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.
Mike Becker, School of Law, is quoted in this article about hearings at the International Court of Justice in Middle East Eye on 07 September 2026: Germany asks ICJ to dismiss Gaza genocide case brought by Nicaragua.
Professor Christine Casey, School of Histories and Humanities. A further obituary published writes that she was a ‘deeply caring’ internationally renowned scholar who envisaged architecture as a social endeavour, in the Irish Times on 07 September 2026: Christine Casey obituary: Architectural historian an intellectual powerhouse with a wry twinkle. (Subscriber content)
Alan Eustace, School of Law, is referenced in an article on the use of AI in colleges in The Irish Independent on 04 September 2026: Students will inevitably use AI but is it always cheating? (Subscriber content)
Dr Georgina Laragy, School of Histories and Humanities and Aoife Bhreatnach have written an article on their concern about the potential loss of records of ‘immense value’ following the Data Protection Commission’s recent fining of the HSE and ordering them to ‘audit stored records and ‘safely destroy’ any containing personal data that are no longer needed’ in the Irish Times on 08 September 2026: The HSE has been ordered to destroy some patient records. This is wrong. (Subscriber content)
Dr Barra Roantree, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, features in a number of media items, following the publication of an Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) report which he co-authored: ‘Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland: Sixth annual report’. The report finds that there is a ‘Sharp rise in child poverty despite strong growth in average incomes’.
- Irish Times on 08 September 2026: Call for new child benefit tier amid rise in number of children living below the poverty line (Subscriber content). ESRI ‘finds levels higher when housing costs factored in’.
- RTÉ website on 08 September 2026: Sharp rise in child poverty despite strong growth in average incomes. ‘One in 10 children are deprived of basic necessities as Ireland sees a sharp rise in child poverty despite a strong growth in average incomes, research suggests’.
- RTÉ Radio Morning Ireland on 08 September 2026: Sharp rise in child poverty despite strong growth in average incomes. Dr Barra Roantree, Assistant Professor of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, discusses the findings of a new report which show that 200,000 children are now living in households below the poverty line.
- RTÉ Radio News at One on 08 September 2026: New research shows a rise in the number of children living below the poverty line. Further coverage of the report.
- Irish Examiner on 08 September 2026: Number of children living below poverty line rises by 30,000, bringing total to 200,000. 'The ESRI’s annual report on poverty, income inequality and living standards found child poverty increased by 2.5% in 2024, leaving the Government “very far” from its target of reducing the rate to 3% by 2030'.
- Belfast Telegraph on 08 September 2026: 'We need to do more', Taoiseach says as child poverty rises. The article references the ESRI report and quotes Dr Roantree, 'Our findings suggest that it is important to account for housing costs in the measurement of child poverty, something the Government’s official 2030 target does not do'.
- The report is available on the ESRI website here: Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland: Sixth annual report.