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When I was an officer in the Union of Students in Ireland I was working on a participation manual for students’ union to help increase student involvement. This manual was in partnership with our colleagues in NUS – the UK national students’ union. When I left it seemed to fall off USI’s radar. Admittedly social [...]

Apparently I only uploaded a teaser of the Minister Batt O’Keeffe interview. I didn’t notice, even though I had forty odd emails from readers indicating as much. Apologies about this, but I changed my email passwords and forgot to update my main Gmail pop 3 details so I hadn’t received them on the Blackberry. So [...]

Minister for Education and Science Batt O’Keeffe joined me in studio on Wednesday to discuss third level funding, maintenance grants, the registration fee and of course tuition fees. During the interview Minister O’Keeffe reveals his reasons for opening the tuition fees debate, plans for the rate of the maintenance grant for the next academic year [...]

Was reading over my modules for year two of my BA in Communication Studies and came across this little beauty! Apparently my module coordinators are two taxi companies. I can only imagine the thought provoking insights they will give me to Media Writing and Expression!! Clearly a hack or joke, but it did make me [...]

Printed in the Sunday Independent (9th Aug 2009) At the age of 17, Michelle looked forward to the excitement and challenges of college life in Dublin. Two years later, she struggles with a double life, writes Steve Conlon. I’d met her before, alone, but now, in a cafe full of people, the astonishingly painful nature [...]