He is 100% on the button, existence of food banks is an damning indictment on society. They will exist in the short term . Sickening how students are fucked over
On him charging for mental health talks, it doesn’t sit right with me. He’s a decent lad though
Since when in the fuck is Niall Breslin an academic? I can count on one hand the amount of peer reviewed research I’ve had published and it’s more than he’s had and I’ve more qualifications than him , and work in an educational field but would not say I’m remotely an academic.
He’s completely diminishing the word and doing a massive disservice to the idea of mental health academic study
Accommodation is grossly expensive however food banks for students? Is it really that bad? Can kids not afford to feed themselves and are starving?
I’m pretty sure my diet was beans etc and if there was a food bank in college I definitely would’ve gone to it every week but I wouldn’t think I really needed it considering I went out every week also.
It’s never worked. Since the Republic formed things have never been in a good, equitable way for all.
Students always struggled, job market has always been competitive, housing has always been an issue.
We’re a joke of country with a good marketing department.
Irish Universities aren’t geared at the Irish market anymore. Extortionate Non- Eu fees and extortionate accommodation charges are raking in the cash for UCD via its foreign students. Its no coincidence that it has a strong presence in Asia – all those single child families with generational wealth from grandparents being passed down means they’ve no problem payimg these fees and is still cheaper than the US.As a student there from 2016-2020 I watched multiple carparks be turned into lucrative camous accommodation. Dare I say it but government intervention is needed.
Pal’s daughter is starting in Galway in a few weeks.
€600 a month to share a room.
Fucking mental.
How the actual fuck is student accommodation €1300 month ? This country really is taking the actual piss . And that children hospital still isn’t built .
Trust him, Trust him, He’s a Doctor
Gwan comrade Bressie
The food bank only supplies students with camomile teas because proper tea is theft.
Surely providing food to students decreases inequality, under the exact same rationale as the free lunches in schools
I spent 3 months of last academic year eating only homemade vegetable soup with beans and chickpeas as my protein because my rent is 900 something a month. Im not gonna lie it can be a bit hard to take in the contents of an engineering degree when youre going to sleep hungry just to stay in line with the rent budget
I mean UCD should be offering its rooms at below market rates. It baffles me that universities, who receive public funding, are jumping on the rental scarcity bandwagon with their prices
I understand, the point, but I don’t enjoy, when people use, random commas like they’re Christopher, Walken.
Complete gimp.
But he’s right
How in the name of fuck is campus accommodation 1300e p/m?
Who
Yeah I could imagine the days of being able to afford a few beers is long gone unless you have parents with a few bob or your comunión money 🙁
Not that it’s in any way the UCDSUs fault, but they have started worrying about much bigger picture issues like Palestine for example, and perhaps lost some of the mighty pressure the SU used to put on student facilities back in the day.
(I believe Palestine support should stay strong, but in a separate society capacity supported by the SU)
I think you’ll find it is working, very well im fact, for the top 10% of irish society. Better even still if corporate favours and landlording is your game, and TD is your name.
I already know this isn’t going to be a popular point, but there’s not a strong causal link between the existence of food banks, and poverty.
The use of food banks in the UK has skyrocketed over the last 15 years. Their use increased way, way beyond any increase in real poverty.
It’s an actual industry now in the UK, making money out of donations and grants.
We assume, “Nobody would use food banks unless they were really struggling”. When, if you think about it for two seconds, that’s not actually true at all.
A LOT of people would gladly drop by a food bank on their way home from work to collect €50 worth of groceries for free. People who get free food in work, eat in work. They don’t think, “Oh no, I can afford my own food, I won’t eat that”.
When you go to an event with a free bar, you do not pay for your own drinks because you can afford them.
This effect is especially true of students. This food bank will be surely popular. And the wrong conclusions will be drawn. Instead of, “Yeah if you give students free stuff they’ll jump at it”, the talking point will be, “The popularity of our free groceries proves that students can’t afford to live anymore”.
Food banks DO, do good work. Of course. But it’s not Vincent dePaul or Pieta House. People who don’t actually need to use a food bank, will. Gladly.
So we can’t place a massive weighting on their figures.
He’s 100% right.
The number one driver of social mobility and equality is free access to education. Ireland has been pretty good at that in the past, but not the housing and cost of living crisis means that kids from lower income families are going to lose access to third level education… this really cannot stand.
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He only charges 2 grand to give a talk…
He’s right though. It’s ridiculous.
He is very right.
He isn’t wrong though
My own thoughts
He is 100% on the button, existence of food banks is an damning indictment on society. They will exist in the short term . Sickening how students are fucked over
On him charging for mental health talks, it doesn’t sit right with me. He’s a decent lad though
Since when in the fuck is Niall Breslin an academic? I can count on one hand the amount of peer reviewed research I’ve had published and it’s more than he’s had and I’ve more qualifications than him , and work in an educational field but would not say I’m remotely an academic.
He’s completely diminishing the word and doing a massive disservice to the idea of mental health academic study
Accommodation is grossly expensive however food banks for students? Is it really that bad? Can kids not afford to feed themselves and are starving?
I’m pretty sure my diet was beans etc and if there was a food bank in college I definitely would’ve gone to it every week but I wouldn’t think I really needed it considering I went out every week also.
It’s never worked. Since the Republic formed things have never been in a good, equitable way for all.
Students always struggled, job market has always been competitive, housing has always been an issue.
We’re a joke of country with a good marketing department.
Irish Universities aren’t geared at the Irish market anymore. Extortionate Non- Eu fees and extortionate accommodation charges are raking in the cash for UCD via its foreign students. Its no coincidence that it has a strong presence in Asia – all those single child families with generational wealth from grandparents being passed down means they’ve no problem payimg these fees and is still cheaper than the US.As a student there from 2016-2020 I watched multiple carparks be turned into lucrative camous accommodation. Dare I say it but government intervention is needed.
Pal’s daughter is starting in Galway in a few weeks.
€600 a month to share a room.
Fucking mental.
How the actual fuck is student accommodation €1300 month ? This country really is taking the actual piss . And that children hospital still isn’t built .
Trust him, Trust him, He’s a Doctor
Gwan comrade Bressie
The food bank only supplies students with camomile teas because proper tea is theft.
Surely providing food to students decreases inequality, under the exact same rationale as the free lunches in schools
I spent 3 months of last academic year eating only homemade vegetable soup with beans and chickpeas as my protein because my rent is 900 something a month. Im not gonna lie it can be a bit hard to take in the contents of an engineering degree when youre going to sleep hungry just to stay in line with the rent budget
I mean UCD should be offering its rooms at below market rates. It baffles me that universities, who receive public funding, are jumping on the rental scarcity bandwagon with their prices
I understand, the point, but I don’t enjoy, when people use, random commas like they’re Christopher, Walken.
Complete gimp.
But he’s right
How in the name of fuck is campus accommodation 1300e p/m?
Who
Yeah I could imagine the days of being able to afford a few beers is long gone unless you have parents with a few bob or your comunión money 🙁
Not that it’s in any way the UCDSUs fault, but they have started worrying about much bigger picture issues like Palestine for example, and perhaps lost some of the mighty pressure the SU used to put on student facilities back in the day.
(I believe Palestine support should stay strong, but in a separate society capacity supported by the SU)
I think you’ll find it is working, very well im fact, for the top 10% of irish society. Better even still if corporate favours and landlording is your game, and TD is your name.
I already know this isn’t going to be a popular point, but there’s not a strong causal link between the existence of food banks, and poverty.
The use of food banks in the UK has skyrocketed over the last 15 years. Their use increased way, way beyond any increase in real poverty.
It’s an actual industry now in the UK, making money out of donations and grants.
We assume, “Nobody would use food banks unless they were really struggling”. When, if you think about it for two seconds, that’s not actually true at all.
A LOT of people would gladly drop by a food bank on their way home from work to collect €50 worth of groceries for free. People who get free food in work, eat in work. They don’t think, “Oh no, I can afford my own food, I won’t eat that”.
When you go to an event with a free bar, you do not pay for your own drinks because you can afford them.
This effect is especially true of students. This food bank will be surely popular. And the wrong conclusions will be drawn. Instead of, “Yeah if you give students free stuff they’ll jump at it”, the talking point will be, “The popularity of our free groceries proves that students can’t afford to live anymore”.
Food banks DO, do good work. Of course. But it’s not Vincent dePaul or Pieta House. People who don’t actually need to use a food bank, will. Gladly.
So we can’t place a massive weighting on their figures.
He’s 100% right.
The number one driver of social mobility and equality is free access to education. Ireland has been pretty good at that in the past, but not the housing and cost of living crisis means that kids from lower income families are going to lose access to third level education… this really cannot stand.
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