“The rules of the dating game are changing. For Trinity College students in Dublin nightclubs, it can help to have a flyer with advice on sexual consent close to hand. It spells out in an easy acronym: FRIES or ‘freely-given, retractable, informed, enthusiastic and specific’ …” (more)
[Carl O’Brien and Jenna Clarke-Molloy, Irish Times, 3 November]
“The organisers of the consent workshops in Trinity Hall have been forced to put on extra workshops and call in more facilitators due to the large numbers of students turning up to participate in the classes. With 400 people participating in the workshops as a whole last year, over 200 people turned up to the workshops on the first day alone …” (more)
[Kathleen McNamee, University Times, 20 September]
“A survey on sexual assault was a long time coming in Northern Ireland. With national conversation erupting in the last few years around consent, Queen’s have followed in the footsteps of USI and Trinity respectively, in conducting their own survey to glean insight into the prevalence of sexual assault on campus. The Queen’s survey is unexpectedly pioneering in more ways than one …” (more)
[University Times, 20 August]
“Consent workshops for incoming first-year students have undergone several changes after 400 students participated in last year’s successful pilot. The most successful workshops of their kind in Ireland last year, the classes were held in Trinity Hall over the course of Freshers’ Week …” (more)
[Kathleen McNamee, University Times, 5 August]
“Queen’s University Belfast’s consent classes will be based on the successful Trinity model when they run for the first time in October. The pilot programme, which will run in Queen’s residential accommodation, could see nearly 1,500 first-year students take part …” (more)
[Dominic McGrath, University Times, 31 July]
“The idea that the giving and receiving of consent should be taught is a relatively new concept. Schools in Ireland were, and still are, caught up with exposing children to graphic images of STD riddled genitalia and filling them with fear of unwanted pregnancy. How a healthy and normal sexual relationship might be carried out between young adults was none of their concern …” (more)
[College Tribune, 11 April]
“The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) today voted overwhelmingly to design national consent workshops for students, based on models successfully introduced in colleges across Ireland over the last year …” (more)
[Dominic McGrath, University Times, 28 March]
“University of Limerick was forced to cancel its planned workshops on sexual consent for students recently – after only a few people signed up to attend …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 2 March]
“The UCD Students’ Union has cancelled classes on sexual consent because of a lack of interest. Approximately 20 students out of a student population of 30,000 have participated in the classes which were first announced in February last year as part of the university’s #NotAskingForIt campaign …” (more)
[Ronan McGreevy, Irish Times, 16 February]
“Consent classes have been dropped by the UCD Students’ Union and the university. Plans were announced in February 2016 for the union to run classes in co-operation with the university. The UCDSU President at the time, Marcus O’Halloran, explained that the union would run the consent classes with the expectation that the university would take part in running them …” (more)
[Niamh O’Regan, University Observer, 15 February]
“21% of Irish respondents to an EU-wide survey late last year think having sex without consent is acceptable in certain situations. Does that worry you? It should …” (more)
[Eimear Kelly, Campus.ie, 30 January]
“The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) last week praised third level institutes across Ireland for introducing consent classes for students, with which the main aim is to normalise speech around consent and encourage people to know their rights around bodily autonomy …” (more)
[SIN, 13 October]
“The Women’s Podcast: Kathleen Harris talks to students and experts about sexual consent workshops in Irish universities. ‘It’s actually worrying how common it is going out and getting touched’, says a female 20-year-old Irish student who wishes to remain anonymous …” (more)
[Irish Times, 10 October]
“Results from a recent survey undertaken by the UCD Students’ Union on sex and consent has shown that 71% of respondents felt ‘introducing consent workshops to campus was important’. Overall 3,857 students took part in the survey, with the number who answered each question varying …” (more)
[College Tribune, 4 October]
“The consent workshops for first-year students begin in Trinity Hall today and will run over the next week. The workshops were proposed last year by then-Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) Gender Equality Officer, Louise Mulrennan, and myself, and were passed almost unanimously at a meeting of the union’s council in January …” (more)
[Kieran McNulty, University Times, 18 September]
“The Students’ Unions of Trinity and UCD caused quite a stir when they announced plans to introduce consent workshops for incoming first-year students. But now that the year is starting, what can students expect from a consent workshop? …” (more)
[Daire Courtney, Independent, 8 September]
“Training for the instructors of Trinity Hall’s mandatory consent workshops will take place on September 1st, and will see 12 students trained to lead the workshops that will begin this year for first-year residents, alongside 12 staff facilitators …” (more)
[Dominic McGrath, University Times, 27 July]
“University College Dublin will introduce mandatory sexual consent classes – as officials try to track down students who reportedly shared intimate images of female students …” (more)
[Martin Grant, Independent, 10 February]
“UCD Students’ Union (UCDSU) has announced plans to introduce mandatory workshops on sexual consent for all students and is calling on university management to come ‘completely on board’ and increase funding for the courses …” (more)
[Sorcha Pollak, Irish Times, 9 February]
“UCD Students’ Union confirmed yesterday that they have met with UCD President Andrew Deeks, and expect the University to begin consent classes from this September …” (more)
[Patrick Kelleher, University Observer, 9 February]
