Seán de Búrca

What a hunger strike in Bronzefield prison has in common University of Galway The Quadrangle, University of Galway On 17 December, 20 year old, Qesser Zuhrah was taken to hospital from HMP Bronzefield on the 46th day of her hunger strike. Qesser Zuhrah was jailed for in…

'What a hunger strike in Bronzefield prison has in common University of Galway' by Seán de Búrca

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365 Party Girl - the Solution to Unemployment Typically speaking, a historically low unemployment rate would mean that the Government has little to worry about in the labour market. ...

365 Party Girl - the Solution to Unemployment

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Una Mullally: Welcome to college, kids: long commutes, couch-surfing and four bunks to a room Students have passed their exams, but Government has failed to act on housing them

Wrote about the student accommodation crisis in Ireland.

Desperately seeking accommodation: Galway students appeal for public’s help Homeowners being asked to use the rent-a-room relief scheme in an appeal from University of Galway students’ union

Desperately seeking accommodation: Galway students appeal for public’s help

Homeowners being asked to use the rent-a-room relief scheme in an appeal from University of Galway students’ union

Girls,I'm excited...

Are you certified to be an emergency exit bouncer?

If students are allowed or enabled or encouraged to compose text using AI, they will not learn to compose text. It’s that simple. All of the rest is waffle and bullshit propagated by philistine con artists and swallowed by craven PMC cadres

I bet he would've been all out of kitkats anyway

'How Woodrow Wilson and C.E. Trevelyan are to Blame for the Leinster House Bike Shed: and what to do about it'

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Oh he's running again

Jeremy Corbyn (left) standing next to - and looking at - Tony Benn (right)

Tony Benn would have turned 100 today.

A rare, courageous and continuous voice for peace, Tony was driven by the radical idea that all human life had equal value.

We all have our inspirations – and he was mine. Happy birthday Tony.

Someone who I am NOT related to is running for SU. I think this is the last one of them

Submitted my first set of nominations today

While I only need 100 nominations to get on the ballot, I'm going to continue getting as many as I can, discussing the issues students are facing along the way, and what we can do to fix them

I fear having to show up to work may be the straw that breaks this government's back

I'm delighted to announce that I'm running to be the next Education Officer for CMLOnG. Over the next week, I'll be collecting nominations. If you see me around campus, feel free to come over and say hi or ask a few questions about my campaign.

Voting will open on yourspace on the 13th March 🗳

It's not like they're cheaper either. The University could directly employ the same workers on the same conditions and would save money from cutting out the share that Sodexo makes as profit

It's just a way of funneling public money into private pockets

That’s that me Sodexo – the company behind an Bhialann We all are well acquainted with an Bhialann on campus. Some of us see the man who makes coffee there more than we see our own fathers. While their perfect hash browns may leave you thinking that th…

Really proud of this piece I wrote about the company that run the catering services on campus in the University of Galway. Give it a read

'That's that me Sodexo - the Company Behind an Bhialann by Seán de Búrca'
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A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
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Trans Man Killed in New York Was Tortured for More Than a Month, Police Say The body of Sam Nordquist, 24, was found in a field after he had been reported missing. The district attorney in Ontario County, N.Y., called the circumstances surrounding the death “beyond depraved.”

This is appalling. This is Matthew Shephard 26 years later. Has America learned nothing?

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Valentine's Day Is Over

Today's the only day you can listen to this song
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Not Fair The Rosecaps · Modern Life · Song · 2025

Here's a really good cover of Lily Allen's Not Fair. Too good to gatekeep
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"The barrister said that perhaps the defendant had learned a lesson and suggested a community service sentence. Judge McElholm said: "I wouldn't inflict this man on the community"."

Saints and scholars? Not really. Irish people are becoming less literate Even graduates are worse at reading than a decade ago.

Irish people have become less literate in the past decade, with even graduates' reading skills getting worse.

Despite Ireland's literary reputation, only 9% have good enough reading skills to understand long, dense texts and grasp hidden meanings.

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Can I have Guinness 0.0 after having my wisdom teeth out? (Urgent)

If you're travelling home for a visit from the land of youth where you live with your golden-haired lover after what you thought was three years but what transpired to actually be 300 years, do not, I repeat, do NOT accidentally fall from your horse and touch the ground

Constance Markievicz: The First Woman MP The first woman elected to Westminster wasn't Nancy Astor – it was a socialist, feminist, republican and revolutionary named Constance Markievicz.

Constance Markievicz, the first woman elected to Westminster, was born on this day in 1868. She was a socialist, a feminist and a republican who dedicated her life to Ireland’s struggle for independence.