Start-Up Spotlight: Stampify
In this issue, I examine Stampify, a non-profit social enterprise offering a loyalty card with a few slight twists on the traditional loyalty cards we are accustomed to. Instead of…
So There’s a Pandemic. How will the Economy Fare?
The Covid-19 pandemic not only brings with it a global health crisis, but also an economic crisis, the likes of which the world has never seen. Businesses have closed down…
Bringing Colour to Belfield: UCD Holi 2020
Most society-run events have had to be cancelled in light of COVID-19, but UCD Indian Society (IndSoc) barely escaped the closure, with their vibrant event Holi that took place on…
A Day in the Life of UCD President Andrew Deeks
The below story follows the President of UCD on an average day in the office. It should be noted that due to the current COVID-19 restrictions and university shutdown, the…
Avengers: Age of Unrealistic Body Expectations – Why Men Shouldn’t Model Themselves on Hollywood Facades
The issue of the male body-image is a consistently overlooked and ignored subject. At a time of ripped role models, gym-junky influencers, and hordes of photoshopped advertisement campaigns, how are…
“Who am I going to be in this?” – Helping those in need during the COVID-19 crisis
It’s amazing how quickly we begin to adjust to the ways that our lives are changing. Two weeks ago, I didn’t know what ‘social distancing’ was. Yesterday, I turned to…
How to Tolerate Your Family While UCD is Closed
Coronavirus. That’s it. That’s the article. Or at least, that’s how the entire internet feels at the second. Insanity looms over us all, as we scroll through conspiracy theories that…
Wave Particle Duality for Feckin Eejits
Physics gets a lot of media attention for its pretty pictures of space and rumours of people in Switzerland recreating the Big Bang and blowing us all up. Most of…
Every UCD Political Society on solving the Housing crisis
The housing crisis is a major issue in Irish politics. It is a topic that many UCD students are passionate about and the current crisis is affecting students all over…
COMMENT: Media Bias Skewed the General Election
The recent general election exposed many truths: Many are unsatisfied with current policies and want change. But something which received less clout in the weeks leading up to February 8th…
Government Formation XXXIII: The ‘Shinners’ Strike Back?
In any representative democracy government formation is often a complicated and painful process. However, the general election saw perhaps the most fundamental shift in Irish politics since the civil war.…
Academic Spotlight: Dr. Andrew Jackson
Dr. Andrew Jackson is a lecturer of Law in UCD. He is an environmental and planning lawyer and teaches these subjects at undergraduate level as well as Climate Change Law…