This year’s Senior Sophisters have ended their time in Trinity abruptly. Thursday the 12th of March is a date that few in Trinity, especially its final years, will forget in a hurry. At 11am, Leo Varadkar announced from his state …
Comhall Fanning is a Deputy Features Editor for Trinity News, and a Senior Sophister German and Sociology student.
Seanad elections to continue despite Trinity’s closure
A spokesperson for the Academic Registry told Trinity News that “the university is planning to proceed with the count”
Elections for the three Dublin University seats in Seanad Éireann are continuing as normal despite the University being closed, a spokesperson for Academic Registry has confirmed to Trinity News. “We are still receiving ballots at the moment, we are currently …
Seanad elections: Hugo MacNeill on investment banking, rugby and higher education
Hugo MacNeill talks to Trinity News about his candidacy in the Dublin University constituency
Hugo MacNeill is an independent candidate for the Seanad in the Dublin University constituency. Born in 1958, he attended Blackrock College where his rugby career began. MacNeill obtained an undergraduate degree in Economic and Social Studies from Trinity in 1981 …
Delving into stationless bike sharing in Dublin
Why have stationless bike sharing schemes been slow to catch on in Dublin?
The bike rental industry has become a booming and competitive market, leading to new innovative schemes being brought to our cities. The concept of stationless bike sharing is quite different to the Dublin Bike station-based scheme. Dublin Bikes requires you …
TEP: What’s happened, what’s to come
Will the common complaints of last year repeat themselves or can students expect an improvement?
The goal of the Trinity Education Project (TEP) is not just to change the structure of the academic year and examinations. Rather, it also seeks to alter the skills that Trinity students gain in university through increasingly varied methods of …
European elections: This time I can’t vote
Ireland’s voting laws restrict students living abroad
The European Parliament launched an information campaign called “This Time I’m Voting” which encourages young people to vote in the European elections. However, the issue is that Ireland’s voting laws are more restrictive than most of our EU partners. This …
Revisiting the 1969 Gentle Revolution
50 years after the Gentle Revolution, the fight continues…
Student-occupied buildings, outrage at obstinate academic institutions, and an unlivable housing crisis. These are just a few of the details that describe the student movement Take Back Trinity. Just as they capture last year’s protests, they also echo an eerie …
Is safe refuge possible in “fortress Europe”?
Four years into the refugee crisis, Trinity News looks at Europe’s response
Summer of 2015 was when the refugee crisis peaked and first came to the attention of many Europeans. For the first time during the crisis, the media brought attention to images of refugees travelling across the sea and walking across …
Commuting to college: the struggles and advantages
Trinity News looks at the issues students face on their daily commute to college, from financial to health and wellbeing
Commuting is a fact of life for many students at Trinity. Attending university in many countries is tied to taking that big step and moving out of the family home. In Ireland, however, if you’re from a region with a …
A visit to Sarajevo
Comhall Fanning reminisces on his trip to the interesting, vibrant, and historical city of Sarajevo
My friend Ali and I, both embarking on a year off-books in Austria, decided to leave Ireland a few weeks early and travel around the Balkans before taking a bus to Austria. One of the most interesting cities we visited …