College is not easy. It’s academically rigorous, socially demanding, and certainly economically challenging, but it’s an utter privilege to be there. Okay, perhaps socially demanding is a stretch—the multiple nights out a week aren’t particularly stressful! But what’s not a stretch is the financial pressure that students and their parents are put through. Read more…
The country is crying out for apprentices every year. They drive our economy upwards, but the rate they are on is well below minimum wage. Working a minimum of 39 hours a week and starting Read more…
After a heavy night of watery vodka or a flat pint of Heineken, the last thing on your mind when you are sprawling yourself out of bed for that 9 a.m. lecture is preparing a Read more…
ESB group, the largest energy company in Ireland, announced they earned €390 million in profit after exceptional items were included. Read more…
The cost of being a university student is increasing at a very fast pace. Students and their parents are finding themselves living paycheck to paycheck to get an education. Inflation has caused the cost of living Read more…
Are the governments short-term assistant schemes able to tackle a long-term problem?
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The cost of living crisis has been in the news cycle for many weeks now, as the rate of inflation continues to increase. That is having a negative effect on many aspects of life in Ireland, Read more…
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