Student Stories: Final Years Leave With Emotional Anti-Climax
For most UCD students, the end of the exam period is met with heavy sighs of relief. Finally, the burden of online exams and radically altered assessment comes to an…
Mature Student Diaries: Am I An Entrepreneur Now?
The first time I wrote about this undertaking in my life, I had been on campus for a total of three days and was completely panic stricken and full of…
Union of Students in Ireland Elects Second Term President For First Time In A Decade
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) today held its Congress involving the election of the 2020-2021 Executive Team. The Union’s incumbent President, Lorna Fitzpatrick, was re-elected for the first…
HEA Predicts Mass College Place Deferrals Next Year
Due to the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, most leaving cert students will defer college places this year, according to an unpublished report from the HEA. The report from…
Gemma O’Doherty Protested On My Beach And Got Upstaged By Some Local Fools
Since the country has shut down in light of this darn plague we’re experiencing, I’ve been working from home. Recently, I’ve spent most of my time as a student journalist…
Students Warned Not to Commit to Accommodation Until Clarity on Next Term
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) and national housing charity Threshold today warned students against committing to accommodation in the absence of clarity on what college attendance will look…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: What’s Bertie up to now? | Education, Politics, Brexit and More
Bertie Ahern served as Taoiseach from 1997-2008, having also served as Minister for Finance and Minister for Labour during his political career. He is currently Co-Chair of the InterAction Council…
Government Denies Colleges of Additional Funds Despite Half a Billion Loss
The Department of Education has said they are not in a position to provide any additional funding to third level institutions despite a projected financial loss of €508 million in…
The College Tribune Announces New Co-Editors
The College Tribune is delighted to announce that two new Co-Editors have been appointed to edit Ireland’s largest independent student newspaper for the next year. Stephan Kisbey-Green (pictured left) and…
UCD Rules Out Fee Compensation Despite Student Demands For Talks
UCD have denied student calls to receive partial refunds on their fees due to course disruption amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement to The Irish Times today, the university…
Interview: USI’s Craig McHugh on Ireland’s “Enormous” University Funding Crisis
The government’s decade-long underfunding of universities has presented the sector with a myriad of issues, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed unreliable non-exchequer sources of income. Staff and students nationwide…
Celebrating Belfield’s Architecture 50 Years On | UCD Festival
As a UCD student, it is hard to imagine that the vast 330 acres of Belfield’s campus were not always flooded with people. Prior to 1970, the official opening of…