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TCDSU Votes to Renew Four Part-Time Officer Positions
The mandates for the positions had run out at last council so the union had to rerun elections for the positions.
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UCCSU Launches Food Bank for Struggling Students
UCCSU Welfare Officer Naoise Crowley said the union wants to take 'innovative and practical steps' to support students in need.
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UCD, DCU and TUD Issue Mumps Warnings
Several Dublin universities have circulated information to students about mumps over the past number of weeks.
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TUDSU Blasts ‘Out of Touch’ Taoiseach After Meeting on Student Issues
Officers from TUDSU condemned Taoiseach Leo Varadkar after a meeting in Merrion St this afternoon.
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Library To Introduce Desk Hogging Monitors
The new monitors will be postgraduate students, and will be introduced in the upcoming revision period.
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Trinity’s Stevie Robot Graces Cover of Time Magazine
The robot made the front cover of Time after a successful pilot in a Washington retirement community.
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At First Meeting, Trinity PhD Campaigners Seek to Define Themselves
There were more questions than answers this evening at the first meeting of Trinity's new PhD campaign group.
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Trinity Unveils New Tropical Mural in Botany Building
The mural was drawn by London-based artist Josephine Hicks, and celebrates Trinity's link to Thailand.
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Government Offers €500k for Second Round of EU Universities Project
The second round will help create new EU networks, after Trinity and DCU signed agreements with other European universities earlier this year.
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Vitamin D Deficiency Causes Poor Muscle Function in Over-60s, Finds Trinity Study
New research from the Trinity-based Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing has found a link between vitamin D and muscle function.