Dr Ciarán Ó Coigligh is an Irish a poet and retired academic.
He worked in the Modern Irish departments of NUI Galway and University College Dublin.
[1] In 1999, as a lecturer in St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra,he became a member of Dublin City University's Academic Council.
[3] In June 2017, Dublin City University suspended Ó Coigligh's email account and condemned as "offensive" an email he had sent to all of the university's staff,[4] about the death of a fellow staff member, Ann Louise Gilligan, the wife of Katherine Zappone, in which he described same-sex relationships as "a disorder" and stated that a sexual relationship between two women "cannot be conjugal, cannot be consummated, and cannot constitute marriage".
The college stated, "While Dublin City University supports the concept that universities are fora where views from many different perspectives can be shared and debated respectfully, we do not condone communications that run counter to our policies and ethos of respect and dignity.