The University Times (UT) withdrew its latest issue on Tuesday after reporting on the content of documents that had been provided to the paper on the condition that they not be referred to in an article.
Trinity News has learned …
phil
Phil debate sees Trinity students vote in favour of water charges
Trinity students voted not to refuse to pay water charges at a debate held by the University Philosophical Society last night. The motion “This House Would Refuse to Pay the Water Charges” was narrowly defeated following a well-contested debate made …
Human cyborg visits TCD
The first human cyborg visited College to address the University Philosophical Society and receive the Bram Stoker Gold Medal on September 9th. Catalan cyborg artist Neil Harbisson, who has an antenna implanted into the occipital bone of his skull, was …
Society awards Mandela’s former bodyguard
Last Wednesday, amidst the hustle and bustle of Freshers’ Week, a packed GMB chamber listened in awed silence to one man’s experience of apartheid in South Africa. Chris Lubbe, the most recent recipient of The Phil’s Gold Medal of Honorary …
Trans* inclusion policy adopted for Trinity debating competition
Efforts underway to better include trans* debaters
Fionn McGorry
Deputy News Editor
A summer debating competition in Trinity will feature efforts to better include trans* debaters. The gender introductions policy introduced this week by Trinity Open organisers will involve all speakers affirming their preferred pronoun at the …
Socialists threaten to sabotage Phil recruitment drive
SWSS is planning on discouraging students from joining the Phil.
James Prendergast
Deputy News Editor
– Contentious dispute reignites after Phil debates re-inviting BNP leader to Trinity
– SWSS meeting criticises “white upper/middle class” and “radical right-wing” Phil members; society responds
Trinity Socialist Worker Student Society (SWSS) is planning to …
President of the Phil recalls history of society women for International Women’s Week
Paper addressed structural difficulties in college societies for women
Fionn McGorry
Staff Writer
Billed as one of the headline events of International Women’s Week, Rosalind Ní Shúilleabháin, President of the Phil, presented a paper to the Bram Stoker Club last Wednesday on the topic of women in the society.
Nobel-winning economist: Austerity will never work
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights addresses students
Harriet Burgess
Contributing Writer
International law is by definition a system of law without force, based on the consensual agreements of states. Its utility seems questionable when used by states as a means of furthering political agendas.
In her address …