With all this miserable weather around many of us are already looking forward, with hungry anticipation, to a summer spent basking in the sun of some foreign land. For most the notion of “sun, sand and sangria” sounds like nothing …
Merchant of Myrth: Stephen Merchant Talks to TN
“I was in this club with these people born in 1990”, says Stephen Merchant on his sell-out Hello Ladies tour, “and I realized that I was the only person in this club who’s ever watched porn on VHS”. “Nowadays”, he …
Provost volunteers €1,500 pay cut
Provost Patrick Prendergast has volunteered for a €1,500 pay cut, reducing his salary from €201,492 to €200,000. …
Universities cannot herald censorship
Anyone who tries to bend the free will of those in a university will inevitably fail – for it is this community above others that prizes self-determination.…
Business before editorial?
It is easy to forget that a newspaper is at heart a business – particularly from the perspective of its journalists and readers.…
It is they who are the one per cent
First they came to Wall Street in their masses to express their outrage at corporate greed and social inequality. Then they filtered from the US to reach the North West corner of Europe. They are the self-styled 99 per cent.…
Austerity education will not sustain our College
THE HALCYON days of Hibernian education are well and truly over. …
Should Trinity have a SlutWalk? Debate 2 Feb
The Irish Feminist Network and Dublin University’s Gender Equality Society are holding a debate to discuss whether Trinity should hold its first Slut Walk.…
Daily Mail ban under scrutiny
Constitutional changes to the USI have been proposed at an Emergency Special Congress on Wednesday 18 January. …
Politically correct: Ireland has gone PD
Matthew Taylor has fond memories of the now defunct Progressive Democratic, which rocked the Irish political scene in the 1980s.…