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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.…
Current Graduate Officer Conor Anderson is the sole candidate for UCD Students’ Union (SU) President this year and is aiming to blend his experience as Graduate Officer with big-picture ideals…
Leighton Gray is running unopposed in the Student’s Union (SU) Elections to be the Campaigns and Engagement (C&E) Officer. The 21-year-old has been involved in the Students’ Union since their…
Hannah Bryson (28), a Stage 3 Computer Science student is running for next year’s Students’ Union (SU) Education Officer. The Ulster native is running for the position “to challenge the…
The UCD Students’ Union (SU) Election polls will open from 9am on Tuesday April 28th and close on April 30th at 9pm. Students will be required to register to vote,…
Laois Native, Darryl Horan (22) is one of two candidates running for the position of Education Officer in the upcoming Students’ Union (SU) elections. The SU’s Education Officer deals with…
On April 8th, myself and UCD Students’ Union (SU) Welfare Officer candidate for 2020 Rebecca “Bex” O’Connor, a final year English, Drama, and Social Justice student, had a chat about…
I interviewed Ruairí Power who is running for Welfare Officer of UCD Students’ Union (SU). Power is no stranger to student activism as he co-founded the ‘Fix our education UCD’…
Sarah Michalek says she is running for Students’ Union (SU) Entertainments (Ents) Officer “primarily because I want to give back the amazing experience that I got through my undergrad and…
Elections and the voting systems they use are critical aspects of any democratic institution. Despite this, when elections roll around, most people end up focusing on the campaign, the “who”…
A Working Group has been established in UCD to negotiate the implementation of revised academic policies. The changes aim to ensure students are not at a disadvantage with their assessments…
Rekha Vishnu Nagargoje has pulled out of the Students’ Union (SU) election race for Campaigns & Engagement (C&E) Officer. The graduate student is the third candidate to bow out from…