Full-time student and lone- parent Róisín Smyth, 27, rents a two-bedroom apartment with her two-year-old daughter, having previously lived in emergency accommodation.

Emer Glanville from Cobh, in Co Cork, dropped out of school when she was 16 and became pregnant a year later.

In Trinity, we’re holding our Student Union elections. I mention this for context — whenever I bring up “the elections” in uni, this is what people talk about. It’s an interesting microcosm.

More needs to be done to ensure children from low income families have access to third level education.

Hundreds of students are taking to the streets of Dublin today to raise cash for two of the capital’s hospitals.

HUNDREDS of future doctors risked colds and flu to raise money to help the elderly and less well-off students yesterday.