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László Molnárfi, a second-year PPES student at Trinity College Dublin and Chairperson of the Students4Change campaign group, shares his frustrations with his student union’s political strategy in 2021-2022. It is with the greatest of frustration that I read the news about College increasing non-EU and postgraduate student fees for
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By Louie Lyons. Let’s call her Aisling, as that’s as good a name as any and better than some. Aisling, a mother of two, is standing in the doorway of her 2-bedroom pebbledash house. As she looks out she knows that all around her bustles a vibrant Limerick.
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A bit of a cheeky post from us, but we wanted to re-print this 1968 manifesto, as we believe the points are pertinent to this day. Via Alan Kinsella on Twitter.
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Alessandro Correia, a second-year student at Trinity College Dublin, describes how student nurses are exploited by the government, Colleges and hospitals. They are flatmates with a first-year nursing student. By Alessandro Correia. Many people are well and truly aware of our Colleges’ treatment of nursing students, mostly through the placement
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Dear College, dear Friends, 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. I am aware that it is long, but I request you all to fully read it. I
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László Molnárfi From the lovely Cafe Tri Via in southside Dublin one can see a stretch of buildings, most of them the property of Trinity College Dublin, accumulated over the years for real estate investment. One of these, on the right, is CONNECT’s headquarters, a research center for telecommunications
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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