A woman has been arrested by garda\u00ed investigating alleged deception against a third-level institution.<\/p>\n
The woman, who is in her 20s, is being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act at a south Dublin garda station and can be questioned for up to 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed also carried out a search and seized a number of items including electronic devices as part of their investigation.<\/p>\n
It is understood she is being questioned in relation to allegedly fraudulent documentation supplied to UCD.<\/p>\n
The garda investigation began last year after UCD reported that a graphic photo of a woman was received by more than 170 academic staff and students on 22 April 2025.<\/p>\n
A medical student at the college claimed she was raped three years ago and that an explicit image was taken in the aftermath and circulated without her knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n
Following the alleged rape, the medical student did not succeed in passing all her second-year modules for medicine and University College Dublin required her to remediate six incomplete modules.<\/p>\n
She challenged that decision and took a case to the High Court claiming the university had failed to make reasonable allowances after the alleged assault and subsequent pregnancy and had forced her to choose between continuing her studies and accessing healthcare.<\/p>\n
However, the High Court rejected her claim and found UCD had made significant efforts to support her and was entitled to require her to follow an academic plan before progressing through her medical degree.<\/p>\n
Ms Justice Marguerite Bolger found the solutions offered by the college to help the woman complete the failed modules were “entirely lawful and proper”.<\/p>\n
The student appealed the High Court ruling to the Court of Appeal which heard arguments from both sides today and reserved judgment in the case.<\/p>\n
Garda headquarters confirmed that a woman in her 20s was arrested this afternoon for alleged deception against a third level institution contrary to the Criminal Justice Theft and Fraud Offences Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested by garda\u00ed investigating alleged deception against a third-level institution. The woman, who is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-561533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}