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I’m genuinely starting to get a bit worried about Piers Morgan now

U ok hun?

Why didn’t British newspapers feature Saturday’s Women’s March on their front pages?

Just a quick question

Look at these good boys!

They’re being so supportive!!

The best signs from today’s Women’s March in London

‘I wish my boyfriend was as dirty as your policies’

A third of women believe drunk girls in short skirts are partly to blame for sexual assaults

‘It reveals just how deep-seated our readiness to blame women is’

Things you should shout at women when they’re out running!!

DON’T FORGET TO MENTION THE TIGHT LEGGINGS

Parliament just quietly voted against compulsory sex education in schools

Despite the fact that three quarters of students said it would make them feel safer

One in three women have been harassed when they’re out for a run

Oh great

A professor is claiming James Bond wasn’t a sexist, he was actually a huge feminist

Obviously the professor is a man yes

Students are demanding more diverse Philosophy courses without white men like Plato and Kant

Sorry Descartes, you’re out

The rise of feminist memes and how it finally became OK to laugh at ourselves

Even my mum shares them now

I’m quite worried about the women in these MUA eyebrow wax pictures

OK bear with me on this

The greatest gems to come from the greatest agony aunt of all time, Dear Deidre

If you think you had a bad 2016, spare a thought for these poor Dear Deidre fans

Taxi company refuses to apologise for ad which mocks ‘fat and ugly’ women

It says ‘if I start to look sexy book a taxi’

Unsurprisingly, we’re spending more on Buckfast than ever before

Guys the monks have made £9 million this year I’m not joking

Lincoln’s ‘ask for Angela’ poster is a step in the right direction

‘Say no more to sexual violence and abuse in Lincolnshire’

Pro-choice graffiti appears on York St as supreme court hears NI women are ‘second class citizens’

‘If abortions are murder then blowjobs are cannibalism’

Pamela Anderson at Oxford Union: Donald Trump’s comments about women are ‘absolutely sick’

‘We’re living in a culture where women are portrayed as just a sexual plaything’

‘Killer clowns’ reportedly spotted in Southampton

One was arrested in Newcastle with a knife on Tuesday

‘Killer clowns’ have reportedly been spotted in Liverpool

One was arrested in Newcastle with a knife on Tuesday

‘Killer clowns’ reportedly spotted in Manchester

One was arrested in Newcastle with a knife yesterday

QUB soars in rankings to be named 33rd best university in the UK

No biggie

Loughborough soars in new rankings to be named 7th best university in the UK

No biggie

York is the 20th best university in the UK, says new rankings

No biggie

Trent student forced to wait a year for reconstructive surgery after his ear was bitten off in Fresher’s Week

You would be gutted

Cardiff students have the third cheapest rent in the UK

It comes from a new national survey of the most cost-effective university cities

Manchester students have the second cheapest rent in the UK

It comes from a new national survey of the most cost-effective university cities

QUB students pay less in rent than any other university in the UK

Swall?

Leeds pays tribute to Orlando victims

A vigil was held last night

‘Bernie Sanders Dank Memes Singles’ is the weirdest dating site on the internet

They live by the motto ‘what would Bernie do’

An ode to 16 Handles

You’ve just got so many options

A Columbia University study has just proved there’s no link between marijuana and anxiety

Or depression

Open University grad pens potentially life-changing novel on lad culture and uni masculinity

‘There’s a balance between doing it for the boys and being a nice person’

Northern Irish freshers left out in the cold by accommodation ‘nightmare’

Sorry guys, your housing preferences are worth nothing if Queen’s decides they don’t like your postcode

New £16m development will house 400 students in city centre accommodation

College Square East, previously owned by Belfast Metropolitan College, will become a new home for hundreds of students.

It’s official, BOX is Belfast’s worst night out

You’ve voted and complained all week, now check out which clubs are the worst in Belfast right here.

Vote for Belfast’s worst night out

There’s only so much complaining about clubs in passive aggressive Facebook statuses can do – vote for the definitively shittest place in Belfast right here.

QUB student to perform at Edinburgh festival

Queen’s student Alan Irwin talks nerves, heckling and being boring ahead of his show at Fringe this summer.

QUB drops in university league tables (but we’re still the best uni in Northern Ireland)

Queen’s has fallen down the University league tables for the third year running. 

QUB student council proposes ban on Remembrance Day Poppies

A motion proposing a ban on the sale of poppies within the Students’ Union at Queen’s will come before the university’s student council later today. 

Five seconds (or less) of fame

Had 0.2 seconds of screentime in King’s Landing? Hung around in the background of a cheesy Belfast comedy? We want to hear about it.

Where we’re going, we don’t need roads: QUB students to revamp iconic DeLorean car

QUB students rebuilding Back to the Future’s DeLorean car, minus the flux capacitor.

Well known Holylands landlord Declan Boyle stands for Belfast council election

As an aspiring SDLP councillor, Declan Boyle attempts to tackle parking in busy student areas and defends his opposition to the scheme that protects tenant deposits in South Belfast.

The rise of revenge porn: could your intimate photos be splashed all over the internet?

The next time you send nudes, beware. They just might end up on one of the growing number of revenge porn sites in the UK

Bleak House: McClay’s CS Lewis room scrapped in renovation to ‘Christine Bleakley Speaking Room’

Northern Irish presenter Christine Bleakley said to be “over the moon” at plans to scrap McClay’s iconic CS Lewis reading room and convert it to a speaker’s room in her honour

String of break-ins in Rugby Avenue area of Holylands

Sinister intruders robbed three female students of money, laptops and alcohol – while they were IN the house.

St Patrick’s Day sexual assault in Holylands area

PSNI have confirmed a sexual assault on a female in the student area of South Belfast

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Happy St Patrick’s Day

There are many places you could be on St Patrick’s Day, but sitting at home on the internet shouldn’t be one of them.

Creep what you sow: Collegetimes ‘Creep of the Week’ feature slammed as ‘sexist’

Popular Irish student website Collegetimes has uploaded over fifty ‘students’ Facebook profiles, often without their permission.

Professor Patrick Johnston takes over as new QUB Vice Chancellor

Professor Patrick Johnston officially becomes Vice-Chancellor of QUB.

Homophobic Fonacab driver kicks gay Students out of Taxi

Three QUB students were left reeling on Tuesday night after being kicked out of a taxi by an angry homophobic Fonacab driver on the popular student area of the Malone Road.

Coke on campus: Traces of Class A drug found in McClay Library and other student hotspots

A recent random testing by The Tab of various campus sites and popular student nightclubs show traces of cocaine

Ahoy, me hearties! The Tab meets Cap’n Ciaran Gallagher

Elections open today! Here’s the lowdown on Cap’n Ciaran Gallagher, the sole pirate candidate running for SU president.

£136k: that’s how much the McClay makes you pay

Exclusive figures reveal the truly shocking extent of QUB fines – over £136K, and going up every year.

Hundreds sign petition to stop animal slaughter at QUB

Last year The Tab broke the exclusive story of the thousands of animals killed in the name of research by QUB

SWOT’s Got Style

SWOT kicked off the week in style this Monday night with their annual fashion show.

Who needs Romance when you’ve got #Shiftnominate?

First Neknoms, then RAK Noms (Random act of Kindness, yeah), now Shiftnoms. Please stop.

Skint students seeking sugar daddies

Students across the country have found the answer to financial hardship, and it’s not student loans or part time jobs.

Dear readers, love from The Tab

Get involved, you know you want to!

1 in 4 of Northern Ireland’s perverts live within spitting distance of Queen’s

254 convicted paedophiles living in South and East Belfast

I dug up my old Bebo profile…and it’s pretty cringe

Take a trip down Memory Lane to the land of background photos and ‘luv’, when The Mighty Boosh were the height of cool

Bomb explodes in Belfast city centre

Dissident republicans have been blamed for a car bomb left near Belfast’s busy Victoria Square shopping centre last night.

Back and better than ever, the Christmas market

So practically every city has a Christmas market, but that doesn’t make Belfast’s any less special or treasured.

It’s gon’ get cold!

Brace yourself, Winter cometh.

Queen’s researcher jailed over threats to kill colleague

Former QUB academic Dr. Patrick Martens is jailed after months of harassment against a university colleague.

Autumn semester in .gifs

Our blow-by-blow account of this term