Frau von Gardaí verhaftet, weil sie UCD-Täuschung untersucht

Curious and curiouser

Extremely weird article, do RTÉ not employ editors anymore?

Why did they arrest her if she was investigating?

Without speculating, whoever was arrested today will most likely be released pending a file to the DPP for directions and won’t be named unless they are charged and before the courts.

If that happens then the full details will come out in time.

UCD management seem like the kind of lot that will want to spend some money and make this womens life a living hell

Was this the trying to get exams repeated thing

Extremely strange, and from what I have heard not a bit surprising. I hope this all comes out into the full light of day in court.

Wow, I must have missed half of this story. I didn’t deep dive into it when it came out but I thought there was a SA and her image was shared, I didn’t realise that there was a two year gap between them two incidents and that she went to court over her exam results is what started all this.

Was all this common knowledge when the issue first broke?

Very strange 

For those doubting this, it is seems to implicate the same case as this story (I won’t say it clearly is to avoid the post being deleted):
[https://universitytimes.ie/2026/03/ucd-faces-renewed-scrutiny-as-dail-debates-medical-students-refused-resits-following-rape-by-fellow-student/](https://universitytimes.ie/2026/03/ucd-faces-renewed-scrutiny-as-dail-debates-medical-students-refused-resits-following-rape-by-fellow-student/)

You can figure out who RTE are talking about too if you read both articles.

Fingers crossed that the book is thrown at this person if they’re found guilty. Remember, their allegation could have ruined many lifes, staff and students.

The WhatsApp thing stinks to be honest, who would send that into a medical degree group with students and staff?

I feel like this story will be a very big fucking deal once it all comes out.

For anyone unfamiliar with the case, a female medical student at UCD alleged a sexual assault against another student, and that this experience resulted in her failing some exams. She felt that UCD did not offer her sufficient supports and brought a case against them to the High Court, which she lost and she then appealed. She has been arrested today following the presentation of arguments in the Court of Appeal.

I’ve copied below some key parts of the court documents from the original case which was also helpfully copied by another Redditor in the original thread about this case:

31. The plaintiff made her first exceptional circumstances application, seeking special grades for her three failed modules, on 9 February 2023 in which she reiterated her wish to secure an alternative assessment method. She said in her application that she had spent the majority of her time during the autumn term either at work or helping her injured mother. The plaintiff said she had put in an enormous effort to keep afloat in all classes but „this did not end up being the case“. She set out her aspiration to have a „strong finish to a difficult year“. That application was refused because it was submitted late and because one of the grounds relied upon, the plaintiff’s full-time work commitments, was not permitted as a ground for a full-time student such as the plaintiff.

32. The plaintiff made a second application in April 2023, in which she, once again, set out her mother’s injuries and explained that she had two separate full-time jobs at the time she had failed the December 2022 exams. She described the effect her situation had on her emotional well-being at that time, which she said prevented her from attending „a substantial number of classes“ and affected her ability to study. She said that she was „constantly struggling“ with her education due to her hearing loss „as well as outside influences“ and that she was under significant financial pressure during the 2022 trimester which contributed to her „negative emotional well-being“. That application was refused for the same reasons as previously.

33. I highlight the contents of those applications as they confirm, on the plaintiff’s own account, that the plaintiff was experiencing negative emotional well-being and was struggling with her education before February 2023. By February 2023, she had failed three core modules, had not attended the majority of her classes in the previous term, had been given an academic plan, was assigned to an academic mentor and was looking to be assessed in a manner other than resitting the exams she had failed in December.

Events between February and May 2023;

34. Between February and May 2023, the plaintiff experienced very traumatic events. I will use the language from the Gilchrist order of O’Connor J in saying that the plaintiff makes an allegation of assault by an unidentified student in late February 2023, which had consequences for her studies and exams. In May 2023, she availed of medical services following the alleged assault. She was due to sit eight exams between 8 and 18 May, some of which clashed with the aforesaid medical services. The plaintiff passed two of her exams and either failed or did not attend six, including some of the modules she had previously failed in December 2022. That left her with six outstanding modules for stage 2 that she needed to remediate, representing half of her total modules for the 15 year. The evidence confirmed that this was an unusually high number of unremediated modules for a student to be carrying, well above the more usual circumstances in which a student might have to remediate one or some modules. Ms F, the Director of the University’s disability support service, said: “There are very, very occasions, if any, that I can think of in my 25 years where a student has been looking to remediate so many modules. I’ve never come across it” (transcript, day 5, page 134/135).

Exceptional Circumstances Application; May 2023

35. On 24 May 2023, the plaintiff made a fresh exceptional circumstances application relating to the May exams. She submitted a very brief letter from her GP who said they had been informed that the plaintiff had been recently unwell during the exam period and that the plaintiff felt her performance was impaired by her health. Whilst the plaintiff said in her subsequent application for exceptional circumstances that her GP had declared her „categorically and medically unfit“ to sit her exams, the GP’s letter that the plaintiff had relied on in her application of 25 May 2023, did not confirm any such certification or diagnosis. That application was refused.

36. The court was furnished with a copy of a separate letter from the plaintiff’s GP dated from the same period addressed to the Department of Social Protection which, unlike the letter relied on by the plaintiff in her 24 May exceptional circumstances application, set out a far more detailed account of the plaintiff’s medical situation and the services and treatment that she availed of at the time of her May exams. The plaintiff suggested that there were GDPR reasons for her GP not giving the same amount of information to the University. Her GP also referred in a subsequent letter to the policy of the practice not to state medical conditions on sick notes to school/college or employers due to GDPR concerns. Whatever the reasons may have been for privacy concerns in one letter that were apparently of no concern in another, it remained a matter for the plaintiff to put her best case forward in making her exceptional circumstances application. The plaintiff could have explored addressing her GP’s apparent GDPR concerns by giving her consent to the disclosure of the nature of her medical condition in circumstances where she knew or ought to have known that the University required far more detail than the brief account of her situation in May 2023 that had been previously provided by her GP and had already been found by the university committee to be insufficient for the grant of special grades. She could also have advised the committee herself of the nature of her medical condition.