The Irish Examiner View: The soaring cost of opportunity

Students at UCC, UCD and UL are protesting over the increasingly impossible cost of student accommodation. UCC students want a 3% rent increase for college-owned accommodation planned for September reversed. UCD students face a rent increase of 4%.

Most students there already pay more than €7,000 a year to stay on campus. At the same time students at UL are protesting over the move to put two students in rooms heretofore regarded as suitable for just one person. The university says the move is unavoidable because of a shortage of accommodation. The move will add 630 beds to the 2,850 already available.