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Thu 02 Feb 2007UCD competition brings hard lessons for IrishThere are no Irish architectural practices on the shortlist for UCD's gateway competition for Belfield, writes Frank McDonald, Environment Editor.Architectural competitions are rarely free of frisson, and the €300 million UCD Gateway contest is no exception. The fact that no exclusively Irish team made the shortlist raised eyebrows - and not just those of John Graby, director of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI).