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Education race: Daniel O’Reilly wants to enhance every student’s access to education

STEM convenor and Education Officer candidate expresses an interest in ensuring transparency and accountability for TCDSU and finding systemic solutions to student problems

“Everything is an access issue if you want to boil it down,” says Daniel O’Reilly, current STEM convenor for Trinity College Dublin’s Students’ Union (TCDSU) and a fifth year Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering student. O’Reilly is one of two

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New Library arrangements to be implemented from February 22

Students are to circulate in 1 hour 45 periods between workstations, whilst the Ussher Library and John Stearne Medical Library are to close

Yesterday, College announced through an email to students that further new arrangements regarding the Library are to come into effect from February 22. 

These new arrangements come one month on from the previous amendment to library usage, which saw the

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554 Level 8 places to be offered to last year’s Leaving Certificate students following grade increases

Colleges are to offer places for the next academic year to students who had their grades increased from the November Leaving Certificate

Today, Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris announced on Twitter the number of places to be offered to students who sat the delayed traditional Leaving Cert in November.

Posting on Twitter, Minister Harris announced that 554 level 8

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Trinity to receive disability funding under new government initiative

Harris announced that €5.4 million is to be given to universities and higher education institutions across the country to improve college campuses for those with disabilities

Trinity is to be granted €482,364 for Trinity Disability Service under new government funding announced today.

This morning, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris announced several new initiatives to support those with

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NUI Galway team contribute to breakthrough breast cancer gene risk study

NUI Galway team have contributed to international study in the gene risk factor of breast cancer, showing the risk assessments that can be done, allowing individuals to receive early treatment to reduce or prevent the disease

A collaborative study into the risks associated with breast cancer has been published, with contribution from investigators in the Lambe Institute at National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway). 

The study’s research has suggested that the extent that gene related

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Hamilton Library to close while others operate on reduced hours

This morning, College announced that Library hours were to be pared back from January 22, with the Hamilton Library to close temporarily

This morning, College announced through an email to students that new arrangements regarding the Library were to come into effect from January 22, following the recent surge in Covid-19 cases across the country.

As exams finish on January 22, College