With Covid-19 restrictions, life is unpredictable and challenging for third-level students. They have had to transition to online learning while losing many of their social outlets.
RTÉ News spoke to students at Trinity College Dublin and NUI Galway about how their experience of online college life and the impact the pandemic has had on their mental health and social life. Neasa Gorrell is studying English and Media Studies with Spanish at NUI Galway.
She said everyone in her group of friends, "is struggling with the pressures of the pandemic and online learning". "I don't feel the government and the minister and the institutions of education in this country have done enough for the students in this crisis," she added.