Students Encouraged to Consider Teaching Careers in England
Students in UCD are being encouraged to consider pursuing a career as a teacher in the UK, after the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) brought its “Train to…
Halloween Style
A most ancient festival, Halloween is one of the most exciting events of the year for modern creative souls. The lines between our world and the afterlife become blurred and…
UCDSU jointly launch Harm Reduction Campaign
The Welfare Officers of three students unions took to the podium in the Oak Room of Dublin’s Mansion House on Friday last, to jointly launch the “What’s in the Pill?”…
Christmas Exam Timetable Released
The Semester One exam timetable has been released online. This year, the exams are set to take place take place from Monday, 7th December to Friday, 18th December, including a…
Budget Analysis: Students and Third-Level Education Left out of the Giveaway
The Government budget held no surprises and kept with the trend of their previous four budgets in their time in office. The focus was primarily on tax cuts and credits…
SmartVote Claims Elevator Award at Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Ceremony
The Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Awards are held to accredit the brightest new ideas in Ireland each year, and the Elevator Award is set up to help these start-ups advance and…
News in Focus: Stopping The Press
Cian Carton looks at the difficulty facing newspaper editors in getting stories to print. Journalists often run a gauntlet in order to break stories. When they are reporting, or making…
What is Harm Reduction?
Over the last six weeks, you will have seen anonymously penned articles on the use of MDMA, Cocaine, and now the psychadelic phenethylamine 2C-B appear in these pages. These are…
One to Watch- The Academic
The activities of most Mullingar teenagers are often questionable, not so this quartet of talented young fellows who are breaking into the Irish music scene with a very refined and…
So You Want to go to Drama School?
I’ll never forget morning I met Peter Campion. My dad had organised the meeting, as I was eager to meet a real working actor. I was sitting in a coffee…
Defining Dublin Style
Paris, c’est chic. Berlin ist einfach cool. But Dublin? How can the style of Dublin be defined? Here in the capital we have a vast scale of unique sets of…
the best small country in the world in which to play football
Ireland defeated Germany on Thursday night to keep themselves in contention for automatic qualification for France 2016. Shane Long’s second-half strike gave Ireland their most impressive home competitive victory since…