Features
Graduation caps falling in the ranks
Applications to Dublin universities are becoming lower each year. Read more…
Student Life
Features
Closed until further notice
With some of the best loved venues in the city closed down and replaced with hotels, where do we go from here? Read more…
Features
DCU’s favourite bartender
Allan Stevenson or ‘Allan from Nubar’ is one of the university’s best-known faces Read more…
Features
Breaking Brexit- breaking barriers
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]rexit. That one word that everybody questions. Regardless of how Brexit is viewed, the impacts of it affect mostly the UK and Ireland, especially those who travel either to or from the UK for a Read more…
Features
Binging on a budget
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t has never been a secret that university students are some of the most avid binge-drinkers.
Articles
DCU’s journey in playing catch-up
The constant rustle and bustle in construction works on campus sees no end as President MacCraith announces new STEM building to begin construction in 2019
Read more…
Features
Never a dull day in DCU
DCU’s plethora of clubs and societies is something to be admired; and their famous annual events are not to be missed. Read more…
Features
Wheels on the bus go round and round
It will make my commute to college virtually impossible Read more…
News
Student involved in racially motivated attack
A student was attacked on the Luas which was allegedly racially motivated. Read more…
News
Rent caps to be introduced for PBSA
Rent Caps to be introduced for Purpose Built Student Accommodation after motions form the political Opposition. Read more…
Student Life
45,000 waiting for driving test date
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here are currently 45,000 people waiting for a driving test date in Ireland. Although the RSA waiting time target is 10 weeks maximum, Buncrana and Gorey see average waiting times of 19.3 weeks and 18.4 Read more…
Student Life
No Room at the Inn – student accommodation woes
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]prawled out across a damp second-hand mattress in a dimly-lit sitting room littered with beer cans and left-over dinner, he barely flinches when the door swings open.The room temperature is tepid on a cold Autumn Read more…
News
USI launch ‘Get RegD’ Campaign
[dropcap]The[/dropcap] USI launched their ‘Get RegD’ campaign to encourage students to register to vote. Back in 2014, over 120,000 people under the age of 25 were not registered to vote according to a survey published Read more…
Features
Life after the leaving cert
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he transition from Leaving Cert to college can be formidable and terrifying. It’s especially huge for people who have no experience of living alone or providing for themselves. Should it be such a massive adjustment, Read more…
Student Life
What I learned by changing course
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is no way to prepare someone for university – unless, like me, you take a very expensive trial run. Most students are very young (84 per cent of Leaving Certificate students applied for college places Read more…
Articles
Living the bus life
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]ollege life is like no other – gone are the days of being told what to do by parents and teachers, you now have control to do what you want, when you want. But what Read more…
Student Life
Feeding the fire
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s long as there are studies, there will be conflicting advice. A glass of wine is good for you as is a chocolate bar, however, don’t eat them on a day of the week with Read more…
Student Life
Planes, trains and automobiles
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]aris, Westminster, Brussels, Stockholm, Nice, Berlin – all cities that have suffered in the past few years at the hands of terrorists. Many major European cities have seen horrific incidents – knife attacks, bombings, vehicles Read more…
Features
Do females engage in student politics?
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the Mezz, on couches worn out by students of DCU past and present, an informal talk was held about female engagement in politics. Its attendance counted twice as many men as women.
Features
The Great Debate: are SU elections just popularity contests?
For by Michael O Scannáil: Students are bombarded with free food from the friends of Students’ Union election candidates. We once again must decide who we want to make up the new SU, who we Read more…
Features
What does the SU do for you?
[dropcap]According[/dropcap] to Union of Students in Ireland (USI) the students’ union is an organised body of ‘willing would-be activists’ whose primary focus is defending the rights of the student, as well as enabling and furthering Read more…
Features
Students of Incorporation feeling the loss of their Students’ Unions
[dropcap]The[/dropcap] merger of St. Patrick’s college into DCU which began last September has brought many changes to the make-up and facilities present across both campuses in the last number of months. One particular change that Read more…
Student Life
Campus residences made €13,000 on student fines in first semester
Students living in on-campus accommodation in Dublin City University paid approximately €13,000 in fines in the first semester of the current academic year according to Campus Residences’ General Manager, John Gaffery. Read more…
Student Life
Many students face the crude nude feud
[dropcap]Revenge[/dropcap] porn has become an epidemic in Ireland and affects mainly the student population resulting in depression and in some cases suicide, yet it is still to be decriminalised. The exact definition of the term Read more…
Student Life
The daunting dangers of dating online
[dropcap]Last[/dropcap] month, a woman fell to her death in Australia while trying to escape from a man she met on Tinder. Warriena Wright fell from her date, Gable Tostee’s, 14th floor apartment balcony after an Read more…