“Three people have been charged after protests over a speech in Cambridge by the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The trouble flared as Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived at the Cambridge Union Society debate on Friday …” (more)
[BBC News, 10 March]
“Up to 2,500 people protested in Letterkenny this afternoon against changes to pupil-teacher ratios which they say will have a devastating impact on small schools …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 10 March]
“Thomond Student Times, a student-run newspaper on campus, has organised an online petition urging O’Mahony’s Bookshop to stop stocking the tabloid. It follows on from last week’s report in the newspaper which linked charity events in UL to anti-social behaviour …” (more)
[Studenty_Limerick, 10 March]
“The statues on each side of the Trinity College Dublin Campanile are well known to many, not only to students of the college but also to the many Dubliners who use the college as a shortcut from Dame Street to Nassau Street …” (more)
[Come here to me!, 9 March]
“Hibernia College, the online teacher-training institution, has removed slides from its religion module for primary teachers at the request of Atheist Ireland …” (more)
[Patsy McGarry, Irish Times, 10 March]
“The University of Ulster has called on retail drink outlets not to target cheap drinks promotions at students over the St Patrick’s Day period …” (more)
[Claire McNeilly, Belfast Telegraph, 10 March]
“The ‘first patients’ of medical, dental and science students will be remembered in a thanksgiving service for people who donate their bodies to University College Cork …” (more)
[Jennifer Hough, Irish Examiner, 10 March]
“Dominique Strauss-Kahn was challenged by a student about allegations of rape as the former International Monetary Fund chief gave a lecture at Cambridge University …” (more)
[Matthew Holehouse and James Orr, Daily Telegraph, 10 March]
“New figures which are expected to come before the Oireachtas Committee on Public Accounts next week show that sick leave within the public sector is costing the State over €550m per year …” (more)
[Irish Examiner, 10 March]
“A series of bitter disagreements between scientists and policy-makers has prompted a group of researchers to create a list of 40 ‘key unanswered questions’ in an attempt to ease tensions by setting an agenda for future work …” (more)
[Daniel Cressey, Nature News, 9 March]
“… But now one of our two major political parties has taken a hard right turn against education, or at least against education that working Americans can afford. Remarkably, this new hostility to education is shared by the social conservative and economic conservative wings of the Republican coalition, now embodied in the persons of Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney …” (more)
[Paul Krugman, New York Times, 8 March]
“Philip Soos considers the faults that plague existing copyright laws and suggests that, in an increasingly online world, we need to find more realistic options …” (more)
[Politico, 8 March]
