Éigse na Tríonóide, Trinity’s Irish language festival, took place in College last week (31 Jan – 4 Feb), celebrating Irish language and culture with a wide range of events being held on and off campus.
That’s right you heard it here first: after endless mind maps, mood boards, spider diagrams and cups of tea the team at Trinity News is proud to announce the re-launch of our website, trinitynews.ie, and what a site it is!
Provost Patrick Prendergast has volunteered for a €1,500 pay cut, reducing his salary from €201,492 to €200,000.
The Irish Feminist Network and Dublin University’s Gender Equality Society are holding a debate to discuss whether Trinity should hold its first Slut Walk.
Constitutional changes to the USI have been proposed at an Emergency Special Congress on Wednesday 18 January.
The rise in UK higher education fees are expected to have a drastic effect on the number of British and Irish students applying to study in Trinity College Dublin in the coming year.
A mock wedding to highlight to highlight the inequality in marriage legislation regarding same-sex couples was held in Front Square by Trinity Q Soc and DU Amnesty.
The December “ceremony” was attended by dozens of activists who witnessed four couples being married.
DIT has launched ‘Design DIT’ as part of Design Week and Innovation Dublin. It is a showcase of work by 34 young designers who have graduated from DIT since the start of the 21st century. They include award-winning designers of furniture and interiors, product designers, animators, illustrators and graphic designers. While some of the contributors are continue to design in Ireland, others are working and exhibiting abroad, in London, Berlin, and New York.
By Claire Acton, National News Editor
Dublin City University welcomed a number of Irish speakers to take part in a biannual series of lectures entitled: ‘The Media and the Public’. The aim of the lectures were to address questions surrounding, the direction of the media, whether they can still empower us and what new forms of ownership, financing and control will enhance our democracy and public life.
