College has a moral responsibility to abolish the scholarship exams

Schols operates as little more than a reproduction of privilege and elitism

The scholarship exams (or schols) in College occupy an unusual place in the campus imagination: often glorified as the hardest examinations students can take, they occupy a symbolic function as much as a material one. However, given the material rewards

College is reopening with caution, and students must follow suit

College’s hesitancy to fully reopen is completely sensible, but their communication and prioritisation of tourists raises questions.

This September, thousands of students around the country will be returning to in-person classes, with restrictions in place. In comparison to other colleges in the country, Trinity’s approach to reopening has been relatively conservative. 

After more than a year of

Poor working conditions are to blame for young people not returning to work, not the Pandemic Unemployment Payment

It is not the Pandemic Unemployment Payment keeping young people from working, but rather unacceptable working conditions and low wages offered by employers.

With the reopening of restaurants, pubs and retail, the usual disparaging comments about the work ethic of the young can be heard again. Now the argument is that staff shortages nationwide can be attributed to lazy students who are refusing

The #BloodForAll campaign is laudable, but we must push even further

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service’s rules are discriminatory against a number of marginalised groups, and any political action must be representative of this

In June this year, for the first time since the 1990s, the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) imported 115 units of blood from the NHS due to a shortage of home-donated blood. When this was reported, people took to Twitter

College has a duty to engage in ethical investment

Trinity’s continued investment in harmful industries is damaging its integrity as an academic institution

As government and student funded institutions, it is imperative that universities strive to uphold an ethical approach to investment, something which Trinity is crucially failing to do. Ethical investment is a strategy whereby investors, in this case College, choose to

Ireland has a duty to provide refuge to those fleeing Afghanistan

Given Ireland’s privilege and unique role in the Afghan war, Ireland must do more to help those fleeing Afghanistan.

The sudden nature of the recent US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the accompanying success of the Taliban have left many Afghans, who fear the oppressive religious conservatism and violent brutality of the incoming regime, scrambling to find a route out

A picture of Simon Coveney dating from 2017.

Zappone appointment reveals deep-seated hostility toward transparency in Leinster House

With this event, the government has shown that neither honesty nor fairness is a priority.

At the height of the most severe health and housing crises in the state’s history, one might be surprised to find that the topic presently dominating political discourse in Ireland is the attempted appointment of former minister Katherine Zappone as