AN EVENING WITH LIMERICK SUICIDE WATCH’S ‘RIVER ANGELS’
Over the last decade, Limerick city has almost consistently had the highest suicide rates in Ireland. The city maintained the grim title exclusively from 2012 to 2016. One group that’s been working tirelessly to help fight these worrying figures is Limerick Suicide Watch (LSW). Adam Leahy took to the streets with the team, shadowing its members on patrol on a cold, rainy night in the Treaty City.
“A BASTION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS”: HEAVY BARRIERS TO ENTRY FOR JUNIOR ACADEMICS
To the outside world, academic institutions may seem like veritable playgrounds where funding is abundant and studious types tinker away on frivolous pursuits. For many finding their feet in modern universities, this is not the case.
STUDENT-RUN TWITTER PAGE HIGHLIGHTS MENTAL HEALTH STRUGGLES AT UNIVERSITY
A new trend has emerged in which more and more students are sharing their brushes with a darker side of the student experience through an anonymous Twitter account.
IS THERE A STIGMA AROUND BEING A STUDENT?
Despite the common conception many may hold of students – unproductive and antisocial agents of chaos hurricaning through the streets in a malaise of cans and contraceptives – it has to be said that, like the rest of society, the studying class haven’t had the easiest time of it lately.
UL HOUSING CRISIS: WHAT ARE THE STUDENTS SAYING?
Five weeks into the academic year and students, domestic and international alike, are still struggling to find housing. Here's what some students at the University of Limerick have to say.