It begins again: the promises, the campaigning, the stunts, the hustings, the polling, the count. Each year, a new selection of our fellow students step forward to represent each and every one of us in all negotiations with the college …
Haiti buckles under post-quake rescue
The quake shook buildings and roadways for ten or fifteen seconds, smashing infrastructure and ending lives. An early estimate put the death toll at three hundred. However, roads and homes had been unusually empty due to a baseball match between …
Old Trinity: Taking your college time
THE CLOCK above the entrance to the Dining Hall was once the only public clock in college. It’s not particularly remarkable to look at, but it once eschewed standard timekeeping for the nobler, and slightly tardier, college time. College time …
Head to Head: Early Retirement
James Kelly:
Last week in the United Kingdom, equality watchdog the Equality and Human Rights Commission backed the plans of the Labour government to stop forcing workers to retire at the age of 65, and to give them more flexible …
Society Column: Art is Love
An Arts Festival in Trinity? Up until five years ago the idea was unheard of, but now it is one of the highlights of the academic year, a week to brighten up the dull February days. Why have I decided …
A new Republican renaissance
If Democrats had any doubt that the Party is in dire straits, they were set straight by the Massachusetts Special Senate Election for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat that saw a conservative Republican unknown defeat the highly popular state Attorney General …
Politicians’ health: public or private?
There was much buzz in the press last week about Channel 4’s Sunday night drama, Mo. The portrayal of the late Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam and her incendiary brand of politics was a great success for the broadcaster, earning …
Pratchett calls for “assisted death”
The acclaimed author has relaunched the euthanasia debate with a recent BBC lecture.
Among all the mysteries of neurology, there’s an old argument that an active brain is the best defence in protecting oneself from diseases of the mind. However, …
Editorials
Education committee unearths hidden gems of information
This month saw the Provost, alongside his fellow university heads, sit before the Oireachtas Education Committee, as reported on page one of this issue. The information extracted at this meeting was quite considerable: …
Bollywood’s brokeback
A film by Bollywood director Sanjay Sharma entitled Dunno Y … Na Jaane Kyun is giving India’s movie-going public its first on-screen gay kiss. This comes after a High Court ruling last year legalising homosexuality. The film’s plot explores an …