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Yesterday, Cabinet confirmed that sixth year secondary students will sit the traditional Leaving Certificate examinations this summer.
Last year, Leaving Cert students were offered the choice to sit in-person exams or receive accredited grades, with the Junior Cycle cancelled altogether. …
This article contains discussion of sexual harassment, violence and rape.
Earlier this week, the Department of Higher and Further Education published the findings of their survey on sexual violence and harassment in third level education. This report contained some highly …
At 9am on November 29, when schools around Ireland were beginning the week’s classes, the temperature across much of Leinster was 1°C. Most of those same schools are currently conducting classes with all their windows open to provide ventilation and …
The 26th annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, usually referred to as COP26, concludes today (November 12). As the 118 private jets that gathered in Glasgow for the meeting …
This article contains discussion of violence, including sexual violence.
Last week, Wayne Couzens became the first police officer in the UK to be sentenced to a whole-life order, for the murder of Sarah Everard. This differs from a life sentence, …
The Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) has become a running joke of sorts, with many in Trinity spending the past couple of months eagerly waiting to see what goes wrong next. Last week, that joke became (depending on your perspective) either …
Trinity has not bathed itself in glory since classes returned on September 13. The issue of this newspaper published on September 7 featured an editorial decrying the administrative incompetence displayed by College year after year, amplified in particular by the …
Benjamin Franklin once said that there are two certainties in life: death and taxes. For students enrolled in this university, it may be more apt to say there are three: death, taxes, and the incompetence of College administration. There have …
Trinity News is proud to lend its support to the Trans Writers’ Union’s boycott of the Irish Times.
The paper has demonstrated a vehemently anti-trans editorial line in recent months, through repeatedly selecting transphobic opinion articles and reader letters …
The Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) sabbatical elections are finished, and the Electoral Commission (EC) has declared that both incumbents, President Gisèle Scanlon and Vice-President Abhisweta Bhattacharjee, have been re-elected. Not only does this outcome bode ill for the union, but …