Coming to the end of a decade in Ireland defined, to many, by the activism of youth movements, it’s hard not to be dismayed at the cultural state of the nation’s capital. Many of the decade’s most enduring images will …
Editorial
Editorial: The SU has lost sight of its purpose as a union
At a time when accommodation is such a critical issue, there simply is no excuse for haggling over details
On Tuesday evening, TCDSU Council voted against supporting Cut the Rent TCD and the group’s planned campaigns against rising accommodation costs. This represents a gross error on the part of the Union.
As the organisation set up to represent Trinity’s …
Editorial: Threats to cut admissions are further proof of College’s ambivalence toward its students
Amid funding issues and an ‘insufficient’ budget provision, College needs to reassess its priorities
It has been no secret that funding for third level education in Ireland has been lacking, but the response to underfunding in Trinity has been yet another exercise in exposing the ambivalence and misplaced priorities of its administration.
In his …
Editorial: Trinity must stand with its students in the face of climate crisis
From silence on last week’s marches to extensive private staff flights, does college remain true to its pledge to fight climate crisis?
As seemingly the entirety of Dublin, and indeed the whole world, took to the streets in a rallying call against the impending climate crisis facing us all, one voice was suspiciously silent. At the heart of Ireland’s capital and a …
Cut the Rent: The student activism Ireland needs
We need to stand behind emerging movements within our own community if we want to see change
As the housing crisis grows worse with each passing day, Ireland’s activist groups have been mobilising for change. A grassroots organisation has sprang up in Trinity this week to “revive the spirit of Take Back Trinity”, protest rising accommodation costs …
Editorial: Students need to stand up for themselves now more than ever
If those in government won’t act on their own, we have to make them
It’s not a good time to be a student in Ireland. The country is deep in the throes of a funding crisis in tertiary education. Public funding on a per student basis is barely half of what it was a …
Editorial: Trinity students should be against hazing, bugging, and defunding
The nuance of the debate has been lost in the agenda-driven storm
And so another controversy at Trinity has become a national outpouring of anxiety and rage, and all middle-ground or nuance has disappeared. Everyone is now either for The University Times or against them, for progressivism and press freedom or censorship …
Editorial: Bugging has destroyed the integrity of the University Times
Any student is liable to bugging if the University Times does not face serious consequences
In 2015, the University Times’ staff insisted that the Editor take a leave of absence from the newspaper after details of emails that the Central Societies Committee had provided on the condition that they not be referred to in an …
Editorial: The RONs that got away
Contributing Editor, Rory O’Sullivan, and Editor, Niamh Lynch, weigh in on the prominence of re-opening nominations as an option in this year’s TCDSU Comms race
At the time of writing, there is a chance that, for the first time in recent memory, an unopposed candidate will lose an election to RON. Muireann Kane is polling at 56% among decided voters in the Communications and Marketing …
Editorial: Activists are being left behind in favour of SU egos
Both TCDSU and USI continue to sideline grassroots campaigners in order to take leadership positions themselves
Every now and again, one of us has to go to some kind of event catered to students’ union representatives. They tend to keep to a formula: finger food, wine, a guest appearance from a high-flying Dublin professional – a …