One of Ireland’s top universities has fined its students’ union €214,000 (£183,000) over holding protests on campus, including pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) cited a loss of income as a result of recent blockades of the Book of Kells tourist attraction.

Students have demonstrated against the university’s response to the war in Gaza as well as proposed course fee hikes and increased accommodation costs.

SU President László Molnárfi told RTÉ news students and staff “stand united against management’s suppression of the student voice that has protested for Palestine, for graduate worker rights, and against fees and rising rents”.