Trinity Highlights for 2023
Featured News
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Craft My Street: young people reimagine Dublin with Minecraft in Smart Docklands pilot
In a city increasingly defined by data, design, and digital connectivity, a new pilot project is giving some of its youngest residents a powerful tool for change – Minecraft.
30 June 2025
Community|Research|Society|Students
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175,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Among new treasures freely available online today for the first time are 60,000 pre-and-post famine names for family historians to explore in the new Population Portal.
30 June 2025
Culture|Research|Science
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There is no loneliness epidemic – so why do we keep talking as if there is?
Most people experience periods of loneliness, isolation or solitude in their lives, but these are different things, writes Brendan Kelly, School of Medicine, in a piece for The Conversation.
27 June 2025
Health|Research|Society
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Rent reforms are the sticking plaster on a crisis – only radical change will work
By offering something to landlords and tenants with new rental rules, the Government is taking something from both, writes Sarah Hamill, School of Law, in the Irish Independent.
27 June 2025
Research|Society
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TSJCI receives prestigious Comprehensive Cancer Centre status
The Trinity St James's Cancer Institute's new designation - the first Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Ireland - places TSJCI at the forefront of cancer care in Ireland alongside other leading cancer centres in Europe.
26 June 2025
Awards and Funding|Community|Health|Research|Society
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Pervasive surveillance of people is being used to access, monetise, coerce, and control
Analyses of over 40,000 documents, computer vision papers and downstream patents spanning four decades indicates the extent of this surveillance and the rise of obfuscating language that helps to normalise such approaches.
25 June 2025
Culture|Research|Society
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers its first exoplanet
The exoplanet – TWA 7 b – is similar in mass to Saturn, and around 10 times lighter than anything we have previously been able to image from afar.
25 June 2025
Research|Science