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.
Dr Ashish Kumar Jha, Trinity Business School and the ADAPT Centre, in collaboration with Microsoft Ireland, has published a report ‘AI Economy in Ireland 2026’. The research highlights a widening AI maturity gap between small and medium sized enterprises and large organisations in Ireland. The report features in a number of media items.
- Microsoft EMEA website on 29 April 2026: Trinity College Dublin and Microsoft Ireland Research Shows a Widening AI Maturity Gap Between SMEs and Large Organisations.
- Irish Examiner on 29 April 2026: Report by Trinity College and Microsoft shows AI 'freeing up' 5,000 hours in large firms.
- The research report is available here: AI Economy in Ireland 2026.
Dr Elisabetta Magnanti and Dr Mark Faulkner, School of English, found a 1,200-year-old manuscript in Old English of Caedmon’s Hymn. The earliest surviving poem in the English language, composed in the seventh century by a Northumbrian cattle herder, was discovered in a library in Rome. The discovery is the feature of a number of media items around the world:
- The Guardian on 29 April 2026: Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library.
- Irish Times on 29 April 2026: Rare copy of oldest poem in English language discovered by TCD researchers. (Subscriber content)
- FAHSS News webpage on 29/04/2026: New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered in Rome by School of English researchers.
- Medievalists.net on 30 April 2026: Medieval Manuscript in Rome Contains Rare Copy of Cædmon’s Hymn.
- Türkiye Today on 30 April 2026: Rome manuscript long thought lost reveals earliest known English poem.
- ActuaLitté on 29 April 2026: Le plus ancien poème anglais refait surface dans un manuscrit oublié.
- The research paper on the discovery is published in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours, an open-access journal published by Cambridge University Press and is available here: A New Early-Ninth-Century Manuscript of Cædmon’s Hymn: Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Vitt. Em. 1452, 122v.
Dr Barra Roantree, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, appears in a number of media items which feature his recent research report on his socioeconomic analysis of Dublin’s south west inner city.
- Irish Times on 23 April 2026: Crime rates and drug deaths in Dublin’s southwest inner city twice the national average, report finds. (Subscriber content)
- The report is the feature of another article in the Irish Times on 26 April 2026: Dublin’s southwest inner city needs targeted investment. (Subscriber content)
- Dr Barra Rowntree discussed the report on RTÉ Radio 1 ‘Today with David McCullagh’ on 23 April 2026: Not a blade of grass to play football on.
- Dr Roantree also discussed his report on Newstalk’s ‘The Claire Byrne Show’ on 24 April 2026: Stark social and economic disadvantages facing Dublin’s southwest inner city.
- The research report ‘A Socioeconomic Analysis of Dublin’s South West Inner City’ commissioned by Sporting Liberties, a not-for-profit organisation in the area, is available here on the Sporting Liberties website.
Professor Ian Robertson, Fellow Emeritus, School of Psychology, features in a number of media items about a talk he recently gave at the annual general meeting of the Irish College of General Practitioners, about how our mindset and how we view ageing can have a profound effect on how we function as we enter our fifties and beyond:
- Irish Independent on 26 April 2026: Irish GPs told about the secret of ‘super-agers’ and how to detect patients with the ‘wrong’ mindset.
- Irish Examiner on 25 April 2026: 'Seventy can be the new fifty' if attitudes change towards growing old.
Dr Ciarán Wallace, School of Histories and Humanities, is quoted in this article about a revamped exhibition by Dublin Cemeteries Trust in the Dublin Gazette on 26 April 2026: Glasnevin Cemetery unveils major historical timeline update.
Dr Dale Whelehan, School of Psychology, discussed why he believes that ‘we all must properly interrogate why we never seem to have enough time’ on Newstalk’s ‘The Claire Byrne Show’ on 23 April 2026: Why so many of us feel we never have enough time!