Category: Community
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Pole dancing in Goldsmith? DU Juggling and Circus Society on inclusion, fire training, and “fucking about”
If you’ve ever been in Goldsmith at 6pm on a Tuesday, you will find a number of desks joined together, filled with board games, as members of DU Gamers conduct their activities. You will find workers of the SU cafe filing into their weekly shift meeting (or that one evening…
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“I always had people around me that were listening to interesting stuff”: Do you know DUAMS?
There was a week in December last term where I met a pirate, learnt the intricacies of target shooting, got invited to an Aikido class, a fire performance on Sandymount Strand, and discovered that, if I wanted to, I could launch a rocket with zero expertise. Did I join some…
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Contextualising Kav
Amidst local antisocial behaviour issues, Kavanagh Court student accommodation has been the subject of ongoing discourse. Kavanagh Court is finding itself at the forefront of an, understandably, negative conversation following recent issues of targeted antisocial behaviour toward students. However, despite this infamy, there is little discourse within Trinity that…
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Take me Home, Country Roads: On the Apparent Yank Takeover at Trinity
“Oh, you’re going to Trinity, like in Connecticut?” “No, Trinity College Dublin. Like Dublin.” Cue blank look. “Like Ireland … in Europe.” Hold for 5 seconds of processing. “Oh wow, that’s so exciting! Do you come back in the spring then?” “No, I’m there…
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Finding Love in a Hopeless Place
Katie Brady talks about Trinity Cupids 2025 and the impossible art of matchmaking It’s 9pm on a random Thursday night, and in 15 different bars across the city love might just be in the air. Or at least, that’s what you hope as a cupid. You hope that you made…
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Long Covid
If you look down the next time you are queuing for a coffee at the Perch, you will see faded floor stickers instructing you to stay two metres away from those around you. If you look to the side the next time you wash your hands in a campus bathroom,…
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Editors on Editors
Ken Early – co-host of the Second Captains podcast, columnist for The Irish Times and… Editor of Misc. in 1999 – speaks with Phoebe Pascoe, Misc.’s current Editor. PP: Could you tell me about your experience editing Misc? KE: I suppose I look back on it with a bit of…
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You Do Not Matter to Trinity
The TCDSU/ALMCT President on the future, and failings, of our college. Don’t allow your eyes to glare over. Give a shit. These are the words I wish to scream in almost every meeting with senior management I have had in my six months as our SU President. “Trinity time”, as…
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An Interview with Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne
Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne almost cancelled this interview. We were coming to the end of the interview when Lindsey admitted that she had almost cancelled on me that morning. It was the day after the US election — for many women it was a day that felt heavy with the grief…
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Ones to Watch
The Trinity Hall of (Future) Fame. All illustrations by Mathilda Gross. FREYA O’HANLON has carried out extensive research into the negative dimensions of TikTok’s algorithm. Her project has highlighted that TikTok automatically promotes inappropriate content to teenagers between the ages of 13 and 15. This includes videos about depression, eating disorders, violence…