Regular readers of the Trinity News Comment section might be aware that I consider myself to be a victim of abuse. I write about it a lot. Not because it has ruined my life – it hasn’t – but …
Sophie Furlong Tighe is the Comment Editor of Trinity News. They're a Drama & Theatre Studies student, and the former editor of Icarus Magazine.
Violence against women is an epidemic, and no one knows where the cure is
Investment in policing will not solve violence against women, but neither will politely asking it to go away.
It feels completely insurmountable, doesn’t it? I forgot to eat all day, I stayed in bed longer than I should have. I don’t really think I’m going to be murdered, because I see myself as the exception to most rules; …
Sunday Longread: USI’s Fuck the Fees campaign was doomed by design
The USI have been campaigning on the same issue for a decade, what’s different this year?
On Tuesday, November 23, Trinity College Dublin Student Union (TCDSU) joined the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) in a “Fuck the Fees” protest – a three-day collaborative effort with universities across Ireland to try and do something about the …
The Irish Times’ transphobia must be resisted by students
The referendum presents an invaluable opportunity for students to use their power to support trans rights
There is an Irish Times advertisement outside the business building of Trinity College that shows a picture of a bomb going off, with the bolded, capitalised text “expect opinions that will challenge you.” Walking past this sign, shortly after reading …
The Students’ Union should be working for students, not for College
Recent Students4Change action has exposed the inadequacies of the union’s response to College’s re-opening
Once again, students have found themselves in the familiar space of giving out about College’s opening. Trinity’s inadequacy and lack of communication seems to come like clockwork every August, with Covid only exacerbating this problem.
The return to campus was …
Making a #MeToo for us all
Five years after the birth of the #MeToo movement, what has changed?
It has been almost five years since the #MeToo movement ushered in a reckoning on how we look at sexual assault and sexual misconduct. At the time, it felt like both the end of the world and the beginning of …
College has a moral responsibility to abolish the scholarship exams
Schols operates as little more than a reproduction of privilege and elitism
The scholarship exams (or schols) in College occupy an unusual place in the campus imagination: often glorified as the hardest examinations students can take, they occupy a symbolic function as much as a material one. However, given the material rewards …
Protest over College’s failure to divest from fossil fuel industry in Front Square
The protest was organised by Fossil Free TCD and the SEC Initiative in response to College’s ongoing investments into fossil fuel companies
Today at noon, a protest was held in response to College’s ongoing investments into the fossil fuel industry in Front Square.
The protest was organised by two student organisations, Fossil Free Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the Systemic Environmental Correct …
The #BloodForAll campaign is laudable, but we must push even further
The Irish Blood Transfusion Service’s rules are discriminatory against a number of marginalised groups, and any political action must be representative of this
In June this year, for the first time since the 1990s, the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) imported 115 units of blood from the NHS due to a shortage of home-donated blood. When this was reported, people took to Twitter …
Limerick students staying in hotels due to lack of traditional accommodation
Mary Immaculate College Students’ Union has made an arrangement with hotels to provide students with accommodation
As students return to campus across the country for the first time in 18 months, many have struggled to find housing.
In Limerick, a number of students are currently staying in hotel rooms, as they cannot find alternative accommodation, RTE …