Grilling Marc Matouc | UCDSU Graduate Officer Candidate
On-Campus voting takes place on the 4th and 5th of April. Running for a second term as UCDSU Graduate Officer, Marc Matouc offers students a continuation of the status quo,…
Grilling Neo O’Herlihy: UCDSU Entertainments Candidate
On-Campus voting takes place on the 4th and 5th of April. Neo O’Herlihy is a stage three English, Drama and Film student. He is running uncontested for the role of…
Grilling Ryan Corley: UCDSU Campaigns and Engagement Candidate
On-Campus voting takes place on the 4th and 5th of April. Ryan Corley is a final year Physics with Astronomy student running in the only contested Sabbatical race this year…
Grilling Miranda Bauer: UCDSU Campaigns and Engagement Candidate
On-Campus voting takes place on the 4th and 5th of April. Miranda Bauer is a final-year Modern Languages in UCD and is originally from Argentina. She is running in the…
A Year at War in the Ukraine: Ireland’s Pseudo Neutrality
As dawn rolled in over Ukraine ’s agrarian east on the morning of 24 February 2022, Russian infantry flooded across the border into the rural outpost of Milove. That morning,…
TD Gino Kenny Discusses Path to Legalising Cannabis
On Wednesday the 16th of November, People Before Profit/Solidarity TD, Gino Kenny, hosted a discussion in the FitzGerald Chamber. In this discussion he outlined his proposition to decriminalise the possession…
The Musk Effect: Will Twitter Sink or Swim?
Elon Musk, a man of many hats – from Tesla CEO to SpaceX founder – the outspoken billionaire is undoubtedly already a prominent figure within contemporary discourse. Though as is…
How Football Influenced the Brazilian Election
Sport has long been undeniably intertwined with politics, but rarely has the conflation between the two been to such a striking extent as in this month’s Brazilian Presidential election. As…
CeleBRAYtions: First Person with Down Syndrome Elected to an Irish Political Party
At the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis, Fintan Bray made history as the first person with Down syndrome to be elected to a senior position in an Irish political party. The…
Not on a Student Budget: Government Fails to Address Key Issue
Budget Day, always one of unparalleled importance within the Irish political calendar, although this year’s budget will endure a heightened sense of meaning. No matter what path the Minister for…
The End of an Era – Queen Elizabeth II Dies at 96
Queen Elizabeth II passed away on Thursday afternoon at her Balmoral Estate in the Scottish Highlands. Aged 96, she was Britain’s longest serving monarch, with her reign spanning over eight…
The Race to be UK’s Next Prime Minister – Why Irish People Should Care
The controversial Boris Johnson will finally relinquish his position as the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister at the beginning of September. The news, which came after several high-ranking members of Johnson’s…