College

Normal People Helped Me Come To Terms With The Loss Of My Sligo Accent

Aoife Kearins, a Sligo native, on losing your accent when you come to Dublin – and how Normal People inspired her to get back to her roots.
By Aoife Kearins

Gisèle Scanlon Elected GSU President, With Record Voter Turnout

Abhiswetta Bhattacharjee won the race for the GSU's vice-presidency, after an online election that saw over 670 postgraduates vote.
By Donal MacNamee

Explainer: What We Know About Trinity’s Plans for a New Normal on Campus

This week, this newspaper published a slew of details about the options Trinity is considering for getting back to teaching next year.
By Emer Moreau and Donal MacNamee

UCD Considers Saturday Classes and Reduced Number of Modules Next Year

UCD is considering a raft of provisional changes for teaching next year, the College Tribune has reported.
By Aoife Kearins

Undergraduates Set to Return End of September, Exams in January 2021

Postgraduate students will ‘possibly’ start at the end of October, as College plans for a combination of online and in-person teaching next year.
By Emer Moreau

Students Have Long Opposed Direct Provision. Jane McNamara Wants Them to Understand It

The journalist has just released a podcast – edited by Trinity student Ellie O'Neill – that explains every aspect of direct provision in Ireland.
By Susie Crawford

Ahead of a College Directive, Students Sweat On the Fate of a Year Abroad

Students will find out the fate of next year's Erasmus and Study Abroad programme tomorrow. For many, there's a lot riding on the decision.
By Emer Moreau

Trinity Graduate Naoise Dolan to Have Debut Novel Adapted for TV

Exciting Times will be produced in the US by Black Bear Pictures, the company that produced Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game.
By Donal MacNamee
Analysis

Battling the Odds, Can Gisèle Scanlon’s ‘Caring’ GSU Protect Fretful Postgrads?

After a turbulent year for the GSU, incumbent vice-president Gisèle Scanlon is bidding to lead postgraduates through an uncertain future.
By Sárán Fogarty

Two-Metre Rule Could Mean Only 20% of Students on Campus for Lectures

Vice-Provost Jurgen Barkhoff told a meeting of University Council that an online learning experience for incoming freshers ‘was not ideal’.
By Donal MacNamee