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Countless Losses, Costs, and Failed Diplomacy: The Motives Behind the US-Israel-Iranian War

Editor — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:53:30 +0000

The joint US-Israeli assault on Iran that began on February 28 and killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has already cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars. With Tehran’s retaliation on US and Israeli military assets across the Gulf, hitting the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Manama, Doha, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain, the […]

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Economic Barriers to the Bar: An Interview with Rebecca Hanratty, Barrister and Former DEIS Student

Editor — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:46:07 +0000

The Irish Independent’s 2025 feeder schools data revealed that 59% of students from DEIS schools progressed to third-level education, a drop from 64% in 2024. This finding contrasts sharply with the 91% of students from fee-paying schools progressing to third level in 2025, illustrating an increasing class divide in access to higher education. These growing […]

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Venezuela: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Law

Editor — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:24:55 +0000

International law – that phrase often summons an image of suited-up lawyers and prosecutors walking in glass buildings and speaking a language that none of us understands. That staple of 20th-century bureaucratic peacekeeping has never been too extreme in its judgments, when it comes to the recent US attack and abduction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás […]

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Cost of Renting County Leitrim now less than a Village Dorm

Editor — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:16:10 +0000

Last month, it was announced that UCD once again claimed the crown for the most expensive on-campus accommodation in Ireland, with an en-suite at Village 3 costing €11,888 for the year. Turbine investigators have found that for the same price of a shoebox with no oven and mould that dates back to the Celtic Tiger, […]

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RTÈ To be Funded Through Oxygen Consumption Tax

Editor — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:13:43 +0000

Over the last few years, many questions have been raised about the funding of the national broadcaster, RTÉ. Many feel that the TV License system is “unfair,” “outdated,” or, in the words of one disgruntled taxpayer, “daylight fecking robbery.” In a rare case where the government addresses an issue long after public outrage has died […]

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Book of Kells Sequel Leaked on Reddit

Editor — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:12:25 +0000

Trinity College Dublin is in turmoil after the sequel to the only good piece of literature they’ve produced in 11 centuries was leaked on Reddit last week. The university, a tourist attraction in the city centre that occasionally dabbles in the exercise of educating its students, is best known for this old book that it […]

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“I Really Don’t Feel the Pressure”: Alysa Liu and the Art of Not Caring

Hannah Kate Costello — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:08:10 +0000

After completing her short programme at the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics, Alysa Liu was asked the inevitable question: how does she handle the pressure? “I really don’t feel nervous. I don’t feel the pressure. There’s nothing holding me down or holding me back,” she said. She then went on to win gold. Liu had just […]

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Spots of Gold: UCD Earns roughly €700,000 a Year from Parking

Hannah Kate Costello — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:02:35 +0000

While University budgets are reported to be under pressure, The Tribune can reveal that on-campus parking is a significant revenue stream for UCD. Data from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by The Tribune reveal that UCD generates hundreds of thousands of euros in annual revenue. Yet, many drivers compete daily for limited parking spots […]

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The Academic Instruments of Power: The UCD Encampment’s Fight Against Systematic Soft Violence and the European Pro-Palestine Movement

Editor — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:52:13 +0000

In early September, as new and returning students stepped foot onto the N11 entrance of the Belfield Campus, they were greeted by the sight of waving flags, anchored tents, and in big bold letters, a message: “Break the academic chains of zionism”. More than a year since the previous encampment’s divisive conclusion, protesters have regrouped […]

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The Crisis of Meaning: An Absence of Intellectual Figures in the 21st Century

Editor — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:47:39 +0000

The search for meaning has long consumed the minds of generations. English professors will teach students that writers such as Eliot and Joyce were searching for new philosophies at a time of secularisation and the fall of empires. Their era played on people’s survival instincts, after life as they knew it in WWII was destroyed. […]

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If You Know, You Know: How language quietly shapes belonging in the Formula 1 Fandom

Hannah Kate Costello — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:57:26 +0000

Midway through the 2025 Australian Grand Prix, a team-radio exchange between Charles Leclerc and his engineer became one of the season’s first unmistakable meme moments. In true Ferrari fashion “I have the seat full of water,” Leclerc reported, only for his engineer to reply, “Must be the water.” What followed was an avalanche of jokes, […]

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The Emperor’s New Downforce: F1’s 2026 Regulations and the Lie Everyone’s Telling

Hannah Kate Costello — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:53:38 +0000

What do you get when you design a racing car around a manufacturer’s sustainability pitch rather than a driver’s right foot? Formula 1 is hurtling toward a regulatory cliff in 2026, and the sport’s power brokers are gambling with its future. While team principals smile for the cameras and pay lip service to “exciting new […]

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Game, Set, Match? How Padel is Threatening to Steal Tennis’s Crown

Editor — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:50:10 +0000

There is a quiet revolution happening in sports clubs around the world, and tennis, one of the oldest and most prestigious sports on the planet, is on the losing side. Padel, a hybrid of tennis and squash played on a glass-walled enclosed court roughly a third of the size, is growing at a rate that […]

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