‘I found my first year exhausting,’ says student after being forced into daily six-hour round trips to UCD
Alex Connell, from Carbury, Co Kildare. Photo: Steve Humphreys
Katherine Donnelly
It has been an exhausting first year in college for Alex Connell, who has a six-hour round trip, five days a week, to get to and from UCD.
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