Overcharged? The Laws Protecting You on Your Ride Home
You’ve just spent €20 on a club ticket and the same again on drinks, and now you’re looking for a way home. The last thing you want is a taxi…
Burning Trash Cans, Angry Teenagers and the Art of Revolution: Should Irish Students be Taking Notes?
Recently, videos have circulated online of angry French high schoolers setting fire to trash cans and taking to the streets to protest poor school conditions, absent teachers, and a lack…
UCD Newman Society to Host Private Exorcism Next Monday: Everything You Need to Know
In a Turbine exclusive, our team has learned that the Newman Society will host an exorcism this coming Monday. If it goes ahead, it would be the first exorcism reported…
Thanks for the ride! – Is common courtesy going out the door?
Thanking the bus driver has always been emblematic of the Irish culture of respect and kindness, like apologising when someone else bumps into you. However, bus culture in Ireland seems…
Who Will Watch the Watchmen? Garvaghy Road and Judicial Review
On 12 October 2026, the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal ruled that the Orange Order’s planned march along the Garvaghy Road, which had been approved by the Parades Commission, could…
115 Counts of Society Corruption Exposed by the Turbine
There has been a renewed call for sanctions against student societies following a wave of resignations by senior committee members. Evidence of widespread misappropriation of society funds was uncovered by…
Born After the Agreement: What Young People Make of a United Ireland
Anyone under the age of 28 was born after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998. For them, the Troubles are something taught in school and remembered…
Voices from France: the protests through the eyes of local and international students
Born as a response to underfunding and poor conditions in public schools, the French school strike has grown into a nationwide movement. Student mobilisation has spread to members of the…
UCD AFC Victory Leaves Them a Game Away From Promotion
Following a second-place finish in the First Division and a comfortable 4-0 aggregate win over Longford Town in the playoffs, UCD qualified to play 3rd-place finishers Bray Wanderers in the…
The Muppets Pulled From Air in the UK Due to Alleged Support of Palestine Action
British Broadcasters have today announced that material relating to ‘The Muppets’ including the show ‘Sesame Street’, will no longer be distributed in the United Kingdom due to fears that their…
‘We Have Neither Employment Rights nor the Social Protections that Come with Them ‘, UCD PWO Picket Outside Tierney Building.
The UCD branch of the Postgraduate Workers Organisation picketed outside the Tierney Administrative Building this Wednesday, 21 October. Members of UCD PWO unanimously voted to strike yesterday, bringing much research…
Schooling the Government: All-out Teacher Strikes
Education in Ireland is at a tipping point, with persistent departmental overspends (evidently in the wrong areas), perpetual recruitment and retention issues in urban areas, a crisis in school avoidance,…