Catch up with Faculty staff in the media this week, speaking on their research and helping our understanding of current issues.

Professor Stephanie Holt, School of Social Work and Social Policy. The research report commissioned by Women’s Aid on which Professor Holt was chief investigator and was carried out by colleagues from the School of Social Work and Social Policy Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork, has featured in further media articles: The report is available on the Women’s Aid website and is entitled ‘Exploring How Victim-Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse Experience Navigating the Irish Family Law System in Guardianship, Custody and Access’.

 

Dr Eoin O’Dell, School of Law, writes that the government should learn the lessons of the current chapter of the Adams case, and amend the bill to prevent libel tourism, strengthen the public interest defence, and retain the possibility of juries in appropriate cases in the Sunday Business Post, 08 June 2025: Analysis: Gerry Adams’ High Court win shows need for urgent defamation reform (Subscriber content).

 

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer and Dr Immo Warntjes, School of Histories and Humanities, and colleagues from the School of Genetics feature in the first episode of a new RTÉ four-part documentary series about the history of Ireland ‘From That Small Island - The story of the Irish’. Watch the episode on the RTÉ Player.

Please see also the news item on this series on the FAHSS News webspage.

 

Dr Rachel Hoare, Director of the Centre for Forced Migration Studies and School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, and Dr Gillian Wylie, School of Religion. Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka was interviewed by Near FM radio on the occasion of his public lecture on 06 June 2025 entitled ‘Building Resilient, Cohesive Communities and the Challenges of Global Migration: The Irish Experience’ at an event hosted by the Centre for Forced Migration Studies in Trinity College Dublin. Please listen here to the interview on Near FM.

Please also see the news item on the 27th Wole Soyinka lecture series event held in Trinity College on the FAHSS websote.

 

Professor Ronan Lyons, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, provides expert comment on rent pressure zones in the media.

 

Alan Eustace, School of Law, provides expert comment in an article about suspension in the workplace in the Irish Times 09 June 2025: Employee suspensions lasting more than a decade ‘extraordinarily rare’, say lawyers. (Subscriber content)