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Community defends primary school student facing deportation
[dropcap]Tens [/dropcap]of thousands of people have signed a petition to protest the deportation order of the Irish born nine-year-old, Eric Zhi Ying Xue.
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University News
Industrial actions causes IT disruption ahead of graduations
[dropcap]Institute [/dropcap]of technology students across all campuses in Ireland are being affected by industrial action being taken by staff.
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UK government to tackle grade inflation in universities
[dropcap]The[/dropcap] UK government has announced plans to tackle grade inflation after an unprecedented rise in first class degrees in the last decade.
National News
Macedonia votes to change their name
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s (FYROM) parliament voted to begin the process to rename their country to North Macedonia on October 20. Read more…
DCU News
Candidate Sean Gallagher spoke to young voters in DCU days before the presidential election.
2018 Irish Presidential candidate Sean Gallagher spoke to DCU student says before voting took place on electing a representative to Áras an Uachtaráin. Read more…
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DITSU launch a campaign to fight cuts to services
DIT students have launched a campaign against cuts to services after a staffing problem led to reductions in library hours and other services. Read more…
Health
‘Top-ups’ given to deal with vacancy crisis in psychiatric nursing staff
‘Top-Ups’ were one of the Oireachtas Committee report’s recommendations on how to tackle the current vacancy crisis in the psychiatric nursing workforce. Read more…
DCU News
DCU granted €330,000 by Facebook for anti-bullying programme
Facebook and the National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre (ABC) at DCU are launching a three-year partnership to implement an anti-bullying campaign to be placed in post primary education. Read more…
DCU News
Success for Shepherd as deportation order extended
[dropcap]The[/dropcap] deportation order against DCU student Shepherd Machaya was extended by the Department of Justice and Equality until February 5th, 2019.
National News
MyTaxi went the extra mile in its last quarter
MyTaxi experienced its busiest ever quarter in Ireland between July and September, carrying more than 4 million passengers. Read more…
National News
Kleenex rebrand their “mansize” tissues over sexist remarks
Kleenex have scrapped their ‘mansize’ tissues as there were complaints that the were showing sexism, they have now discontinued them and rebranded them as ‘Extra-Large’ instead. Read more…
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Supersonic spacecraft burning through the sky on the way to Mercury
Like a shooting star, leaping through the sky, the European-Japanese spacecraft launched towards Mercury is defying the laws of gravity. Read more…
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Brexit set to cause science to suffer in the UK
UK’ Immigration system is “not up to scratch” as scientists are being denied access to the country fir research. The current problem with Visa requests is set to intensify with a Hard Brexit. Read more…
National News
Up to 30 schools close in Dublin over structural problems
Schools across the country have been subject to closures due to structural problems after safety checks were conducted since 2015. Read more…
National News
Thousands Participate in 39th Dublin Marathon
[dropcap]Over[/dropcap] 20,000 people ran from Fitzwilliam Square through the Phoenix Park and back to Merrion Square to complete the Dublin marathon on Sunday, October 28th according to organizers.
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SU member says he regrets not intervening at A&F AGM
DCUSU VP for Engagement and Development apologised for attending the initial Accounting and Finance society (A&F) EGM, in a statement during the first Class Rep Council (CRC) 2018/2019. Read more…
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Campaign launched against deportation of DCU student
[dropcap]A [/dropcap]campaign has been launched to prevent the deportation of a DCU student who fears for his life should he have to return to Zimbabwe.
National News
Government announces new action plan on online safety
The plan will tackle some of the issues faced by young people in the digital age. Revenge porn and stalking are problems that the legislation will aim to address. Revenge porn is currently legal in Ireland. Read more…
National News
CSO and Met Éireann team up in new “rescue” project
The data will improve weather risk management and help understand climate change, while eliminating the over-inclusion of more recent weather events which have “better media coverage and folk memory”. Read more…
National News
No alternative subjects provided for students who opt out of religious education
The changes will affect up to 160,000 students at post-primary level across the country, which equates to half of the secondary school population that are in Education and Training Board (ETB) and community schools. Read more…
National News
Delays in eye care may lead to patients going blind
Patients in the south of the country may go blind as a result of delays in the provision of eye care, hospital consultants have warned. Read more…
National News
Campaign set to encourage women to do apprenticeships
[dropcap]The[/dropcap]Connect Trade Union voted unanimously at the union’s first conference on 6th October to launch campaign to get more women involved in apprenticeships.
National News
Seán Gallagher: Presidential Candidate
Gallagher was leading in the polls in 2011 until the “Tweetgate” controversy where Pat Kenny read out a tweet which alleged Gallagher had financially corrupt involvement with Fianna Fáil. Read more…
National News
Project to help people shopping with dementia launched in Raheny
Getting the Messages, a project that aims to make a supermarket more accessible to people with dementia, has been launched in the Raheny area. Read more…
National News
Water in Limerick becomes contaminated
People in Rathkeale were urged not to uses contaminated water. Read more…