€250 Refund Does Not Cover a Law Book | Editorial
Included in the 2021 budget announced in October was a €50 million fund for the department of Higher and Further Education to be distributed to all EU undergraduate and postgraduate…
Ireland is not a safe place for women, not even online|Editorial
T/W: Sexual Abuse Ireland is not an ideal country to be a woman in. History has shown us this time and time again but last week’s news of a Discord…
Revenge Porn Leaks: What happened, what’s being done, what’s next?
An online protest is provisionally organised for November 28th to demand the Government to bring in laws which will protect victims of image-based sexual abuse – incidents where sexually explicit…
Why We Don’t Report It | Student stories
Trigger warning : Sexual assault & Harassment. The threat of sexual harassment and assault seems to be constant in women’s lives. Many times women put up with harassment or address…
Mid-November Netflix Recommendations
American History X ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ American History X is arguably one of the most important movies made with a social purpose in recent history. Derek Vinyard, the protégé to the Neo-Nazi…
UCD Lecturer warns Oireachtas that the Climate Bill will not deliver necessary emission cuts
Dr. Andrew Jackson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Planning Law and Climate Change Law in the Sutherland School of Law, spoke before a Joint Committee of the Oireachtas…
UCD To Re-Introduce ‘Yes Detriment’ Policy | Turbine
After much confusion and anxiety regarding whether University College Dublin would re-implement the already proven ‘Yes detriment policy’, Student Union President and bearer of bad news Conor Anderson confirmed the…
“Absolutely Not”: UCD’s Response to Student Calls for Reimplementation of No Disadvantage Policy | Editorial
Back in April, students and lecturers alike had their lives greatly impacted by the introduction of online learning as a result of the ongoing pandemic. It became clear that the…
RTÉ Announce Docuseries Showing Disadvantaged University Students
The Irish Universities Association has partnered with RTÉ to create My Uni Life, a five-part docuseries which follows the lives of 7 students at various points of their academic career.…
Lockdown 2.0 and Mental Health: We Need Each Other Now More Than Ever | Editorial
Here we are again; just under a week into Lockdown 2.0. Now more than ever we will need our friends and family to stick by us all to make sure…
UCD Professor Takes Maths Lectures into the Wicklow Mountains
Professor Colm Fitzgerald, an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University College Dublin (UCD) has come up with a novel approach to delivering lectures online during…
UCD To Receive Over 8 Million in Research Funding
UCD will be provided with €8,273,620 of a €47 million euro fund for research contractors and research students whose work has been heavily impacted by Covid-19, Simon Harris has announced.…