Two Cork candidates for the Seanad election are united in their criticism that the institution is undemocratic.

A banner promoting a Yes vote in the Marriage Referendum has been unveiled at Liberty Hall in Dublin this morning.

More than one in three college students in a national survey do not feel well supported by academic staff.

A group of trade unionists have branded Ireland’s abortion ban an insult to women and called on members of their organisations to join a campaign to repeal it.

Irish Water is finalising measures to go after tenants who do not pay water charges amid growing confusion among landlords and renters about the new tariff.

Around 1,000 students are marching on the Dáil in Dublin today calling for cuts in the education sector to be reversed.

Students will march to the Dáil this lunchtime asking the Government to return €25m withheld from colleges in two previous budgets.

Most people emigrating from Ireland are employed workers or fresh graduates, creating concerns of a skills shortage as the economy begins to recover.

Thousands of renters will be denied a water charge refund if they move properties under proposed guidelines agreed by the energy regulator.

The Union of Students in Ireland has described the cost of college registration fees as "outrageous".

Student grants may no longer be enough to help keep financially strained young people in college, according to the Higher Education Authority.

This week, civil-society organisations and individuals were invited to discuss the Scheme of the Gender Recognition Bill, 2013, with the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection.

Up to 16% of students have suffered an unwanted sexual experience at college or university, a study found.

Up to 16% of students have suffered an unwanted sexual experience at college or university, a study reveals.

IN her letter (August 5), Laura Harmon claims she has “never heard of a relationship, sexual or otherwise, between two consenting adults as infringing upon the lives of anybody else”.

CAROLINE Molan, in her letter (July 29), states that as humans, “we are more than just our sexuality”. I completely agree. How is it though, that in her letter she predominantly refers to sexuality and refers also to “sex” itself multiple times?

IN his letter (May 3), Aidan McGing, in response to my letter (April 19), relies largely on discredited studies or misinterpretation of existing studies in order to support his view that homosexuality and paedophilia are linked.

IN her letter (April 19), Laura Harmon states that there is absolutely no study which shows a link between homosexuality and paedophilia.

I’M aghast at Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone’s blind assertion that homosexuality is linked to paedophilia (April 12).

WITH regard to the recently-published Civil Partnership Bill, I find it incredible that so-called modern Ireland has a government that refuses to give all of its citizens equal rights.