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This academic year Trinity is welcoming four new societies: Trinity Social Democrats, DU Astrological Society, Trinity Young Greens, and DU Rover Society. Further diversifying the already broad range of societies which the university has to offer, this quartet looks set …
The climate crisis affects the entire student body. This is something which has become particularly clear in recent weeks, with large swathes of Trinity students heading to Front Square and beyond to protest environmental injustices, shouting Extinction Rebellion Ireland’s battle …
Switching to a vegan diet is the single biggest change an individual can make to reduce his or her environmental impact. By cutting out animal products – meat, dairy and eggs – one can reduce their carbon footprint by up …
Welcome, welcome. It’s week five now and the weather has really taken a turn. Lorenzo may not have gotten you a day off college, but he certainly made for treacherous journeys and depressing vistas. Honestly, this rainy weather has me …
Now that we’re four weeks into the Michaelmas term, it’s time to sort some important things out- so that we might make it through it through to the new year without complete collapse. Your schedule should just be starting to …
While executing the first pose of Wednesday’s Acro Yoga workshop, the Front Plank, I turned to my pose partners and asked, “did you guys do this when you were kids?”. This encapsulates my overall experience of acro yoga: hearty laughter, …
Week four is here. You’ve gotten a reminder from academic services that your fees must be paid pronto, and a week packed with thrilling events to distract yourself. This week there are, of course, an abundance of varied and exciting …
Human rights lawyer Wendy Lyon spoke to the Global Development Society and DUGES this week about the women’s revolution in Syria and her experience undertaking field work in Rojava, a de-facto autonomous region of the war torn country.
Lyon visited …
Trinity’s Film society has a long history of not just hosting films, but creating them too. Continuing that tradition is this year’s series of filmmaking workshops, welcoming new and continuing members of the society into the fold for presentations, collaborations …
It would take a brave person to admit to disliking the Pixies. With acclaimed albums such as Surfer Rosa and Doolittle under their belt, the Boston band were dwelling amongst the ranks of alt-rock royalty by the late 1980s. Over …