On Tuesday evening the Politics Society and the Trinity College Law Review (TCLR) hosted a panel discussion on Brexit in the GMB. The event was well attended, with much excited conversation before the start.
Speaking first was Gina Miller, the …
Fianna Fail
The Many Faces of Stephen Donnelly
Independent beginnings
‘He had argued in late 2014 that there was a need for new political parties, as the “traditional parties” had led Ireland “to the abyss”’
Stephen Donnelly entered the Irish political scene to the surprise of many in …
Lack of party politics on campus is all too evident
Despite current student activism evidenced in numerous campaigns, Aidan Carolan finds that party politics are all but dead on campus
“It’s clear that there will be no significant progress until the day comes when new ideas, not just new suits, are voted in.”
Maybe it was fate that on Monday of Freshers’ Week, when I was at my most wide-eyed …
Budget: Minority government offers short-term solutions for long-term problems
While student housing and higher education funding were addressed in today’s budget, the government declined to offer any major policy initiative to really tackle these problems.
Having digested today’s budget, one can’t escape the underlying feeling that it provides short term solutions to long term problems. The government today showed a reluctance to commit to particular approach to student housing, and higher education funding. While this …
Are we going forward?
Seán Ó Deoráin analyses the current political landscape in the wake of the general election
And so, the dust settles on another Irish general election. Or has it? The results of February’s poll means that the Irish electorate could be facing into a prolonged period of political uncertainty. Gone are the days when the “internal …
Pol Soc general election debate: Campaign narrative is adhered to as opposition promise to rectify Fine Gael and Labour’s failures
The event, held on Tuesday in the Swift Theatre, saw the Green Party, Sinn Féin, Social Democrats and AAA/PBP fighting to appeal to students’ social conscience on education funding, climate change and the eighth amendment, while Renua’s Tim Graham stated the topics were less than preferable.
Trinity’s Politics Society held their general election debate involving student party representatives yesterday evening. Young Fine Gael (YFG) , Ógra Fianna Fáil, Labour, Sinn Féin, The Social Democrats and People Before Profit/Anti Austerity Alliance (PBP/AAA) were the parties represented.
Each …
Whose recovery is it, anyway?
Conor Scully argues that the pro-business, pro-growth attitude pushed by Fine Gael leaves out students and workers and furthers inequality.
Last week, Minister for Health Leo Varadkar gave an interview to the Irish Independent, which makes for unsettling reading. In it, he speaks of how increasing the resources allocated to hospitals would actually lead to a worse service overall, as …
A student voter’s guide to the general election
Our writers consider the policies of parties old and new in what will be the first election many students are eligible to vote in
Our writers consider the policies of parties old and new in what will be the first election many students are eligible to vote in.
Click on the party names below to view our assessment of them.