Ireland's Oldest Student Newspaper
Tommy Gavin
Deputy Editor
Apathy, indifference; the weariness that begs the question of whether it’s even worth the effort of paying attention, and ultimately concludes that it’s not. Apathy allows the voter an escape from the compromise of trying to …
Tommy Gavin
Deputy Editor
My primary role as President will be to represent this State. But the State is not the only model of community with which Irish people can and do identify. Beyond our State there is a vast …
Elaine McCahill and Tommy Gavin address the massive cuts to student services announced recently.
Editor
The news in recent weeks that student services, through the form of the Capitated bodies, are due to be cut again is …
Deputy Editor
Deputy Editor
Taoiseach Enda Kenny defended plans to increase fees for Freedom of Information requests on November 13th, calling the fee “relatively small.” He went on to dismiss widespread outrage over the Freedom of Information Bill 2013 from …
Deputy Editor
In a document obtained by Trinity News of a correspondence made to the HSE by a woman with motor neuron disease, the patient, who is extremely impaired by her ailment, is told that failure to gather …
Tommy Gavin
Deputy Editor
Approximately 170 young people were in attendance for the Young People’s Assembly in Liberty Hall last Saturday. The assembly was the first event of its kind, as a broad assembly of Irish youth in response to …
Tommy Gavin
Deputy Editor
In an Ireland characterised by at least supposed youth apathy, feminism remains one of the few things that can mobilise or polarise people. There has been a surge of feminist activism from groups in recent years, …
Tommy Gavin
Deputy Editor
Tommy Gavin reported from Istanbul during the Gezi Park protests in June. With protests having been rekindled at the start of September, a new wave of mass action has begun but with the same underlying motivations. …
