Catch up with Faculty staff and Postgrads 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.
Nora Corcoran, Postgraduate student in the School of Social Work and Social Policy, who recently participated in a special event ‘the Path Less Travelled’ with the Provost Dr Linda Doyle, at the Trinity Long Room Hub, marking both Traveller Ethnicity Day and International Women’s Day, is the feature of a media article.
- Irish Independent on 23 March 2026: Master’s student at Trinity College Dublin wants to better the lives of Traveller children in schools. (Subscriber content)
- Please see also the news article on the School of Social Work and Social Policy website on 20 March 2026: The School of Social Work and Social Policy proudly celebrates the achievements of Nora Corcoran.
Professor Massimo Faggioli, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies, appeared in multiple media items providing expert comment:
- Le Monde on 19 March 2026: American Peter Thiel fails to promote in Rome the figure of an antichrist opposed to new technologies. (Subscriber content)
- TV Interview with Deutsche Welle (in English) of Sunday 22 March 2026 (on YouTube): US President Donald Trump rejects Iran ceasefire call from the world's first American pope.
Professor Ronan Lyons, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, author of a recent Daft.ie Report is featured in a number of media articles on house prices and supply.
- Irish Times on 26 March 2026: Irish housing market no longer ‘overheating’, but price pressures remain, says Daft.ie.
- Irish Independent: Average house prices are 42pc higher than before Covid as supply remains low.
- Kildare Post / Kildare Now on 25 March 2026: Price of property in Kildare rising higher than national trend - survey.
- Echo Live on 26 March 2026: Housing market could be ‘cooling’ as prices rise by 3.7% in a year.
Dr Aoife Lynam, School of Education, writes about grief, the different theories and approaches to it, and her research on how the ‘death of a loved one in childhood can have a profound effect throughout the lifespan’ in The Conversation on 20 March 2026: The grief myth: it doesn’t come in stages or follow a checklist - like love, it endures.
Chiara Marchetiello, PhD student, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, has written an article on how moving hands are not simply expressions of temperament but symbols of language contact, regional identity, and social change on the RTÉ Website 18 March 2026: Is it really true that Italians speak with their hands?
Professor Christopher Morash, School of English, appears on radio to talk about the continuing strength of Irish fiction writing on Newstalk’s Moncrieff show on 24 March 2026: Are we in the golden age of short stories?
Professor Eoin O'Sullivan, School of Social Work and Social Policy, is a co-author on this opinion piece that challenges the view that Dublin had no homelessness problem in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Irish Times on 22 March 2026: Homelessness has been a problem in Dublin for decades. (Subscriber content)
- The article references the authors recent book, Understanding Homelessness in Ireland Since Independence: Decades in the Making, By Eoin O'Sullivan, Mike Allen and Sarah Sheridan. Further details on the book are available on the publisher’s website here.
Dr Barra Roantree, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, was a guest on radio to discuss the hospitality VAT rate on RTÉ Radio 1 Drivetime on 25 March 2026: Should the pending hospitality VAT rate cut be postponed?
Trinity Business School. Trinity's three MBA courses are included in this round-up of MBA courses in Ireland in an article in the Irish Times on 24 March 2026: MBA courses in Ireland: A guide to some of the most popular options. (Subscriber content)
School of Law. Daragh Dunne, Conor O’Dempsey and Conor Metcalfe have won the 11th annual Irish Red Cross Corn Adomnáin international humanitarian law (IHL) national competition for law students. Irish Legal on 24 March 2026: Trinity students win annual international humanitarian law competition.