Articles
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Higher prevalence of asthma linked to unhealthy living conditions in Dublin South Inner City community
New research has found that residents of Oliver Bond House flats in Dublin’s south inner city are 2.4 times as likely to have asthma in their medical records, compared to other patients attending the same general practice living locally.
23 Jan 2024
Health|Research|Society
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100 trees given away to mark launch of Trinity’s Sustainability Strategy
Key targets of the strategy include reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 51% by 2030 and reaching net zero emissions by 2040 across all categories of emissions.
24 Jan 2024
Community|Environment|Sustainability
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Ever wondered what could have been?
A new lecture series hosted by the Department of Philosophy aims to help the public channel their inner philosopher.
31 Jan 2024
Research|Society
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Dave Fanning’s AI defamation case is at a new frontier of litigation
The Achilles’ heel of generative AI is its pervasive tendency to spoof. This is giving rise to mind-bending legal issues - along with complaints from authors and artists, writes Deirdre Ahern, School of Law, in a piece originally published in The Irish Times.
26 Jan 2024
Research|Society
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New European consortium launches to enhance space observation
Researchers from Trinity are among those whose work will build towards advancing our scientific observation and understanding of the Universe as a new consortium (ERIC) launched this week.
25 Jan 2024
Research|Science
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Trinity boosts sustainable aviation fuel research with new partnership
This adds a fresh dimension to Trinity's work on SAFs, which now involves four main projects with a shared goal of making air travel better for the planet.
25 Jan 2024
Business|Research|Sustainability
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Best wishes to Senator David Norris
Trinity says a fond farewell to David Norris who has retired from Seanad Éireann after 37 years as a Senator.
25 Jan 2024
Community
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Trinity research pivotal in Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment, with heat extremes to become more frequent and severe
Technological advancements will only deliver short-term benefits if Ireland doesn’t take steps towards transformative change according to the report, which saw contributions from Trinity researchers.
25 Jan 2024
Environment|Research|Science|Society|Sustainability
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Rape has been outlawed for 1,400 years, yet we’re still arguing about how to define it
Directives on combating violence against women have a long history as does wrangling over what defines rape, writes Prof Jane Ohlmeyer in a piece first published in the Irish Independent.
29 Jan 2024
Culture|Research|Society
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Hope for ‘the most common form of dementia that no-one has heard of’
Trinity research team awarded €2.49m by the Health Research Board to investigate Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) which accounts for 20% of the nearly 65,000 people with dementia in Ireland, but fewer than 5% of those affected receive a formal diagnosis.
29 Jan 2024
Health|Research|Society
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Silent fields: a cocktail of pesticides is stunting bumblebee colonies across Europe
Trinity's Professor Jessica Knapp writes, along with colleagues, about a recent study and the concerning results it delivered with regard to the plight of some of our precious pollinators.
29 Jan 2024
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Friendship is crucial for refugee children – here’s how to talk to your child about being welcoming
Rachel Hoare, Director of the Trinity Centre for Forced Migration Studies at Trinity College Dublin writes in The Conversation about the importance of encouraging your children to be welcoming and inclusive towards refugee children.
30 Jan 2024
Community
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Medieval chants bring 15th century St Brigid’s Day celebrations back to life
Sacred chants found in precious medieval manuscripts are shedding fresh light on the cult of St Brigid and how her feast day was celebrated in 15th century Ireland.
1 Feb 2024
Culture|Research
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Trinity Tree of the month - the Giant Redwood
This month we are bringing you one of our old ‘native’ tree species, Sequoiadendron giganteum, referred to as Giant Redwood or Wellingtonia. These are some of the most massive trees in the world, with the tallest living specimen standing at 84m tall with girths of 35m. They can live almost 3,500 years, making some of them the oldest living organisms on earth.
31 Jan 2024
Sustainability
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Instapoetry is successful and there’s nothing wrong with that
Instagram poetry should be taken more seriously by the establishment, writes Rafael Mendes Silva, PhD candidate at the School of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies in this piece for The Conversation.
1 Feb 2024
Culture|Research
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Eight students graduate from Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities
The graduates - James Conlan, Jodie Daly, Oscar Daly, Conor Dunne, Liam Foley, Jack McFadden, Cliodhna O’Rourke and Diarmuid Owens - completed 18 modules over two years of full-time study.
1 Feb 2024
Community|Students
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Giving voice to children in refuge from domestic violence
Trinity report evaluates a child-centred and trauma informed project to support children in refuge from domestic violence at Meath Women’s Refuge and Support Services (MWRSS). The study represents the first time that research has been conducted with children in refuge in Ireland.
21 Nov 2023
Health|Research|Society
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Mindset change needed to fight biodiversity loss
If our loved ones were at risk of collapse, we’d do anything to help them recover. We need to do the same for the planet, writes Prof. Jane Stout in The Irish Times
6 Feb 2024
Community|Sustainability
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Anxiety, cognition and emotion in the human brain
The Inaugural Lecture of Prof Sonia Bishop will take place on Tuesday 13th February at 6.15pm in the Robert Emmet lecture theatre.
6 Feb 2024
Arts|Research
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New lab allows scientists to test impacts of climate change in precisely controlled infrastructure
Scientists in Ireland are now able to study the impacts of past, current and future climate change in precisely controlled climatic and atmospheric conditions.
6 Feb 2024
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability