It’s official - dog walking is good for older people’s health
Trinity College Tilda study shows benefits include socialisation, fewer falls and less fear of falls and injuries
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CAO 2025: A guide to some lesser-known courses
From a bar management apprenticeship to a BA in content creation
How law professor Diarmuid Phelan was acquitted of the murder of a trespasser
Defence argued gun in Phelan’s pocket was ‘his last and only line of defence’ in emotionally charged situation involving Keith Conlon
‘The records sought do not exist’: ‘Golden visas’ granted under €1.25bn scheme but no list of investment beneficiaries
Lack of even a basic list raises questions about how the scheme was monitored
A berry merry Christmas for the birds
Many native trees and shrubs provide natural bird food over several months in the winter
Caricature and the Irish: Satirical Prints from the Library of Trinity College, Dublin c 1780-1830
This selection provides a stimulating guide to the collection of graphic satire engravings assembled by Nicholas K Robinson, one of Ireland’s less well-known cultural treasures
‘People make assumptions about us’: How third level is becoming a real option for people with intellectual disabilities
Universities are providing more programmes for disabled students - but learners say we need to do far more to promote greater inclusion in education
Trinity’s Science Gallery will not reopen after failing to find sustainable business model
University to transform flagship exhibition space on Pearse Street into campus’s first student centre
How to achieve farming sustainably in a globally connected world
We have many of the technological tools needed to make significant reductions in emissions
Irish firms lagging European peers on AI policies
Report highlights gaps in policies around aspects of artificial intelligence
Labour historian and trade union activist Jack McGinley dies
Former Trinity College librarian ran Uniskin Press and was prominent member of the Irish Labour History Society
Grade inflation falls at Irish universities following concern over integrity of degrees
Fewer students awarded first-class degrees but proportion of high achievers is 40% higher than in 2015
Goodbye to the 46A: End of legendary Dublin bus route made famous in song
The bus memorialised by Bagatelle, which runs from Phoenix Park to Dún Laoghaire, is a cross-section of the city, geographically and socially. It will soon be replaced by a 24-hour service
Trinity provost Linda Doyle: ‘I met Paul Mescal last week here in Trinity. Very cool’
Dr Linda Doyle is the first female Provost of Trinity College Dublin. She is a professor of engineering and the arts
Comedian Rachel Galvo: ‘Anyone can tell I have not been through many hardships, I’m a very privileged person’
Up-and-coming comedian Rachel Galvo talks mental health, finding her feet and being a Shite Feminist
Government provides funding to conserve Robert Fisk’s archive at Trinity College Dublin
Veteran war reporter’s records over 50-year career include notes from interviews with Osama bin Laden
Irish company turns unopened cigarette filters into buttons and fashion accessories
About a tenth of cigarettes are destroyed; Rezero aims to capitalise on that destruction
Suad Aldarra awarded Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
Syrian-Irish writer’s memoir I Don’t Want to Talk About Home was published in 2022
Study involving Trinity scientists reveals origins of ancestor to domestic cattle
Aurochs spread from Asia into Europe and Africa before going extinct in 1627
University open days: when they take place and what makes each university unique
Key details about 2024-2025 open days for UCC, UCD, TCD, UL, Maynooth University, University of Galway, DCU and RCSI
In a Word ... Wilding
I cannot walk by the front lawn at Trinity College Dublin without being reminded of my father
Cop summits must address biodiversity and climate crises in an integrated way
Alignment of biodiversity and climate finance would enable win-win solutions to be more easily implemented
Sally Rooney’s moral imagination was forged by an arts education. It’s a sector we can’t afford to neglect
The creation of a single research agency has raised alarm bells among arts and humanities scholars who fear it will divert more funding towards Stem
Why are so few places and streets in Ireland named after women?
The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
Have your say on honouring Irish women: Are there any Irish streets, buildings, places or structures that should be named, or renamed, after women?
Which women should have places, streets or structures around Ireland named after them? We would like to hear your thoughts
Student protest: Anger over accommodation crisis, but will they vote for Sinn Féin?
Students staged a walkout from lectures to give a message to the Government that they are not satisfied with the costs of education
Sam Thompson: ‘I really don’t think there is a distinction to be made between writing for adults and writing for children’
Thompson’s new book, The Forest Yet to Come, is part of the Wolfstongue saga, which began as a direct response to his son’s difficulty with speech
A New York Times book critic spent five days in Dublin. Here’s how he got on
The city is a soulful playground for the kind of people who have spectacles on their nose and autumn in their hearts
Why do so few students from Northern Ireland attend college in the South?
A-level conversion rates, the career guidance culture and cost of living are among reasons why just 1% of CAO applicants are from the North
The Irish Times view on Trinity College’s renamed library: a natural process of change
Some argue that removing George Berkeley’s name is an ahistorical imposition of contemporary values on the complexities of the past
Private college graduates to be excluded from extension of Seanad election voting rights
Minister says legislation is ‘genuine attempt’ to start reform as university Senators claim Bill is ‘disgrace’, and will keep Upper House as ‘rubber stamp’
Eavan Boland, who wrote about women’s lives, is a better fit for Trinity than slave-owning Berkeley
Names and their meanings are philosophically complex. It would be unwise to re-name everything called after a figure whose troubling personal legacy comes to light. The TCD library was different
Trinity College Dublin renames former Berkeley Library after poet Eavan Boland
The Eavan Boland Library will be the first building on Trinity’s campus to be named after a woman
Trinity College Dublin drops five places to 139th in world university rankings
Of the nine Irish universities ranked five dropped, three remained in same position, and one, Dublin City University, improved
Geneticist Aoife McLysaght due to be appointed Government science adviser by Cabinet
New national science forum to enhance ability to respond to challenges such as climate change and pandemic threats
Jack Chambers: The man carrying Fianna Fáil’s hopes into the next election
Budget 2025: The stakes are high for the youngest Minister for Finance in more than a century as he prepares to present his first budget on Tuesday
TCD study: Lower attention abilities in teenagers linked to later cigarette and cannabis use
Research may guide ‘the development of targeted educational programmes and cognitive training interventions to improve attention in adolescents identified as vulnerable to substance use’
ChatGPT on campus: ‘Silicon Valley overlords have unleashed one of their ingenious, idiotic products, dismissing the downsides’
Trinity College Dublin lecturer and author Kevin Power gives his take on students’ use of AI to help them with exam papers
‘We’re facing huge issues at the moment keeping kids in school’: Meet three Irish groups making a difference to young people’s lives
Not everyone gets the same start in life, but some organisations are doing their best to address disadvantages
Visits to Irish museums and galleries topped pre-Covid levels in 2023
Guinness Storehouse is the Republic’s most-visited fee-charging attraction, welcoming close to 1.5m people
Nature-based solutions to climate change are all around us
Our planet is experiencing rapid climate changes because nature is unable to keep pace with human activity
‘Witness trees’ to track Irish climate change over coming decades
TCD researchers to also pinpoint which species best clean air and eliminate smog
‘What’s up with the dude wall?’ Rows of portraits of men should have no place in Irish education
The problem with academic portraiture is that it sustains the myths of meritocracy and obscures privilege
Student accommodation crisis: ‘Renting in Dublin is pretty much impossible’
Students from commuter towns around the country are stuck in suboptimal living situations with no sign of things changing
From Big Tom to John McGahern: New digital archive celebrates Border’s artistic legacy
Ireland’s Border Culture records work of artists living along the Border from 1921 until today
‘Honestly, really disappointing’: Graduating Trinity College students dismayed at Campanile being off limits
Trinity College Dublin’s bell tower is currently subject of repair works, scuppering upcoming graduation photos
Student accommodation crisis: Three applications for every bed on campus
Dept of Education paper says universities cite significant increases in demand for accommodation
Sally Rooney: A bluffer’s guide to the Irish author’s novels
As Intermezzo is published, here is a quick reminder of Sally Rooney’s previous bestsellers and their screen adaptations
Irish universities risk ‘quiet and gradual decline’ due to funding shortages, Trinity provost warns
Prof Linda Doyle warns of ‘a slow retreat from competitiveness and attractiveness’ as world-class education threatened by high student-staff ratios
Making microscopy more sustainable
Research Lives: Dr Lewys Jones, Ussher assistant professor in ultramicroscopy, Trinity College Dublin
The joy of talking to humans in your own language: ‘I see you signing. I can sign. Can I help you?’
Demand for ISL courses has accelerated in recent years, leading to a shortage of teachers for the language
‘I was perhaps very naive leaving a €3,000 bike locked outside a building under a CCTV camera’
The rise in popularity of more ‘desirable’ expensive bikes has led to bicycle theft becoming more targeted, says one victim
Concern mounts over student accommodation availability as CAO offers issued
‘We have been given no options at all, we’ll just have to take what we can get or pay through the nose for it’
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