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Volume XVII Crossword – Issue 12
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Volume XVII Crossword – Issue 12

The University Observer crossword, issue 12

Crossword solution – Issue 12
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Crossword solution – Issue 12

Solutions to The University Observer crossword, Issue 12

Letter to the Editor
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Letter to the Editor

Performance of the Students’ Union Officers
Sir,
I am sending my correspondence to your letterbox to counteract what I believe will be an overcritical issue of your upstanding publication which releases its final issue of the …

Sports Digest
Tuesday, 29 Mar, 2011 – 14:01 | Comments Off
Sports Digest

Ultimate Frisbee Lacrosse
The UCD Ultimate Frisbee team won their first tournament for some time last week in Maynooth. With rivals Trinity and UCC competing in UK Nationals, it was vital the team put in a …

Letters to the Editor
Tuesday, 29 Mar, 2011 – 14:00 | Comments Off
Letters to the Editor

The Students’ Union finances

Contributors: Volume XVII, Issue 11
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Contributors: Volume XVII, Issue 11

The University Observer

Letters to the Editor
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Letters to the Editor

The importance of student media
Sir,
To be perfectly honest and disdainfully atavistic, it is my opinion that print media is a social catalyst charged with dangerous nostalgia and tickling ambition, ever weaning itself on and off …

Contributors: Volume XVII, Issue 10
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Contributors: Volume XVII, Issue 10

Contributors: Volume XVII, Issue 10

Op-Ed: A cure for pain
Tuesday, 15 Feb, 2011 – 18:00 | Comments Off
Op-Ed: A cure for pain

The issue of mental health has been stigmatised for too long in Irish society, writes Caroline McGuigan

The University Observer: Timeline
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The University Observer: Timeline

With the future of student media under threat, we trawl through our archives to bring you a history of this publication

Letter to the Editor
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Letter to the Editor

Sir,
I write to you concerning a very pertinent matter, to which I am certain the vast majority of your readers can relate. The issue of book availability in the James Joyce Library has escalated to …

Letter to the Editor
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Letter to the Editor

Sir,
The situation for funding for post-graduate education in Ireland has reached a truly disastrous point. UCD is hardly immune from this epidemic of academic poverty – indeed as Ireland’s largest and second-highest-rated learning institution there …

Contributors: Volume XVII, Issue 8
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Contributors: Volume XVII, Issue 8

Contributors List

Op-Ed: Education, education, education
Tuesday, 15 Feb, 2011 – 17:00 | Comments Off
Op-Ed: Education, education, education

A vote to maintain free third-level education is imperative as it functions as the cornerstone of a civilised developed nation, writes Annette Mooney

Contributors: Volume XVII, Issue 8
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Contributors: Volume XVII, Issue 8

Volume XVII, Issue 8

Letters to the Editor
Tuesday, 1 Feb, 2011 – 13:59 | Comments Off
Letters to the Editor

Sir,
I write to you concerning a very pertinent matter, to which I am certain the vast majority of your readers can relate. The issue of book availability in the James Joyce Library has escalated to …

Letter to the Editor
Tuesday, 18 Jan, 2011 – 14:00 | Comments Off
Letter to the Editor

Madam,
I am writing to you to complain about the joke that is on-campus accommodation in UCD. I am a final year student living in Glenomena and I want to highlight some of the major problems …

Contributors: Volume XVII, Issue 7
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Contributors: Volume XVII, Issue 7

Contributors: Volume XVII, Issue 7