Microwave cooking is often relegated to those wacky 1970s cookbooks that you find in the back of charity shops. Indeed, they may be better known within Trinity as bargaining chips in presidential campaigns. But the nifty little things get a …
Connie Roughan is a Staff Writer for Trinity News and a Senior Fresh BESS student.
Students receive Leaving Cert grades from exams in November
In the deferred Leaving Certificate, 39% of students had their grades increase from their original Calculated Grades
Students who sat the “traditional” Leaving Certificate examinations in November received their results at midday today.
The usual Leaving Certificate examinations that take place in June of every year were cancelled last year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Out of …
TCDSU launch petition to reduce student contribution charge
Ireland now has the highest student charges in the EU
Trinity College Dublin’s Student Union (TCDSU) launched a petition today calling for a reduction in the Student Contribution Charge for third level students.
TCDSU President Eoin Hand and the union’s sabbatical team issued a statement this afternoon, which they noted …
Trinity Trust creates €100,000 fund for student groups
The one-off fund will look to encourage initiatives that “advance learning and education in College”
The Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Trust, has created a Special Fund to finance “innovative” extracurricular activities put on by student societies and clubs.
There is a significant amount of money available for Trinity’s student organisations. The entire Special Fund is …
University teachers call for cohesive national health and safety policy
Lack of clarity surrounding cohesive protocols could lead to “inferior health and safety protection”
On November 22, the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) released a statement calling for a cohesive nation-wide health and safety policy for third-level education in the New Year.
General Secretary of IFUT Joan Donegan commented that vague minimum requirements …
Sinn Féin says 35% of students expected their course to be entirely online
A report from the party is critical of the government’s handling of higher education this year
Students have expressed feelings of having been “misled into securing accommodation” despite the move of most learning online in a new report published by Sinn Fein.
Sinn Féin Higher and Further Education Spokesperson Rose Conway-Walsh has published the results of …
What have we learnt from the gatherings at the Powerscourt Steps
Large outdoor gatherings have been symptoms of a lack of public spaces for people to meet for an outdoors drink in the nation’s capital
Outside the Powerscourt shopping centre, a short stroll from Trinity’s campus, many young people have been gathering by the steps to meet and drink. Social distancing is but a distant thought. The wide steps have long been a popular resting …
Cooking for one on a budget
The bigger the supermarket, the cheaper the basics ingredients are
You’ve got no money, little time, and before you sits a big bowl of naked, overcooked pasta. Going away to college can be quite the shock to the system. It can get pretty tempting to just walk down to Apache …
NUI Galway postgraduates address school president and Simon Harris
The Post-Graduate Workers’ Alliance call for intervention after receiving notice that they may have to perform unpaid teaching contributions
The Post-Graduate Workers’ Alliance at the National University Ireland Galway (PGWA NUIG) sent an open letter to the college president Donal Leech and the Minister for Further Education Simon Harris last night, affirming that they refuse to perform any unpaid …
Getting stuck into culinary creativity
We asked our readers to write about their new experiences in the kitchen while staying at home
Robert Tolan
I reckon that if I were a baked good, I would be a cupcake – probably lemon-flavoured – so that’s what I decided to begin my baking journey with. There was no question as to whose recipe I …