“There are free muffins at the canteen. Let’s go!” announced a colleague to an office of unpaid interns. Such treats were seldom available in our workplace, so the announcement excited the room. Once I reached the canteen my eyes caught …
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We must recognise male sexual assault as legitimate
Sinéad Barry considers that our conception of sexual assault has excluded male victims
The rise of the #MeToo campaign succeeded in shedding light on dozens of rape and sexual assault cases that had been left to linger in the shadows for too long – because of it, many women were at last given …
Should a university aim to be a for-profit institution?
As College’s five-year Strategic Plan reaches its close, Niamh Meyer asks whether it has done more harm than good
“This strategic plan sets out to secure Trinity’s future so that it will continue to play its pivotal role in helping Ireland to become a most productive place in which to invent, work and learn and a most civilised place …
The demands of the Summerhill occupiers are the minimum of what we should expect
We cannot continue the Irish tradition of expecting charities to patch up government policy failures
On August 7, housing activists, including members of Take Back Trinity, entered a house at 35 Summerhill Parade, and began occupying the building. Less than ten days later a High Court judge had ordered the protestors to vacate the premises. …
Students deserve better than student newspapers profiting off the housing crisis
It is hugely hypocritical to take money from luxury student accommodation blocs, while also telling housing activists how to run their campaigns
When the University Times posted an advertisement for the private luxury student accommodation bloc #LIVStudent on its Instagram account this week, many students were shocked. Such was the strength of the criticism to this post, the University Times felt that …
Canada trumps States as student summer location
The county is safer, cleaner and more open minded than the US, argues Hugh Whelan
It’s mid-afternoon in June and I have been awake for nearly 20 hours but luckily, the atmosphere in the Vancouver International Airport immigration queue is surprisingly relaxed. The queue is comprised of dozens of pale Irish students, and there is …
The not so Lovely Island: the dark side of reality TV
Love Island is a particularly distasteful manifestation of our appetite for conflict, writes Peter Kelly
Love Island has become a phenomenon since its rebirth in 2015. It has seen increasing audiences with a record viewership of over 3.4 million in its current series. This is arguably because of its simplistic nature, with various men and …
The Leaving Cert continues to punish our young people
Slowly but surely our society’s beginning to accommodate for the mental stresses of the Leaving Cert, writes Eoin O’Donnell
With the year’s exam season drawing to a close once again, and another 121,000 Irish students running the gauntlet of the Leaving Cert, it’s worth questioning how this whole experience affects today’s youth, and whether the method of evaluating students …
Trinity must follow students and protest government underfunding
The QS rankings fall is symptomatic of Trinity mismanagement, as well as funding problems
Trinity’s slump in the QS rankings belies a crisis in funding for Irish third-level institutions. The return to form for Ireland’s universities in their fall down the league tables indicates their incapacity to keep the pace with international competitors and …
Academic responsibility – the biggest dichotomy in Trinity
Teaching standards in Trinity are defined by arrogance and negligence, final year student Conor Coughlan argues
I remember the first time I attended a talk in Trinity. It was the Maths and Physics open day 2013, and I was a naïve 18-year-old Leaving Cert fresh from off a bus from Galway. The defining moment of that …