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TCDSU Attempted to Suppress the Halls Scandal, Documents Show
It is safe to say that Trinity-owned accommodation is in a constant state of crisis, spurring out continuous scandals.
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TCDSU Spent Over 122,000 € on Class Rep Training from 2015-2019
Trinity College Dublin’s Student Union (TCDSU) has spent 122,055 € on their annual “Class Rep Training” from 2015 until 2019, when due to Covid-19 the event was moved online and incurred little to no costs.
A Student's Experience with Exams at Trinity Business School
I am writing this open letter due to a situation that has panned out during my stay in Trinity Business School as a Masters in Finance batch of 2020-2021.
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Trinity Knew For Months, But Did not Consult Sports Clubs for Interim Exhibiton
Essentially, Ms. Scanlon’s Tweet about her dissent is the way the wider student body discovered the new proposed location
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Trinity’s Links with Declan Ganley and the Far-Right are Morally Reprehensible
This is somewhat of an open secret amongst people familiar with academic research, but is not widely known.
Opinion
Young Fine Gael Solving The Job Crisis.
Last week, Young Fine Gael made an excellent attempt to outdo their daddy party in the contempt for the commoners race when their proposal of an “Earned income Tax Credit” surfaced on Broadsheet.ie. In a recommendation full of political buzzwords that comes right out of an essay by a
Opinion
Nick Griffin to Debate at Trinity?………Again?
With TCD’s Phil Society debating whether or not to re-invite Nick Griffin back to Trinity, let’s take a look back at some previous attempts to bring him onto Irish university campuses and why a No Platform policy is not the same as being against freedom of speech. It
Opinion
The Nature of Irish Student Politics.
After hiring strippers to preform for them in their SU bar, Maynooth Student’s Union have said that they cannot comment on the matter because they are in the middle of an SU election. Nonsense hackery really. We’re happy to re-blog a post from Karl Gill’s blog Red
Opinion
Strippers, Sexism and Safe Spaces on Campus
In the wake of NUI Maynooth’s recent stripper incident, Pádraig McCarrick talks about what it means for 3rd level institutions as safe spaces. There was an extra special case of irony around the most recent furor of sexist allegations against some at NUI Maynooth insofar as that the story
Opinion
NUIG: Vote NO to Keep Our Union Pro-Choice
This week students in NUIG are being asked to vote on whether their union’s pro-choice position should be repealed. Sarah McCarthy writes on why students should reject this proposal. Last year, NUIG students voted overwhelmingly in favour of our union adopting a pro-choice position. Over 70% of votes cast
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They are hitting us, how should we hit back?
Frank Doherty enlightens us on whether armed struggle is necessary in Ireland today…. “War; what is it good for?! Absolutely Nothing”… but death, destruction and the wrecking of lives. That’s why the default position for everyone should be explicitly anti-war, especially given its historical record as a category of
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Re(al)-Productive Health: Learning from real experiences – demanding real action
– Aoife Campbell writes about a new campaign launched today which aims to improve accessibility to the Morning After Pill in Ireland. The debate surrounding the legalisation of abortion in Ireland has dominated both national and international media discourse, exploding particularly in the last twelve months. Full reproductive emancipation of women