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University Times budget rejected by TCDSU Union Forum

At the same meeting, the paper’s editor was asked about UT’s relationship with the Irish Times

The University Times (UT) has had its budget rejected by the Union Forum of Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU).

The Forum, which is composed of TCDSU’s part-time and sabbatical officers, held its first meeting of the year on October …

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Squid Game: NUIG Researchers solve puzzle of cephalopod taxonomy

A new Irish study proposes a reordering of our conceptual framework for oceanic squid evolution

Researchers at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) have identified new relationships between different species of oceanic squids, solving a longstanding mystery.

A multinational study from 2018 described relationships between different cephalopods as “difficult to resolve” and said that

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Students complain about “climate change denier”, “anti-LGBTQ” guest lecturer

College says that content on a site which is linked in lecture slides is “not being published in his capacity as a guest lecturer”

The School of Engineering has declined to act on complaints over the conduct of a guest lecturer in one of its modules.

Several senior sophister students raised concerns about Tony Allwright, who gives two of the 11 lectures in the …

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Dublin City Council CEO suggests UCDSU enter rental market to provide student accommodation.

Union President Ruairí Power said Owen Keegan’s “dismissive attitude” was “depressing”

Chief Executive of Dublin City Council (DCC) Owen Keegan has suggested that University College Dublin Students’ Union (UCDSU) enter the rental market to provide student accommodation.

Keegan made the remark in a letter sent to UCDSU President Ruairí Power. The …

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Matthew Simons elected chairperson of DUCAC

Simons was uncontested for the position at this evening’s AGM

Update, October 10: Anna Grace Ulses was elected secretary of DUCAC and the constitutional amendment was passed.

Matthew Simons has been elected chairperson of the Dublin University Central Athletic Club (DUCAC).

DUCAC, which oversees sports clubs in Trinity, held its …

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Cliff divers make a splash at Downpatrick Head

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series made its fifth visit to Ireland last week

Downpatrick Head juts out of the Mayo coastline about 27km northwest of Ballina, not far from the Céide Fields. Though the Cliffs of Moher are the international superstars of Ireland’s Atlantic coast, their northern Mayo cousins are no less dramatic.

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Students 4 Change calls for “an escalation of direct action” at meeting

The group’s chair believes that College is “not taking students’ demands seriously”

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Students 4 Change (S4C) held a town hall meeting  in the Pav marquee today.

The campaign group organised a protest last week against College’s handling of the return to campus which attracted several hundred students but just a dozen people, …