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Aoibheann Ni Shuilleabhain Harassment Story

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    #2
    J.O. Farmer
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    Not to downplay this but the thread title is misleading. It has nothing to do with the Rose of Tralee and abuse has very different (more serious) connotations to harassment.


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    Your Face
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    What is not shocking is the incompetence of the HR dept.


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    Tork
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    What a disingenuous thread title.


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    #5
    OscarMIlde
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    JasonStatham wrote: »
    https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/aoibhinn-n%C3%AD-sh%C3%BAilleabh%C3%A1in-two-years-of-harassment-at-ucd-1.4346015?mode=amp

    UCD academic, Aoibheann Ni Shuilleabhain recounts her episode of harassment. I have to say it's a shocking story.

    How can a professional organization let such a thing carry on for so long? Absolutely shocking.

    Not surprising considering it involves UCD HR, I've never dealt with so many useless individuals as I have from there. It's not even laziness, it's genuinely that they are that thick.


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    smurgen
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    Your Face wrote: »
    What is not shocking is the incompetence of the HR dept.

    Yes and from what I can see that professor is still in his job. The man sounds a complete liability and cannot believe he's still representing UCD


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    circular flexing
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    smurgen wrote: »
    Yes and from what I can see that professor is still in his job. The man sounds a complete liability and cannot believe he's still representing UCD


    Says towards the end of the article that he has left UCD.


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    5uspect
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    He’s left UCD and is now apparently working at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies.

    Academic communities are small, now that this has come out it’ll probably destroy his reputation, and rightly so.


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    Topgear on Dave
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    I had never heard of the DIAS before so I thought I would have a look at their website.

    There is a page with a fairly emphatic denial that a professor is NOT an employee of them, but says he has been on a board and been a visiting professor.


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    #10
    ChikiChiki
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    Read that story yesterday and it chilled me to the bone.

    Had an ex go through stalking episode and it genuinely frightened the bejaysus out of of me at the time as the guy was threatening me aswell through all my social media channels. The threats were off the wall including one of him in an army uniform threatening to shoot me.

    A horrific lack of action by UCD in this case, it could have ended very differently.


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    [Deleted User]
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    I was so shocked when I read that story yesterday. I had just finished my PhD in physics in UCD a few months before these incidents started occurring and didn't know anything about them until yesterday.

    The accused was a lecturer of mine during my undergrad and someone I had lunches and chats with occasionally during my PhD. He came across as a very friendly, easy to talk to guy and seemed like the last person you would suspect of something like this. Just goes to show that you can never fully assume that you know somebody based on what you've seen of them academically.


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    #12
    take everything
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    Read this as well yesterday.
    Felt so sorry for her.
    Sounded like a nightmare. Imagine not feeling safe at work like that.

    How is that allowed to happen and how is this fella still knocking around here.


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    smurgen
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    5uspect wrote: »
    He’s left UCD and is now apparently working at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies.

    Academic communities are small, now that this has come out it’ll probably destroy his reputation, and rightly so.

    Didn't realize that. He's still currently linked as professor on LinkedIn.


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    suicide_circus
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    Yeah that seems like an absolute sh1tshow by HR


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    circular flexing
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Yeah that seems like an absolute sh1tshow by HR

    I don't think UCD would be abnormal here. Getting rid of tenured professors is almost impossible.


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    Dempo1
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    Title of Thread a little odd but I was actually shocked to learn the professor at the centre of this appalling story appears by all accounts to be still employed BY UCD, after reading what occurred to the victim on a visit to Cork, which included an alleged arrest and the victim requiring a garda escort out of Cork, it's utterly bewildering no sanction seems to have been taken, extraordinary stuff.

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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    Kaybaykwah
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    If I were her brother, and had known about this matter, I would have taught him a lesson. Distinguished professor, my arse.


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    padd b1975
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I was so shocked when I read that story yesterday. I had just finished my PhD in physics in UCD a few months before these incidents started occurring and didn't know anything about them until yesterday.

    The accused was a lecturer of mine during my undergrad and someone I had lunches and chats with occasionally during my PhD. He came across as a very friendly, easy to talk to guy and seemed like the last person you would suspect of something like this. Just goes to show that you can never fully assume that you know somebody based on what you've seen of them academically.

    A standing cock has no conscience.*





    *Old Chinese proverb.


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    Effects
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    Heard something on RTE this morning that the UCD president had apologised to Ms. Ní Shúilleabháin, yet she'd had no communication from him at that point.


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    BPKS
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    Effects wrote: »
    Heard something on RTE this morning that the UCD president had apologised to Ms. Ní Shúilleabháin, yet she'd had no communication from him at that point.

    It is likely that she is suing UCD so they would be directed not to have any correspondence on the matter other than through both parties solicitors I would imagine.


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    #21
    walshb
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    Effing nutcase..

    Nutty Professor..

    Very tough ordeal for that woman!!


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    Tork
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    The fact that this thread continues to have this trashy, misleading title on it tells a story of its own :mad: It doesn't matter what Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin has achieved in the 15 years since she won the lovely girls competition. She has been reduced down to being a fcking Rose of Tralee.

    It isn't abuse either but a very real problem that some people continue to experience in different ways. Harassment by colleagues and inept HR departments. But no, let's leave that stupid thread title there.


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    paw patrol
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    Tork wrote: »
    The fact that this thread continues to have this trashy, misleading title on it tells a story of its own :mad: It doesn't matter what Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin has achieved in the 15 years since she won the lovely girls competition. She has been reduced down to being a fcking Rose of Tralee.

    It isn't abuse either but a very real problem that some people continue to experience in different ways. Harassment by colleagues and inept HR departments. But no, let's leave that stupid thread title there.


    i think you are clutching at straws here.
    the whole world knows she is a clever lady, it's continually in the media.


    she should be more aggrieved about being constantly referred to Tubridys ex.


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    #24
    upandcumming
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    Woeful thread title


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    #25
    hayoc
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    Whats the Rose of Tralee got to do with any of this?


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    FHFM50
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I was so shocked when I read that story yesterday. I had just finished my PhD in physics in UCD a few months before these incidents started occurring and didn't know anything about them until yesterday.

    The accused was a lecturer of mine during my undergrad and someone I had lunches and chats with occasionally during my PhD. He came across as a very friendly, easy to talk to guy and seemed like the last person you would suspect of something like this. Just goes to show that you can never fully assume that you know somebody based on what you've seen of them academically.

    Someone on Reddit said the complete opposite. That he would shout during lectures and was a bully. Many students complained about him to the programme office.

    Source = https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/imxz2r/aoibhinn_n%C3%AD_sh%C3%BAilleabh%C3%A1in_two_years_of_harassment/


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    Bass Reeves
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    I am not sure why so many are getting upset over the title. She is a former Rose of Tralee. Most women that have won it are very proud of the achievement. It not your usual beauty contest. Yes all the ladies taking part tend to be good looking. However nearly all who take part are intelligent and the winners all tend to be extremely intelligent and very personable women.

    It interesting that you seldom see any winners degineraging the competition. As well most tend to continue to support the competition. Even region winners look on it as a badge of success. Yes Aoibhinn has been successful since and most refer to both her achievement. The only flaw in her CV is she dated that muppet Tubridy for a good few years before she copped on to him

    Slava Ukrainii



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    Tork
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    5uspect wrote: »
    He’s left UCD and is now apparently working at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies.

    Academic communities are small, now that this has come out it’ll probably destroy his reputation, and rightly so.

    After reading about his antics, he deserves to have his reputation destroyed. The Reddit thread isn't doing him any favours either.

    The UCD HR department will escape more lightly because they're faceless. I expect the kerfuffle about this will die down and they'll continue to be the incompetent shower they've always been.


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    #29
    razorblunt
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    What a nightmare that must have been. Fair play to the Gardaí for handling the incident in Cork too.


    Also, yeah, change the thread title. FFS.


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    hayoc
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    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    I am not sure why so many are getting upset over the title.

    The title indicates that some abuse story is related to the Rose of Tralee itself, as opposed to the real story which is nothing to do with the Rose of Tralee but about workplace harassment in UCD.


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    Baggly
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    Tork wrote: »
    The fact that this thread continues to have this trashy, misleading title on it tells a story of its own :mad: It doesn't matter what Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin has achieved in the 15 years since she won the lovely girls competition. She has been reduced down to being a fcking Rose of Tralee.

    It isn't abuse either but a very real problem that some people continue to experience in different ways. Harassment by colleagues and inept HR departments. But no, let's leave that stupid thread title there.
    upandcumming wrote: »
    Woeful thread title

    Mod

    The thread title has been updated. Calm it down. Report first and leave it to the mods please.


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