Homeowners have been urged to rent any spare space in their houses in a desperate attempt to house students by the government, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) and Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU). With today’s release of …
Asylum Seeker Star-Student granted place at Trinity
Department of Education and Skills have reversed legislation in order to allow asylum seekers to receive third-level grants
Trinity student and asylum seeker Nadezda (Nadia) Prochukham will be returning to second year after securing donations from anonymous sources.
The 20-year-old hit national headlines in 2014 when she achieved 615 points in the Leaving Cert but was refused government …
TCD joins LoRa Alliance to help expand and develop the ‘Internet Age’
College joins the association which seeks to promote the Lo Ra protocol, to standardise low-power wide area networks
Trinity is the first Irish university to join the non-profit organisation LoRa – global internet of things Alliance. Here it will help expand this global base of expertise and internet connectivity for future ingenuity.
The LoRa Alliance is a non-profit …
TCDSU President Kieran McNulty calls on Minister Varadkar’s immediate reform of Back to Education Allowance Support
In an open letter, McNulty condemns the Department of Social Protection’s decision to declare homeless single mother and prospective TCD student Erica Fleming ineligible for the welfare support
This week Irish media and TCD President Kieran McNulty have called on the Minister for Social Protection, Leo Varadkar, to revoke the Government’s recent reforms to the Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) and the Family Income Allowance for ‘One-Parent Families’.…
US Vice President Joe Biden to receive honorary doctorate from Trinity
Biden will receive the honorary degree alongside several other nominees this Friday
During his six-day visit to Ireland, US Vice President Joe Biden will be awarded an honorary doctorate, alongside several other nominees, from Trinity College Dublin this Friday, June 24th.
The Commencement Ceremony will take place at 11am this Friday in …
The year we started to pay attention to college sexual assault
Rape culture is just as much an issue in Irish universities as it is in the US and UK.
2014 was the year we finally started talking about sexual assault on university campuses, with the issue attracting considerable media attention particularly in the US, where it could be considered a pandemic in some universities. Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz …
Candidates address LGBTQ issues at annual Q Soc hustings
The annual Q Soc hustings, chaired this year by former SU LGBT rights officer Stephen Hatton, allows candidates to address issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students, and outline how they plan to work for Trinity’s LGBTQ community. …
Sexual assault survey officially launched on campus
The Trinity College Students’ Union (TCDSU) landmark sexual assault survey reported on last week by Trinity News was officially launched yesterday.
The survey, which polled 1,038 students between December 8th and 13th, asked respondents five questions relating to whether student …
Panel calls for greater mental health awareness
“The layers of intense emotions you suffer [during depression] flatlined you much that if you had told me my dad had died I’d have felt nothing,” Niall ‘Bressie’ Breslin, the former Voice of Ireland judge, told students at a panel …
Postmodernism is to blame for religious fundamentalism, Professor Terry Eagleton tells students
“Too much belief is neither necessary nor desirable for our social conscience,” prominent literary theorist Professor Terry Eagleton said at the Trinity Socialist Student Worker Party’s event, The Death of God and Terror on War, last Thursday.
Marxism’s focus on …