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Post-world Book Day: Why You Need To Read Books

March 15, 2023

Last Wednesday marked World Book Day 2023, but sadly this may have gone under the radar for  many. In schools across the country book vouchers were handed out as usual, but without these reminders, college

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We Should Enjoy Dublin…While We Have It

March 15, 2023

Startling projection would see much of Dublin submerged by 2100          The coastal areas of Dublin expected to be under water by 2100. Source: Climate Central Much of Dublin’s coastline will be submerged in 1.7m

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Let’s talk about STIs: symptoms and testing

March 1, 2023

A 76% rise in sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates has been reported by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC). Chlamydia, gonorrhoea and genital herpes remain the most commonly recorded infections. Gonorrhoea had the highest increase

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How is Ireland housing refugees and asylum seekers?

March 1, 2023

Slogans like #IrelandIsFull and #IrishLivesMatter have been sprawled across placards and waved at anti-immigration protests in Drimnagh, East Wall and Ballymun in recent weeks. While their accusations are fuelled by racism and xenophobia, protesters have

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Crowd Crushes: A Crash Course

November 23, 2022

You are confined. Trying to dance in your own narrow sliver of space that you’ve managed to carve between the swarm of people squashed together. The person beside you crashes into your back. There is

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Celebrating Halloween in a different perspective

November 10, 2022

Halloween costumes and trick-or-treating are just “the norm” in November, but that wasn’t the case for me as a kid. My childhood was not spent dressing up cartoon characters or scary costumes, so I don’t

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Covid Vaccine Impacted Women’s Menstrual Cycle, Study Says

October 26, 2022

The covid vaccine prolonged and delayed women’s periods, according to two peer reviewed studies.  One study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) saw over 19,000 women both vaccinated and unvaccinated download an

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Cottagecore: “The dream, the fashion, the word”

October 12, 2022

I was 13-years-old when I stumbled across Pinterest on the app store, of My school iPad. I swiftly downloaded the app and soon stumbled upon what would become the defining characteristic of my fashion sense

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LEAP CARD: Slashed fare and new upgrades?

September 28, 2022

September is, without a doubt, an expensive month. Rent, school supplies and textbooks are racking up extravagant bills, but with new TFI upgrades, transport is no longer an added worry for the 19–24 cohort. With

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Did you manage to see the ‘fireball’?

September 28, 2022

Bright. Fast. Unusual. “I’ve never seen anything like that in my lifetime… it’s just a big ball of fire,” said Joseph Reid, a Dublin resident, when asked about the unusual sighting. Many people across Ireland

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Sarah Behan: Safety and mental health come first

February 15, 2022

I feel like there’s a disconnect between people who haven’t come through the services and people like me who use them”. Sarah Behan is a final year English and Philosophy student in St Pats. Her

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Meet TOD: Your Future Student Union President

February 15, 2022

The overarching theme to Thomas O’Dowd’s campaign is bringing back a sense of community to DCU. O’Dowd, who normally just goes by his initials – TOD, is the first Student Union Presidential candidate to run