Garda Vetting
Welcome to DCU. As part of your acceptance to DCU, all students undertaking work or activities which involve unsupervised access to children or vulnerable persons as part of their programme of study must be garda vetted. The garda vetting team will communicate with you directly about the process and all other reference information, including how to contact us, can be found below.

List of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that require garda vetting

Details of the various stages involved in the garda vetting process

List of acceptable validation of identity and validation of address documents

Link to the Dublin City University vetting policy for students

Information on how to apply, if you lived outside of Ireland age 18 or over

Information on vetting expiry periods and instances when re-vetting is required