Stable electricity, clean water, reliable wifi connection, a roof over your head. These are things that are taken for granted in the West, but that shocked Malaka Mohammed as she settled in England after leaving her home of Shijaia, Eastern …
Stacy Wrenn is a staff writer and a Senior Sophister Jewish and Islamic Civilisations student.
National Union of Students’ executive committee to vote on censuring Vice President Richard Brooks
The motion is one of two relating to Brooks to be debated at the next NUS National Executive Council
Richard Brooks, current Vice President Union Development of the National Union of Students (NUS), the British equivalent of USI, is the topic of two motions at the next NUS National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on 28 February. He came to …
TCDSU continues to push for greater availability of gender neutral bathrooms
SU President Kieran McNulty launches petition to extend access to gender neutral bathrooms to TBSI
Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) President Kieran McNulty has launched a petition for the College Board to create gender-neutral bathrooms in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI) on Pearse Street following the implementation of three gender neutral bathrooms in …
Presidential and Welfare sabbatical roles are the only contested positions in Leadership Race
Five people are running for Welfare, while UT Editor is uncontested for third year in a row
12 students were announced to be running in the 2017 Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) sabbatical officer elections outside House 6 earlier today with Kevin Keane, Bryan Mallon, and Thomas Emmet running for the role of TCDSU President.
Kevin …
The commercialisation of art
Stacey Wrenn argues that increased privatisation of art allows ultra-wealthy individuals and corporations to dictate the art world, reaping great financial rewards in the process
“A businessperson very rarely invests in something that will not benefit them directly”
Art has been of consistent importance to all civilisations since man first picked up one object and rubbed it against the surface of another. It helps people …
Former student activists look back on Garda brutality and USI neglect in wake of 2010 march
Stacey Wrenn interviews two students about the student march in November 2010 in Dublin against the proposed increase in fees and cuts in state expenditure on third level education
On the 3rd November 2010, up to 40,000 students marched in Dublin against the proposed increase in fees and cuts in state expenditure on third level education. By the 9th November, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman had received 28 complaints of …
Behind the scenes at Dublin Mosque
Trinity News attends the Mosque Open Day on South Circular Road and meets with members of Ireland’s fastest growing minority
“Education is the only way to make change. What’s in the media doesn’t represent the whole religion of Islam, and it is important to show people what Islam actually is.”
The concept of an open day for a religious institution …
Review: TAF’s ‘What Lies in the Woods’
Students were treated to a night of fantasy and intrigue at the culminating event of Fourth Week
Societies Fourth Week culminated in a spectacle of fire and fairytales last night with Trinity Arts Festival’s (TAF) much anticipated ‘What Lies in the Woods’. Tickets sold out in five minutes on Thursday, making it the most popular event of …
A revival of student activism
Stacey Wrenn discusses the revival of student activism following the proposal of income-contingent student loans
On the 3 November 2010, almost 40,000 students marched from Parnell Square to the Government Buildings on Merrion Street in what The Irish Times described as “the largest student protest for a generation”. It was organised by the Union of …
Our next great shame?
Following a recent visit to the Direct Provision centre in Mosney, Stacey Wrenn provides us with an insight into the difficult existence of those in the asylum system
Over 3,000 students will walk through Front Square during Fresher’s Week and feel the mix of excitement and anxiety that college life brings for the first time. Friends will be made and library fines will add up, but there is …