What is Direct Provision and why must it end?
This Thursday, March 9, saw a discussion entitled “Direct Provision- Why It Must End” being held in a spacious seminar room in Áras an Phiarsaigh. The event was a collaborative one between Trinity People Before Profit and TCDSU. The sole speaker of the afternoon was Memet Uludag, a founding member of United Against Racism, a […]
Former student activists look back on Garda brutality and USI neglect in wake of 2010 march
On the 3rd November 2010, up to 40,000 students marched in Dublin against the proposed increase in fees and cuts in state expenditure on third level education. By the 9th November, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman had received 28 complaints of police brutality. Media reports of the protest varied in detailing the event, with some accounts […]
The fees battleground: A stage for student radicalism
“Education is not a private commodity but a social good” Since the introduction of the student contribution charge in 2009, annual student fees have increased by 333% to €3,000. This pales in comparison to the meteoric increase witnessed since 2001, when fees stood at €396. The increasing cost to students and their families […]
A Revival of student activism: Fueling divestment with Fossil Free TCD
“Trinity had investments worth approximately €6.1m in companies such as Shell Global, ExxonMobil, BP and TransCanada Corporation.” 6.1 million euro is a lot of money – it’s a national lottery prize, a small island in the Philippines, or 62,500 years’ worth of Spotify premium. It is also the approximate amount of money that College […]
A revival of student activism
On the 3 November 2010, almost 40,000 students marched from Parnell Square to the Government Buildings on Merrion Street in what The Irish Times described as “the largest student protest for a generation”. It was organised by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) in reaction to a proposed increase in student contribution levies and […]
Lack of party politics on campus is all too evident
“It’s clear that there will be no significant progress until the day comes when new ideas, not just new suits, are voted in.” Maybe it was fate that on Monday of Freshers’ Week, when I was at my most wide-eyed and fresh-faced, I met someone who would bring me crashing back down to reality. […]
First Year, first rally: marching in solidarity with the TUI through the perspective of a recent activist
“This was to be my first student protest in Trinity, and it was everything I had expected it would be”
Past Trinity publications showcase forgotten radical history
Trinity magazines of the early 1980s demonstrate an almost alien radicalism to those of today.
It’s time to let societies into student politics
Posted by Neasa Candon on October 16, 2017 · Leave a Comment
So far, almost every angle of the Dublin University Gender Equality Society (DUGES) name-change debate has been explored. However, the events of recent months are simply threads in the knot of a greater issue: the involvement of student societies in “political” issues. DUGES was last year cautioned by the Central Societies Committee (CSC) when […]
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