USI Membership: What Does it Mean, and Why Should We Care?
For over three decades, UCDSU has had a turbulent relationship with the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). We’ve joined, left, rejoined, and left again. Now, in 2025, we’re once…
Turning a Corner? Student Issues Set to be Addressed by Government with New Multi-Year Plan
Third-level students across Ireland are shocked that they may not be forgotten this time. However, the release of the 2025 Draft Programme for Government, which sets out what the government…
The UCDSU Referendum: A Vote of No Confidence by Students?
The UCD Students’ Union (UCDSU) recently held a referendum to reform its constitution. The proposals included reducing the quorum for future referenda from 12.5% to 10% and allowing the election…
Climate Fatigue: How Our Society Has Left Us Unable to Cope
What does it mean to care about climate change but be equally unmotivated to help promote any change? With the current rise of political instability, social media addiction, and AI,…
Budget 2025: Familiar Promises, Familiar Criticisms
Last week, the government unveiled its measures for Budget 2025, dubbed “the largest social welfare package in the state’s history.” As always, the question is whether students will benefit. Among…
OPINION: “The Well-Trodden Path from Belfield to Perth”: The Issue With Medicine Students is Retention, Not Training
This January, Simon Harris, the Minister for Higher Education, unveiled a new initiative to subsidise students from the Republic of Ireland studying medicine in Northern Ireland. This move is part…
Halloween Music: The Best of the Best
No offence to the many, many Christmas songs out there, but Halloween music wins every single time. Give me “mua-haha” over “ho ho ho” any day of the week. Give…
OPINION: Protests aren’t working – it’s time to be disruptive!
Postgraduate workers protested outside the Dáil, students’ unions protested outside the Dáil, anti-war protesters protested outside the Dáil, and also people disappointed by the budget protested outside the Dáil! The…
Should Students care about the “Hate Speech” Bill?
The Irish government’s plan to introduce the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 has recently generated much controversy. The legislation could have serious implications…
On the verge of irrelevance: Stephen Kenny’s Ireland era hangs in the balance
The defence of the Stephen Kenny era has been based in romanticism. This romanticism is forged in a belief in what Irish football ought to be. The first strand of…
Emma Hanrahan & Hugh Dooley appointed as new College Tribune Co-Editors
The College Tribune is excited to announce that two new Editors have been chosen to manage the 37th Volume of Ireland’s largest independent student newspaper. Emma Hanrahan (pictured left) and…
Success by Any Means Necessary: The IRFU’s Reliance On The Private School System And What This Means For The Future of Irish Rugby
With 6 months to go until the Rugby World Cup, Ireland currently sits top of the World Rankings and top of the Six Nations leaderboard, winning their opening 3 matches…