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Neuroscience offers new insights into how our brain solves ‘the cocktail party problem’

Sara Carta and Prof. Giovanni Di Liberto from Trinity's School of Computer Science and Statistics write about the implications of their work that shows some people can briefly follow more than one conversation at once. This was first published by The Conversation.

18 Sep 2026

Research|Science|Society

Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity, Christopher O’Sullivan, reopens Trinity College Dublin Herbarium

Trinity’s Herbarium contains up to half a million preserved plant specimens, representing three centuries of Irish botanical research. Its transformation was supported through a €1.5 million investment from the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

17 Sep 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

The EU Kids Act could actually work, says Trinity expert

"We need a whole systems, integrated approach and that involves absolutely the big tech companies but it involves the children, parents, and caregivers and teachers as well."

17 Sep 2026

EU Presidency

Three Trinity researchers receive funding from HRCI-HRB scheme

Mark Cunningham, Martin Barr and Michelle Spirtos received Health Research Board funding in collaboration with Epilepsy Ireland, Breakthrough Cancer Research and Muscular Dystrophy Ireland.

16 Sep 2026

Awards and Funding|Health

Electric dreams, libraries for democracy, & accidental apologies — Arts and Humanities Research Festival returns for 4th year

The annual Arts and Humanities Research Festival returns from 18-28 September with a programme of free talks, panel discussions, and more.

15 Sep 2026

Arts|Community|Culture|Research

Eavan Boland plaque installed on Trinity's Library

Eavan Boland was one of the foremost women in Irish literature, publishing many collections of poetry, a memoir Object Lessons (1995), as well as teaching and lecturing in Ireland and in the US.

15 Sep 2026

Arts|Community

Scientists discover how to decode weather on faraway, deep-space worlds

Scientists from Trinity have developed a powerful way to unravel the changing weather patterns on distant worlds.

15 Sep 2026

Research|Science

Trinity research shows agricultural fungicides drive evolution of multidrug resistance in soil microbes

Separate Trinity study finds that the combination of warming temperatures and fungicides disrupts microscopic life beneath our feet, negatively impacting plants growing in the soil.

11 Sep 2026

Environment|Health|Research|Science

Culture Night 2026

Trinity College Dublin is host to several events during Culture Night on Friday 18th September. Join in the fun during this annual public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts, all over Ireland.

11 Sep 2026

Culture|Society

Oíche Chultúir 2026

Beidh roinnt imeachtaí ar siúl i gColáiste na Tríonóide don Oíche Chultúir an Aoine bheag ar 18ú Meán Fómhair. Glac páirt sa spraoi san ócáid bhliantúil phoiblí seo a dhéanann ceiliúradh ar an gcultúr, ar chruthaitheacht agus ar na healaíona ar fud na Éireann.

11 Sep 2026

Culture|Society