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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 …
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 …
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 …
“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, …
“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’ …
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 …
“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 …
Yesterday at one, Students Against Fees held a rally and march in solidarity with the Teachers Union of Ireland’s (TUI) Institutes of Technology strike. The march was organised to “show solidarity with the Teachers Union of Ireland strike over the …
Trinity College has a proud history of student-led activism, counting among our alumni campaigners such as Mary Robinson, Mary McAleese and David Norris. While the yearly marches of the USI have become a familiar perhaps routine sight to present day …