Editorial
To mark the launch of the IFI’s campaign to protect our national film archive, Kasandra O’Connell, Head of the IFI Film Archive, writes exclusively for the University Observer about the importance of the Irish …
The UCD Ball
For a seemingly innocuous and fun social event, the UCD Ball and recent circumstances relating to it have provided a telling insight into the disparate mindsets of students and college authorities
It says a …
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 …
With Fianna Fáil in turmoil following the general election, Stephen Kelly questions whether the party will look to begin participating in Northern Irish politics
The question of whether Fine Gael are well prepared for the challenges that lie ahead in government is still a contentious one, writes Elizabeth O’Malley
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 …
ATTEMPTS TO STIFLE STUDENT MEDIA FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
The proposal to significantly lessen the influence of student media on campus will ultimately be detrimental to the students’ best interests
The issue of mental health has been stigmatised for too long in Irish society, writes Caroline McGuigan
With the future of student media under threat, we trawl through our archives to bring you a history of this publication
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 …
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 …
A vote to maintain free third-level education is imperative as it functions as the cornerstone of a civilised developed nation, writes Annette Mooney
