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Earlier detection, better outcomes: Irish researchers target rising bowel cancer rates with new blood test

Researchers from Trinity, Dublin City University and University College Dublin will use funding of €670,000 from Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund to develop a breakthrough blood-based screening test.

26 Mar 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Seashell saviours – Trinity team finds discarded oyster shells can clean polluted water by removing "rare earths"

New research from a team at Trinity College Dublin has unearthed a cheap and environmentally friendly new option for removing pollutants from our water. The key? Oyster shells that would ordinarily end up in landfill sites after consumption.

26 Mar 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Health and Sport Week keynote: Dr May van Schalkwyk addresses industry harm

Dr May van Schalkwyk, public health doctor and researcher gave the Health and Sports Week keynote address in Trinity Long Room Hub this week to a full house with attendees from the civil service, health services, non-governmental organisations and activists from a wide range of sectors.

26 Mar 2026

Business|Health|Society|Sustainability

Young Dublin authors bring tales of new adventures to Trinity’s Old Library

An exhibition of 55 handmade books written and illustrated by Dublin primary school students marks the culmination of the Trinity Access Programmes Bookmarks initiative.

25 Mar 2026

Community|Culture

Trinity gains in 2026 QS Subject Rankings

Named as one of the world’s top universities for the study of 43 subjects in all, Trinity now ranks 10th in the world for Nursing, up from 20th in 2025.

25 Mar 2026

Awards and Funding|Health

Why are there no gigantic dragonflies terrorising the skies today?

Gigantic dragonfly-like insects – the “griffinflies” – ruled the skies around 300 million years ago, but they have long been consigned to evolution’s graveyard.

25 Mar 2026

Environment|Research|Science

Researchers offer an exciting treatment to target the host, and not the bacteria

This published research tells us that Trinity scientists have discovered a way to “train” the immune system to better fight drug-resistant infections like MRSA and TB. Today is World TB Day 2026.

24 Mar 2026

Health|Research

“Tiny but beautifully formed”: Bronze Age spindle whorl connects ancient city of Troy to Ireland

A tiny Bronze Age spindle whorl, excavated from the ancient city of Troy, will take centre stage in Trinity this week as experts and artists gather to examine the biography of the only artefact from the ancient city of Troy in Ireland.

24 Mar 2026

Culture|Research

The grief myth: it doesn’t come in stages or follow a checklist – like love, it endures

Our ideas about “normal” grief are deeply shaped by the world we have inherited, writes Aoife Lynam, School of Education, in a piece for The Conversation.

23 Mar 2026

Research|Society

Irish Cancer Society invests in groundbreaking TSJCI research

To coincide with Daffodil Day 2026, it is a good time to explore four research projects at the Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute (TSJCI) that have been funded by the Irish Cancer Society.

20 Mar 2026

Awards and Funding|Health