UCD Students’ Union Hits Back At University Observer Over Staff Wage Cuts
UCD Students’ Union (SU) have retained all their staff since the temporary closure of their shops on campus, despite losing all shop income. In a statement today, the SU has…
On The Eve of SU Elections, Low Voter Registration Indicates Legitimacy Crisis | Opinion
This year’s UCD Students’ Union Elections begin tomorrow morning. This will be the first time that the organisation has gone online, with the Returning Office scrambling to set things in…
UNION ELECTIONS 2020: Online Debate Sees Radicals Take The Spotlight | Full Analysis
This year’s UCD Students’ Union (SU) Election Hustings suffered meaningfully from the lack of an audience. Previous year’s hustings featured indelible moments which drew laughs and shocks from the audience.…
UCD May Lose €100m Over COVID-19 Financial Fallout
University College Dublin (UCD) has indicated that the financial cost of COVID-19 restrictions on the university may approach €100 million this year. The government restrictions bring financial uncertainties for the…
The Best COVID-19 Takeaways
What strange times we live in. Locked up in our homes, constrained to a 2km radius by law and working/studying whilst lounging in our beds. Happily, there remains one constant;…
Planning For A World When We Can Shake Hands Again
You know that door-opens-into-a-portal thing they show in Sci-Fi shows, where a person opens a door and steps into a new realm? The day we opened that door was the…
WHAT’S HOT: Great Student Reads During Home Isolation
So uh.. this is all quite awkward, isn’t it? With most of us here in UCD on our third or fourth week in isolation, there is a growing unrest in…
Quarantine Bucket List
We are creatures of habit. We find comfort in routine, in getting a morning coffee, in seeing that same stranger at the bus stop every morning, in looking forward to…
The Frightening Reality of ‘The Stranger’
In a world as connected as ours, with information at our fingertips and an all-encompassing social media sphere, it’s easy to think that we can know everything about a person,…
Netflix Recommendations
Tiger King Limited Series ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The series serves as an exposé on untold drama and crime surrounding the most influential players of the big cat community…
Disney+ Finally Launches in Ireland
Plans were made for Disney Plus to launch in Ireland, among other European countries such as Britain, Spain, Italy and Germany, on March 24th way back in January. The Disney…
Nostalgia Zone: Videodrome
Nostalgia Zone: Videodrome ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Among the category of great filmmakers, we often hear the familiar names of Lynch, Hitchcock or Kubrick. I would dare to say…