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From that Small Island documentary scoops award at Newport Beach Film Festival

From that Small Island documentary, which features a host of Trinity researchers, traces the story the Irish—from first inhabitants to a global diaspora of 80 million plus.

19 Nov 2025

Culture|Research

Study identifies powerful opportunity to act on dementia prevention

New research from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) highlights a widespread prevalence of treatable risk factors for dementia among older adults in Ireland, many of which remain under-treated.

17 Nov 2025

Health|Research|Society

Transforming Care: collective research leads the way in tackling multimorbidity

A comprehensive programme of new research from the Health Research Board (HRB) Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) in Multimorbidity has provided crucial insights and evidence-based solutions to improve healthcare and outcomes for people living with multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity).

14 Nov 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Professor John Kelleher delivers inaugural lecture as Chair of Computer Science at Trinity

Prof. Kelleher delivered his lecture “Aging, Artificial Intelligence, and Outcomes: Modeling Age in Stroke Risk and Patient Prognosis” to a full house in the Trinity Business School last week.

14 Nov 2025

Health|Research|Science

Trinity researchers secure Frontiers for the Future funding to pursue cutting-edge projects

Researchers from Trinity are leading seven newly announced research projects funded via Research Ireland’s Frontiers for the Future Programme.

14 Nov 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Link between gut microbiome and autism not backed by science, researchers say

There’s no scientific evidence that the gut microbiome causes autism, a group of scientists argue in an opinion paper publishing today in international Cell Press journal Neuron.

13 Nov 2025

Health|Research|Science

Ireland’s first novel for children under the spotlight at Trinity symposium

Ireland’s ‘first’ novel for children, a coming-of-age tale published in 1794, is the focus of a talk celebrating the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the Pollard Collection of Children’s Books to the Library of Trinity College Dublin.

13 Nov 2025

Culture|Research

Trinity researchers feature in Highly Cited Researchers List of 2025

Three researchers from Trinity -- Profs. Valeria Nicolosi, Alan Irvine MD DSc, and Jonathan Coleman -- featured today in the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025 List.

12 Nov 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

“AIdeology” – research coins a radical new description of AI and how it is shaping societal beliefs

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a mere technological tool. It has already evolved into a new ideology — a system of values and beliefs that is shaping how society understands progress, sustainability, and even humanity itself.

12 Nov 2025

Culture|Research|Science

Study suggests speaking more languages might keep you younger

An international study led by Dr. Agustín Ibáñez and co-authors reveals that speaking multiple languages may slow the biological processes of aging and protect against age-related decline.

11 Nov 2025

Health|Research|Society

ARC Hub for Therapeutics supports new nasal vaccine with potential to transform respiratory disease prevention

A research team from Trinity has unveiled a groundbreaking new approach to vaccination that could redefine how we protect against respiratory infections.

10 Nov 2025

Health|Innovation|Research|Science

CONNECT celebrates a decade of pioneering research and innovation

The CONNECT Research Ireland Centre this week marked its tenth anniversary with a vibrant showcase celebrating a decade of pioneering research, innovation, and collaboration in future networks and communications.

7 Nov 2025

Innovation|Research|Science

€10 million ERC grant to investigate coercive interrogation practices awarded to Trinity researcher and colleagues

An international, interdisciplinary team of researchers, including Trinity’s Shane O'Mara and colleagues from Dublin City University, De Montfort University and Tilburg University, has secured a €10 million European Research Council grant to investigate coercive and abusive interrogation practices.

6 Nov 2025

Awards and Funding|Research

First, simple memory tool for early recognition of rare types of lymphoma

Trinity researchers, along with UK collaborators, have created a simple but powerful diagnostic tool, which they believe will change a patient’s life in the diagnosis of a type of blood cancer that shows up on the skin.

5 Nov 2025

Health|Research

Trinity launches Climate Gateway to build momentum for a resilient future

Professor of Climate Science Karen Wiltshire has spearheaded the Climate Gateway, which is designed to inform policy, develop innovative solutions, and build shared accountability. Anyone interested is encouraged to visit the Climate Gateway website and get involved.

4 Nov 2025

Ó na léarscáileanna is luaithe go dtí léarscáileanna turasóireachta na hÉireann i dtús an 20ú céad

Tá léarscáileanna ón 16ú céad de réimsí farraige na hÉireann, suirbhéireacht talún ó ré Chromail agus léarscáileanna turasóirí ón 19ú céad le feiceáil i dtaispeántas nua sa tSean-Leabharlann i gColáiste na Tríonóide.

3 Nov 2025

Culture|Research

An Dr Rosie Lavan ina comheagarthóir ar chnuasach críochnúil filíochta le Seamus Heaney

Rinneadh ceiliúradh ar fhoilsiú an chnuasaigh chríochnúil filíochta le Seamus Heaney, a rabhthas ag súil leis le fada an lá, ag ócáid i mBaile Eachaidh, baile dúchais Seamus Heaney. Bhí an Dr Rosie Lavan ó Choláiste na Tríonóide ina comheagarthóir ar an gcnuasach.

3 Nov 2025

Culture|Research

Redefining pneumonia and sepsis care

Two landmark international studies led by Professor Ignacio Martin-Loeches have been recently published in The Lancet and Nature Medicine — placing Irish critical care research firmly on the global stage.

31 Oct 2025

Health|Research

New research project will integrate agentic AI in mobile and wireless communication systems

The NAIRA project (Native AI for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Radio Access Networks) is a pioneering initiative that envisions a new generation of intelligent, energy-aware networks capable of learning, adapting, and optimising themselves in real time.

29 Oct 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Marine scientists aim to restore native flat oyster reefs around the coast

Researchers from Trinity are collaborating on a new €1.5 million all-island project, funded by the Marine Institute, to restore native flat oyster reefs and enhance coastal resilience.

24 Oct 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Study reveals how a stubborn lung infection evolves inside patients over years

Researchers wanted to know what allows the infection to hang on or come back, and whether it develops new tricks or resistances while living inside the lungs.

23 Oct 2025

Health|Research

Trinity student honoured at 2025 Hamilton Prize ceremony

Ronan Zaletel, an undergraduate in Trinity’s School of Mathematics, was honoured at the 2025 Hamilton Prize ceremony on 16th October – the day on which famed Trinity scientist William Rowan Hamilton discovered quaternion algebra in 1843.

23 Oct 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Science|Students

Ireland’s IT skills supply insufficient to meet future demand predictions

A new report co-authored by Trinity Business School has found that Ireland faces a considerable challenge to meet the future skills needs of its indigenous IT sector.

23 Oct 2025

Business|Research

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

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

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

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

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

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

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