The UCD Festival 2025 takes place on Saturday, June 7 with over 100 Free activities. This year's festival will feature an educational UCD Lyons Farm showcase as well as contributions from aerospace engineer and baker Andrew Smyth and disability advocate Sinéad Burke. RTÉ broadcaster Rick O’Shea is the festival Literary Curator and there will be there will be talks with authors Paul Perry, Jan Carson, Roisín O'Donnell, Claire Coughlan, and Karl Geary.