Comment & Analysis

Government’s Science Funding Plan Kills Vital Research
Focusing entirely on applied science hurts research opportunities and graduate job prospects

Editorial
Incompetence in Choosing a Date for the Referendum
The date chosen by the government for the marriage equality referendum suggests complete incompetence.

Editorial
Accountability in an Institution that Tries to Hold Everyone Else to Account
The Editorial Board responds to recent revelations of plagiarism.

Contribution
Who Gets to Name What?
The opening of Kinsella Hall is a hopeful sign for the future of higher education funding in Ireland
Editorial
Universities Deserve Praise for Success in Spite of Climate
With significantly less funding than top institutions across the world, Irish universities should be praised for staying up there.

Editorial
Praise for Challenging the College Admissions System
We shouldn't shrink from change, and regardless of the outcome, investigating it is worthwhile.

Defending Trinity’s Challenge of the Admissions System
Professor Patrick Geoghegan responds to an Irish Times op-ed piece and accuses it of taking a cheap shot at the students admitted by the study.

Contribution
The Trinity Fox: Folklore
Our resident fox talks us through some of the folklore in and around Trinity.

Contribution
More Than A Bit Of Sport
Ahead of the Sports Centre preferendum, Daniel O’Brien weighs up all the options and sees a need for change.

Contribution
Fear and Loathing in the Ussher Tower
Battling it out in the under-seated and oversubscribed libraries.