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Trinity’s Graduate Students Union (GSU) this afternoon held a town hall meeting to further discuss the proposed increase in postgraduate fees. The College Finance Committee approved a 5% increase in postgraduate and non-EU undergraduate fees, beginning in the 2018/19 academic …
A member of Trinity’s Q Soc has criticised the LGBT Rights Officer of Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) Noah O’Brien.
Speaking on behalf of Q Soc, Secretary Hiram Harrington told Noah O’Brien that they had not been “working effectively” …
Direct provision should, by rights, represent a major political crisis for the government and any institution associated with it. This is a system which even the then Minister of State Aodhán O’Riordáin admitted was “inhumane”. Yet despite admitting that the …
“To stick the boot in and kick players and staff when they are down is bang out of order”. These were the words of a distraught James McClean in the wake of last night’s disastrous 1-5 defeat to Denmark in …
Trinity’s Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) voted to explore their options for industrial action at tonight’s GSU Council. This follows the decision by College to increase postgraduate and non-EU undergraduate fees by 5% in 2018/19 for both new and continuing students. …
“We have no other option but to vote. We call on the international community to support us and, on democrats the world over, to help us to defend the rights that are threatened in Catalonia, such as the right …
Arsene Wenger described the economic imbalance in European football as “financial doping”. This imbalance operates on a number of levels. There is and has been for a considerable time, a top tier of European clubs with financial spending power that …
At time of writing, George Hook has been suspended from Newstalk with immediate effect, following the furore surrounding his now infamous comments on rape earlier this month. Most will now be familiar with what he said. The substance of Hook’s …
The narrative of last week’s British election result – one of Corbyn and Labour confounding expectations to a degree no one expected – has already been well documented. But it is worth restating briefly the scale of the achievement: Labour …
Over one hundred years ago, one of history’s greatest revolutionary women, Rosa Luxemburg, wrote on the significance of the mass strike. Luxemburg’s attempt was among the first to examine, rigorously and in depth, the role of the strike in the …