Student protests, Have your Say, Podcasts and more

Welcome to the Student Hub weekly digest - a selection of stories, reviews and podcasts

Students protested outside Leinster House this week as part of three protests across the country calling for the cost of third-level education to be decreased. Jade Wilson met students as they protested outside Leinster House.

Everybody over the age of 16 in the State will now be offered booster shots following a decision by the Department of Health based on advice from the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (Niac). Ronan McGreevy reports.

Have your Say: Most universities are planning a combination of in-person exams for the first time in two years as well as online assessments next month. We would like to hear your views on what approach you think should be taken. What do you think? Would you feel safe returning to campus for end of semester in-person exams?

The first professional historian to write a history of Ireland's revolutionary era was Walter Alison Phillips, who came to the task very early with The Revolution in Ireland 1906-23 (1923), in his own words, "as the embers of civil war were still glowing in Southern Ireland." Diarmuid Ferriter on why the chief problem with a UK-commissioned history is not just one of accuracy, but credibility.

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The vote this week by Dublin city councillors to halt an agreement to lease homes for social housing from the pension fund of BAE Systems, a British arms company, is the only outcome to this debate that we should be able to live with, writes Katie Fallon.

When producer Clare Stronge first sat down with film-maker Tadhg O'Sullivan to discuss his exquisite new work, To the Moon, it seemed like perfect timing. Tara Brady on a hypnotic Irish film which reclaims the moon from the imperialists.

An assistant professor at Dublin City University has defended his online criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement and insisted his controversial blog remains separate from his role as a lecturer. Jamie McCarron and Mark Hilliard report on this story.

The majority of the food I eat when I'm not working is usually Asian-based as it's so easy to make something quick that packs a lot of flavour, writes Christine Walsh.

The murder of the Gucci scion Maurizio Gucci in 1995 and the sensational trial of his ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani has spawned many headlines and salacious books, including Sara Gay Harden's The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed.

Podcast: The fatally flawed football legend who brought a country together. In the News podcast:Diego Maradona died one year ago this week

Podcast: What has Brexit done to Irish-British relations? Years of being on the opposite side of difficult Brexit negotiations have unarguably damaged Irish-British relations. But how bad is the damage? To find out, this week's host Pat Leahy talks to former Irish ambassador to the UK Bobby McDonagh and our London editor Denis Staunton.

Podcast: Violence against women is a men's issue - Jackson Katz & Ryan Hart. The vast majority of violence against women and girls (and men and boys) is perpetrated by men. Why then is it viewed primarily as a women's issue?