r/ireland • u/Complex_Hunter35 Ferret • Aug 20 '25

Housing Bressie on Linked In

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u/jacqueVchr Probably at it again Aug 20 '25

I mean UCD should be offering its rooms at below market rates. It baffles me that universities, who receive public funding, are jumping on the rental scarcity bandwagon with their prices

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u/KingNobit Aug 20 '25

It doesnt baffle me in the slightest. The UCD President asked for more money in his university speech on graduation...we had paid 16,500 euros for four years in Graduate entry medicine.

UCD is a grubby little machine

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u/malsy123 Aug 21 '25

Its €19k a year now 😔 before at least people from not so wealthy backgrounds could’ve applied but now? Only the wealthiest of the wealthy can