Student profiles
Sarah Maye
One of the Best Decisions of My life
3rd year Mature student
Becoming a Successful Graduate
I am now a 38 year old male mature student entering the 3rd year of my degree course. I am very proud of my academic achievements in the past two years with the help and support of the Disability Service in Trinity College.
Delia Villiers
My Journey So Far
Mathematics: Well I have only been studying at Trinity for 6 months, however, I can say the Disability Service is friendly and very welcoming.
Church of Ireland Theological Student
Getting Good Grades
As I am based at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, and am not frequently in Trinity, the team have facilitated me with suitable appointments.
Ann Kenny
Sound Advice
Social Studies:I had worked since I left school and gradually developed a hearing loss. I never told anyone at work and found that a strain. When a redundancy package was offered I decided to leave.
Peter Finn
Academic Success & New Social Horizons
Dr. Zehanne Kenny
Fun experiment! Try to be Me For a day!
Phd - School of English: I began studying for my PhD at the School of English in 2005. One of the first problems I encountered was the amount of computer based infiltration into virtually every aspect of the academic system. I am not a 'technophobic', merely someone who gets bad (understatement) headaches from being close to a computer; let alone trying to use it.
Sean Herlihy
TCD 2004-05
HDip in Education: I went to see a friend of mine who was doing a volunteer placement in The Gambia. She was teaching deaf children and had to leave her class for three weeks to do some training and asked me to come over and cover for her, so I did. Teaching the students was wonderful, and that was when I realised this was what I wanted to do.
Patricia Mary McCarthy
Experience of College Life
PhD in Education: My name is Patricia and I am a person with duel disabilities. I have a severe form of Rheumatoid Arthritis which means that I have limited use of a number of joints, experience significant pain at times and have to pace myself due to chronic fatigue which is a side effect of this form of arthritis.
Emma Clarke
Take Two!
Dental science / Physiotherapy: I never thought twice about going to College; it was the generally assumed path to take. I was in mainstream and did quite well, probably due to the fact that you can learn and reproduce everything from your text book bibles! However, what I didn’t realise was how unprepared I would be for the challenging transition from second to third level.
Rosaleen McDonagh
Me and Trinity
M. Phil in Creative Writing: I’d met this fella, really good looking: dark hair, brown eyes, and a smooth way of talking. He was animated, political and most of all, he had a thing for Travellers. A positive thing. He was studying Arts. At the time I didn’t know what that meant!
Postgraduate student
Trinity Success
I arrived at Trinity College as a first year graduate student, with a diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome. Being quite label conscious, I was slightly apprehensive that when accessing support services, I would be met by someone who wouldn’t see past the diagnosis or that they would preach to me about the latest techniques for dealing with the condition.