Whenever humanity has invented something remarkable in the past, we have used it to make our lives easier. From the Printing Press to the PC, from irrigation to automation, we have a remarkable ability to evolve by changing the tools …
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The monkey on my back
A student recounts her struggles balancing college with work
In the last six months alone, I have walked out of the hotel where I work as a waitress on two separate occasions for what I thought was the very last time. And each time, like a classic scene in …
Trolling empowers hate movements
A failure to take trolls seriously is detrimental to debate and prevents real discussion of far-right ideals
Cases of internet trolling, and our responses to them, are hard to categorise because they are incredibly varied in how damaging their effects are. On the one hand, if you take to Facebook to gush about how ketchup is your …
The squalid meal of results-based thinking
A creeping careerist ideology is damaging our third-level institutions
I have a proposal for a restaurant in College, and this seems as good a forum as any in which to launch it. Its momentum has been gathering over a number of years through the steady debilitation of confidence in …
We must be a community
President-Elect Kevin Keane lays out his vision for the Students’ Union in the coming year
A strong sense of community is vital for an enjoyable college experience. Lectures and assignments are important, but it is your experience of community that will make you drag yourself out of bed in the morning, and it is the …
What I’m really thinking: A working class student from the country
Stacey Wrenn writes about her experience dealing with privilege on Campus
When I was in Montessori school, my teacher sold me the “Disney” line that I could be whatever I wanted to be and I believed her. I went home and did some digging in the back garden with my dad …
My emotions will always be in the dark
Stories like mine are still taboo in this country
So it’s mental health week. I talk about my mental health a lot, and there are many people out there who do. Newspapers, TV stations, Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with pieces and opinions on mental health. But what …
Trinity is not doing enough to commemorate its female students and academics
Eleanor Jones-McAuley recounts the history of Trinity’s women, and how it has been erased over time
To the left of the Campanile in Front Square sits a statue of a man whose reputation is founded almost entirely upon one sexist comment that he may or may not have actually made. George Salmon, who was provost at …
The unity debate is overlooking an important distinction
Lorcan Mc Laren explains why those who are pro-unity should still vote neutral in this week’s preferendum on Irish unity
Debate on the prospect of a unified Ireland is often characterised as impervious to logic and deeply personal. Beliefs on both sides are formed by the community in which one grows up and most people, north and south of the …
“A neutral vote is a vehicle for Unionism”
On Tuesday and Wednesday of next week Trinity students will be asked to take a position on reunification of Ireland. Two campaigns have arisen around the yes campaign and a vote for the SU to take a neutral stance. The …