In this year’s first episode of the Trinity News Podcast, we discussed the topic of women in leadership with three prominent leaders in College life – Kate Fahy, Auditor of LawSoc, Aisling Greene, Chair of Science Society, and Niamh Lynch, …
Majority female line-up contest TCDSU elections
Six women and four men make up the candidates running for the six sabbatical officer positions
Ten candidates will contest this year’s Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) leadership race, of which six are women, with Laura Beston becoming the first female Presidential candidate since Lynn Ruane in 2015. This a considerable change from last year’s …
2018 in Trinity: Your most read stories this year
As 2018 draws to a close, we look back at some of the biggest and most read stories reported by Trinity News in the past year
In a year defined by widespread activism and typical Trinity mistakes, Trinity News is taking a look at the most read news stories of 2018.
January
January started with complaints made by students sitting Schols exams after numerous errors, and …
Editorial: Accountability is lacking in the Capitations Committee
Students deserve transparent access to the accounts of capitated bodies
The capitated bodies’ accounts came before the Capitations Committee last Thursday, with full coverage and analysis published in the News section of this issue of Trinity News. Those bodies include Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU), the Central Societies’ Committee …
Students deserve better than student newspapers profiting off the housing crisis
It is hugely hypocritical to take money from luxury student accommodation blocs, while also telling housing activists how to run their campaigns
When the University Times posted an advertisement for the private luxury student accommodation bloc #LIVStudent on its Instagram account this week, many students were shocked. Such was the strength of the criticism to this post, the University Times felt that …
