TU Dublin Alumni Network

🎓✨ GradX 2026 is happening now (28 May – 4 June)

Across art, design, media, music and engineering, explore work showcasing creativity and technical excellence from our graduating students.

Taking place across the East Quad, GradX is a celebration of final-year projects and the next step in our students’ journey into the TU Dublin Alumni community.

If you haven’t yet, make sure to drop by and see it while it’s on 👀

Congratulations to all our graduates - we can’t wait to see what’s next!

To mark 25 years, we’re catching up with Class of 2001 graduates through 25 quick-fire questions on leadership, learning and life.

Bríd O’Connell, CEO of Guaranteed Irish, is a leading voice in branding and strategic leadership. Since graduating from TU Dublin with an MSc in Strategic Management in 2001, Bríd has built a career across tourism, marketing and leadership, and went on to run her own successful marketing business for over 15 years.

Today, she champions Irish businesses supporting jobs and communities.

💬 “People perform best when they feel valued, trusted and inspired.”

If you’re Class of 2001, we’d love to hear your story.

TU Dublin alumni… we’ve picked a venue as iconic as your memories 😉

Join us at the London Alumni Reception at Rotunda Bar & Restaurant, King’s Cross on 4 June.

Expect:
✨ Catching up with familiar faces (and maybe someone you forgot you knew!)
✨ Networking disguised as a fun evening
✨ Drinks, laughter, and all the TU Dublin vibes

We can’t wait to see you there!

🎓 London alumni, we’d love to see you

Our TU Dublin Alumni Event on 4 June is nearly full, with just a few places left.

Join us at the Rotunda Bar and Restaurant in Kings Cross, a great spot led by TU Dublin alumnus John Nugent, for an evening of reconnecting and meeting fellow grads.

📍 Rotunda Bar and Restaurant, Kings Cross, London
📅 4 June
🎟️ Register now via the link in bio.

We are proud to celebrate TU Dublin alumnus Ahmet Dede, named All-Ireland Best Chef at the 2026 Irish Restaurant Awards 🏆

Head Chef Dede at The Customs House in Baltimore, was recognised for his exceptional creativity, leadership, and culinary excellence.

We also know many more TU Dublin alumni are behind award-winning restaurants, kitchens and hospitality teams across the country tonight.

A fantastic achievement and a proud moment for the TU Dublin Alumni community - congratulations, Ahmet! 🎉

Read more: https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/food/2026/0519/1574066-winners-of-the-irish-restaurant-awards-2026-revealed/

Turns out TU Dublin robotics grads don’t really leave robotics… they just start coaching it 🤖

Alumnus Ugochukwu Uzoukwu helped mentor Confey College’s The Imagineers (No. 28305S) to a Judges Award win at the 2026 VEX Robotics World Championship in St. Louis 🌍

Drawing on his experience representing Ireland at the 2019 FIRST Global Challenge, Ugochukwu supported the team throughout the season alongside AnnaMei Chan and Joel Rajesh.

From competitor to mentor - same robotics passion, new arena.

🏅 TU Dublin alumni and sports fans are invited on 10 June at TU Dublin Grangegorman for our Sports History Symposium - Pitches & People, in partnership with Sports History Ireland.

We’ll explore Dublin’s sporting past - from local clubs to major moments that shaped the city’s identity.

Featuring Charlie McConalogue TD, Prof. Paul Rouse, athletes, historians, and Sport Against Racism Ireland.

✨ Free & open to all
✨ Talks, panels & discussion
✨ A great day of sport stories and insights

🔗 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3j7bees9

She saw a gap. She built a brand 💫

From studying Fashion Buying & Management at TU Dublin to launching her own business, Orla Hennelly is a great example of turning an idea into something real.

After spotting a gap in the market, she founded ItsBeautyCheats in 2023 and has since grown it into a successful beauty brand.

Her advice is simple. Just start. The first step really does make all the difference.

We’re so proud to see our alumni building, creating and backing themselves 💙

Read her full story here: https://www.tudublin.ie/connect/alumni/our-alumni/alumni-interviews/

Do you remember your time in the kitchens at the TU Dublin Cathal Brugha Campus? 🍳✨

The rush before service
The pride of plating something just right
Early mornings, shared prep… and friendships (maybe even love stories 💛) along the way

It wasn’t just where you learned to cook - it’s where passion turned into purpose.

✨ What was your proudest dish?
✨ Who was your kitchen partner in crime?

Tag your classmates and share your memories 👇

Once TU Dublin, always TU Dublin.

Back where it all began 🎓

We welcomed back the Environmental Management & Planning Class of 2006 to Bolton Street for their 20 year reunion.

It was a lovely afternoon of reconnecting, sharing stories and catching up with former lecturers, along with meeting current students now following in their footsteps, with a few class trip stories that might be best left untold!

Moments like this remind us that TU Dublin stays with you long after graduation 💙

Thinking about a reunion with your class? We would love to help you make it happen.