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The resounding triumph for President Higgins in the presidential election and the calibre of his challengers raises serious questions about the nomination process for the presidency. President Higgins had overwhelming cross-party support: opinion polls showed an unassailable lead on his …
Please stop calling Kavanagh court and similar housing options “luxury”. The term does not help yourself or the students who are struggling in the current housing crisis. I am a student in my second year of college who has lived …
“So you’re from Monaghan? Like, Northern Ireland?”
This confusion didn’t surprise me. When you describe yourself as coming from “The Border”, people don’t know what you are talking about unless they live in Ulster. Even Britons seem to regard Northern …
Its stature and reputation is impossible to miss, you can see it from the bus window as you pass through the city centre. Trinity College Dublin, sitting at the top of Dame Street, looking in all directions at those who …
This year’s Budget is something of a Rorschach test: asking people what they think of it will tell you more about them than it does about the Budget itself.
The government itself tried to portray the Budget as a pre-Brexit …
Its stature and reputation is impossible to miss, you can see it from the bus window as you pass through the city centre. Trinity College Dublin, sitting at the top of Dame Street, looking in all directions at those who …
I grew up absolutely averse to the idea of smoking. I looked on with crushed spirits as each of my childhood friends went down the rabbit hole and never turned back. As a small child, I was the type who …
A Leaving Certificate student recently challenged the State Examination Commission’s policy to not re-check points in time to obtain their university place. Rebecca Carter had to fight for her place on the course that she would have been accepted into, …
Summer in San Francisco, with a dash of South American road trip thrown in too. Reading Week in Paris, and a week in the chalet in January. And then, hit the books for second term because that unpaid internship in …
Almost 100 years ago, the Democratic Programme was introduced to the first Dáil. The Labour Party, under Tom Johnson, saw to it that it reaffirmed “that all right to private property must be subordinated to the public right and welfare”. …