Distance between TCD-UCD/RCSI

andersio

Hello, me and my wife are going to study inn Ireland. She will probaly go to TCD and so will i. If i don't get innto TCD i will probaly study at either UCD or RCSI. The question is; What is the distance between TCD and UCD/RCSI? I'm not familiar inn Dublin. Let's say she goes to TCD and i go to RCSI, where should we look for accomodation?

Sheldons Brain

RSCI, like TCD, is in the city centre about 10 minutes walk apart. UCD is 30 mins on the bus from TCD.

A Neurotic

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TheBandicoot

A Neurotic wrote: »

https://www.google.ie/maps/preview?authuser=0#!data=!1m4!1m3!1d24748!2d-6.2396966!3d53.325806!4m25!3m24!1m5!1sUCD+-+University+College+Dublin%2C+University+College+Dublin%2C+Belfield%2C+Dublin+4%2C+Co.+Dublin!2s0x4867093120c83a63%3A0x36762af31424bfcf!3m2!3d53.307262!4d-6.219077!1m5!1sTrinity+College+Dublin%2C+College+Green%2C+Dublin+2!2s0x48670e9b2dc78edd%3A0x2700fe0d8c716167!3m2!3d53.343747!4d-6.254759!1m1!1sRcsi%2C+Dublin!2e2!3m8!1m3!1d29986!2d-6.2384186!3d53.325806!3m2!1i1309!2i604!4f13.1&fid=0

I think OP means the RCSI on St Stephen's Green.

Abby19

andersio wrote: »

Hello, me and my wife are going to study inn Ireland. She will probaly go to TCD and so will i. If i don't get innto TCD i will probaly study at either UCD or RCSI. The question is; What is the distance between TCD and UCD/RCSI? I'm not familiar inn Dublin. Let's say she goes to TCD and i go to RCSI, where should we look for accomodation?

It depends on what you are going to study. Are you both studying Graduate Medicine? If so the RCSI campus is based out in Sandyford (on the south side for the first two years and then you would be based usually between the Connolly Memorial Hospital in Blanchardstown and Beaumont Hospital on the north side.

If you are studying Grad Med in UCD then you will be based on campus in Belfield (south side) and your hospitals are the Mater (north side) and St Vincent's (south side v close to UCD).

Check out maps.google.co.uk and plug in the various colleges. If neither of you are driving, then most public transport in Dublin goes out from the centre radially, so you could do worse than Grand Canal docks. There are buses to Belfield, and the Luas goes to Sandyford. Trinity and RCSI main campus are central and about 5 minutes walk apart.

If you are coming over to look over the colleges/interview it could be well worth your while to add a day or two on to check things out.

For accommodation daft.ie is probably the best website. There is a shortage of rental accommodation in Dublin though, so it can be hard to 'book' accommodation in advance, people tend to take it, or at least pay for it straight away, landlords don't like to leave it empty waiting for someone to move in later as they are not getting rent. It may be best to hostel/hotel it for a week and sort out your accommodation then. You could also see what sort of area you might be signing up for, as with all cities there are good and bad areas, and if studying you may be heading back from the library late at night.

kiffer

Accommodation in Dublin is tricky but it's not really totally accurate to say there is a shortage of spaces

What there is is a shortage of reasonably priced nice places...

There are plenty of over priced places that stay empty for far longer than landlords are comfortable with... and of course letting agents tell you that they'd love to give it to because your a lovely American couple who will be clean and not wreck the place but there was a guy here early and he'll pay the full whack so you'd better decide quick... wait 3 days and offer him 100-150 quid less a month and he still jumps at it.
Won't work from abroad and won't work if your under time pressure but yeah the shortage is a little over played.

andersio

Abby19 wrote: »

It depends on what you are going to study. Are you both studying Graduate Medicine? If so the RCSI campus is based out in Sandyford (on the south side for the first two years and then you would be based usually between the Connolly Memorial Hospital in Blanchardstown and Beaumont Hospital on the north side.

If you are studying Grad Med in UCD then you will be based on campus in Belfield (south side) and your hospitals are the Mater (north side) and St Vincent's (south side v close to UCD).

Check out maps.google.co.uk and plug in the various colleges. If neither of you are driving, then most public transport in Dublin goes out from the centre radially, so you could do worse than Grand Canal docks. There are buses to Belfield, and the Luas goes to Sandyford. Trinity and RCSI main campus are central and about 5 minutes walk apart.

If you are coming over to look over the colleges/interview it could be well worth your while to add a day or two on to check things out.

For accommodation daft.ie is probably the best website. There is a shortage of rental accommodation in Dublin though, so it can be hard to 'book' accommodation in advance, people tend to take it, or at least pay for it straight away, landlords don't like to leave it empty waiting for someone to move in later as they are not getting rent. It may be best to hostel/hotel it for a week and sort out your accommodation then. You could also see what sort of area you might be signing up for, as with all cities there are good and bad areas, and if studying you may be heading back from the library late at night.

Thanks for a detailed answer. My wife is going to study Psychology at TCD and i'm applying for undergrad medicine at TCD, RCSI and UCD.