Catch up with Faculty staff in recent media. Providing knowledge and understanding through their writing, speaking, research, and expert comment.
Listings are in staff alphabetical order. Any School items appear at the end of the listings. Please click on the relevant link(s) in each section to access the media item.
Professor Massimo Faggioli, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies, appears in a number of media items:
- Professor Faggioli was interviewed as part of this documentary on Pope Leo XIV on ARD News (German language) on 29 April 2026: Papst Leo XIV. · Weltgewissen oder Kirchenmanager?
- Newstalk Radio Pat Kenny show on 03 May 2026: In review: Pope Leo XIV's first 12 months.
- The Telegraph on 07 May 2026: Anti-war Pope reaps reward from battle with Trump. The same article is available on AOL.
Dr Elisabetta Magnanti and Dr Mark Faulkner, School of English, received further global coverage of their discovery of a 1,200-year-old manuscript in Old English of Caedmon’s Hymn, and they also published an article about the discovery.
- An article by Dr Magnanti and Dr Faulkner was published in the Conversation on 30 April 2026: We found a lost copy of the earliest surviving English poem in a medieval manuscript in Rome.
- Newstalk Radio Moncrieff show on 30 April 2026: Copy of world’s oldest English poem discovered by TCD Researchers!
- BBC World Service Newshour on 30 April 2026: Dr Mark Faulkner is interviewed about the oldest known poem in English. Clip starts at 18 minutes 20 seconds.
- BBC Newsround on 30 April 2026: Earliest poem written in English has been discovered.
- La Repubblica on 29 April 2026: Poesia inglese di 1200 anni fa scoperta grazie agli archivi digitali della Biblioteca Nazionale.
- Smithsonian Magazine on 30 April 2026: Researchers Discovered a Lost Copy of the Oldest English Poem, Composed by an Illiterate Cowherd More Than 1,300 Years Ago.
Dr Barra Roantree, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, appears in a number of media items, as he is one of two economists invited to address the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance on 06 May 2026 to discuss the proposed Irish government savings scheme.
- Dr Roantree, is expected to tell the committee that the Minister for Finance’s proposal to model the new Irish savings scheme on the Swedish ISK system will mean the biggest gains accrue to high earners, reports the Irish Times on 06 May 2026: Government savings scheme could puncture another hole in Ireland’s tax base, says expert.
- Dr Roantree is one of the academics who will warn against adopting Swedish model reports the Irish Independent on 06 May 2026: Tax breaks for investors will favour wealthy, senators and TDs to be told. (Subscriber content)
- Take-up for the savings scheme “will be low” among the bottom 20% of earners in Ireland, Oireachtas committee is told. The Journal on 06 May 2026: Harris' saving scheme would favour wealthy and 'be another hole in our tax base', economists warn.
- 'History is ripe with examples of where rushed tax legislation leads to bad consequences’, Dr Roantree informed the Oireachtas committee, in the Irish Times on 06 May 2026: Savings scheme should be delayed rather than poorly designed, economists warn.
Professor Ian Robertson, Fellow Emeritus, School of Psychology, has written an opinion piece on the risk to our brains in using AI, writing that the ‘Superhighways of our minds need plenty of exercise to strengthen and sculpt intelligence’ in the Irish Times on 02 May 2026: Every time we take the easy route and let AI think for us first we risk weakening our brains.