36 years. Enough time to fall in love, have a kid, and climb the ranks of a workplace. But in the case of 49-year-old Mary Byrne, 36 years is the duration of time that she has struggled with anorexia.
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Biting the hand that feeds you? Calls to boycott St. Patrick’s Day at the White House
Trinity News interviews Irish government officials to explore the controversy surrounding calls for the boycott of the Taoiseach’s annual trip to the United States for St. Patrick’s Day in opposition to U.S. funding to Israel
“I think you need to be very careful about any idea of boycotting, the Irish relationship with the United States is a very long standing one, a very valuable one, on many, many dimensions.”
So said Mary Lou MacDonald in …
Gianna Care: Misinformation on a bathroom door
How one anti-abortion agency is using stickers, a staple of campus, to market itself as a women’s health organisation
There are so many stickers and posters dotted around campus that they become easy to ignore. The battle for our attention never seems to stop and the backs of bathroom doors are a consistently popular target for advertising new societies, …
Communications & Marketing race: Beth Strahan wants to put the spotlight on engagement
Final year Drama and Theatre Studies student Beth Strahan wants to “make an impression on an audience, but this time the audience is the SU.”
Beth Strahan is a senior sophister student from Belfast running for TCDSU Communications & Marketing Officer. She is running in one of the most contested elections of recent years against current TCDSU Engagement Officer Connor Dempsey and final year student …
Communications & Marketing race: Sarah Murnane wants to “Make the SU Craic Again.”
The fourth-year History and Politics student envisions a more “relevant”, community-centric, and transparent Union
Sarah Murnane is a Senior Sophister History and Politics student making a bid for this year’s Comms & Marketing race. In an unprecedented election year, Murnane is one of three candidates vying to become the Comms & Marketing Sabbat Officer, …
Communications & Marketing race: Connor Dempsey wants to “burst the bubble” of inaccessibility surrounding the Students’ Union
The fourth-year politics and sociology student is focused on improving procedure for class rep elections, making SU communications more accessible and visible, and increasing student engagement with SU-led activism
Fourth year politics and sociology student Connor Dempsey has spent his four years of university being, as he put it, “fairly too involved in campus.” He has served as Classes officer of DU modern languages since his second year and …
Oifigeach na Gaeilge: Tá taithí agus údarás ag Pádraig Mac Brádaigh – an éireoidh a phleananna?
Mac Brádaigh: “Ta gach taobh de shaol na Gaeilge i gcoláiste feicthe agam”
Ní stráinséar é Pádraig Mac Brádaigh do chúrsaí Gaeilge sa choláiste nó cúrsaí Aontas na Mac Léinn. Mar Oifigeach na Gaeilge reatha an aontais agus cinnire an fheachtas YesGaeilgeTCD, tá sé ag tarraingt ón a thaithí leis an nGaeilge agus …
Ents Race: Peadar Walsh promises accessibility and support for societies as the “life-blood” of college
JCR Ents officer hopes to organise a intervarsity boycott on inaccessible venues within Dublin in an effort to improve accessibility and accountability
Peadar Walsh, a senior freshman in computer science, linguistics and French, is the sole candidate for this year’s Ents race. Walsh, who hails from Mayo, serves as the current JCR Ents officer and is an active participant in the DUDJ …
Welfare & equality race: Hannah McAuley intends to “lean more towards people than policy”, focusing on how to make the college experience “easier” for all
McAuley views connecting students to the services they need as underpinning the role
If there is one word to describe Hannah McAuley’s time at Trinity, it is varied. The final year radiation therapy student began her time on campus in 2019 before College was forced online in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. …
Welfare & equality race: Nathan Harrington has passion, but lacks plans
The junior sophister geography and sociology student says that his experience in Scouts Ireland has led him to become a “welfare advocate”
Having spent last semester on exchange in California, Nathan Harrington is campaigning to become the next Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) welfare and equality officer, in order to “get back into” the union. “There’s no way to be more …