By Michael Gilligan
LAST WEEK’S rather discreet announcement by the Government that college fees will be increased next year by between five and eight hundred euro seems to have gone largely unnoticed by the student community.
This rise in the …
A view from New Square: On the ordination of women
By Gerald Morgan
“Herkne eek, lo, which a sharp word for the nones.”
Readers of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue (c. 1395) will recall the contempt with which the Wife of Bath dismisses the arguments of St Jerome, that archpriest …
X factor too sadistic for comfort
By Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
Sod it. There’s something sinister about this year’s X Factor. Mary Byrne’s slow, ongoing collapse, the scandal over Gamu-gate and the horrific hatred that has been levelled at Katie Waissel have all left a feeling that …
Please walk Please Talk
By Paul Evans
Since the Road Safety Authority announced on June 22 the 41 percent decrease in road fatalities since 2001, Ireland has been hit with a number of road tragedies, culminating in two separate collisions in Donegal and Kerry …
Head to head: Emigration
“The idea that every Irish person will get work in Ireland is deluded.”
By Freya Foster
When the word “emigration” is used in this country, it conjures up bad memories for the Irish people: memories of the Great Famine and …
A letter from the Provost: the financial situation
Dear Staff and Students –
You are all aware from the media reports that the country is facing challenges which require drastic action on every front and we as a university will have our part to play.
Given the crucial …
Old Trinity: Good-humoured rioting on degree day
The Public Editor: Endorsing a candidate
An editorial entitled “Endorsement for Election Candidate” in the third issue of Trinity News informed the reader that the paper does not intend to endorse a candidate for the election of a new Provost in April on the grounds that …
It gave me goosebumps
By Killian McCarthy
When the Championship rolls round and the quality of your summer is reliant on the Limerick hurlers, you’re faced with a stark choice: optimism or suicide.
The fact that the former prevails could be mistaken for a …
Answering Ireland’s call
By Kate Rowan
Any rugby fan will be used to the procedure as two packs get ready to scrumage of the referee’s call “crouch, touch, pause, engage”. This got me thinking about four matches over the past month; Leinster’s win …