Posts Tagged ‘Lorcan Mullen’
NEWS: Mixed reactions to graduate tax proposals
Friday, July 16th, 2010
In a major speech yesterday, Business Secretary Vince Cable has suggested that the current top-up fees system should be replaced with an alternative graduate tax. This graduate tax would see students pay a marginally higher income tax than non-graduates. While details have not yet emerged, student leaders hope that the Cable proposals will mirror those of the NUS ‘Blueprint’. In this document, the NUS outlined a similar idea, where the more a graduate earns, the more they pay back – but even then it is a small percentage at 2.5%.
BY EMMA GALLEN
Tags: Emma Gallen, Gown, graduate tax, Lorcan Mullen, Nathan Anderson, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown
Posted in News | 20 Comments »
COMMENT: The Public Assemblies Bill: The quiet drift into witless authoritarianism
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
The draft Public Assemblies Bill is, at best, an unforgivably clumsy piece of legislative drafting, implicating all public assemblies, no matter how innocuous, spontaneous or legitimate, in a constrictive and disproportionate new regime ostensibly aimed only at curing recurrent problems involving “contentious parades”. At worst, it is an inexplicably insidious intrusion into the fundamental right of free assembly.
BY LORCAN MULLEN
Tags: Gown, Lorcan Mullen, newspaper, Public assemblies, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | 7 Comments »
NEWS: Duffy and Lilly survive, while council limps to year’s end
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Union vice-presidents Barry Duffy and Paul Lilly have survived no-confidence motions brought before last night’s special meeting of the student representative council. The Space played host to a vigorous debate over the efficacy of the sabbatical officers, with councillors Damien Corridan and Anne Pauli presenting well-reasoned, well-researched critiques of the work of the ‘Chuckle Brothers’.
BY LORCAN MULLEN AND CONNOR DALY
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Tags: barry duffy, Connor Daly, Lorcan Mullen, Paul Lilly, qub, QUBSU, queen's university, students, su
Posted in News | 132 Comments »
NEWS: Hot air rises to fever pitch as Council gets testy
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Council Meeting Report: 29/04/2010
The Space last night played host to the latest in a series of fractious meetings of the Union’s student representative council. While the prevailing cliché casts students as apolitical layabouts, successive spirited meetings of the body have shown ego clashes and institutional bickering at least to be clearly transcendent of both age and stereotype.
Speaker Alex Redpath addressed councillors’ concerns after the last meeting’s failed vote of no-confidence; votes of no-confidence have been scheduled for VPs Barry Duffy and Paul Lilly at a planned Extraordinary Meeting on May 12th; The Gown’s office suspension was debated and President-Elect Gareth McGreevy’s controversial SUTV plans were reaffirmed.
BY KERRI-ANNE CAMPBELL AND LORCAN MULLEN
Tags: council, Gown, Kerri-Anne Campbell, Lorcan Mullen, newspaper, qub, QUBSU, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, su, Union
Posted in News | 32 Comments »
NEWS: McGibbon selected as Green Party general election candidate
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Adam McGibbon, the recently elected Union vice-president for welfare, is set for a second daunting electoral challenge this semester, successfully landing the Green Party’s nomination for Belfast South in the upcoming UK general elections. Queen’s University is situated in this constituency.
BY LORCAN MULLEN
Tags: Adam McGibbon, Gown, Green Party, Lorcan Mullen, newspaper, QUBSU, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, su, The Gown
Posted in News | 68 Comments »
The Gown outdoors
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Illustration by Niall Mooney (click to view)
Tags: Catherine Wylie, Gown, Lorcan Mullen, newspaper, niall mooney, qub, QUBSU, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, su, The Gown
Posted in Features | 10 Comments »
NEWS: Gown news editor makes Guardian debut
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
The Gown’s news editor, Lorcan Mullen, had a report published in today’s Education Guardian. This report stemmed from The Guardian’s interest in the front story of The Gown’s last issue (‘Leaked Government report: freeze fees, raise grants’).
To read The Guardian’s report online click on the link below.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/feb/23/university-tuition-fees-cap-northern-ireland
Tags: Gown, Lorcan Mullen, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown, The Guardian
Posted in News | 4 Comments »
REPORT IN FULL: Leaked Government report dismisses QUB’s calls for increasing student fees
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
A ‘confidential’ government document seen by The Gown has revealed the interim findings of the government-commissioned review into fees and student support in Northern Ireland. The government review, chaired by Joanne Stuart, head of the Institute of Directors in Northern Ireland, has reached a series of conclusions that spell rare good news for the average student in this torrid economic situation.
BY LORCAN MULLEN
Tags: Gown, Lorcan Mullen, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown
Posted in News | 3 Comments »
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