Sport

World Cup 2018: Semi-final previews

With the final looming large, each of the semi-finalists are likely contenders to lift the trophy on Sunday night

World Cup 2018 has entered its final week, and it has certainly saved the best for last. After a tantalising set of quarter-finals, both semi-finals look set to be enthralling contests between worthy challengers. In this tournament so far, uncertainty …

Features

Deciphering the EU’s new copyright directive

Trinity professor Eoin O’Dell assesses the new law set to radically change the internet in Europe

Crafting good legislation is a challenge for any governmental body. Let alone almost an entire continent. This is made all the more difficult in relation to the social media, digital media platforms and the wider internet overall.  The European Commission

Life, News

Back to school: a summer series

A guideline to the musical mash up descending on Trinity this summer

 The cricket pitch will be taken over once more as the Trinity Summer Series returns. With five nights of varied musical events taking place right at the heart of Trinity, every taste is catered for, with genres ranging from classical

Sport

Wimbledon 2018: the ones to watch

  The past week has seen the British public laze around in a blazing hot summer sun, with temperatures of over 30 degrees across the U.K. Most will have spent their weekends outside and far from the television, but the coming …

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Trinity sets pedals to global formula competition

Society members will head to Silverstone UK this July to present their design

One can only imagine a Formula race car zooming through Front Square in a typical Trinity summer’s day. But what seems like a fantasy is in fact in the process of coming to reality soon.

‘Formula Trinity,’ the College’s first

Sport

World Cup 2018: All quiet on the eastern front

As fans make the pilgrimage to Russia, Cian Dunne warns that the World Cup atmosphere is more than a little subdued in St Petersburg

In the weeks immediately preceding the beginning of any World Cup, after the groups are drawn, match tickets acquired, flights booked, squads finalised, jerseys bought and stadiums primed; attention is diverted temporarily, and inevitably all eyes are fixed firmly

Comment

Academic responsibility – the biggest dichotomy in Trinity

Teaching standards in Trinity are defined by arrogance and negligence, final year student Conor Coughlan argues

I remember the first time I attended a talk in Trinity. It was the Maths and Physics open day 2013, and I was a naïve 18-year-old Leaving Cert fresh from off a bus from Galway. The defining moment of that