 There was outrage at DCU this week as students were met with news of increases in next year's student accommodation prices. The most significant increase was seen here at the privately owned Shinoan Square Apartments where students staged their protest. For 2018-2019 the prices went up by 27% making it over 9,000 euro for a 9 month lease. Earlier this week students met on campus to discuss what action they would take and share their frustrations. It's part of a broader issue of the housing crisis in Ireland, but most notably for our sales we feel at DCU there's been a huge increase in the rents. It's gone up from 7,000 to 9,000, 14,000 to 27,000. Huge increases. They're affecting students, they're affecting students' parents, they're going to expect them to expect us for many generations to come unless we just make a stand now. Aaron Harper, one of the students leading the campaign, spoke about how he hopes the protest will make a change. Where I see it going or where I hope it will go is that as a group not just within our SU but all the SUs can come together for a national campaign where we can share stories of students, where we can make it a national issue, where we can make it a talking point on every radio program and every TV show and force the government to actually act on this. Casey Goddard, DCU TV News.