Trinity not accepting results of four A-Levels subjects in NI applications
Trinity is one of seven Irish universities not to accept the results of four A-Level subjects in applications to College made by secondary school students in Northern Ireland this year. The move will prevent some students from Northern Ireland from being accepted into Irish universities. However it is expected that this change will be reversed in […]
Influence of selective breeding found on taxidermy goats
Trinity geneticists have found that modern day Irish goats lack genetic diversity due largely to intensive selective breeding that has been taking place over the past 200 years. The study is the first instance of taxidermy specimens being used to answer questions about livestock genetics. The geneticists compared the mitochondrial DNA of modern day […]
Making College more Accessible: Damien McClean, Welfare Candidate
Damien McClean is a Senior Sophister Mathematician from Louth. He is currently the Citizenship Officer in the Students’ Union and a Student Ambassador in the Global Room. While recalling his first year at Trinity, McClean says “I did not feel comfortable until I got to Trinity”. He found the university to be open […]
Trinity scientists uncover new information about Baltic hunter-gatherers
A research team led by Trinity scientists have published a study outlining their findings on hunter-gatherer populations in the Baltic states. While it was previously assumed that the Baltic hunter-gather population of the Neolithic period interbred with and was subsequently overtaken by a farming population from the Levant, as was the case in western and […]
Higher Education Authority appoints new Chief Executive
Dr Graham Love has been appointed the new Chief Executive of the Higher Education Authority (HEA), following the retirement of Tom Boland last August. Dr Love will take up the position this March and will be in charge of leading the “strategic development of the Irish higher education and research system with the objective of creating […]
€360,000 fraud at Maynooth University being investigated
A Garda investigation has commenced into a €360,000 fraud at Maynooth University. The fraud occurred in 2015 but has only recently surfaced as the university published its annual financial statement for the year ending September 2015. The document reveals that the university has suffered a loss of €362,811 as a result of fraud, which […]
