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Professor Tomás Ryan among four researchers to secure €10.5 million European Research Council Synergy Grant

Prof. Ryan, from Trinity’s School of Biochemistry and Immunology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, is among a four-strong, international team of researchers who will now seek to discover how memory may control the immune system.

12 Nov 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

The View from Trinity: What’s next for Ireland’s trade union movement?

“And it’s hard to make predictions about this, but it looks as if the trend is good, that union membership will probably grow as a result of this industrial action. That’s normally what happens across Europe when there’s industrial action. So we might expect to see an increase in membership for trade unions."

10 Nov 2026

Community|Research|Society

Trinity research shows no link between water fluoridation and cognitive decline in older Irish adults

“Our findings provide reassurance that lifetime exposure to fluoridated drinking water at the levels used in Ireland is not associated with poorer cognitive function in older adults,” said Dr Vinay Sharma, from Trinity’s School of Medicine, who is lead author of the study.

10 Nov 2026

Health|Research|Science|Society

Half of Irish businesses are failing to address skills gaps despite increase in AI adoption, survey finds

According to the research, a key obstacle to digital upskilling is time and resource constraints, with three quarters (74%) of respondents naming it among their top three barriers to learning and development.

10 Nov 2026

Innovation|Research

The View from Trinity: “It can only be read as a repudiation of Trump”

"I think the polls had suggested the Democrats would have a very good night, but it turned out to be really a great night for them. Not just the scale of the victories, I suppose, but the places where they won, where you wouldn’t have thought they would have stood much of a chance at all, or where they hadn’t won in a very, very long time."

4 Nov 2026

Research|Society

Trinity spinout Oghma wins €500,000 to help turn scattered data into scientific breakthroughs

Oghma has developed an AI platform for scientific R&D that rapidly processes unstructured, scattered data into a useable form.

4 Nov 2026

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Science

“There’s an awful lot of talk about menopause…but I never really got the whole cardiac thing…”

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, and the risk rises during the menopause years. But an international study has revealed that only half of women know this.

28 Oct 2026

Health|Research|Science

Brain Tumour Awareness Week: meet Dr Oliviero Gobbo and learn about his work

Dr Gobbo is Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Trinity, and co-founder of the Irish Neuro-Oncology Society. He believes innovative approaches in nanomedicine may lead to improved treatments in the future.

27 Oct 2026

Health|Research|Science

Trinity scientists discover how cancers evade chemotherapy by entering “Zombie-like state”

And in lab experiments using human cells, they also found that specific compounds selectively killed tumour cells driven into this "Zombie-like state" by chemotherapy, offering hope for improved treatment.

23 Oct 2026

Health|Research|Science

Youth protests across Europe: the overlapping crises facing Gen Z

From climate change and mental health concerns to academic pressure, housing costs, job and economic insecurity, today’s young people are navigating a complex set of expectations, writes Alina Cosma, School of Psychology, writes in a piece first published in The Conversation.

22 Oct 2026

Research|Society