Dublin City Council is requesting “additional information” after Trinity College lodged an additional application for the proposed student centre. This leaves College with a total bill of €54,781.80 in application fees alone for the Luce Hall development, excluding fees for …
TN2 Book Club Podcast: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
You can find the podcast here. Featuring Books editor Cillian Murphy, Maire Dennis and Sean Doocy.…
Film Review: The Road
The Road
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron
Running Time: 111 minutes
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Pure Celluloid Cool: Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Le Samouraï”
A man lies alone in bed. Immaculately dressed in a tight, dark suit he takes a drag of his cigarette, blowing the smoke into a thick pillow of fog above him. The room is empty save for a chair, table, …
Talking Eds: The Yule Never Get Everything Edition
This week, the Eds discuss what they think of Christmas, and debate TN2’s Top 100 Picks of the Decade. What got in that shouldn’t have? What’s missing that really should be there? What the hell is Oil Crisis 2.0? All
The Big Interview: Peter Sutherland
Peter Sutherland has done a little bit of everything. A career at the bar turned in to becoming Attorney General, which in turn led an EU Commissionership, then head of the World Trade Organisation, chairman of some of the biggest …
Victory for GSU
Both the Students’ Union and the Graduate Student’s Union have managed to reach an agreement which Union President Cónán Ó’Bróin claims will “solidify their relationship for the future”.
The vital talks, which were held predominantly to deal with the issue …
Investigation to probe fees
Trinity College students are already paying tuition fees, according to internal College accounts. The government cut funding to the University and its response was to increase the Registration Fee to make up the difference. …
College plans 3000 increase in student body by 2014
The College plans to increase the number of students by 15% to 18 000. This is just one of the many aims the College has set themselves as laid out in the Strategic Plan 2009-2014.…
Union stages Library sit-in
The Students’ Union held a sit-in in the Library over the weekend to protest at cuts in library services. Sixty students occupied the Berkeley Library from closing time on Saturday for twenty hours in protest at cuts in the Library …