This year’s SU leadership race makes an important break from last year, most importantly marking a return of a healthy number of female candidates to the race. Nonetheless it is apparent that engagement problems and a perception of a “hack …
Alice Whelan is the current Comment Editor of Trinity News. She is a Senior Sophister Sociology and Political Science student, and a former Deputy Comment Editor.
Analysis: What are the capitated bodies?
The various acronyms for the capitated bodies in Trinity can be confusing and make it difficult to interpret what news about their budgets means and why it is significant. It is useful to understand what their roles are to understand …
Analysis: The SU’s €70,622 deficit explained
What the deficit means for the average student
“The SU should be prepared to deal with unprecedented needs to spend on salient activist issues such as Repeal and Take Back Trinity without running up a deficit that will cripple the Union for the coming years. It should not …
Stop mourning the supposed loss of free speech
Students in Trinity are fragile when their sense of self-righteousness is challenged
Last week the Phil cancelled their debate “This House Believes Middle Eastern Women Need Western Feminism”, largely due to backlash resulting from a piece in Trinity News. TCDSU Ethnic Minorities Officer Navika Mehta expressed the hurt and anger students had …
The agenda of pro-life groups goes beyond this plebiscite
Framing Repeal campaigners as crazed leftists has wider consequences
The coming months will see the various factions of the referendum sides amp up their narratives, a process which many of us dread. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the referendum is about more than the outcome of the plebiscite. …
The murky world of “Big Money”
The Paradise papers show how divided elites are from the rest of us
The release of the Paradise Papers gives some much needed transparency to the tax avoidance and elite conflicts of interests, but they show also just how murky the waters really are . It’s unclear who even runs most of these …
Predators like Weinstein operate because we permit them to
Heralding men like Weinstein, Hefner and Allen as artists gives them a power status that allows them to abuse
The slew of actresses who have come forward with stories of sexual harassment and assault from a single perpetrator, Harvey Weinstein, have brought to light the seedy world of Hollywood we all suspected to exist.
Hollywood turns against him only …
Budget 2018: a breakdown
While full of attractive gimmicks, this budget does little to help those in need
The budget announcement yesterday did not contain many surprises. Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe announced a spending increase of 1.2 billion euro.
Both housing and health will see huge increases. O’Donohue highlighted the “corrosive impact of homelessness” when delivering the …
The end of the J1 will be a tragedy
The Visa helps businesses and broadens the horizons of both Americans and Europeans
Just days after returning from my summer on a J1 visa in the US, I received an email from my American sponsors, Interexchange, asking me to take action to help save the J1 Visa. They wrote that “elimination of these …
Varadkar would be an exclusionary Taoiseach
Varadkar offers nothing to those who have been affected most by austerity. And he offers no hope for a more progressive, equal Ireland.
If Leo Varadkar becomes Taoiseach, it might seem to mark a positive step in Irish politics. A young, openly gay man with a name far from the traditional titles encountered in the Irish political arena will be in the top …