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Exercising Safe Spaces for Women
Fitness groups and individuals are providing safe spaces across the country for women to
gather and exercise in light of the murder of Ashling Murphy. Read more…
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Meet The Voices Representing Ireland’s Underrepresented
The College View spoke to a number of people who have been challenging the barriers of visibility and representation in the arts sector. Read more…
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The Benefits of Yoga with Mairead McGrath
They say that everything happens for a reason, a fact Dublin Yoga teacher Mairead McGrath is all too accustomed to. While studying in DCU she began to regularly attend classes with the Yoga Society, after Read more…
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50 Years in The EU: A Changed Ireland
2023 will mark Ireland’s fiftieth year in the European Union. A significant milestone for an island country once so reserved and destitute. As the union’s future is being subjected to continued scrutiny from rising rates Read more…
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The year of the woman in Irish sports
Teneo Managing Director, Kellie O’Keefe said that we will look back on 2021 as the year women’s sport made the big breakthrough after years of knocking on the door. Read more…
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Why we’ve been desensitised to Covid-19, and why that’s not a bad thing
During the nine o’clock news, on Thursday March 5th 2020, my mam sent me a text: “7 more cases.” At the time, this was the most cases the country had seen. Community transmissions had started Read more…
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DCU’s second years reflect on their first year on campus
ar. Online learning was challenging for many, especially due to the fact that they couldn’t meet up with friends, couldn’t partake in social events in person or enjoy the “dream college experience”. Read more…
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DCU graduates prepare to cycle across America
As Covid-19 brought the world to its knees in Spring 2020, one man refused to have his goals and dreams suppressed. On his personal social media pages, the former DCU student, Cormac Ryan, penned a Read more…
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Fully Charged Host, Graham O’Toole Talks Matt Damon and Virtual Game Nights During a Pandemic
Spin’s Fully charged saw a decline in their listenership at the beginning of the pandemic when schools and offices shut. The hosts, Graham and Nathan had once built their popular breakfast show from phone calls Read more…
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The Importance of Movember
Each November, awareness toward men’s health is raised with the Movember campaign, a campaign in which people grow out their facial hair to raise money for various charities
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Since the Beginning of the Pandemic, Misinformation Has Spread Like Wildfire
Since the pandemic began, misinformation has been spreading like wildfire. There were posts on social media claiming that the Covid19 variant was actually made in a lab in Wuhan and that the Chinese government ‘deliberately’ Read more…
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COP26: Bold Compromises and Ambitious Commitments are on the Agenda.
According to the latest Environmental Protection Agency data, agriculture is responsible for 37% of Ireland’s emissions, and 80% of emissions from farming are directly linked to methane emissions. Read more…
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Get your eats from the streets: Ireland’s food truck revolution
Earlier in 2021 it was reported by the Dublin Inquirer that over 400 businesses were waiting on trading licenses to sell their wares on Dublin’s streets and seafronts.
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Approximately 85,000 people in Ireland who menstruate are at risk of period poverty.
Period poverty is defined as not having access to the products necessary during a period, such as tampons, sanitary pads, menstrual cups or pain relief.
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Trump’s ‘Truth’: What it could mean for the spread of misinformation
Truth is being presented by its developers, the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) as a retaliation against “big-tech”, in service of facilitating conservative thought, due to their belief that the existing social media platforms favour liberal-leaning expression. Read more…
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Covid-19 has had major effects on the lives of substance abusers
Covid-19 has had a massive impact on everyone, but some people have been affected in more serious and harmful ways than others.
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What Budget 2021 Has to Offer Young People and University Students
It’s that time of the year again, The Budget!! With the economy facing some difficulties due to the Covid19 pandemic, thankfully young people and students were thought about during the drafting.
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Homeless Charities Have Welcomed Government Funding in the Budget
According to the Department of Housing, as of August 2021, 8,212 people are accessing state-funded emergency accommodation.
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Nightclubs Reopening: What Will be Different and How are Students Feeling?
October 22nd lies circled in the calendars of many. It is the grand return to relative normalcy that we’ve been fathoming for a year and a half now, as the majority of the remaining restrictions Read more…
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Women keeping safe in winter
As winter approaches, it is important to remember that the shorter and darker evenings can prove to be very scary if you are a woman. Winter evenings can cause the fear of you, or Read more…
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Ireland’s Mental Health Crisis has Escalated to an Emergency Due to the Impact of Covid-19
Covid-19 arrived on Irish soil in early March 2020 and we are still living with the long-term effects of the pandemic 19 months later.
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The challenges facing young people in Direct Provision accessing 3rd level education
Starting 3rd level education is challenging enough for the average student. Sorting out accommodation, transport, tuition fees, books and clothes is not so easy, especially in Ireland where tuition fees are the 2nd highest in Read more…
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Brexit’s Latest Crisis: What is in Store For the UK Going Forward?
The UK is experiencing widespread depletions of fuel and supermarket stock as a shortage of HGV drivers transpires as one of their first major post-Brexit problems- perhaps the first of many.
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Abstinence is Not Sex Education
The way in which Irish school’s talk about sex is in great need of reform after a study from NUI Galway showed that 20% of men and just 15% of women admitted to being content Read more…
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Human rights organisations express fear for Afghan women’s rights under the Taliban-run government.
Since the end of the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan in 2001, women had begun to regain their rights. Since they resumed their position of power in 2021, women’s basic human rights are at stake. Under Read more…