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Piece a’ Hannigan

Yesterday, Lisa Hannigan performed for DU Music in the GMB, picking up a plaque as recognition of her work as an Irish musician

Wearing an appropriately Halloween-esque, long black dress, Lisa Hannigan breezed into the debate chamber of the GMB on October 31st to speak to DU Music society. She received a plaque recognising Irish artists and their contribution to the Irish music …

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Would you eat a synthetically-made burger?

Professor Mark Post discusses the importance of the artificially cultured meat industry at an event held by Global Development Soc and DU General Science Soc


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“Cows are inefficient food producers. In fact, they’re obsolete.”

Yesterday saw Trinity Global Development Soc and DU General Science Society come together to host Professor Mark Post, Chair of the Department of Physiology at Maastricht University and pioneer of the

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Nicola Sturgeon awarded Honorary Patronage of the Phil

The First Minister of Scotland gave an address the University Philosophical Society in the GMB today

The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon visited Trinity College to address the University Philosophical Society, in front of a packed audience of students and staff in the Graduates Memorial Building on Monday, 28 November. She was warmly welcomed to

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Professor Brian Cox addresses the Phil to talk populism, philosophy and physics

Trinity Life editor Úna Harty heads along to the Q&A session with the Manchurian popular science communicator Brian Cox

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Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox descended upon the GMB this afternoon to greet science and non-science Trinity students alike. The ‘Wonders of…’ presenter and the author/co-author of over 950 scientific publications and brought this rhetoric to the chamber with his

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Trinity College Law Review Speaker Series – The Irish Judiciary: Origins, Culture, and Reform?

Aidan Carolan analyses the events of last night’s TCLR speaker series on the Irish Judiciary

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Driven by a passion for all things Irish and judicial, law students and others turned out in force last night for a panel discussion organised by the Trinity College Law Review at the GMB. The first event of the Law

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Jeremy Paxman at Law Soc: Unafraid of saying exactly what he was thinking

Shane Kenneally reports on Paxman’s visit to Law Soc last Friday afternoon

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The GMB’s peach interior walls began to bulge from the size of the crowd prior to Jeremy Paxman’s talk delivered to the Law Society last Friday, November 4. There was a peculiar uncertainty emerging in idle chatter overheard in snippets …

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David O’Doherty at ComedySoc

An impromptu stand-up gig by the award-winning Irish comedian was enjoyed by a packed-in crowd in the GMB on Thursday.

Comedy Soc held a gig on Thursday 27 in the GMB to a stuffed-in, enthusiastic crowd. Far flung from the Tuesday nights in the Pav with student comedians and the occasional run in with the staff, this week the society …

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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

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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 …

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Full GMB audience present for honorary patronage of Marina Abramović

“Performance is serious business and is not easy, it takes every atom of your energy. It is the most immaterial form of art, apart from music”

College may be quiet because of Reading Week, but on Friday students packed into a GMB chamber with standing room only as performance artist Marina Abramović accepted her honorary gold medal of patronage from the Philosophical Society before an entranced

In the GMB, druids explain their beliefs and connections to the wider world

Luke is a gardener and Eimear is a counsellor. Both are druids, and spoke to a packed and curious audience at the Theo

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It’s the time of year which sees the daylight hours become shorter and shorter as we count down to the Spring. For most people, more time spent indoors and an extra layer of clothing is the hallmark of the season.