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UCDSU to rejoin USI after referendum passes with 63.7% of votes

UCD is set to rejoin USI following the third referendum on the topic of rejoining since their disaffiliation in 2013

UCDSU will rejoin the Union of Students’ in Ireland (USI) 12 years after leaving following a referendum this week.

63.7% of students elected to rejoin the national union, with 5,095 voting in a referendum run by University College Dublin Students’

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Poll: 86.1% of students unsatisfied with Trinity Ball lineup

A poll conducted by Trinity News shows 60.6% of students are “very unsatisfied” and 25.5% are “somewhat unsatisfied” with the TBall 2025 lineup

86.1% of Trinity students report feeling some degree of dissatisfaction with the Trinity Ball 2025 lineup. The figure comes from a poll conducted by Trinity News, which received 833 responses.

60.6% of respondents felt “very unsatisfied”, whereas 25.5% of respondents

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Seán Thím O’Leary: “The RON on Pres campaign has been misleading about me”

Students’ union presidential candidate Seán Thím O’Leary has called the “RON on Pres” campaign’s critiques “uncharitable and ill-informed” in a statement posted to their Instagram

Students’ union presidential candidate Seán Thím O’Leary has criticised the campaign to re-open nominations (RON) for the position: “The RON on Pres campaign has been misleading about me.”

In a statement posted to their Instagram story this morning, O’Leary noted

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President race analysis: Seán Thim O’Leary takes the lead with RON campaign gaining momentum

Since the launch of the RON campaign on Wednesday, 30% of respondents have indicated that they will vote to re-open nominations for the president race

According to a poll conducted by Trinity News, Seán Thim O’Leary has a strong lead in the students’ union presidential race, but all three candidates are losing momentum compared to reopening nominations (RON).

36.41% of decided voters indicated that O’Leary

Features

UT Editor race: Sajal Singh wants to make the University Times a “better, more inclusive place”

The current features editor of the University Times believes her experience “speaks for itself” but admits “there are a lot of things that [she] needs to learn”

Current features editor of the University Times (UT), Sajal Singh, is one of two candidates running for the role of editor-in-chief of the University Times this year.

The junior sophister English and economics student started out as a contributing writer

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President race: Patrick Keegan wants to see “more disruptive direct action” carried out by the union

The student activist believes direct action “forces people to pay attention” and hopes to continue the union’s recent tradition of using it to enact change

Hailing from New York, Patrick Keegan is one of three candidates running for the SU presidency this year. He is currently the international students officer of the union, as well as being in his second term as business school convenor. 

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TCDSU passes motion on “overly strict” Academic Registry late payment penalties for postgraduates

The motion mandates that the union contact college to demand a change in the system

Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) Council have passed a motion to demand a change in the “overly strict” penalty system for late tuition payments made by postgraduate researchers.

The motion, which was passed at the first Council of the

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The place of religion on campus

Exploring attitudes towards religion at Trinity

Founded by the British in the wake of the Reformation, Trinity College Dublin was, for a long time, a bastion of protestantism and imperialism. Despite being situated in what was, at the time, a largely Catholic country, its rituals were