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[dropcap]DCU[/dropcap] Pool and Snooker Society have been forced to cease their operations for the coming year due to being unable to find a venue.
[dropcap]The[/dropcap] committee of the Accounting & Finance (A&F) society should resign, according to a hand delivered letter from several DCU clubs and societies.
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…
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…
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…
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…
[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.
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…
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…
People in Rathkeale were urged not to uses contaminated water. Read more…
Eoin Harte analyses a study based on how often and how easily people skip online video advertisements. Read more…
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA\0 want to provide a HIV preventative drug for free to at risk patients with medical cards. Read more…
Irish people across the globe should be brought together through technology according to presidential candidate Peter Casey. Read more…
[dropcap]Vodafone[/dropcap] Ireland’s latest marketing campaign has been referred to as “creepy” and “sinister” after journalists were sent framed pictures of themselves that appear to be smashed on October 3rd.
A dive into the presidential campaign led by Michael D. Higgins. Read more…
The blasphemy referendum is due to take place on October 26, the same Friday as the presidential election.
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[dropcap]A [/dropcap]piece of legislation known as the Public Health Alcohol Bill was passed through all stages of the Oireachtas as of October 10th, over 1,000 days since it was first introduced.
[dropcap]Nobel[/dropcap]Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad has announced that she will donate her $500,000 (€432,650) winnings to helping survivors of sex crimes.
[dropcap]Trinity [/dropcap]College has spent €184,000 in an effort to investigate the cyber-scam that saw the Trinity Foundation losing €790,741 on April 27th, 2017.
Canada decriminalised the use of marijuana on October 17, making it the second country to do so after Uruguay. Read more…
[dropcap]Child [/dropcap]sexual abuse content reported online increased by 44 per cent last year in Ireland, according to statistics from Hotline.ie.
[dropcap]Former [/dropcap]President Mary McAleese is to become a Professor of Children, Law and Religion at the University of Glasgow.
Ní Riada credits her background and appreciation of Ireland’s identity as two key components that she believes makes her to be a suitable candidate for the Presidency.
[dropcap]In [/dropcap]The run up to the presidential election, candidate Gavin Duffy has said he is “mellowing as a capitalist” and is more open to social policies.
Hundred’s of Still Wanting Health campaign marched for Sláintecare. Read more…