I grew up surrounded by trade unionists. I distinctly remember seeing a news report about an industrial action on the news when my mother said: “If I ever crossed a picket line, my father would turn in his grave.” Her …
TCDSU Council votes on allocating €320,000 of HEA funding
A motion brought to Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) Council by TCDSU President Kieran McNulty to assign funding made available by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) to the Students’ Union, has passed. The HEA is a body which advises …
SU Presidential Race: Interview with Bryan Mallon
As the only Presidential candidate not currently involved with the SU, Mallon hopes to be a “bridge between” those inside and outside of the Union
Bryan Mallon is a Senior Sophister Irish Studies student from Co. Meath. Mallon is the current chairperson of DU GAA and vice-chair of the Fianna Fáil Wolfe Tone Cumann. Mallon frames himself as the “only non-Students’ Union candidate”. Referencing the …
Talking about fight club
“Some people get punched in the face once and won’t come back, some people just get a feel for it. It’s perfectly normal not to want to get punched in the face”
“He’s a southpaw and I hadn’t copped it,” …
Trinity students pay nearly €600,000 in library fines as USI voices concerns
Trinity students pay more in fines than any of Ireland’s seven universities
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has voiced concern that rising library fines are potentially being used by universities as a “money making mechanism.” Figures obtained by The Herald under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that students paid …
Learning to manage my mental health
Dáire O’Driscoll opens up about his struggle with anxiety
Health and Wellbeing
“It was only later that I realised all of these moments of insomnia, heart palpitations, shortness of breath and paranoia were panic attacks”
Statistics about mental health always seemed so abstract to me. The leading cause of …
Alert issued by the UL following outbreak of STDs
The alert was issued by email today
The University of Limerick has issued an “urgent alert” to its student body via email today regarding an outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
The email alert, sent out by Dr Ronan Ryder on behalf of the Student Health Centre, …
Member clubs of DUCAC involved in electoral collusion at annual AGM
DUBC and DULBC pressure their novice teams to attend the DUCAC AGM and vote with ‘vested interest’
Multiple member clubs of the Dublin University Central Athletic Club (DUCAC) have been implicated in electoral collusion at their annual general meeting (AGM) on October 13, Trinity News has learned. Freshman club members were allegedly pressured into attending the meeting …
Former judge and current DUBC president Donagh McDonagh named DUCAC chairperson
The position of chair was contested between three candidates; Donagh McDonagh of DUBC, Gerry Kelly of DUFC and student PJ McGrane of DUGAA.
The Dublin University Central Athletic Club (DUCAC) held its annual general meeting on Thursday October 13, in keeping with the tradition of holding the AGM on the third Thursday of Michaelmas Term. As has also been tradition over recent years, …
Trinity success at water polo intervarsities
Trinity water polo has done the double for the second time in three years after its men’s and women’s teams beat NUIG and DIT respectively at their annual intervarsities.
The phrase “golden generation” is a relatively modern one, more modern than most would assume. The term was first used by the Portuguese media around 2000 while referring to the emergence of a group of talented young footballers, most notably …