feel I am just a PR crisis.â
Now, further details are emerging.
The woman was arrested on suspicion of deceiving UCD in July. She was released without charge while a file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
GardaĂ questioned her about the legitimacy of documents furnished to support claims she had been raped and subsequently attended medical appointments around the time she missed some exams in May 2023. Investigators examined seized electronic devices.
The woman did not respond to approaches for comment for this article. UCD declined to comment.
The studentâs issues with the university arose early in her first year of study.
Until last week, the woman was locked in a legal battle with UCD. Having lost her High Court bid to be allowed to immediately progress to the next year of study without attending missed classes, she went to the Court of Appeal. However, last Thursday her lawyers said she was withdrawing the appeal.
The High Court judgment dismissing her case sets out the often tense interactions between her and the college from November 2021, when she first sought a meeting to discuss an immediate leave of absence.
According to High Court judge Marguerite Bolger, who sided with UCD on all grounds in her ruling from last December, the student met the chair of the degree programme in February 2022 and discussed her disability and future study.
Bolger said the student missed the majority of her classes in the autumn 2022 term and failed three exams that December. The following February she was appointed a mentor and sent an âacademic planâ to catch up on work.
That month she applied for special grades for her three failed modules, saying she had spent most of the autumn term at work or helping her injured mother. She would later allege she was assaulted around this time.
The judgment says her application was rejected in April 2023 on grounds that it was submitted late and because full-time work was not a valid reason for special grades.
She immediately applied again on the same grounds, saying she was âconstantly strugglingâ and suffering ânegative emotional wellbeingâ due to significant financial pressure. Her application again failed, and she went on to pass just two of eight exams, including some resits, in May 2023.
Several months later she would tell UCD she had to avail of medical services around the time of the exams following an assault.
She was left with six outstanding modules. UCD would later tell the High Court it was very unusual for a student to have so many modules requiring remediation.
The college rejected a third application for exceptional circumstances, which was accompanied by a doctorâs letter which said that the student had been unwell during the exam period but did not outline the nature of her condition.
In July she was told she needed to remediate some of the six outstanding modules before progressing to her next year of study. She declined to follow an academic plan set by the college. A fitness to practice procedure was invoked against her in September 2023, which the college said was aimed at identifying appropriate ways to support her.
That month the college rejected a further application for special grades in which the womanâs GP said it was not policy to state medical conditions on sick notes due to privacy concerns.
In October 2023, the school was told about the nature of the womanâs medical treatment during the May exams. It almost immediately granted her special grades for her six outstanding modules. This meant her grades were not capped and she did not suffer financial penalties.
However, the judge said, the university for âentirely legitimateâ reasons said she could not progress to the next year without remediating a sufficient number of failed modules. Despite this, the student tried to register for the next yearâs modules, said Bolger.
A series of engagements that followed in the spring of 2024 involved the woman trying to âsecure an outcome that she had been repeatedly told was not an optionâ, the judge said. She rejected the womanâs claims of bias against several staff members.
The woman initiated a discrimination claim before the Workplace Relations Commission in July 2024. Later that month, she issued her High Court case against UCD. Many of her interactions with the university in the lead-up and from this point on were conducted through legal correspondence.
The judge said the woman was offered an opportunity to retake her exams in September 2024, but, for âentirely unconvincingâ reasons, did not resit them.
The woman said she became aware in late 2024 of disturbing messages about her on a class online group, including references to her alleged assault. In February 2025, she said, she received an email with images attached.
In April 2025 an alleged photograph of her naked and bruised body was sent to more than 170 academic staff and students from an anonymous, encrypted address. She was contacted by gardaĂ about the messages.
The woman told The Irish Times earlier this year that she had not known the image existed. Seeing it âshatteredâ her life, she said.
The college arranged for her to resit her exams in May 2025, but her solicitors said she could not take up the offer and reiterated her wish to engage with module co-ordinators. The judge said the letter did not refer to her being upset by the April email. The woman told the High Court that month was âhorrificâ.
The intimate image appeared again, in November 2025 and January 2026, in two student group chats. In November it was sent to a 300-member UCD studentsâ WhatsApp group, accompanied by extremely lewd and disrespectful language about her.
The High Court dismissed the womanâs case last December via an oral ruling. In her follow-up written judgment, the judge said UCDâs solutions to help her complete the failed modules were âentirely lawful and properâ. It was âgroundlessâ for the woman to believe she should not be prevented from progressing to the next year with six incomplete modules, Bolger said.
The womanâs alleged traumatic experiences could not dilute the academic standards required of her or the schoolâs obligation to determine achievements required to progress, the judge said.
In February, the womanâs claims of rape and intimate image abuse spilt into the wider public domain. So too did her criticisms of UCDâs response to her allegations.
The university publicly described the alleged image-based abuse as âextremely distressing and complexâ and said âthe needs of our student have been at the centre of the universityâs response throughoutâ.
Initially, due to strict court orders, the High Court ruling vindicating the collegeâs approach to the womanâs situation could not be linked to her public allegations. However, last March UCD secured an amendment to the orders after submitting that there had been an âexplosionâ in media coverage about the womanâs claims.
Its lawyers said the institution had received demands from the Studentâs Union, the Medical Council, journalists and politicians to explain its actions. It was being âvilifiedâ but could not properly answer the accusations, they said.
The woman told the High Court that UCD, while âfocused on its vindicationâ, had caused âintense speculation and allowed inaccurate narratives to formâ. She did not oppose UCDâs request to allow it to be identified in the case.
Her appeal of the High Courtâs ruling was heard on July 21st.
As part of the Garda investigation into alleged deception of UCD, the woman was arrested at the Four Courts in Dublin following the hearing of her appeal. She was released and faces no charges.
Last Thursday, the womanâs lawyers told the Court of Appeal their client was withdrawing the case. The court struck out the appeal and made an order providing for the university to have its legal costs covered by the woman.
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Will the #BeleiveAllWomen backers stick with another losing ticket?
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But sure you headbangers knew that it was a lie from the very start 
And she was studying Medicine! Sure they canât let someone qualify as a doctor without passing exams.
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Iâm not sure who these headbangers are?
It seems like people who calmly analyse things and apply critical thinking, instead of hysterically diving in, are branded headbangers.
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She sounds like a fruitcake, a lazy pupil and massively entitled.
The problem is that nowadays in Ireland, if you shout âoppressionâ loud enough and for long enough and youâll get your way.
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Either Iâm spending too long on this site or I need glasses but I read that as Seamie Callananđ¤Ł
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Is the suggestion she bruised herself up, took a photo of herself naked and wrote up a lewd text about herself before sending photo and text round to 100s or people? Just to avoid doing a bit of study.
Serial killer level stuff if so but surely itâs a bit more complex
This @MAFIA fella is definitely not a virgin but has definitely never had consensual sex.
Read the article. She has been trying to grift her way through the course for years.
medicine attracts some weirdos alright - look at Fauci
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I did read the article and it sounds very bad for her but things are rarely fully black and white and the bit i outlined is next level altogether. She surely must have been brainy enough and a hard worker to get the points originally. Very very weird case
Thatâs why any time Iâm getting an operation I only trust people who qualified on the INTERNET to perform it.
If you were an elite INTERNET sTuDeNT you would find yourself not requiring surgery
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INTERNET medics are just the best. They can get rid of ingrown toenails without an operation by using a 100% natural remedy that makes the toe simply fall off.