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Dublin Skaters VS The Temple Bar
By Finn McKenna Readers may be familiar with the events of 28 July, where an alleged assault of…
Capitalist crises 2020: Young people organising for system change
By Haritha Olaganathan Contrary to the period of stillness and silent obedience the establishment would have desired quarantine…
Is there a punk revival?
By Shane Finnan When you hear the word ‘punk’ some of the first images that may come to…
From bad to worse: The student accommodation crisis
By Aindriú de Buitléir Every September students throw themselves back into another year of study and stress, particularly…
A generation faced with stress & anxiety
By Heather O’Callaghan At the end of May, The Irish Times released a survey of young people between…
#TeachDontPreach: Protests demand proper sex education
By Andrea Murray On May 28, parents of children who attend Castleknock Educate Together National School staged a…
Monaghan school students plan walkout against Taoiseach visit
ast Friday, 6 February, a number of senior students from the Irish-medium secondary school, Colaiste Oiriall, in Co. Monaghan were denied the right to peacefully protest.
Youth guarantee: forced cheap labour
The Youth Guarantee was the crowning achievement of the Irish Presidency of the EU in 2013. The Labour Party have hailed it from the rooftops, Emer Costello MEP, has even gone to the bother of holding meetings around the city to promote it. But what does it really guarantee?
The Youth Guarantee is an escalation of the government’s war on young people
The government’s real response to unemployment is two-pronged: forced emigration and using mass unemployment to try to drive down wages and conditions.
Youth Guarantee – a guaranteed failure
At the same time as cutting €35 million directly from young people in Budget 2014, the government proudly announced €14 million for its Youth Guarantee scheme. The spin suggesting that this would seriously tackle youth unemployment only added insult to the injury of the robbery of young people through the dole cuts and introduction of fees for FAS apprentices.
