Matthew Collins

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24 OCT

Students’ Union accommodation plan is an attack on students and the country at large

Matthew Collins argues that the Students’ Union’s accommodation lobby group is taking a harmful approach to the accommodation crisis in Dublin

The policy positions of TCDSU Lobby Group have been revealed, two months after the group was formed. Although the declared strategies of most of the departments represent clear attempts to improve students’ lives, the position adopted by the Accommodation section …

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30 OCT

Head to Head: Free Speech Should Never Be Limited

Guillermo Dillon and Matthew Collins debate the value of total free speech.

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For the right to offend: Guillermo Dillon, Contributing Writer

Last week I attended the Phil’s debate on the motion, “This House Believes in the Right to Offend”. The debate was truly depressing. This was not only because those opposing the …

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29 SEP

Gay Times, Out and Attitude have no place in the queer community.

Gay lifestyle magazines teach queer men new ways to hate their bodies.

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When someone realises they are queer, self‐loathing is a common initial reaction. Often, this manifests itself as hatred of one’s body due to a failure to experience exclusively heterosexual desire. The coming‐out process is often imagined as the antithesis to …

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15 FEB

Queerphobia in secondary schools a symptom of far greater problem

Both the passive and active tackling of homophobia in schools is directly undermined by the hegemony of the Catholic church over Irish education.

In the wake of the controversy caused by Coláiste Eoin’s “postponement” of a ShoutOut workshop on queerphobia, it seems unlikely that you could come across someone who hasn’t given the subject of queerphobia in secondary schools some thought over the …