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29th August 2022
02:58pm BST

“This will be the first year that we are fully back on campus for the entire academic year. The situation with accommodation means that students are a lot more desperate for accommodation because they know they won’t have the ability to fall back on distance learning.
“We don’t have any online lectures this year so as a result, students will need to be on campus, and they will need to find accommodation or else face commuting for up to five hours.”
O'Reilly added that many students are currently considering other options like staying in hostels or couch surfing as a way of surviving through college.
“It’s an absolute disgrace that it’s got to this point but before Covid we did see stories like this of students who weren’t able to afford accommodation and as a result, they stayed in their cars or couch surfed for the year or stayed in hostels,” O’Reilly said.
“But I definitely think the situation is headed that way again this year given the amount of stories we’ve been hearing so early on, and first years still haven’t gotten their college results yet, so they don’t know where they’re going to be attending college.
“They have about two weeks between getting their CAO results and actually starting college so it’s a very difficult time to be a student and it’s a very difficult time to find accommodation for everybody.”Explore more on these topics: