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Irish presidency has evolved significantly in recent years
Once considered largely ceremonial and “above politics,” the presidency has evolved significantly in recent years, writes Gail McElroy, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy in a piece for The Conversation.
22 Oct 2025
Research|Society
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Two Trinity inventions feature in TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2025 list
Two Trinity-nurtured inventions with their roots in the School of Engineering – an AI sensor and data centre cooling tech – have made TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2025 list.
22 Oct 2025
Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research|Sustainability
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No benefit of ketamine for patients hospitalised with depression, clinical trial reports
Researchers from Trinity College, St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland, investigate use of twice-weekly ketamine infusions as an add-on treatment for inpatients with serious depression
22 Oct 2025
Health|Research
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What goes up must come down – scientists unearth “universal thermal performance curve” that shackles evolution
This “UTPC" seemingly applies to all species and dictates their responses to temperature change. It essentially “shackles evolution” as no species seem to have broken free from the constraints it imposes on how temperature affects performance.
21 Oct 2025
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Trinity team poses deep-space questions of mysterious dark energy
Astrophysicists are leading a project (TiDES) that will improve our understanding of the mysterious “dark energy” that comprises roughly two-thirds of the Universe and is responsible for its accelerating expansion. Their project kicks off as the revolutionary 4MOST facility captures its first light.
21 Oct 2025
Research|Science
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Trinity’s Rosie Lavan co-edits definitive collection of Seamus Heaney’s poetry
The long-awaited publication of the definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s poetry co-edited by Dr Rosie Lavan, School of English, was celebrated at an event in Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Bellaghy.
20 Oct 2025
Culture|Research
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Trinity researcher contributes to landmark European Cancer Prevention Code
Professor Quentin Crowley, from the Discipline of Geology in Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences, has contributed to the fifth edition of the European Code Against Cancer (ECAC5), which officially launched this weekend at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress in Berlin.
20 Oct 2025
Environment|Health|Research|Science
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"It changed my life”: 90-year-old former Trinity English student recalls university in the 1950s
“It changed my life at that age. I went there straight from a very strict English boarding school so the freedom was just wonderful. We just talked and talked and talked.”
20 Oct 2025
Arts|Community
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€4.3m Erasmus Mundus Grant awarded for new international Master’s in Applied Drama and Arts Education
Carmel O’Sullivan and the School of Education help secure the first ever Erasmus Mundus in applied drama and arts education in Europe.
20 Oct 2025
Arts|Culture|Research
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Extraordinary story of “world’s first multinational” corporation subject of 2025 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture
Historian and author William Dalrymple told audience of the remarkable rise and fall of the British East India Company at Trinity Long Room Hub’s Annual Edmund Burke Lecture
20 Oct 2025
Culture|Research