Article Category: Student Life

THE ‘BURKEAN’ BUNCO

March 12, 2020

IT HAS emerged that an online activist group purporting to be exposing far-right and fascist activity on third-level campuses in Ireland, Irish Students... Read more »

COLLEGE POLITICS UP-AND-COMERS

February 27, 2020

Reflecting the uptick in political youth engagement, the universities put forward some fresh faces who are bound to become election fixtures in the... Read more »

JUDGE MCDONAGH’S DUCAC DOWNFALL

October 3, 2019

A fiery row at Dublin University Central Athletic Club (DUCAC) has culminated in its most-esteemed chairman losing his re-election bid to a fourth-year... Read more »

LABOUR’S STUDENT HACKS

May 16, 2019

That two former Union of Students in Ireland (USI) presidents are making their electoral debuts for the Labour Party in this month’s local... Read more »

THE ‘BURKEAN JOURNAL’S’ GENETICS PROBLEM

February 21, 2019

Oh dear, it looks like the Burkean Journal has lost its way. The right-wing journal – founded by Trinity College students to combat... Read more »

STORMIN NORMAN VS THE PHIL

February 7, 2019

WHAT IS going on at the Trinity College Philosophical Society (The Phil)? The debating society has had to endure the wrath of American... Read more »

SÍONA CAHILL’S BUDGET BLUES

October 18, 2018

YOU would have needed to get up early to catch the Union of Students of Ireland’s (USI’s) response to the Budget earlier this... Read more »

LIMERICK STUDENTS DITCH ‘UNION’

July 26, 2018

THOSE most sensible student politicians at the University of Limerick have decided to rebrand their union (ULSU) in a bid to increase engagement.... Read more »

PRENDERGAST’S RANKING WOES

June 13, 2018

ON THE SURFACE at least, Trinity College provost Paddy Prendergast has suffered a PR defeat. The release of the 2019 QS World University... Read more »

GALWAY STUDENTS’ LANDLORD BLUES

May 17, 2018

INTERESTING times at NUI Galway where protests have followed sudden rent increases at private student accommodation. After similar protests in DCU recently, the... Read more »

USI SIGNS UP TO Israel boycott

April 19, 2018

USI (Union of Students in Ireland) held its national congress earlier this month in Ballinasloe, where Longford native Síona Cahill was appointed president... Read more »

DCU students’ landlord blues

April 5, 2018

THE student union (SU) in DCU has caught the protest bug and is fighting back against rent increases at accommodation centres. Stark price... Read more »

Trinity students pile on the pressure

March 22, 2018

GOLDHAWK predicted that Trinners provost Paddy Prendergast and the College Board would have a scrap on their hands over supplemental exam fee increases... Read more »

Testing times for Trinners students

March 8, 2018

IT LOOKS like those most-esteemed chaps on Trinity College’s board have managed to spectacularly piss off students. It was announced on Monday that... Read more »

Clare McCarthy’s comeback

February 22, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to Trinners student Clare McCarthy who has just been reinstated as chair of Trinity Publications on a technicality. Fans of Goldhawk will... Read more »