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French President Emmanuel Macron visited Ireland and Trinity College Dublin on Thursday August 26th. During his visit met with students to discuss topics that included post-COVID Europe, climate change and digital equality for all citizens. President Macron’s discussions with students was moderated by Vice-President for Global Relations Professor Juliette Hussey and took place in Trinity’s beautiful Public Theatre. Our new Course Coordinator Dr. Donatella Camedda and two of our students, Lia Gogarty and Sean Byrne were invited to take part in this exciting event.

We are very grateful to the graduation team in Trinity College Dublin who gave us the opportunity to have an on campus graduation for the Certificate in Arts, Science and Inclusive Applied Practice on August 19th. It was such an incredibly special and proud day for all the new graduates, their families and all the TCPID, School of Education and Trinity College team. A huge thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen for us.

The Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities is proud to announce an exciting new partnership with Go-Ahead Ireland. Go-Ahead Ireland provides public transport bus services on behalf of the National Transport Authority (NTA), operating 25 Outer Dublin Metropolitan Area routes, as well as 5 Dublin Commuter routes.

At the beginning of the new academic year in September 2020, the Rory McDonagh Trust generously donated new laptops for every student in the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities. These laptops allowed each student to be able to participate fully in their course during a time when all students were forced to attend their lectures remotely. Our students put together a video to express their gratitude and to speak about how the laptops helped them with their studies.

The Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities is very proud to welcome Applegreen as a new TCPID Business Partner. Established in 1992, Applegreen is a leading convenience roadside retailer in the Republic of Ireland, the UK and the US in both large-scale Motorway Service Areas and Travel Plazas, as well as smaller petrol stations.

We are very proud of our graduate Niamh who has secured a permanent contract with An Post. In Niamhs own words: I found it hard to believe that I got a permanent contract with An Post. I was so happy with joy and surprised at how good this news was, I started crying, because having a permanent part-time job was something I always dreamed of from when I first started in Trinity College in 2016.

On May 27th 2021, the TCPID met with Minister Simon Harris and Minister Josepha Madigan in Trinity College Dublin. Both Ministers were keen to learn about our programme with a view to seeing how similar programmes could be replicated around the country.

The Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities is delighted to announce an exciting new partnership with RSA Insurance and 123.ie. As one of the world’s leading insurance companies, RSA Group has a long tradition of delivering consistent quality to customers for over 300 years.

We would like to congratulate our TCPID Graduate Tomás Murphy who presented at the UN CRPD Committee on March 24th 2021. Tomás spoke on behalf of Inclusion Ireland about his experience of finding a job after graduating from Trinity College and his success story working as a permanent employee with A & L Goodbody.

Our 2021 Open Days for the Level 5 Certificate in Arts, Science and Inclusive Applied Practice will take place online via Zoom due to the current COVID 19 restrictions. They will take place on Thursday March 25th and Tuesday March 30th 2021.

The Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities, and the School of Education have published a research report entitled ‘Post-School Transitions for Students with Intellectual Disabilities’. This research found that there is limited guidance for children with intellectual disabilities attending mainstream second level schools in Ireland as they prepare to leave school, contributing to a significant underrepresentation within the workforce and further and higher education in the State.

Following the announcement of our selection as an Innovative Practice/Policy of the Zero Project 2021, we were invited to be a part of the global Zero Project 2021 conference (ZeroCon21) which ran from Wednesday February 10th until Friday February 13th.

Our 9 recent graduates delivered two guest lectures to Masters students in the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin in November 2020 and February 2021. The lectures were designed to inform these student teachers about how best to create an environment of real inclusion within a secondary school classroom and how to ensure that they find ways to support all students with their learning within the classroom.