We start in the coffin room. Gus Nichols, head of Nichols Funeral Directors, is giving us a tour of their premises on Lombard Street. He thinks it would be an interesting place to start, and he’s right. There aren’t many …
Rory O'Sullivan is a former Contributing Editor and Comment Editor of Trinity News, and an Ancient Greek graduate.
Editorial: Trinity students should be against hazing, bugging, and defunding
The nuance of the debate has been lost in the agenda-driven storm
And so another controversy at Trinity has become a national outpouring of anxiety and rage, and all middle-ground or nuance has disappeared. Everyone is now either for The University Times or against them, for progressivism and press freedom or censorship …
TUDSU walk out of USI Congress in fee protest
The protest occurred after Congress refused to discuss a TUDSU motion to cap and reduce the USI affiliation fee
Delegates from the Technological University of Dublin Students’ Union (TUDSU) have walked out of the Congress of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), following a motion proposed by the USI President to conduct a review of the fee that …
Editorial: Bugging has destroyed the integrity of the University Times
Any student is liable to bugging if the University Times does not face serious consequences
In 2015, the University Times’ staff insisted that the Editor take a leave of absence from the newspaper after details of emails that the Central Societies Committee had provided on the condition that they not be referred to in an …
In my eighth year of competitive debating, I’m quitting for good
A parting love letter to one of College’s most popular and most maligned activities
At the top of the “extracurricular” section of my CV, it says that I reached the semi-finals of the European Debating Championships (Euros). It was in August 2017 at the Tallinn Euros, my first major university competition with my long-term …
Trinity has more important things to do than attacking smokers
Tobacco Free Trinity is premised on fudged numbers and exclusion
The strangest thing I have seen in a long time: Provost Patrick Prendergast and three others breaking apart a giant cigarette-piñata in Front Square with hurleys, to inaugurate Trinity’s tobacco-free campus policy. Go and have a look at the video …
Editorial: The RONs that got away
Contributing Editor, Rory O’Sullivan, and Editor, Niamh Lynch, weigh in on the prominence of re-opening nominations as an option in this year’s TCDSU Comms race
At the time of writing, there is a chance that, for the first time in recent memory, an unopposed candidate will lose an election to RON. Muireann Kane is polling at 56% among decided voters in the Communications and Marketing …
Editorial: Activists are being left behind in favour of SU egos
Both TCDSU and USI continue to sideline grassroots campaigners in order to take leadership positions themselves
Every now and again, one of us has to go to some kind of event catered to students’ union representatives. They tend to keep to a formula: finger food, wine, a guest appearance from a high-flying Dublin professional – a …
Poor management has left TCDSU in a perilous position
The Union’s accounts for 2017/18 are a thorough indictment of the operating practices of last year’s Union leadership
The accounts for TCDSU in 2017/18 are a thorough indictment of the operating practices of last year’s Union leadership. The deficit is more than four times that of 2016/17. That year, the Union had a deficit of €14,837. Last year, …
Editorial: De Rís’ putting a strain on Trinity’s relationship with USI, with no apparent upsides
It’s hard to see what the point of all of this pinning of colours to mastheads from Shane de Rís is
The contents of Budget 2019 have evoked fiery responses from student political leaders all across the country. Some of them have even managed to become fiery with one another. TCDSU President Shane de Rís circulated an email to all USI …