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Sustainability Leadership Awards 2026

Provost Linda Doyle and Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action Jane Stout kicked off the awards held in Portal on Monday 9th March as part of Trinity's 24th annual Green Week. The awards are in their fourth year running, an initiative conceived and led by Sustainability Manager Jane Hackett.

11 Mar 2026

Sustainability

Mental health toll of flooding in Ireland highlighted in new research

The psychological impacts of flooding in Ireland often far outlast the physical damage, according to new research from Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University and National College of Ireland.

12 Mar 2026

Research|Society

“Is Tábhachtaí Dea-cháil ná Saibhreas"

Mar dhuine de bhunaitheoirí Chonradh na Talún sa bhliain 1879 is fearr cuimhne ar Mhícheál Dáibhéad sa lá atá inniu ann, ach bhí sé ina iriseoir fiosrúcháin freisin agus ina fhear feachtais agus aighnis ar son chúis an phoblachtachais, leasú chóras na bpríosún, oideachas nach mbeadh faoi stiúir eaglaisí agus cearta pinsin.

12 Mar 2026

Culture|Research

Community and inclusion celebrated at 35th Trinity Student Society Awards

TCD Women’s Health, Trinity VDP, and DUDJ were among the winners at the 2026 Student Society Awards.

18 Mar 2026

Community|Society|Students

Groundbreaking Trinity research reveals “leaky” brain barrier as driver of chronic brain damage in retired combat and collision sports athletes

The work, led by teams at Trinity and the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Centre, has pinpointed the mechanism linking some sports injuries to poor brain health in retired athletes.

18 Mar 2026

Health|Research|Science

A record 264 second-level 'Scholars’ graduate from Trinity

Delivered through Trinity Access Programmes (TAP), the Scholars Ireland initiative introduces Junior Cycle students to university-style learning and helps them see higher education as an achievable pathway.

19 Mar 2026

Community|Society|Students

Machine learning could help predict how people with depression respond to treatment

Trinity researchers have found that a machine learning model could help clinicians predict which people with depression are more likely to improve with digital cognitive behavioural therapy compared to antidepressant medication.

19 Mar 2026

Health|Research|Society

We are in a digital version of the enclosures – like the landowners, big tech has power without responsibility

Nana Nwachukwu, PhD Candidate based in Trinity's AI Accountability Lab, writes for The Conversation, saying the recent Grok controversy represents the endpoint of a longer withdrawal from the responsibilities that once accompanied control of digital infrastructure.

9 Mar 2026

Business|Culture|Research|Science|Society

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

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