After years of quiet discontent, students are starting to evoke the passion and conviction of activists past, and the timing could not be more fitting.
On March 9, Trinity College Dublin students made a dent in the college’s commercial revenue …
Editorial
Editorial: We stand by our reporting, and all women who have experienced sexual misconduct
Trinity News commends the bravery of the woman in question in coming forward
Yesterday, Trinity News published a story regarding allegations of sexual harassment against TCDSU Presidential candidate Sean Ryan, and a resulting complaint brought against Ryan to the Junior Dean. Despite the heavy criticism we received from Ryan for this story, we …
Editorial: An apology isn’t good enough
Ali Selim’s comments are inexcusable as is his continued employment
On February 14, Dr. Ali Selim, lecturer in Arabic in Trinity, gave a public apology on The Pat Kenny Show for comments on “female circumcision” he had made the week prior. He advocated for it on medical grounds but sparked …
Editorial: Trinity students should support the Aramark boycott
Direct provision should, by rights, represent a major political crisis for the government and any institution associated with it. This is a system which even the then Minister of State Aodhán O’Riordáin admitted was “inhumane”. Yet despite admitting that the …
Students must show solidarity with Trade Unions
Faced with the growing commercialisation of College, students have no choice but to support industrial action
For the first time in years Trinity faces the prospect of industrial action. The current impasse between non-academic staff and College could be ended through a negotiated settlement; however, we cannot ignore the important implications of the policies College has …
If we are concerned about our society’s future, now is the time to act
Caught between the plight on either side of the Atlantic, the direction Ireland decides to take when it comes to immigration policy needs to be kept in focus
“We cannot polish DP – we have to end it.”
-Lassane Ouedraogo, Africa House.
By now, those of us outside the Irish immigration system are slowly beginning to become aware of its shortcomings. TN has talked to the Irish Refugee …
Editorial: We stand by our reporting
Since the publication of our article on the investigation by a Students’ Union body of allegations against the Students’ Union newspaper, The University Times, Trinity News has been subjected to a number of criticisms. We answer some of them below.…
Fossil Free TCD: Trinity must follow its strategic plan and divest
We want to show that students still have the power to have a positive influence on the pressing issues of our time
We write this piece in the hope that all readers understand the urgent need for immediate action regarding divestment from Trinity’s holdings in the fossil fuel industry.
Climate change is the most pressing issue of our time. At the 2015 …
If we can’t recognise depression in our peers, how can we recognise it in ourselves?
I’d consider myself to be a compassionate person, someone who has time to listen to friends’ worries. Why then did I ignore my own mental health?
Trinity researchers recently published a study which proposed that young people find it difficult to identify signs of depression or suicidal thoughts amongst their peers. Psychologists working out of the School of Psychology and Children’s Research Centre say that their …
Looking to the future
At the time of writing, I’ve a dissertation due in less than two weeks, a month till exams, another summer spent in Dublin and then I’ll take up editorship of this paper. After three years spent meandering around Trinity and …