The much anticipated Irish Student Drama Association Festival took place from 8th-13th March. The 62-year-old festival comes to Dublin every eight years, with DU Players being this year’s host and organiser in what is one of the highlights of the …
Union warns of precarious Library hours
Cal McDonagh
Staff Reporter
Sunday library openings are under review once again and the Students’ Union has warned that “there is a chance that this service will be pulled” if it is not made use of. Education Officer Ashley Cooke …
Ó Broin plans to scrap officers in USI campaign
Students’ Union President Cónán Ó Broin has been nominated as a candidate for the Deputy Presidency of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), an organisation he is openly critical of.
Ó Broin is running on an unofficial joint ticket …
Trinity first preference as CAO applications soar
Trinity College remains an alluring prospect for this year’s CAO applicants. There was a six percent increase in first preference applications this year, representing an increase of almost 500 prospective undergraduate students. The incease was spread across each of the …
College to boost economy
College has appointed ten new spin-out companies designed to exploit the latest innovation in technology and research, all in the name of the University of Dublin.
The companies, which will be based on Campus, are designed to aid Trinity’s science …
Historic books go under the hammer
The 21st annual Trinity Second-hand Booksale took place last week, featuring over 30,000 novels, journals, pamphlets, guides and reference books. The event, which is Ireland’s largest charity booksale, went on over three days, from Thursday 18th March to Saturday 20th …
Scientific discovery gives new hope to asthma sufferers
Scientists in Trinity College have discovered a new way to help treat allergies and asthma.
Researchers from both Dublin and Cambridge worked together to identify a previously unknown white blood cell involved in allergic responses, called a “nuocyte”.
The new …
Jumping through hoops for welfare week
Welfare Week kicked off on Monday last, featuring a programme of events aimed at raising awareness of the mental health services available to students in Trinity.
Welfare Officer Cormac Cashman described the week as a response to the rising mental …
Mary Robinson speaks to the Hist
Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson chaired the annual Historial Society’s RnL Debate, which took place on March 15th in the Public Theatre, Front Square.
The motion was: “That This House Believes that the Modern Irish Woman Has No Need …
“An Éigse is fearr riamh i ndáiríre”
Tharla féile bhliantúil Ghaeilge an choláiste, Éigse na Trionóide, ón 8ú go dtí an 12ú Márta. Bhí sé eagraithe ag an Chumann Ghaelach i mbliana, mar a bhíonn gach bliain, agus ghlaoigh Fiona Ní Mharráin, oifigeach teicneolaíochta an Chumainn, “an …