You Might Have Missed This! UCD News in Brief
Here’s the UCD news you might have missed this month! UCD Student Darragh McElhinney stars in RTÉ show ‘My Uni Life’ Darragh McElhinney, a talented track and field runner and…
UCDSU Executive Elections Explained
It’s UCDSU Election season and those Instagram follower request notifications from hopeful candidates are about to start pouring in, but how do you vote and who will be running? When…
Pointless or Profitable? Ireland’s New Bottle Deposit System Examined
We’ve done it again guys! The streak has been extended… the streak of failing to hit our EU recycling targets for the 5th year in a row! In August, the…
The Union of Students in Ireland: So, why’d we leave anyway?
With UCDSU set to go full Lisbon Treaty and run the USI referendum for the second time to make sure they get the right result, now is a good time…
UCDSU budget fails to get approval from council after projecting €71,000 budget deficit.
At Union Council on the 6th of November, University College Dublin Students’ Union (UCDSU) was unable to get approval for their upcoming annual budget after student representatives raised concerns about…
300 Staff and Students Attend Palestinian Solidarity Demonstration in UCD
UCDSU, Academics for Palestine and the newly formed UCD DBS held a protest outside the O’Reilly Hall in UCD last Tuesday. The protest had been planned for Monday, but was…
Chaos breaks out at UCD L&H Debate on Israel and Palestine
Chaos ensued at the end of the UCD Literary and Historical Society debate last night on whether “This House believes that the West has failed Palestine”. As security attempted to…
UCD Academics among 633 to sign letter calling on Irish Universities to suspend ties with Israeli Institutions.
Irish Universities have been called upon to cut ties with Israeli institutions by 633 university academics in a letter to Irish newspapers. Among the 633 academic staff who signed the…
UCD L&H Fall Foul of Main Sponsor and TCDSU Over Debates
At their house debate on Thursday the 14th of September, committee members of the Literary and Historical Society (L&H) admitted that their corporate sponsor, Arthur Cox, had reached out to…
Palestinian Solidarity Rally Marches on Israeli Embassy with Students’ Union in attendance
The Song of James Connolly rang out in front of the Dáil, as Kildare Street was blockaded by a Palestinian Solidarity Rally organised by USI, People Before Profit, Trinity College…
News in Brief: 18th of October 2023!
One-third of Uni teaching staff are considering quitting- survey finds An IFUT survey of 550 higher education sector workers found that more than a third of teaching staff are considering…
L&H Forced to Remove Arthur Cox Logo from RTÉ Debate Posters
At last week’s House Debate, committee members of the Literary and Historical Society (L&H) admitted that their corporate sponsor, Arthur Cox, had reached out to the society to request the…