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Sinn Féin Spokesperson for Higher and Further Education, Innovation and Science, Rose Conway-Walsh conducted a survey on the impact of online learning on students’ mental health. The results flag what…
It has been a year since the game-changing 2020 general election, which brought an end to civil war politics, and redrew the electoral map. However, due to COVID-19 suspending politics…
This week the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman published a white paper setting out the governments plan to abolish direct provision. The proposals include the…
In the age of the podcast, there are often too many podcasts to choose from available to students. With a large number of political podcasts available to young people, The…
Amidst the chaos and hostility in the dying hours of the Trump administration – a fortnight from the terrorist attack on the national capitol – that struck terror into both…
Former British prime minister Harold Wilson coined the now popular phrase ‘a week is a long time in politics.’ If this is true, imagine what can change in a year.…
At long last, it seems as if 2020 has shone a ray of sunlight as it reaches its horizon. With the good news in recent weeks provided from the likes…
The housing market in Ireland has never felt less accessible, as soaring costs, in both property and rent, has left thousands wondering how, if ever, they will be able to…
With Joe Biden’s presidential victory, a collective sigh was released throughout the western world. However, nowhere was this projected further than in Ireland, the ancestral home of the president-elect, where…
UCD’s Professor David Farrell was recently appointed as Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research, the scholarly society, based in Colchester, England. Celebrating its 50th year, the ECPR is…
Despite the U.S election being under a week away, the country is still firmly in the grips of the Covid-19 pandemic which is wildly out of control. As a result,…
With the disruption caused because of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent campus restrictions, a whole host of UCD campus societies and organisations have had to adapt to continue functioning and…