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Situation at asylum office refugee camp “deteriorating rapidly” say volunteers

Over a hundred asylum seekers are sleeping rough outside the International Protection Office, with food and supplies scarce, forced to defecate in the road beside their tents

Volunteer activists have warned that the situation at a makeshift refugee camp outside the International Protection Office (IPO) is “deteriorating rapidly” as hundreds of asylum seekers were turned out of emergency shelter after the weekend.

Independent volunteers assembled at the …

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Bernie Sanders to visit Trinity

Sanders will discuss his early life, career, and political values in a live interview with journalist Fintan O’Toole 

Bernie Sanders will visit Trinity next week for an event with journalist and author Fintan O’Toole.

The event, entitled Bernie Sanders: A Brooklyn Spirit, will take place in the Exam Hall next Friday at 7.30pm.

Sanders will discuss his upbringing …

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Trinity debaters sweep up at Irish Times semi-finals

Seven out of the 12 students who will compete in the grand final are representing Trinity societies

Trinity students will make up a majority of finalists in the Irish Times Debate final after contestants from several campus societies progressed from each of the four semi-finals.

A total of seven speakers from the College Historical Society (the Hist), …

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Breaking: TCDSU to end Domino’s sponsorship following confusion over terms of agreement

The union previously claimed that ending the sponsorship would embroil it in a lawsuit with the “billion-dollar” pizza franchise

TCDSU has said that it will end its long-standing sponsorship agreement with Domino’s Pizza, reversing a previous claim that its termination would leave the union open to legal action.

In a statement to Trinity News, Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union

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TCDSU to maintain Domino’s sponsorship despite alleging franchise is “profiting from genocide”

In a statement to Trinity News, the union said “unfortunately there is nothing we can do”

Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) has said it will continue its long-standing partnership with Domino’s Pizza, despite alleging that the company was “profiting from the genocide of the Palestinian people” last month.

In an Instagram post on December 11, …

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College: “Our stance is to remain neutral” on Gaza genocide

Correspondence released under FOI shows College apologised for mistaken repost which expressed support for comments by Paddy Cosgrave

A spokesperson for College confirmed that it is “neutral” on Israel’s assault on Gaza in a response to a complaint, an email exchange released under freedom of information (FOI) has revealed.

College first received a complaint, addressed to the provost, …

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TCDSU unveil new bilingual logo

The new logo contains the TCDSU name both in English and as Gaeilge

Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) has unveiled a new bilingual logo featuring the Irish translation of its name, Aontas Mac Léinn Choláiste na Tríonóide, alongside the English.

The new logo also features the acronyms of both translations on a