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, was a guest on a radio programme providing expert comment on RTÉ Radio 1 Divine Sparks with Áine Lawlor on 23 January 2026: From Pews to Power: Faith and friction across the United States.
Dr Kisito Futonge Nzembayie, Trinity Business School, has written an article on Generative AI stating that it has not broken assessment, but it has exposed its weaknesses, in the Times Higher Education on 20 January 2026: When GenAI makes answers cheap, assessment must value judgement.
Professor Daniel Geary, School of Histories and Humanities, has written an opinion piece on the US president’s speech at Davos where he repeated his determination to possess what he keeps calling ‘that piece of ice’ in the Irish Times on 22 January 2026: Donald Trump's claim that he won't take Greenland by force not reassuring. (Subscriber content)
Deirdre Mac Mathúna, School of Education, is quoted in an article saying more must be done at Government level to combat online content which can give rise to the belief that the Holocaust is a myth in the Irish Times on 25 January 2026: Why do one in 10 Irish youths believe the Holocaust is a myth? (Subscriber content)
Dr Claire Moriarty, Visiting Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy and the Trinity Long Room Hub, was a guest on radio to discuss how playing board games can provide lasting benefits for brain function and development, improving numerical skills in children. Newstalk radio on 21 January 2026: Research finds board games beneficial to numeracy skills in children.
Dr Davide Romelli, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy. This article about central banks cite research from Trinity's Prof. Davide Romelli, an expert in central bank independence in The Economist on 14 January 2026: It’s not just the Fed. Politics looms over central banks everywhere.
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. A new collection of essays titled ‘The Irish Proust, Cultural Crossings from Beckett to McGahern’ and edited by Dr Max McGuinness and Professor Michael Cronin, Department of French, is the feature of a book review in the Irish Independent on 20 January 2026: In The Irish Proust, academics investigate the ‘Irishness’ of the French modernist author. (Subscriber content)