Subway, Chopped, Starbucks Gone, New Tenants to Raise Quality.
Subway and Chopped gone, seating down 75% and Starbucks in the rearview mirror: life after Aramark might seem grim at first but Gather & Gather (G&G), the new tenants of…
TikTeach Mania: Controversies, Self-Financing and Taking Risks
If you haven’t heard by now – firstly, where have you been?? – secondly, Ireland’s first TikTok house has arrived, and boy has it got people talking. What’s a TikTok…
The Clubhouse Reopens, But It’s Just Not The Same
“It won’t be The Clubhouse of yesteryear just yet”, bar manager Steve Donnelly tells me on Wednesday morning during the soft opening for the popular student spot. After leaving the…
Reduction in NQ Lawyer Salaries Causes Concern Over UK Law Internships
Renowned UK law firms such as Slaughter & May, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy, and Clyde & Co have all announced changes to their legal recruitment positions, as internship…
The NBA and BLM
There is a scene in Netflix’s ‘Master of None’ that sums up many of the conversation’s basketball fans have with non-basketball fans. In Season 2, episode 3 (titled ‘Religion’), two…
Remembering Chadwick Boseman
Following a 4-year long battle with colon cancer, actor Chadwick Boseman has tragically passed away at the age of 43. The news hit social media in the early hours of…
Digital Humanities: paving a new future for Literary analysis
University College Dublin (UCD) is one of the first colleges in Ireland to offer a module based solely on the computational analysis of literature. The Digital Approaches to Literature module,…
Explaining the Law Surrounding Sexual Assault and Consent
Simon Harris described issues of consent and sexual violence as ‘a real epidemic in our country,’ while speaking at a meeting with the National Advisory Committee on sexual harassment and…
Calls for “Systemic reform” amid nursing home report
A report released on Tuesday, august 18th, investigating the impact of COVID-19 on nursing homes, has called for “systematic reform” of how residents are cared for. The Nursing Homes Expert…
Mná Glasa Óga on ‘Giving Young Women a Voice’ in the Green Party | Interview
The spate of Green Party defections following the publication of the Programme for Government (PfG) in June has been ongoing throughout summer 2020. In June, Young Greens advised their members…
Students and SU Believe New Legislation “Not Enough” to Protect Students’ Rental Rights
President Michael D. Higgins signed the Residential Tenancies and Valuation Act 2020 into law on August 1st, ensuring tenants who are struggling to pay rent as a result of the…
“It is a nightmare…” – UCD Students on the Closure of Montrose
Last week, hundreds of students woke to find that their living arrangements for the upcoming trimester had been turned upside down. Montrose student residence, which is situated next to University…