The Republic's rising cost of living has left students with "difficult choices" to make between prioritising studies and working full-time to pay rising bills and rents. University College Dublin student Sadhbh Mac Lochlainn's Dublin rent has not increased in recent times, but her weekly food shop has "noticeably gone up"as well as electricity and heating costs.
Students from UCD and the Solicitors' Apprentice Debating Society of Ireland (Sadsi) have secured the last three placesin next month's grand final of the Irish Times Debate.
Sometimes a fleeting moment can hold a stunning opportunity. One can summon up the courage and step up to the plate, or squirm at the sidelines knowing that you can do it but making excuses not to.
An increase in core funding for higher education should be prioritised above cuts to student contribution charges or increases in grant aid, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said. Speaking at a conference organised by the Irish Universities' Association, he said it would be a mistake to reduce the €3,000 student contribution charge, improve Susi grants and only leave a "small bit of money" for core funding.
A valuable avant-garde painting has been vandalised by a "bored" security guard who drew eyes on faceless figures in the artwork on his first day working in a Russian gallery. Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures was painted between 1932 and 1934, and had been insured for 75 million roubles (€875,000).
PODCAST: A loyalist paramilitary death threat stopped The Clash performing in Derry at the height of the Troubles, a member of The Undertones has said. Undertones bass guitarist Mickey Bradley, a guest on The Irish Times' Borderlines podcast, said his band invited the English punk rock group fronted by Joe Strummer to their home town in the summer of 1979.
EU ombudsman Emily O'Reilly has opened an inquiry into the European Commission's failure to act against the State over the pace of big tech investigations.
Tá sé in am ag Rialtas na hÉireann gníomhú go poiblí agus an deis a thapú chun cearta teanga i dTuaisceart Éireann a chur chun cinn. Ag labhairt dó le Tuarascáil dúirt Pádraig Ó Tiarnaigh, urlabhraí An Dream Dearg, nach raibh ach "ciúnas agus neamhaird" ó Simon Coveney agus ó Rialtas na hÉireann le breis agus bliain anuas.
Oscars 2022: Will any Irish nominees win? Will Lady Gaga's snub break the internet? Donald Clarke has 10 key questionson this year's Oscars nominations.
The number of homes available to rent has fallen close to historic lows, while rents have increased sharply just as the economy emerges from the restrictions of the pandemic, according to figures from property website Daft.ie.
PODCAST: The pandemic is not over but the emergency phase of the State's response to it is. So, how did we do? What lessons can be learned from the state's response and what's the best way to find out what those lessons are?
A handsome trilogy of hardbacks covering 230 years traces the changing fortunes of a north Dublin inner-city address – 14 Henrietta Street – from magnificence to decline.
