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There are 12 bronze faces tucked away at the back of Saint Patrick’s Park that I pass by almost every time I’m leading a tour group: Jonathan Swift, Eilis Dillon, James Clarence Mangan, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, William Butler …
Prof Patricia Casey writes in the Sunday Independent that the claims made by former president Mary McAleese regarding the high suicide risk in homosexuals are “a surprise”, “ignoring the complexity of suicide” and threaten to “muddy our discourse on the …
The Central Societies Committee (CSC) today asked student societies to remove colours associated with the movement for LGBT equality from their logos, Trinity News has learned. The ruling came after several societies changed the logos displayed on their social media accounts to incorporate the colours of …
The annual Q Soc hustings, chaired this year by former SU LGBT rights officer Stephen Hatton, allows candidates to address issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students, and outline how they plan to work for Trinity’s LGBTQ community. …
Trinity College has a proud history of student-led activism, counting among our alumni campaigners such as Mary Robinson, Mary McAleese and David Norris. While the yearly marches of the USI have become a familiar perhaps routine sight to present day …
Colaiste Eoin, an Irish language secondary school in Stillorgan, this morning cancelled a volunteer-run workshop aimed at tackling homophobic bullying.
ShoutOut, an LGBTQ charity founded by former Trinity student Eoin O’Liathain that aims to bring about “open discourse around sexual …
The climate of hatred and shame which these people were made to live in, with raids on gay discos and on the homes of suspected offenders, and treatment with brutality and force by the state, is something that no reasonable …
Writing from Amsterdam, a beacon for liberal inclusion, it saddens me to hear that my old alma mater back in Dublin recently debating whether non-LGBT rights advocates should be entitled to run for LGBT officer positions in the Students’ Union…
We all knew it was coming. The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference came out against equal marriage last week and, to be fair, it was such an inevitability that I was sure I wouldn’t care once it did. One of the …
