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…
Snarling from the soil
Christopher Aherne gets to the origins of the seemingly unending GM food debate The Genetically Modified Food debate has been a hotly divisive issue for a long time and while…
‘Are ya well?’
Fiona Dunken confronts Street harassment within Irish society “There was a phase where we’d be walking into college and get terrible abuse from guys driving by in cars, purchase in…
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Crime can be a horrible experience, medicine an experience never fully understood by many until they themselves have been some form of victim. It has lasting emotional and physical consequences…
Vis-à-vis: Rachel Breslin
James Grannell gets to know UCDSU President Rachel Breslin, prostate discussing everything from reports to rugby, viagra as he shadows her during a typical day’s work The side door of…
Don’t Mention the A-Word
Look around: Germany has ‘don’t mention the war’, see Harry Potter has ‘He who must not be named’ and we, rx the Irish, have ‘Don’t utter the “A-word”.’ It is…
You Got a Friend in Me
Most of us consider ourselves in favour of increased rights and decreased discrimination towards the LGBT community. It is one of the few issues that does not just seem to…
The Journey To The Great Beyond
As Felix Baumgartner receives applause for breaking the sound barrier without the assistance of an aircraft, Christopher Ahearne examines the wider implications of the feat. When Felix Baumgartner was five…
The Unemployment Illusion
Robert Nielson asks if generous welfare benefits lead to high unemployment Every debate about unemployment inevitably ends with someone claiming the problem is people are too lazy to work. Or…
Main Street
Darragh Moriarty searches for answers on a walk down O’Connell Street In the past twenty years or so O’Connell Street has undergone extensive renovation and regeneration. Having been formally planned…
All Things Now
Silvana Lakeman considers how we can deal with the possibilities of UCD The winter term is now officially underway – leaves are falling from the trees, coats are a necessity…