Your election take, Leo, third level warning and more

News, views and opinions from Student Hub contributors and Irish Times writers

Have Your Say on the election: As the general election nears and talk increases around whether new political alliances are likely to replace the old we thought we would ask you how you feel about the election and about Irish politics in general. Read more here.

Does anyone care if Leo smoked or snorted? Micheál Martin forgot to mention he once had two double espressos in a pizza joint in Ballincollig. Read more here.

Third level warning: Students and third level colleges have united to call on political parties to commit to invest more in higher education to prevent Ireland "losing ground" against international competitors. Read more here.

"Crisis, what crisis?" Three words that helped bring down Jim Callaghan's Labour government in the 1979 UK general election. The prime minister never actually uttered these words. A Sun subeditor fashioned the headline but it captured the popular impression of an administration unaware of a serious state of affairs which had caught up with it. Read more here.

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#GE2020: Over the past five years elections and referendums around the world have signalled an ever-deepening public desire for radical change. The recent Irish Times poll has shown that the same trend is happening here. Read more here.

Crime: There is no doubt that the simmering law-and-order debate has boiled over during this election following the sickening murder of Keane Mulready-Woods.Read more here.