Students determined to make vote count

Independent.ie Friday 11th February, 2011

IT was hard during the days of the Celtic Tiger to get students out to protest. There wasn't much to shout about.Now student grants have been cut, student charges are about to be doubled to €3,000 and colleges are starting to introduce annual €40 parking permits.All of which means the much-talked-about "student vote" could be a force to be reckoned with on polling day.There is certainly plenty of interest in the general election among the 8,500 students in

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