Category: General
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No need for €1,000 student fee increase
Calls from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (PER) to increase third level fees by at least €1,000 appear unjustified when recent university figures are taken into account. University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland’s largest university, reported a surplus of over €20 million…
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Video: The magical world of Quidditch in Dublin
Henry Phipps & Lee Shields explore the world of Quidditch in Dublin and the growing popularity of the magical sport.
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Fingal Graduate Award Winner 2017
Visual Artist Róisín McGannon has been awarded the Fingal County Council Arts with Block T Graduate Studio Award 2017. Róisín McGannon is a visual artist based in Dublin who will be graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art from NCAD…
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Dublin City Council unable to determine the number of places of worship
It is impossible to know the exact number of places of religious worship in Dublin, according to Dublin City Council. The recent announcement about the arrival of the Church of Scientology’s European Headquarters in Firhouse has raised the question of what other religious…
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Time to say goodbye? Defeat to Denmark should spell the end for Martin O’Neill
“Just to say, thank you very much for giving us the space,” Danish manager Age Hareide sarcastically said following Denmark’s 5-1 drubbing of the Republic of Ireland, before going on to say, “they [Ireland] made it a little bit easy for us.” To…
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The City Sports Podcast Episode 7
This week’s edition sees host Leo McGuinn joined by regulars Shane O’Brien, Scott Howe, Eoghan McGrane and Daniel Osborne to look ahead to Ireland’s mammoth game against Denmark.
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Ireland last in EU for reading news online
Ireland ranks dead last in reading news online and has one of the highest percentages of booking travel and holiday accommodation in Europe. A 2017 edition of Eurostat’s ‘The life of women and men in Europe’ shows there are large differences in…
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2800% increase in number of emergency beds
Peter McVerry Trust (PMVT) annual report has revealed an increase of 2,800% in the number of beds it has provided in emergency accommodation in the last decade. The figures released in the latest annual report by the national housing and homeless charity revealed…
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New alcohol laws put in place to tackle Ireland’s binge drinking problem
New minimum prices on some alcoholic beverages will effectively ban the low-cost sales of alcoholic products. The proposed law of a minimum unit pricing of 10 cent per gram of alcohol will mainly affect drinks with higher alcohol content levels and the majority…
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Exotic animals on the rise in Ireland, says DSPCA
The Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (DSPCA) has recorded an increase in the number of exotic or dangerous animals rescued in Dublin over recent years. Micro pigs, pygmy goats, scorpions and snakes are but some of the non-native animals recovered…
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