Amidst a series of rent hikes at universities across the country, students at University College Dublin (UCD) staged a sit-in in protest of what they described as the “commercialisation” of third-level education.

I WISH to reply to Audrey Dillon’s criticism (Irish Examiner letters, January 7) of my letter published on new year’s day in response to Rónán Mullen’s column on the young teenage mother sent to Britain for an abortion by the Midlands Health Board.