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We are very proud to welcome Phoenix Recruitment as a new TCPID Business Partner. Phoenix is a specialist professional services search firm. It conducts international search assignments for functional and senior leadership positions across Accounting, Tax, Corporate Finance, Legal & Compliance and Advisory.

The TCPID have been awarded €540,000 in growth capital as they aim to create nationwide opportunities for people with ID to access high-quality programmes, providing real pathways to education and employment. The growth capital is broken down into cash grants and non-financial supports to deliver their goals and targets for the investment period.

Marie Devitt, Pathways coordinator for the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID) talks with Siobhan Kelly of Scale International on how empowering students with intellectual disabilities positively affects society.

Huge congratulations to Siobhan Dunne and Geraldine Fitzgerald from the Trinity College Dublin Library, as well as to our own Dr. Mary-Ann O Donovan and our graduates Niamh Biddulph, Dairine O Rourke, Hugh O Callaghan, Shane McGilton, Stephen Ryan and Marian O Rourke on the publication of their article on improving the university library experience for students with intellectual disabilities.

The Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID) is delighted to announce a generous gift from the Rory McDonagh Trust which will allow us to significantly upgrade and enhance classroom technology in the Centre. This new technology will vastly improve the learning experience for our students over the coming years, creating a truly interactive and engaging learning environment.

I felt that the Certificate in Arts, Science, and Inclusive Applied Practice would help me to discover my potential, identify my skills and focus my attention on my future career. It did this in buckets, and I got so much more than I ever imagined. I made great friends with classmates and staff. I had a super college experience.

Like everyone Coronavirus can be very scary to understand but for people with a disability it can be even more scary to understand. Some really useful insights and advice from our TCPID graduate and A&L Goodbody employee Tomas Murphy. Tomas includes excellent advice both for employers and employees.

The Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities are delighted to announce the launch of the new Margaret McLoughlin TCPID Student Scholarship programme. The Scholarship programme is named in honour of Margaret McLoughlin, daughter of Joan and Tony McLoughlin, and sister of Kieran, David and Louise. The aim of the McLoughlin family has always been to help support people with intellectual disabilities to reach their true potential. This scholarship programme builds upon the very solid foundation of the existing support provided to the TCPID by the McLoughlin family.

Our TCPID graduate Margaret Turley on how she is adapting to life with Covid 19. In Margarets own words: To have a disability and learn to work can be challenging but to have your routine turned upside down due to the COVID-19 is unsettling. I am learning to adapt to working from home. Read the complete article here.

Thursday May 28th 2020 should have been the date of our now annual SciFest@TCPID student exhibition in the Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin. The SciFest programme has run every year since 2017 in association with Abbott Ireland and SciFest. Since we were unable to hold the exhibition this year, we have decided to mark the occasion with a celebration of the past 3 years of SciFest@TCPID with quotes from many of the student participants and some fabulous photos of the 3 student exhibitions that have already taken place.