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A kid from Cardiff ditched his medicine degree to wage jihad with ISIS in Syria
Think being a medic is boring? Obviously the logical next step is to give insurgency a go!
Everyone from my home town is getting married or having kids and it’s freaking me out
It’s like a never-ending episode of One Born Every Minute and it needs to stop
Stuff your plastic surgery – I spent my student loan on a pug
I make really bad financial decisions but I have no regrets
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.
Hotties at Uni – harmless or creepy?
Hotties at Uni is the ‘creepy’ Facebook page that posts your university’s best looking students for you to judge.
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.
Was Elizabeth Raine’s ‘virginity auction’ the first great artwork of the 21st century?
After Elizabeth Raine backs out of sleeping with the highest bidder, experts suggest she may have been critiquing patriarchal social media.
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.
Is fat the new female? Fat justice could overtake feminism as the buzzword of our generation
Fat activism is edging onto campuses across the USA, and it could be the next big thing at UK universities
I spent a week trying out ‘talons’
I decided to go all glamorous and try the new celebrity trend of huge spiky talons for nails for one week. Unfortunately, it turned out less Rihanna and more Maleficent.
Bored of Tinder? Cut straight to the sex with 10 of the creepiest dating apps around
Because getting drunk and awkwardly lunging is so 2013
Spend your loan now – you only have to pay back half of it, says new study
Trebling tuition fees won’t save the government any money – and may end up costing £5billion instead
‘Palcohol’: Powdered alcohol may be heading to the UK…but please don’t snort it, its maker warns
New flavoured alcoholic substance ‘Palcohol’ could be available to buy this Autumn
Meet the Bronies: The male students obsessed with My Little Pony
Meet the student bronies (that’s bros who like ponies, duh)
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
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.
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.
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.