voting Archives – The College View

Should 16-year-olds be politically involved?

April 18, 2018

Young people however, are inexperienced, in both academia and life. Forget secondary school students, most college students barely clean their room. If you cannot keep your own domain of existence in order, how are you qualified to try and impose order on society?

Are students disengaged from students’ unions?

March 21, 2018

The sad reality is that students don’t appreciate SUs anymore.

USI concerned over referendum date

March 20, 2018

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) are concerned that any delays finalising the wording of the Eighth Amendment referendum would mean that students will be left unable to vote.

Faculty reps given late notification for DCUSU election hustings

April 5, 2017

Students running for Business Faculty Representative were notified less than 24 hours before their hustings during this year’s Student Union elections. Newly elected Business Faculty Representative Bryan Mulry explained that he was told he would

SU Elections 2017: Who, what, when and where?

March 22, 2017

Tomorrow is the final day in which you can cast your vote to elect the 2017/18 DCU Students’ Unions. Voting takes place online: in order to do so simply log onto Loop and click the

Whichcandidate.ie – a tool for voter clarity

February 24, 2016

The newly launched website whichcandidate.ie is a tool which voters can use to find out where their local candidates stand on important issues.

Attack of the apathy: election sees shortage of votes

November 18, 2015

The elections for OSL, Clubs and post-grad officers failed to secure the minimum of votes.

Almost 80 DCU students register on Voter Registration Day

November 12, 2014

The National Voter Registration Day took place on October 30th and aimed to register more young people to vote prior to upcoming referendums.

In Pictures: DCU SU ’14 Day 2

March 27, 2014

Today was the final day for voting in the DCU SU ’14 elections. All candidates were hitting the campaign trail hard looking for those last minute votes.

Student politics: do we care?

March 20, 2013

After the initial flurry of democratic enthusiasm dies down, the polling stations across DCU go quiet. From about 2 pm onwards, students manning the stations become a bit more desperate to get anyone and everyone