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THERE HAS BEEN a slight reduction in the annual cost of living for students living away from home but Covid-19 will mean more financial hardship is on the way for those in third-level education. a new survey has found.
The report found that just 36% of students expect to gain part-time work compared with 63% in 2019.
The survey by Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) found the projected cost of living has dropped for the first time in a decade from €12,171 to €11,948.25 for students living away from home.
The study found this marginal decrease is due to lower mobile phone costs, and the end of social activities due to Covid-19.
Anxiety about infection and social distancing was the most cited concern expressed by students, with financial concerns a close second.
The survey showed that while 63% of students had part-time work last year, only 36% expect to have a job in the coming semester while 12% of part-time students were also concerned about their finances.
The lack of work over the summer will also have a serious impact on finances for many, according to TU Dublin. The survey also revealed that the uncertainty and worry about the pandemic have significantly impacted students’ mental health.
Dr Brian Gormley, Head, Campus Life at TU Dublin, said the coming year will be difficult financially for many families.
“If you are experiencing financial hardship, contact the Student Assistance Fund in your college, and they will do their best to provide advice and support. To respond to the challenges faced by students during Covid-19, TU Dublin is launching a campaign to raise funds to provide additional support for our students.”
Since the last guide was issued, average rental prices for students have increased by 6.4%, but are expected to drop in the coming year. Last year, the average national monthly rent for students was €469 while this year, the average figure has increased to €499. In Dublin, the average figure is projected to be €596, compared with €574 last year.
There will be increased availability of spaces for students this year due to new student accommodation blocks opening; a decrease in the numbers of international students; and short-term lets returning to the long-term rental market.
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Is most of the article missing? I really don’t feel I learned anything about this city.
It’s full of Muslims
It’s about as shocking as when I heard of the change in Tuam for the first time
They did the same thing in Denmark; once the local council to the west of Copenhagen became Muslim-Majority, their first action was to stop funding the erection of the town’s Christmas tree which had been a continuous tradition for over 250 years.
This is what will happen here if we are not careful as there is no evidence to suggest otherwise.
Don’t go there on holidays
I thought Muslims wanted to integrate?
Only with each other, cholly.
Where your citation for this? Where is your proof?
Michael, I’d be interested to read about that, you got a link to a story in a reputable newspaper for it?
Sure they had to stop putting up the Crib at Christmas in the Rotunda years ago because of complaints from foreign nationals.
See this is the problem, muslims will say that a Christmas tree or a crib is offensive and the liberals will listen to them and bare them. Then they’ll say they want their religious freedoms and request the call for prayer to be played out loud. I believe this is already happening in clonskeagh mega mosque
They all went quiet fairly rapid!!!
Hmm America was alway a melting pot of different cultures
“Writes Washington Post reporter Sarah Pulliam Bailey:
“The influx of Muslims here has profoundly unsettled some residents of the town long known for its love of dancing, beer, paczki pastries and the pope.”
” “It’s hard to see the community you grew up in changing around you, but that’s a sign that a community is vital and alive.
“So a living community is always going to be changing … “”
Not a great fan of the Pope / paczki pastries / call to prayer etc but if it does not affect me I could not care less
:)
Karen Majewski, the Mayor of Hamtramck, who is of Polish descent, said the city would “absolutely” welcome more Syrian refugees. Far from being a hotbed of religious and cultural conflict, she said Hamtramck was a positive example.
“This is not an ethnic Disneyland,” she said. “But the media looks for tension. I think it’s been overblown. Whatever tensions there have been are just the normal tensions of a small place with people from all over the world.”
“A city doesn’t stand still like a museum to your grandparents”
Karen Majewski, Mayor of Hamtramck
She added: “The overall face of the American demographic is changing and Hamtramck is just more visible because we are so condensed. You can’t retreat to your suburban back yard here, we live on top of each other. But that’s a good thing, we learn how to get along.
“It can get messy but that’s how democracy works, how a multicultural society works. A city doesn’t stand still like a museum to your grandparents.
“The world is changing around us and we have to adjust. It’s the great experiment, the American experiment writ small.”
Agreed. Reads like a crude cut & paste.
Immigrants move to United States of America and build a community. What a scoop!
Its great the way they have integrated
In the USA, they are not protected by the eu court of human rights.
If the muzzies in the USA went on a rape & crime rampage, the cops dont mess about with touchy feely softly softly.
WTF ?
God you can literally spout any rubbish these days and people follow. There is no collapse of the law in this town, maybe try looking at police budget there, crime statistics and paper headlines. It’s a safe and friendly town that’s that.
Intergrated.. Taken over more like it..
Anyone else see the irony in the name of this place beginning with ” Ham ” ?
“the cops don’t mess around with the touchy feely softly softly” nah we have our parish priests who do that…
NO 2 FF/FG/LAB OK granted if your muslim UNLESS your gay ,feminist, single young women with revealing clothes , alcohol drinker , jewish ,transgender or a priest or nun . All the peole on the above list are not welcome or has things changed in the last couple of hours .
Priests or nuns? Is that so, Robert? How could this have slipped under the radar of an Islamic scholar such as yourself? Muslims show more respect for clergy than most “Westerners” these days. In fact, disrespecting a Christian actually causes you to be “excommunicated” from the faith.
Muhammad wrote a public letter to Christians that declared their right to self-governance, protection for churches and monasteries, and freedom to practice their religion in Muslim-controlled areas. Muslims are commanded to follow this order until the end of time. If one does not, they cease being a Muslim, and become an enemy of God (Allah). The original document exists, as well as several exact copies of it.
“Whosoever acts contrary to my grant, or gives credit to anything contrary to it, becomes truly an apostate to God, and to his divine apostle, because this protection I have granted to them according to this promise.”
@lurach that document you quote has a questionable past, as it would appear to be written after Muhammad’s death. Muhammad died in 632. the Muslims conquered Egypt between 639 and 641. this document bears a drawing of a mosque with a minaret on it, even thought minaret’s were not on mosques during Muhammad’s life time, indeed it was a long time after Muhammadans death.. it was supposedly an agreement between the monks of St Catherine’s monastery and Muhammad it supposedly exempted them from paying the Jizya and offered protection to Christians in Egypt, but this did not work out too well for the Christians of Egypt as history tells us.
“Its great the way they have integrated”
That’s the whole point. They have NOT integrated, rather they’ve taken over the town council. Big difference and coming to a town near you.
“Folks invested in harmful myths about Dearborn, Stockton says, have “a social and ideological location within the population. They’re almost all on the right, they’re almost all Republicans, and they’re almost all over a certain age.” – They might as well add the Breibart cult followers to that list ..
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/02/dearborn-mi-where-muslims-are-americans.html
Soon it’ll be 70%, then 80%, then 90%.
Then wait for the news/documentary about Sharia law.
Liberal extremists scramble for excuses.
Sharia law does not automatically follow the presence of Muslims anymore than the Westbro Babtist Church follows the presence of Christianity.
That’s nonsense. While towns can introduce their own local laws on certain issues like alcohol etc, they can’t just ignore the constitution and federal laws.
They’re so dangerous that they donated 30,000 litres of bottled water to the Red Cross in Flint .
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/17/rahat-husain-muslims-donate-30000-bottles-water-fl/
The voice of populism is the voice that tells you what the future holds without any statistics nor evidence to back it up. That fear is the populists fuel.
Sounds like the SF election manifesto Pure populism with little evidence behind it
^ garuntee you have yet to read it. Populists rarely ever inform themselves of what the talk vaguely about. What particular measure or measures do you take issue with?
No evidence?
Please then, show me a muslim majority country which does not have any persecution against non-muslims?
You will not find one… There is all the evidence you need. Even the bastions of “liberal” Muslim countries like Turkey, Indonesia, Brunei are regressing back to traditional sharia law faster than the reports can keep up!!!
Michael your a racist, utter racist, how dare you come on here with facts and reality and tell everyone how the real world is. (Sarcasm btw)
The Muslim ‘call to prayer’ – when translated properly into English is, – ‘ Allah is greater than God….!! ‘
it does NOT mean ‘ god is great…’
Personally, I could do without listening to that crap 5-times a day.
“Inside” in the headline would usually imply that there is an in depth article to follow. One line sentence quotes from two people who live there is hardly that.
If the call to prayer is being rung out over speakers does that seem as though the state is endorsing one religion over another. Quite frankly I take issue with the angelus at six o clock but hearing the call to prayer 5 times a day is crazy. I always understood that democracy should never take away the rights of the minority (Christian) but it seems like it’s happening in this hellhole. Are they not bound by federal laws on separation of church and state? The next step is a theocracy/Sharia law.
Isn’t there supposed to be separation of church and state in the US?
The call to prayer goes out at 6am. Lots of the older people object to being woken up at 6am. Quite reasonably. They’re being overruled.
http://www.thehamtramckreview.com/residents-complain-that-call-to-prayer-is-too-loud/
There are a few big differences between Muslims in America and in Europe. America because of their tough immigration laws only pick the best and most educated Muslims, we have no choice who we take in. The percentage of the population is tiny in America (0.9%) compared to many European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland all 5%-10%). America doesn’t have the same PC attitude towards Muslims or a welfare system as comprehensive as most European countries so Muslims have to work and integrate to survive. American police and politicians wouldn’t try to cover up crimes by Muslims and they would deport the criminals pretty quick.
Councils, schools and governments should be secular. Religion is fine at home but should not be shoved down people’s throats.
Careful.
A ” city” with 20,000 people. New one on me. That’s just a big village.
It’s a city when you’re pushing an agenda out …
The area was a village in the early 1900s. Detroit was also smaller. It grew to 50,000 people in 1920 and they incorporated to become a city then. Since, Detroit grew and surrounded Hamtramck. The population started declining decades ago. I travelled through that are in the early 1990s, ate at a polish restaurant (great food). The population started growing again as people again moved there. The decline previously was people moving away from the cities (Detroit and Hamtramck) towards a more suburban area. There is a wide ethnic diversity there now. City ordinances regarding broadcasts by loudspeakers, etc apply to all religions.
Great to see all the women worshipping alongside the men……obviously that was in the church not the mosque.
bmjf.
FYI: Islam is not a Race!
I am absolutely sure that in the USA, the cops would not allow the likes of Anjem Choudary to spout his hate in the streets.
Would you like to see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgKMI1wV0ps
in dublin fair city?
The metropolitan Detroit region has long had a Muslim presence. I genuinely doubt there would be a sudden radicalization of the council en masse. I’m sure xenophobes will fear this as they fear anyone different from themselves.
I’m pretty sure the same was said of 2nd and 3rd generation Muslims here in Europe before thousands left to fight for extremists in Syria or began terror campaigns right here on European soil.
Yea out of the 50,000 muslims in Ireland we had less than 50 do what you claim happened to all 50,000. So firstly 1 in 1000 muslims is a tiny minority. Secondly most have integrated to success and live happy lives side by side with others. Many friends of mine are Muslim and they would be discusted by your distortion of muslims
NO 2 FF/FG/LAB Your living in dreamland . You have many muslim friends i doubt it considering there are 50,000 living in the whole of ireland . If they were in the majority you would have sharia law in Ireland .
Yes OK course Muslims you meet in Ireland are lovely but no 2 have you ever lived in a Muslim country apart from a holiday? Don’t think you would have the same strong zeal to support Islam if you had
You can doubt the existance of my friends despite the fact you don’t know me but anyway. Yes I took a holiday in Turkey 2 years back, despite their persecution of the kurds it’s a lovely country. then again that’s not my point is it? My point is 1) muslims are a tiny minority, 2) in this tiny minority an even smaller minority went to fight in Syria (even though some joined the kurds and rebel factions supported by ireland and the west). That’s my only point, no wishy washy talks about a Muslim majority ireland which will never happen.
You’re paid to come here to promote an agenda you’re paid to have. Nothing you say is believable
I was born and raised in Detroit and few commentors on here know what living in a pluristic society is like. Years ago other suburbs were dominated by an ethnic or religious majority without letting religious inputs change laws. The USA believes in separation of church and state, something we here should demand, ala no school without baptism cert.
@No2 1 in 1000 is a tiny minority??? Are you actually serious; so we have only 50 here in Ireland (very conservative estimate) and you don’t think that’s a problem?
I will remind you it took 19 people to kill 3,000 on 9/11 and bring America to it’s knees.
If you don’t learn from history you will repeat it.
Oh John wait till your ship comes in!
The 50 aren’t here there in Syria dummy. Read back over the conversation carefully and take into account the fact that of that 50 many went to the kurds who we should all be supporting
1 is too many in my opinion.
Plus of the 50 that went over there, how many are going to bring comrades back as refugees with them. Very few will be coming back alone
Democracy at work.
And they’re wondering why Trumps popularity is growing
At least reading that s#1t did not waste too much of my life. Reminds me of school when homework was not done that night but was scribbled waiting outside the class on a window sill.
It used to be no blacks no Irish …quickly becoming no Muslim – the racist tone to this article is shocking
Do they have powerful loudspeakers to broadcast the call to prayer at 4am Do their Catholic neighbours object not in the article
Islam isn’t a race.
Church bells ring 3 times a day near my gaf. I don’t like it but until a majority vote it out its staying. Same applies to this Muslim town. So the real question is does majority rule apply to public audio issues?
BMJF Your wrong on two counts . The sign said no blacks no irish no dogs and this sign seems to be a myth . Islam is not a race .
Islam isn’t a race. You can choose what you believe but you can’t choose your race or ethnicity.
No sign of you on the norweigan Muslim rape thread No 2. Clown
Irish isn’t a race either but if you discriminate against Irish people just because they’re Irish it means you’re racist.
No it doesn’t guybrush. You can’t just alter the meaning of a word to suit your leftist agenda
no its not, the word you’re looking for is xenophobic
I’m required to comment on articles of your choosing now? I never saw you on the Muslim police officer who saved lives in Paris, yet that doesn’t matter we comment on what we read not what others want us to read.
Mad Merkel what have you done ?
Fkn animals the lot of em… May I say a big not welcome you’re not wanted here.
It doesn’t seem that Muslims are acting in any way that impacts on non Muslims in the town, so what is the issue ?
They say they want to represent everyone so let them at it, you either believe in equal rights and civil liberties or you don’t.
No problem Joe, I’ll set up some speakers outside you house and play a 4-minute Angelus, 5 times a day, beginning at dawn.
We’ll see then if you still hold the same opinion.
Have they speakers outside peoples houses Micheal ? you know that or just talking through your as*s
If it wasn’t for the obvious underlying agenda this article would be completely pointless.
Hilarious, rather than quoted concerns from worrief American citizens we read this;
Local Catholic priest Mirek Frankowski says that some Polish people are worried by the shift.
“They’re worried that the city will lose its eastern European character. The city will change, that’s a natural course.”
You couldn’t make it up.
Muslims don’t have to represent a majority of the population to take control of councils. Muslims will vote 100% for their own while you’ll always get a goodly proportion of White locals, afflicted by pathological altruism, to also vote for them. Happening all over England, France and Belgium.
The call to player via minarets declares that God is greater / Allah is greater than God and hence my view that they should not be allowed outside the Muslim world. Anyway I saw a doc was on about this town quite recently, all I could think was fair play to you saying there arent any problems and everyone co exists peacefully..that wont last long when people put forward demands for Sharia. Ban Sharia and the burqa in western states thats not conservative its required.
Its not a bloody City. That’s like saying Cabra is a city. Its a small area within the city of Detroit. Google map it.
No Blacks, no dogs, no Irish in that context.
Will trump build a wall around the city if elected
Do’nt think there would much chance of seeing DT canvassing in that town
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