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Seán Thim O’Leary elected TCDSU President with smaller first-preference vote share than RON

O’Leary beat out Patrick Keegan and Giovanni Li, as well as a formidable RON campaign

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Seán Thim O’Leary has been elected as the next president of Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU), with 29.13% of first-preference votes.

O’Leary overcame a first-preference vote of 38.12% on the third count after votes were redistributed from opponents Patrick

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Explainer: What happens if RON wins?

The TCDSU constitution is not very specific on re-opening nominations, but there is some precedent from recent years

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The Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) sabbatical elections have been eventful this year. Despite early polling showing Seán Thim O’Leary in the lead, it has been evident from its launch that the campaign to re-open nominations (RON) has been

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“They’ve got a good shot”: Four Trinity debaters to compete in Irish Times grand final

A third of the finalists in the national competition are representing Trinity societies, including the heads of both campus debating societies

Four out of 12 total finalists in the grand final of the Irish Times debating competition this Friday will be representing Trinity societies.

Tom Francis and Mary Woods of the College Historical Society (the Hist) will compete as individual speakers,

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Hist announce emergency debate: “This house would vote RON”

Students’ union president candidates have been banned from attending the event by the electoral commission

The College Historical Society (the Hist) have announced an impromptu debate for this evening on the motion “This house would vote RON” [re-open nominations].

It follows unprecedented momentum from a campaign encouraging students to vote RON in the election for

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Comms race analysis: Channing Kehoe on track for straightforward win in familiar uncontested race

Kehoe will be easily elected on the first count this Thursday

Channing Kehoe is set to become the next communications & marketing officer of TCDSU, garnering 87.8% of the votes in the only uncontested race this year. As is typical of an uncontested election, the percentage of votes to re-open nominations

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UT Editor candidate Charlie Hastings: “I want people to be excited about the newspaper again”

“I know if I leave this place without at least attempting to give myself the opportunity to face that challenge, it’s gonna become a regret in the future”

Charlie Hastings is candid about the journey that has brought him to a second consecutive run for editor of the University Times (UT).

Was he surprised when he lost last year’s election?

“Yeah. I don’t really know why I did,”

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College defends legal right to enforce overnight guest policy in response to RTB ruling

The RTB yesterday ruled the policy as “impermissible” in its current form, but maintained that College may enforce guest regulation

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College has defended its legal right to regulate the entry of overnight guests on campus, following a ruling which found that its current policies are “impermissible”.

The Residential Tenancy Board (RTB) yesterday ruled in favour of former Trinity College Dublin