On Monday, a day before voting was due to start, we opened our annual #UCCVotes straw poll. Last year we used Twitter polls to try and estimate how the SU would form itself, with the poll successfully predicting three out of the five main Sabbat positions. This year we turned to Google Forms, and opened the…
This is my second to last ever editorial for this paper. Jesus, it still hasn’t properly sunk in. By the time you read this the deadline to apply for this job will likely have passed – hell, we may have even hired my successor. Not really on any sort of topic, but it’s just trippy…
The Students’ Union elections will take place this year on March 6th & 7th, with students having 33 candidates to choose from. They are as follows: President: Breathnach, Séamus Cahill, Tommy Collopy, Eoin Conway, Thomas Hayes, Alan Deputy President & Campaigns: Coyle, Kelly Meighan, Liam Education Officer: Frahill, Aaron O’Brien, Alice Welfare Officer: Connery, Niamh…
Early in 2017 the then-Taoiseach Enda Kenny, speaking in Philadelphia, announced a referendum on whether to grant citizens abroad the right to vote in presidential elections. Here we consider the arguments For: Lucas Brun There are practical reasons why citizens abroad should be entitled to vote. Some say that these people will not be affected…
The historic vote for Catalonian independence from Spain earlier this month has had widespread ramifications all over the world, and even some here, at home in Ireland. Spurred on by the actions of the Catalonian people, an innate superiority complex and a fear of river water, the city of Cork has vowed to follow suit…