The price of housing at the south Dublin university is to rise by 4% each year over the next three years.

From September, a single room at the Goldcrest student accommodation will cost €750 a month after the cost was increased by 4% - the maximum allowed in a rent-pressure zone.

NUI Galway Students’ Union will not organise a Rag Week next spring, it was decided at a meeting last night.

A Government minister today insisted he was right to restrain a protesting student after a noisy demonstration over education cutbacks turned nasty.