News

TCDSU elections underway at Dining Hall hustings

Candidates focused on introductions at the first hustings of the campaign

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

Podcasts

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, …

News

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 …

Editorial

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

Comment

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