The Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) sabbatical officer election campaign officially commenced this afternoon with Dining Hall Hustings. There are six races – President, Education, Welfare, Communications and Marketing, Ents, and the University Times Editor. There are ten candidates …
Podcast: Women in Leadership
Listen to the first Podcast episode of 2018/19
In this year’s first episode of the Trinity News Podcast, we discussed the topic of women in leadership with three prominent leaders in College life – Kate Fahy, Auditor of LawSoc, Aisling Greene, Chair of Science Society, and Niamh Lynch, …
Majority female line-up contest TCDSU elections
Six women and four men make up the candidates running for the six sabbatical officer positions
Ten candidates will contest this year’s Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) leadership race, of which six are women, with Laura Beston becoming the first female Presidential candidate since Lynn Ruane in 2015. This a considerable change from last year’s …
2018 in Trinity: Your most read stories this year
As 2018 draws to a close, we look back at some of the biggest and most read stories reported by Trinity News in the past year
In a year defined by widespread activism and typical Trinity mistakes, Trinity News is taking a look at the most read news stories of 2018.
January
January started with complaints made by students sitting Schols exams after numerous errors, and …
Editorial: Accountability is lacking in the Capitations Committee
Students deserve transparent access to the accounts of capitated bodies
The capitated bodies’ accounts came before the Capitations Committee last Thursday, with full coverage and analysis published in the News section of this issue of Trinity News. Those bodies include Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU), the Central Societies’ Committee …
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 …
Mary Mitchell O’Connor opens conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education in Trinity
Up to 400 academics will attend the conference in Trinity this week
Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor opened the 10th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education this morning. It is being held in Trinity, and is the first time that the biennial conference has been held …
UCC students face delay in planned student accommodation
The development would provide 120 beds to Cork students
A planning decision on a 120-bed student accommodation project near University College Cork (UCC) is facing a delay.
The decision on the project was expected to be given this week. The delay has occurred due to Cork City Council requiring …
Trinity launches eighth annual Samuel Beckett Summer School
This year’s theme is Beckett’s relationship with disability
Trinity has launched its eighth annual Samuel Beckett Summer School, hosted by the School of English and the School of Creative Arts. This year’s theme is Beckett’s relationship with disability and how he portrays it in his work.
The Summer …
Trinity Professor elected to Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences
Padraig Carmody was elected on the basis of his research
Trinity Professor Padraig Carmody, Head of the Geography department, has been elected to the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences in Belgium.
Carmody was elected to the Academy on the basis of his research, which focuses on the political economy of …