Dublin Life | August/September 2022 | City of Dublin | CityScene Media Group |
Dublin Life | August/September 2022 | City of Dublin | CityScene Media Group |
Dublin’s Scioto Park will come alive this year on Sunday evenings, thanks to the annual Dublin Arts Council (DAC) Sundays at Scioto concert series. Taking place for the 38th time, this annual celebration of community is a beloved local tradition.
Scioto Park is located at 7377 Riverside Dr., north of the Dublin Arts Center and the Interstate 270 overpass. The concerts are free of charge.
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Swans in Dublin's Grand Canal at Portobello. The area is undergoing a redevelopment with the building of a hotel on the site of the buildings behind the tree here.
Swans are not always on this stretch of water, but are more often than not.
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Trinity College Dublin are union busters who support Israel
Just to recap from my last post because MORE shite has gone down.
It’s exam week and while everyone was busy studying the other day, the Provost of the University sent an email to the ENTIRE student body, basically trying to turn us against the student union. Here are some highlights:
This was in response to lobbying by the student union not to increase student fees, namely masters fees. And to instead increase the cost of tickets to the book of Kells only by a few euro. This would solve the university’s “money problems”. Which let’s face it, they don’t have. I mean where is the money from tourism going that they’d need more?
The union had put out the ultimatum in the email, saying that if their demands weren’t considered, they would increase their protests. Throughout this year the union has organised protests that block entrance to the book of Kells, once of the main things tourists come to see. These were to protest the student housing crisis, the masters fee increases, and the university’s ties to Israeli institutions and refusal to make a statement condemning or even acknowledging the genocide. Here’s a link to the student unions post on the most recent protest.
The student union then replied to the email (and therefore the whole student body) restating their demands and the fact that they were going to proceed with the protest. They also included a video of the provost saying she wouldn’t increase fees.
Then, the next day this story breaks on our universities news (sorry link wouldn’t work but it’s from Instagram @ trinitynews):
WHAT THE FUCK!?!?? They are also calling in prominent members of the union who participated in the protests for disciplinary meetings. I mean this is how you completely alienate your student body. Outrage obviously ensued. They defended their decision by saying they had to “protect the book of Kells”, as if the union wasn’t just silently protesting outside. People made some funny comments about that:
Due to pressure the Provost then made a bullshit ass statement on Palestine:
So in conclusion, trinity is a fucking shit show. We are so tired of tourists being prioritised over us. They have brand new incredible facilities, meanwhile the student sections of campus are run down, broken, and completely inaccessible. It’s just a normal thing for lecture equipment to not work on the daily. And yet the tourists are getting new stuff built for them!
The biggest joke of all is that tcd is supposedly the top university in Ireland, and yet anyone I speak to from other universities have better facilities than us. Which is kind of funny since they don’t get tourism, just government funding. So how are we lacking when we have money from government and tourism?
I’m not telling anyone what to do here. I just want people to be aware what they are funding by either attending or giving tourism to the university. If it makes you change your mind about this, tell them! Specifically state why!
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it's another example of how backwards the entire housing system is that the people who can actually afford the most energy efficient homes are the ones who least "need" them.
they can better afford the high energy bills of a lower rated house, while people already on lower incomes are further stretched because they can only afford an older house with higher energy bills.
as the saying goes after all, it's expensive to be poor.
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“Vegas, we never thought we’d step foot in your city. Thank you for a great to another festival season. We’re sad to leave. We will see you soon America.
📸 @/carolinezeeman”
via inhalerdublin IG
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