UCD student will 'fast until death if necessary' over climate inaction 

UCD student Ronan Browne. Photograph Moya Nolan

A student at University College Dublin (UCD) has been on hunger strike for eight days over what he sees as failings of the university and its students to enact effective climate action.

Ronan Browne has said he will “fast until death if necessary” to bring attention to his demands for holding a university assembly on climate action and a campus-wide referendum on enacting “peaceful civil disobedience” to “bring the economy to a halt” and tackle climate change more effectively.