Student Hub digest: Fake degrees under fire

The biggest higher-education development in the State's history will transform Dublin's north-inner city. But while some locals welcome the change, others fear it. Carl O'Brien reports on DIT's new Dublin quarter.

Síona Cahill has been appointed new USI President. The current deputy president of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has been appointed president for the 2018-19 term at the annual congress in Galway. Síona Cahill (25) a student at Maynooth University has previously served two terms as Maynooth University's Students' Union vice president for welfare and equality. Áine McMahon reports.

Madrid regional president faces fake degree allegations. The president of the Madrid region is fending off calls for her resignation following accusations that she was fraudulently awarded an MBA by a public university and that she has repeatedly lied in a bid to cover up her tracks. Guy Hedgecoe in Madrid.

Abortion is "not a cut and dried issue among young people", and students are not automatically pro-choice, one University College Dublin (UCD) student Robert Lee said, ahead of the referendum on the Eighth Amendment set for May 25th. Jack Power reports.

A newly acquired student accommodation block at Copley Street in Cork city centre is to be enlarged and upgraded by the Irish-owned company Hatch Student Living. Read more here.

Alison Spittle is on a quest to find out exactly what makes a culchie while Lost in Space offers an entirely different sort of quest. Irish Times writers on seven of the best TV shows to watch this week.

Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth are childhood friends making eerie nursery-rhyme freak-folk. Plus: new songs from Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Irish band Melts. Niall Byrne reports.