UCD students stage tent protest against 'spiralling' cost of campus accommodation

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Students are organising a large demonstration for next week.

Una Carroll and Joanna Siewierska at UCD this morning. Image: Garreth MacNamee Una Carroll and Joanna Siewierska at UCD this morning. Image: Garreth MacNamee UCD STUDENTS TODAY launched a tent protest after it emerged rents at campus accommodation are to increase by 12% in the next three years.

Even at the lowest end, that’s €749 a month, meaning that rents have risen 76% at UCD in the past decade. And it’s set to rise again.Prices for UCD accommodation. She said: “Staff have been so good and students are behind us as well – a lot of staff have kids here so they know the reality of having to fork out extortionate costs.

 

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it is so bad we even know of an asylum seeker studying at UCD who cannot afford to live there and has to travel from the refugee centre North of Dublin If the most entitled people in Ireland (refugees) cannot afford it, then it must be bad!

Imagine how pissed theyre going to be when mommy and daddy aren't paying their bills? I work in close proximity to 2 college's in cork and see what they spend there money on, I've no sympathy for them.

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