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National AI Leadership Forum unites sectors to secure Ireland’s AI future

Hosted today at William Fry’s Dublin office, the Forum brought together senior representatives from Government, academia, industry, regulators, and civil society. The ongoing goal is to develop a shared roadmap for Ireland’s global leadership in the development and use of safe, ethical, and human-centric AI, to build a successful AI future.

25 Sep 2025

Business|Innovation|Research|Society

One Battle After Another – this movie is a powerful exploration of US today

The new film, One Battle After Another, suggests that there is still a place for challenging filmmaking in today’s culture, writes Ruth Barton, School of Creative Arts, in a piece for The Conversation.

25 Sep 2025

Culture|Research

START headlines a week of Trinity festivals connecting research, researchers and the public

Trinity is excited to welcome the public to a week of festival activities, events and demos headlined by the START (Start Talking About Research Today) Festival, which takes centre stage on Friday.

23 Sep 2025

Dr Abeba Birhane joins world leaders at AI summit at the Vatican

Dr Birhane, Director of the AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) in the ADAPT Research Ireland Centre at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity, recently took part in the gathering on AI and the future of humanity at the World Meeting on Human Fraternity.

19 Sep 2025

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Trinity team to improve electric vehicle batteries after winning National Challenge Fund prize

A team from Trinity’s School of Engineering has won a prize in the National Challenge Fund competition, which was established under the Government of Ireland’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP).

17 Sep 2025

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability

Flags, failure and fighting climate change — the Arts & Humanities Research Festival has it all!

Trinity’s annual Arts and Humanities Research Festival returns from 22-26 September with a week-long programme of talks, panel discussions, and performances.

16 Sep 2025

Culture|Research|Society

Managing ‘ditch-scapes’ can strengthen communities and the environment

A global study reframes ditches as multifunctional waterways with the potential to improve community resilience, water quality, biodiversity and environmental outcomes.

15 Sep 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Scientists discover how nanoplastics disrupt brain energy metabolism

Scientists from the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI) have discovered how nanoplastics – even smaller than microplastics – disrupt energy metabolism in brain cells. Their findings may have implications for better understanding a suite of neurodegenerative diseases.

15 Sep 2025

Environment|Health|Research|Science|Sustainability

Parents see quality of life improvements in children with impaired walking thanks to mobility assistance dogs

Parents report improvements in physical activity, social engagement and family life in their children in the first qualitative assessment of its type led by researchers from Trinity.

12 Sep 2025

Health|Research|Science

Social lifetime experiences have long-lasting effects on mental and brain health

Lifetime significant experiences, in particular the social ones, are the fabric of our identity. But what about their impact in our health?

12 Sep 2025

Health|Research|Society

Real-time Liffey data drives community engagement and environmental planning

The River Liffey Water Sensors Pilot, developed by UTS Technologies in collaboration with Smart Docklands, has demonstrated how real-time environmental data can empower local communities, support sustainability, and improve decision-making for everyone who interacts with the river.

10 Sep 2025

Community|Environment|Research|Sustainability

Trinity spin-out ProVerum secures $80 million in funding to accelerate commercialisation of innovative medical device

The largest investor funding round ever raised by a company to have spun out from an Irish university will help develop a device that reshapes enlarged prostates and relieves symptoms associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia.

9 Sep 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research|Science

TILDA findings highlight the urgent need to rethink health and social care for older people

The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) has released its ‘Wave 6’ findings which points to challenging times for Ireland’s older population.

9 Sep 2025

Health|Research|Society

Child poverty at similar levels to financial crisis when housing costs accounted for

The latest ESRI report on child poverty was co-authored by Trinity economists Barra Roantree, Mide Griffin, and Tara Mitchell.

9 Sep 2025

Research|Society

Immunotherapy before surgery offers a potential new treatment for rare cancer

An early phase clinical trial published in Nature Medicine show that patients with mesothelioma - a rare cancer of the lining of the lung - who received a combination of two immunotherapy drugs before surgery had successful surgeries and encouraging early outcomes

8 Sep 2025

Health|Innovation|Research

Why the Norman conquest still has a powerful hold over British culture and politics

Britain appears to be a nation on the verge of Norman-conquest mania, writes Millie Horton-Insch, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, History of Art Department, in a piece for The Conversation.

8 Sep 2025

Culture|Research

Voluntary nature market with nature ‘credits’ could unlock private finance for Irish ecosystems

A Voluntary Nature Market – featuring nature ‘credits’– has the potential to close the multi-billion-euro nature funding gap in Ireland, according to a new report published today by Trinity College Dublin and BiOrbic Research Ireland Centre for Bioeconomy.

5 Sep 2025

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Geneticist Dr Lara Cassidy secures ERC Starting Grant to bring a millennium of hidden human history to life

Dr Cassidy’s success makes her the eighth researcher in Trinity’s Department of Genetics (School of Genetics and Microbiology) to secure a prestigious ERC award.

4 Sep 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

New wearable scanner a game-changer for brain research in Ireland

A new €2M scanning system in Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience will help researchers understand the brain and identify earliest signs of brain disorders.

4 Sep 2025

Research|Science|Society

Electrical stimulation reprogrammes immune system to heal the body faster

Scientists from Trinity have discovered that electrically stimulating “macrophages” – one of the immune system's key players – can “reprogramme” them in such a way to reduce inflammation and encourage faster, more effective healing in disease and injury.

2 Sep 2025

Health|Research|Science