UCD has confirmed that an early retirement settlement has been agreed with a lecturer who was alleged to have used her position to advance the Catholic Opus Dei group.
The college has said a payment - thought to be about two years' pay - has been made.
Geraldine O'Connor had been the subject of an inquiry after allegations that students were told they must attend Opus Dei events in order to pass their exams.
She voluntarily agreed to stop teaching while the inquiry was under way.
A report on the matter was prepared for the UCD president, Dr Hugh Brady. Recently, the college's governing body agreed to the settlement and some additional pension provisions for Ms O'Connor.
Last year, UCD's Students Union received a number of complaints from students at the college's school of diagnostic imaging about pressure to attend an Opus Dei event.
At the time, one student union figure said: "As far as we're concerned, attendance at the meeting was compulsory . . . the lecturer noted the names of all those who didn't attend the meeting last January . . . students felt intimidated into going."
Ms O'Connor has lectured in UCD for more than 20 years.
The university said it took the complaints very seriously. "A basic principle of UCD's charter is that it is non-denominational," it said.
The conservative Catholic organisation Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928 and has been in Ireland since 1947. It has about 800 members in Ireland, the majority of whom are lay. It has been criticised for its "obsessive secrecy" and its "sect-like" behaviour.
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