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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.

Our TCPID Director, Professor Michael Shevlin talks with our School of Education colleague Dr. Joanne Banks about inclusion and inclusive education in the latest episode of the Inclusion Dialogue podcast.

The Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities is delighted to announce an exciting new partnership with Squarespace. Squarespace is the all-in-one website building and ecommerce platform that empowers millions of dreamers, makers, and doers by providing them with the tools they need to bring their creative ideas to life.

We are currently recruiting an Assistant Professor in Education to join our TCPID Team. This is a 5 year Tenure Track position. Applications to be made through the Trinity College Dublin Human Resources Department.

The TCPID hosted a School of Education research seminar on Thursday December 17th 2020. The title of the seminar, which was held online was: Staff, graduates and partners of the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities on linking with the business community to support students with intellectual disabilities to transition to work. A recording of the seminar is available to view now.

We are excited to announce that after a tough multi-stage process the nomination of “Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities Graduate Internship Programme in association with EY”, has been selected as an Innovative Practice/Policy of the Zero Project 2021.

The Joint Committee on Disability Matters invited Marie Devitt, Pathways Coordinator of The Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities as a representative from TCPID to a meeting of the Committee to celebrate the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities in the Houses of the Oirechtas on December 3rd 2020.