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The University Times is Trinity College Dublin's student newspaper. It is Ireland's largest student newspaper.

Irish Student Publication of the Year 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2020 – www.universitytimes.ie The University Times is a broadsheet newspaper and website run by student volunteers in Trinity College, Dublin. It won Irish Student Newspaper of the Year in 2010, 2011 and 2013, and won Irish Student Publication of the Year in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2016, it won six international design aw

ards, including best overall newspaper design and best overall news website. Editors:
Rob Donohoe, Founder – 2009/10
Tom Lowe – 2010/11
Ronan Costello – 2011/12
Owen Bennett – 2012/13
Leanna Byrne – 2013/14
Samuel Riggs – 2014/15
Edmund Heaphy – 2015/16
Sinéad Baker – 2016/17
Dominic McGrath – 2017/18
Eleanor O’Mahony – 2018/19
Donal MacNamee – 2019/20
Cormac Watson – 2020/21
Emer Moreau – Current Editor

03/01/2026

Trinity Sport unveiled its sports scholars for the 2025/26 season on November 10th at the Dining Hall in Trinity College Dublin. This year’s awardees, comprising 31 Trinity Sport scholars and 31 club academy scholars, will represent Trinity across twenty sports: alpine skiing, basketball, cricket, fencing, Gaelic Men’s & Ladies’ Football, hurling, camogie, handball, rugby, sailing, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, water polo, squash, para table tennis, deaf swimming, rowing, and hockey.

Trinity College Dublin has a unique sporting calibre established over four centuries. Along with its strong academic and research heritage, it has educated a significant number of Olympians, world champions, and national champions, and is home to some of Ireland’s top sporting teams and athletes. Trinity has evolved from its historic amateur roots into a modern, integrated programme of recreational and performance sport. This legacy is supported by considerable investments in facilities, coaching, physiotherapy, medical support, sports nutrition, and sports science. Additionally, Trinity provides scholarships to help students excel both on and off the field. The scholarships are divided into five tiers.

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02/01/2026

In this second iteration of Trinity Tall Tales, we return to the roots of Trinity’s Climbing Club, and their nasty habit of climbing every mountable structure on campus.

Take Trinity’s Climbing Society, a group with a long and storied history at College. Don’t let their seniority on this campus fool you, as they are more than willing to consider themselves as a “drinking club with a climbing problem”, as they said in a recent interview with this very newspaper. Authenticity, in my book, is always one of the most admirable traits one can have, and in this case, Climbing Society sticks steadfastly to its roots.

Its roots, if you’d like to know, began long before any climbing wall or even a dedicated sports centre existed at Trinity. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, according to our old friend and amateur Trinity historian John Engle, the then-young Climbing Club existed in flux. As climbers with nothing to climb close by, they forced themselves to make do. Rather than fade back into the archives of defunct clubs and societies, the climbers decided to climb what they had. In this case, it was many of the beautiful campus buildings that awe tourists and prospective first-years today. They belayed on the old Business Building, mounted the Memorial Building, lifted themselves to the top of libraries, and even climbed the Campanile.

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01/01/2026

Isolde Harpur is the Trinity subject librarian for Asian Studies, Clinical Speech and Language Studies, Deaf Studies, English Studies, Germanic Studies, Language and Communication Studies, and Russian and Slavonic Studies. A Dublin native, Isolde studied Russian and German as an undergraduate at Trinity (which included spending time abroad in Moscow and Munich), and following a newspaper advertisement seeking library trainees, spent a year working in Trinity’s library before undertaking a Master’s in Library and Information Studies at UCD. Having worked briefly at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco, she returned to Ireland to take up a post at DCU (then known as the National Institute for Higher Education), where she worked for three years before joining Trinity’s faculty as a subject librarian in 1990. I sat down with Isolde to discuss what exactly her career entails, and to see what guidance she could offer to those currently interested in following in her footsteps.

As we discussed whether she had always envisioned becoming a librarian, Isolde explained what drew her towards the field: “I wasn’t conscious that I always wanted to become a librarian, but I loved books obviously, I loved reading, I loved education, and I loved helping people.” The eldest of four children, Isolde recalls the teacher role she assumed towards her siblings (helping them develop life skills such as telling the time), and how she was drawn towards a similar instructional capacity she observed in librarians during her days as an undergraduate. After graduating, Isolde applied for both a research position at RTÉ and a trainee librarian position at Trinity, and attributes fate as part of the reason for ending up where she is: “I think I could have gone into teaching, research, or librarianship, but like everything else, there’s an element of luck, and fate plays its part, so that’s how I ended up in the library world.”

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31/12/2025

Freedom of Information Act request released to The University Times has revealed that Trinity College Dublin spent a total of €198,467 on refurbishing the Perch Café.

Conducted over four weeks in July/August 2025, the works were initially quoted at €244,369 (including VAT), making the final total expenditure €45,902 under the approved budget.

The project covered the installation of a new cash point, enhanced and more energy-efficient refrigerators (which was end of life), energy-efficient LED lighting, as well as an accessible till point and coffee counter.

In the decision letter released to The University Times, the Head of Catering, Moira O’Brien, explained that the Perch refurbishment came as a response to issues with customer flow, restrictions in food choices, and equipment reliability, which the Catering Department had identified as negatively impacting the customer experience.

The Perch is the Catering Department’s second busiest outlet after the Buttery, and was last refurbished nine years ago. According to Simon Ali, who works for the Catering Department in The Perch, the café was in need of a “facelift”: “With any type of business, you need from time to time to have a facelift, to update it,” he told The University Times.

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✍️: Freja Goldman

30/12/2025

Top Floor Music has become one of Trinity’s most reliable spaces for communal, unpretentious live music. What started as modest gatherings has recently become the go-to space on campus to soak up good music in good company. It’s evident the society has carved out a distinctive place in Trinity’s arts scene with no sign of losing momentum.

Meet Sophie: Top Floor Music’s chair since 2024. The society was founded in 2017, but it has evolved massively in the last two years when Sophie took over. The committee decided to make the transition from humble, brightly lit Atrium sessions to the lively, addictive, crowded gigs we know and love today. This shift was deliberate, with Sophie drawing from her experience as a die-hard gig-goer at DIY shows in Boston when she was in high school. She crafted the Trinity Top Floor scene in the image of these nostalgic nights.

Top Floor’s gigs now pull in big, buzzing crowds, and that energy creates a kind of community that can be difficult to accomplish with intimate gatherings. The events offer a great way to socialise and lose yourself in the music. The big crowds also make for a more eclectic audience. At any given Top Floor gig, you can expect to run into music obsessives, casual listeners, and friends-of-friends all packed together, further highlighting the value of encouraging such a large, diverse collective to exist and connect. And from the artist’s standpoint, the greater the audience, the greater the exposure.

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✍️: Isabella Reyes

29/11/2025

Trinity BDS disrupted a Dual BA information session at the Trinity Open Day today.

Trinity BDS called for an end to the Dual BA with Columbia University over the Ivy League university’s partnerships with Israeli universities such as Tel Aviv University, and because they have expelled pro-Palestinian students.

Video from inside the session appear to show a verbal confrontation betweens Trinity BDS representatives and representatives from the Dual BA programme. Reports from BDS members also detail Trinity security’s involvement, where BDS members had student information recorded.

This is a developing story.

20/11/2025

This months broadsheet rundown 👀 What have you missed in this November issue?

Meet Charlie,Saskia and Alessandro as they give you a quick insight into this months Broadsheet and Radius! From news, features, sport, opinion, Gaeilge, societies and all things insightful in Radius…have you picked up your copy yet? 🗞️

Find copies around buildings on campus such as Art Block, GMB, Musuem, Front Arch and more.

18/11/2025

Read more on this topic in the most recent issue of the paper, found everywhere across campus!

15/11/2025

Environment Editor Deimante Ciparyte and Varvara Vasylchenko talk to protestors at the National Climate Demonstration in Dublin on November 15th. The event formed part of a global wave of climate demonstrations taking place, timed to align with COP30, the United Nations’ annual climate change conference.

13/11/2025

At 1pm today, around 50 students from Trinity, UCD, NCAD, and RCSI staged a walkout to protest the EU-Israeli Association Framework. The protest was attended by representatives from the Student Neutrality Front, Trinity People Before Profit, and UCD BDS, among other groups. The protesters began at the Postgraduate Library and quickly moved across Front Square to the main entrance to College.

The protesters, among them representatives from TCD PBP, Trinity SNF, UCD BDS, and Party Members of People Before Profit, then proceeded towards the European Commission while chanting “EU you can’t hide, you’re committing genocide”.

The protest ended just after 2pm.

05/11/2025

Introducing Corcra Magazine. Coming soon…👀

Corcra magazine is the University Times magazine and official magazine of Trinity College Dublin Students Union. We highlight student voices, varying from arts ,culture , personal essays, reviews, politics, and many many more. Our first print edition of the magazine will be launched in mid November so keep an eye out on for updates and where to pick up your very own copy of the magazine.

02/11/2025

Around 150 pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked access to Dublin Port this afternoon to demand Ireland cut economic ties with Israel.

Among the protesters were Trinity students, who participated despite warnings from Trinity Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) that a “significant response” from An Garda Síochána was “fully expected.”

The protest did not turn violent, accord to University Times reporters at the scene. The protest blocked access to Terminal 10 of Dublin Port, which forced around 6 trucks to divert and find alternative routes.

The protest comes after another demonstration in the area on October 4th ended in multiple incidents of Garda forces pepper-spraying demonstrators and clashes between protesters and the Public Order Unit.

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