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AI-Driven Integrity Platform to Address Ethics and Compliance Issues in Global Corporations

By Ryan Harmon 20 September 2023

A team of researchers at Trinity College Dublin has secured €365,000 in funding to develop an AI-driven platform to address failings in ethics and compliance that are causing large multinational companies to suffer huge losses every year due to fraud, corruption and unethical behaviour. IntegrityIQ will be a spin-out of Trinity Business School, a top-ranking […]

Education News

Trinity Welcomes Executive Director of UN World Food Programme

By Ryan Harmon 30 August 2023

The new Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, Cindy McCain, met with Trinity College Dublin researchers from the Department of Clinical Speech and Language Studies. Trinity researchers are partnering with the UN World Food Programme on a project addressing disability inclusion in food security programming. This strategic partnership has been in

Health News

Trinity Research Looks to Latin American Countries for Clues on Healthy Ageing

By Ryan Harmon 17 August 2023

Ageing is not a uniform process across the globe. However, most research into cognitive and functional ageing has been conducted in the US and Europe, in high-income settings. Researchers from the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) at Trinity College Dublin are filling the knowledge gap that exists for Latin American populations on the factors associated […]

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How Secondary Cities Can Compete with Superstar Cities

By Ryan Harmon 8 August 2023

Local universities, global connectivity and entrepreneurship can help secondary cities combat the geographic polarisation of innovation in superstar cities, according to new research being conducted in Trinity College Dublin and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Superstar cities like London, Dublin, Milan, New York and Bangalore have grown astronomically over the

Health News

New Study Identifies Association Between Lower Vitamin D Levels and Inflammation in Older Adults

By Ryan Harmon 28 July 2023

Ageing experts at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Limerick have shown associations of vitamin D status with C-reactive protein (CRP, a measure of inflammation) in older adults. The study has recently been published in the Journal PLOS ONE and can be read on the publisher’s website. CRP can be a blood measure of inflammation in the […]

Health News

New Research into How Glucose Drives TB Vaccine Responses Offer Hope for Improved Efficacy

By Ryan Harmon 12 July 2023

BCG is a live bacterial vaccine, of limited effectiveness for tuberculosis, but it’s the only one we’ve got. However, scientists in the TB Immunology group at Trinity College Dublin and St. James’s Hospital have provided fresh insights into the behaviour of a crucial cell in vaccine mechanisms, which may offer a fresh target for scientists […]

Education News

Progress for Irish Universities in World Rankings

By Ryan Harmon 29 June 2023

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris has welcomed the news that seven Irish universities have gone up in the world rankings. This included Trinity College Dublin, which enjoyed a jump of 17 places from 98th to 81st in the world. Speaking about the progress, Minister Harris said, “this is […]

News Transport

Reframing Active Travel Planning is Key to Creating More Cycling and Walking-Friendly Towns and Cities

By Ryan Harmon 27 June 2023

Reframing local authority and national planning measures that redistribute car-centric travel spaces to prioritise walking and cycling is critical to help Ireland work towards its goal of more active travel and halving transport sector emissions by 2030 to meet international decarbonisation targets, according to new research. Researchers from Trinity College Dublin’s

Education News

Building Leadership Capability and Effective Teams with Micro-Credentials

By Ryan Harmon 14 June 2023

Effective leadership is essential for organisations to thrive in today’s rapidly changing world—however, the demand for leaders who prioritise ethical decision-making and foster inclusive environments is greater than ever. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland’s leading university, recognises this need and offers a range of micro-credentials specifically designed to

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Engineering for Climate Action: Shaping a Sustainable Future

By Ryan Harmon 24 May 2023

Join the Online Information Session for Trinity College Dublin’s School of Engineering Postgraduate Diploma in Engineering for Climate Action Climate change is undeniably one of the most pressing challenges of our time. The need for innovative solutions and skilled professionals who can tackle the complex issues arising from climate change has never been greater.

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IDA Ireland Supports IBM Multi-Year Training Programme with TCD and UCD

By Ryan Harmon 19 May 2023

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney TD and IDA Ireland welcomed the news that IBM is launching a further significant phase to a multi-year transformational training programme across its research and digital sales teams in Ireland, which is intended to be worth more than €10m over approximately the next five years. The programme […]

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Newly Appointed Joint Research Professor Predicts Machines will Drive Future Wireless Demands

By Ryan Harmon 4 May 2023

The future of wireless networks will be increasingly driven by machine demands, not human demand, according to leading wireless communication expert newly appointed to University College Cork (UCC), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and Tyndall National Institute. Prof Holger Claussen shares this assessment of the future of wireless networks as he takes up his new role […]

Education Environment News

€1.5m in Funding to Transform Trinity College Dublin’s Herbarium

By Ryan Harmon 9 March 2023

The Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform, Malcolm Noonan, announced funding of €1.5 million to enable Trinity College Dublin to transform, digitise and safeguard its herbarium. Speaking from Trinity College, Minister Noonan said, “the collections at the herbarium in Trinity College are unique in terms of their rich international and historic scientific

Environment News Tourism

Majority of Tourism Visits Have No Identifiable Impact on Environment

By Ryan Harmon 8 February 2023

Most tourism visits to environmentally protected sites across Europe have no identifiable impact on the environment, despite a pervasive narrative that the need to conserve and protect such environments is at odds with tourism goals of boosting visitor numbers.  That headline finding is according to new research just published in the ‘Journal of Ecological

Education News

What is Hope and Why Do We Need It?

By Ryan Harmon 5 January 2023

We recognise hope when we feel it and when we need it but it’s hard to define and describe. Hope is all about imagining and reaching for a better future for ourselves. Hope is both an emotion and a way of thinking. We experience it in our brain but it comes from somewhere or someone […]

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Climate Change and Its Impact on Built Heritage to Take Centre Stage at Inaugural Heritage 2030 Conference

By Ryan Harmon 21 October 2022

The inaugural Heritage Ireland 2030 Conference will take place on Monday 24 October 2022 at Trinity College Dublin and online. The Summit will bring together stakeholders, members of the public and those working to protect heritage in communities, by showcasing successful projects, exploring challenges and opportunities and outlining progress in delivering the objectives

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Bicycle Heroes Children Present Ideas to Dublin City Council to Increase Cycling

By Ryan Harmon 14 October 2022

40 Dublin Youth Bicycle Heroes are presenting their ideas for increasing uptake in cycling in their city and communities to Dublin City Council.  The children, aged 10 to 15, are from 5th Class, Scoil Eoin, Kilbarrack, Dublin 5 and 3rd Year, Loreto College Crumlin, Dublin 12 and were asked to create solutions to cycling barriers […]

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Mid-East Regional Enterprise Offices and Trinity College Dublin to Launch Post Graduate Programme

By Ryan Harmon 30 September 2022

Businesses, leaders, creative teams, and those who want to be job shapers not seekers are invited to the launch of an ambitious new collaborative opportunity between the Mid-East Regional Local Enterprise Offices and Trinity College Dublin. Local Enterprise Offices of Kildare, Meath and Wicklow have come together to extend an open invitation to the launch […]

Education News

Record Number of CAO Applicants Pick Trinity As First Choice

By Ryan Harmon 14 September 2022

Trinity College Dublin is looking forward to welcoming a new cohort of first-year students after a record 11,091 CAO applicants picked Trinity as their first preference in 2022.   Approximately five out of six students (84%) who secured a CAO offer from Trinity in the first round received one of their

Education News Transport

Trinity to Study New E-Bike Pilot Launched in Dublin

By Ryan Harmon 12 September 2022

State-owned energy company ESB has launched an e-bike pilot programme across multiple Dublin suburbs. Over the next 10 months, 112 e-bikes and 14 charging stations will be available for use in some of Dublin’s busiest commuter locations across South County Dublin, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and Fingal. The e-bike pilot project has been launched in conjunction with […]