Sick Parents & The Illness Paradox
How do you cope when a parent is ill? You look after them by bringing them soup and doing more chores and running errands normally. But what happens when you…
The Ongoing Crisis in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland has once more made headlines as a result of its protracted political crisis. Ever since the Stormont Assembly was collapsed last January as a result of the resignation…
An Cumann Gaelach UCD ag súil le gradam a bhaint amach ag Ard-Fheis Chonradh na Gaeilge
Idir 23-25 Feabhra, beidh ceann de na féilte is mó i bhféilire na nGaeilgeoirí ag tarlú i dTrá Lí, Co. Chiarraí: Ard-Fheis Chonradh na Gaeilge 2018. Sa bhliain 1893 i…
Have We Lost Our Ability to Debate?
Abortion, marriage equality, politics, and gender wage gap. These are just some of the polarising debates that saturate our society today. But why must such issues become nasty, brutish points…
Spring Has Sprung!
Across the country, we are seeing ‘signs of spring’. The first blooms of snowdrops and blackthorn flowers; hazel, horse-chestnut and alder trees forming tiny blossoms and fluffy catkins; frogspawn in…
Tá na Meáin Shóisialta ag Cruthú Sochaí Frithshóisialta
‘Cé go bhfuil sé deacair le creidiúint, bhíodh am ann tráth ina raibh ar dhaoine labhairt aghaidh ar aghaidh chun fiú an chumarsáid is bunúsaí a dhéanamh le chéile. Ní…
Lab Grown Love: A Study In Intimacy
In the late 1990s, Professor Arthur Aron of Stony Brook University faced a dilemma. He wanted to study love. A psychologist fascinated with human intimacy, he was facing a serious…
How to Hack Your Habit
It is the beginning of February, and chances are most people have given up on g their New Year’s Resolutions. Every year it happens. Why is it so difficult to…
It’s All About the Blockchain
In 1999, economist Paul Krugman said, ‘By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.’ Krugman’s…
The Technological Universities Bill 2015 in the Seanad
The Technological Universities Bill 2015 passed the Dáil at the end of January and is now going through the process to obtain Seanad approval. The Bill sets out the framework…
The Rural Broadband Problem
The recent exit of Eir from the Rural Broadband tender scheme, and the subsequent accusations that the process has been mismanaged is not the most interesting material to read about.…
Brexit May Affect Extradition Agreements
The Supreme Court has referred a question to the European Court of Justice regarding British extradition, following the challenge of an arrest warrant by an Irishman. Mr Thomas Joseph O’Connor,…