A Republic of Equals and the Legacy of the 1916 Rising
Wherever green is worn, are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. These are not just the words of a W.B. Yeats poem ‘1916’ that I was forced to…
200 in Facebook Chat Sharing & Rating Photos of Girls
It is believed a private Facebook groupchat with as many as 200 members is active among male students in UCD, in which members share and rate stories and pictures of…
Social Democrats Election Manifesto Prioritises Public Investment and €1000 Reduction in Student Fees
The Social Democrats launched their general election manifesto ‘Building a Better Future 2016-2026’ at the steps of the GPO today. The pillars of their platform are an increased investment in…
US Race Relations Campus Protests Shows Up Lack of Irish Student Mobilisation
The United States has been witness to an outbreak of student protests across college campuses over the charged issue of race relations. Student activism is not a recent phenomenon in…
Funding Higher Education: Ógra FF Propose Student Loans Scheme and an Increase in Fees to €5000
The unsustainability of the current higher education funding model will become further strained with the demographic increase in third level students projected in the coming years. The Cassell’s expert group…
Brazilian Supreme Court rules Government and Petrobas Implicit in Twenty Billion Euro Fraud
Last week Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Dilma Rousseff’s governing Workers Party manipulated its books in 2014 to hide massive fraudulent activity through the semistate oil giant Petrobras SA…
UCD Socialist Workers and Amnesty International Societies Protest Against Irish Refugee Policy
The UCD Socialist Workers Student Society and UCD Amnesty International came together on Tuesday October 13th outside the Student Centre to host a demonstration protesting Ireland’s disappointing reaction to the…
SmartVote Claims Elevator Award at Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Ceremony
The Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Awards are held to accredit the brightest new ideas in Ireland each year, and the Elevator Award is set up to help these start-ups advance and…
NexusUCD’s Neuromod Receives €5.5m Funding for Pioneer Treatment
The Irish medical device company Neuromod has recently received an initial €5.5 million in Series A funding from a venture capital fund Fountain Healthcare. Neuromod are based in UCD’s Industry…
Student Voices Want to Be Heard in the Coming General Election
The start of the college term for students across Ireland coincides with what for many of Ireland’s politicians is the beginning of election season. While politicians are gearing up for…
Ireland Lags Behind Europe and Britain in Student Accommodation
In the rest of Europe, questions of where you are going to live at University create feelings of excitement, not a panicked feeling of helplessness and refreshing of Daft.ie. Most…
Party Selection Conventions Give Rise to Drama of Election to Come
The slow summer months have seen the Irish political main stage fall quiet, with little entertainment emerging from the corridors of the Oireachtas. The real political drama has been taking…