Category: University

A Nationalist Strategy for the Seanad Elections

The following article first appeared in June in Meon Journal and is syndicated with permission. Neither the figures given nor the text has been altered. Many people don’t have a clue how the Seanad works, what its purpose is, or...

TCD Trotskyist Tiff Brewing Over SU Disaffiliation?

House 6 off College Green is arguably People Before Profit's most influential albeit informal branch in existence. The college offices of Trinity College’s Student Union (TCDSU), the narrow left-wing circuit built around the organisation stumbles through each consecutive year through...

/ 11/12/2024

Vote for Ryan Corley

In-person voting began at UCD for the Student Union elections on the 4th of April, and will finish today. Online voting has since closed, but, given the history of election fraud across the western world, online voting can be considered...

/ 05/04/2023

The Thomas Sankara Library: Students4Change want to Rename TCD Berkeley Library

The name of the Berkeley Library has previously been the subject of controversy at TCD, with current President of Trinity College’s Student Union Gabi Fullam having made a campaign promise to rename the library.  Leftist student activists have long used...

/ 31/03/2023

UCD Student Union Election Round-Up

The UCD Students Union elections have officially begun, with a variety of interesting candidates, with equally interesting political manifestos.  Candidates are divided into those running for sabbatical positions, effectively running the SU, and college officers, who for the most part...

/ 29/03/2023

Muslims Indignant as TCD Deplatforms Famous Islamist

An event scheduled for the 3rd of March by the Muslim Students’ Association at Trinity College Dublin was cancelled due to pressure from TCDSU and other student bodies opposed to the religious rhetoric of the prominent Islamic YouTuber and ‘renowned...

/ 19/03/2023

Rats in the SU: An Examination of NCAD’s Regular Rodents

A new development in NCAD’s ongoing struggle with campus hygiene has emerged in recent weeks, as Luje and Saorla from the SU have released a series of angry videos over NCAD’s pink room’s latest rat problem.  The pink room is...

/ 14/03/2023

Mary Kenny and Ireland’s Blossoming Cancel Culture

The news broke earlier this month that Mary Kenny was successfully no-platformed by trans activists angered at her being booked to speak at the University of Limerick. Kenny was due to give a talk on the topic “The Media and...

/ 13/03/2023

Hate Speech Advocates Trounced at Freedom of Speech Debate in UCD

At University College Dublin, a recent event was held in which several guest speakers were invited to speak at the college to discuss the topic of freedom of speech. Avowedly supporting the incoming hate speech legislation at this event were...

/ 04/02/2023

Revisionism Against the State: UCD’s Gentle Revolution and Irish Elite Formation

What are the contemporary ideological characteristics of the modern Irish state? The answer to such a question appears difficult to place in the complex history of the Republic's current statelet government yet may be studied with reference to the overlapping...

/ 04/12/2022