Europe UCD research on corporate tax avoidance among seven Irish projects to receive EU fundingSeven researchers across five universities will receive a total of €14 million from the European Research Council
Budget 2024 Ian Guider: My radical 10-step plan for a pro-business Budget 2024Ireland needs to get away from splurging on one-off spending and focus on long-term investment
Artificial Intelligence Trinity researchers secure €365,000 funding for AI researchThe funding will be used to develop a platform to aid large multinationals with compliance
Planning ESB raises ‘safety concerns’ over aviation fuel research centre located beside Dublin HQSMBC Aviation Capital has plans to create a small sustainable aviation fuel lab beside the electricity firm’s head offices in the capital
Health Traveller community 2 to 3 times more likely to suffer from common illnesses - studyNew research indicates that asthma and bronchitis are far more prevalent among Travellers than the general population
Aviation Leading Dublin-based aircraft lessor plans sustainable fuels lab in the capitalSMBC Aviation Capital says project will be a collaboration with Trinity College Dublin
BP Exclusive Trinity admits plan to cut student to staff ratio will not be achievedUniversity privately says funding shortfalls mean it is unlikely to meet a target of hiring 200 new academics and reducing its class sizes
Universities Trinity College Dublin worried high student to staff ratio will damage international reputationUniversity has not made any progress in reducing class sizes and has privately warned that the issue could damage its reputation
Higher Education Trinity identifies AI as major threat to academic integrityUniversity officials say speed of technological advances could make current technology obsolete and create new costs
Politics Constitution not a block on assisted dying laws, Dáil committee toldTwo academics backed legislature’s ability to alter assisted dying legislation, while a third said he did not believe the Oireachtas has the ‘legislative competency’ to change the ban
Connected Magazine Is Ireland about to make a quantum leap?A new initiative is bringing business and academia together to build up Ireland’s quantum computing power, but will the technology truly break out of the lab
Employment Self-employed project workers ‘becoming the norm’ for firms Study finds majority of businesses now have a minimum 10 per cent of their workforces employed on a freelance basis – many earning more than €100,000
Health Irish Cancer Society invests €4.5m to develop new care models for patientsThe partnership with Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute has come amid a spike in gastrointestinal cancers among patients under 50
Housing Rents up 11.7 per cent on first quarter of 2022 - Daft The average market rent nationwide between January and March was €1,750 per month
Legal Activist Bill Browder urges TCD to release free speech event recordingFinancier Bill Browder, who spoke at the conference about defamation law, says Trinity should not bow to threats to freedom of expression
Legal Trinity accused of self-censoring by blocking defamation conference recording for fear of being suedMary Lawlor, who is also an adjunct professor at TCD, said the move was ironic given Ireland’s ranking on press freedom
Defamation Trinity College Dublin blocks recording of defamation conference for fear of being suedEvent was held to raise awareness of strategic lawsuits against public participation by wealthy individuals to silence public interest reporting
Legal Why anti-SLAPP laws are needed to stop powerful people censoring criticismJessica Ní Mhainín of the Index on Censorship says the power imbalance in SLAPPs must be changed
Education Degrees of separation: academics divided over opening up of elite Trinity social clubCollege officials want to change the rules of the SCR, a social club open only to high-ranking staff members, but some academics are opposed to the move
Housing Housing crisis risks economic growth, warns business leader Grant Thornton boss says a third of job offers to international applicants had been turned down due to lack of accommodation
