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Trinity College Dublin Students' Union
Trinity College Dublin Students' Union ( Irish: ''Aontas Mac Léinn Choláiste na Tríonóide''), often referred to by its abbreviation TCDSU ( Irish: ''AMLCT''), is a students' union and the recognised representative body for the students of Trinity College Dublin. Its role is to provide a channel between the students and the authorities of the college, as well as to provide services to those students. TCDSU is a constituent organisation of Aontas na Mac Léinn in Éirinn. The day-to-day business of the Union is run out of Teach 6, also known as Teach Mandela. The union is led by a team of sabbatical officers with the help of part-time officers, faculty convenors, school convenors and class representatives, alongside a number of permanent staff members. The student body elects a president every spring, who oversees the finances and management of the Union. The president for the 2024/25 academic year is Jenny Maguire. Structure The union has a complex governance structure, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity College Dublin
Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. Founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592 through a royal charter, it is one of the extant seven "ancient university, ancient universities" of Great Britain and Ireland. Trinity contributed to Irish literature during the Georgian era, Georgian and Victorian era, Victorian eras, and areas of the natural sciences and medicine. Trinity was established to consolidate the rule of the Tudor dynasty, Tudor monarchy in Ireland, with Provost (education), Provost Adam Loftus (bishop), Adam Loftus christening it after Trinity College, Cambridge. Built on the site of the former Priory of All Hallows demolished by King Henry VIII, it was the Protestant university of the Protestant Ascendancy, Ascendancy ruling eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is a British-American DJ, record producer, and songwriter. He has won nine Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year for Amy Winehouse's album '' Back to Black'' (2006), as well as two for Record of the Year with her 2006 single " Rehab" and his own 2014 single " Uptown Funk" (featuring Bruno Mars). He has also won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award for " Shallow" (performed by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper) for the film '' A Star Is Born'' (2018). Ronson served as lead and executive producer for the soundtrack to the 2023 fantasy comedy film ''Barbie'', on which he also composed and co-wrote several of its songs with his production partner Andrew Wyatt. The soundtrack won three Grammy Awards—" What Was I Made For?" won Song of the Year and Best Song Written for Visual Media, while the parent album won Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media—from 11 nominations, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Little (journalist)
Mark Little is an Irish people, Irish journalist, television presenter and author. He presented ''Prime Time (Irish TV programme), Prime Time'' for RTÉ until December 2009. He took a year of leave of absence from RTÉ to pursue a project centered on digital media and global journalism. He launched the project in April 2010, called Storyful. which he sold to News International in 2013. In 2015 he joined Twitter, first as vice president of media and partnerships for Twitter in Europe and later becoming managing director of Twitter in Ireland. He resigned from the position in 2016. Early life and education Little was born in Dublin and lived in Malahide, County Dublin, later moving to Oughterard, County Galway. He studied Economic and Social Studies at Trinity College Dublin for 5 years, and took his BA degree in 1997. During college, he served as president of the Students' Union for a year, and was a member of the Labour Party (Ireland), Labour Party. Career Little began his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Ruane
Lynn Ruane (born 20 October 1984) is an Irish politician who has served as an independent senator for the Dublin University constituency in Seanad Éireann since April 2016. She was the President of the Trinity College Dublin Students' Union from 2015 to 2016. Early life Born in Ballymun, Ruane grew up in a council estate in Killinarden, west Tallaght. While she grew up in a happy and stable home environment, Ruane's childhood was marked by trauma, with her community affected disproportionately by poverty, deprivation, drug addiction and premature death. At age 13, she witnessed a close friend being struck by a bus and killed, the first of a number of young deaths she confronted in her local area. Ruane became pregnant at the age of 15, at which point she left school, although her guidance counsellor later convinced her to return to complete her Junior Certificate. Ruane gave birth to her first daughter, Jordanne Jones, aged 15. Ruane describes motherhood as having had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex White (Irish Politician)
Alex White (born 3 December 1958) is an Irish lawyer and a former Labour Party politician. Since January 2023 he has been Director General of the Institute of International and European Affairs, a think-tank based in Dublin. White served as Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources from 2014 to 2016, Minister of State for Primary Care from 2012 to 2014 and Leader of the Labour Party in the Seanad 2007 to 2011. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South constituency from 2011 to 2016. He was a Senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel from 2007 to 2011. Early life White grew up in Marino, Dublin. He was educated at Chanel College, Coolock, and later at Trinity College Dublin and King's Inns. He was called to the Bar in 1987. White was a student activist in Trinity College, where he was involved with the TCD Students' Union and also for a time a supporter of various Trotskyist groupings, including the League for a Workers Republic. He was l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RTÉ
(; ; RTÉThe É in RTÉ is pronounced as an English E () and not an Irish É ()) is an Irish public service broadcaster. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on television, radio and online. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on 31 December 1961, making it one of the oldest continuously operating public service broadcasters in the world. It is headquartered in Donnybrook in Dublin, with offices across different parts of Ireland. RTÉ is a statutory body, overseen by a board appointed by the Government of Ireland, with general management in the hands of a committee of senior managers, currently an interim leadership team, headed by the Director General. RTÉ is regulated by Coimisiún na Meán. It is financed by the television licence fee and through advertising, with some of its services funded solely by advertising, while others are funded solely by the licence fee. The current network consists of 4 main TV chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Duffy
Joseph Duffy (born 27 January 1956) is an Irish people, Irish radio and TV presenter employed by RTÉ. One of the public service broadcaster's highest-earning stars, he is the current presenter of ''Liveline'', an interview and phone-in chat show broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 on Mondays to Fridays between 13:45 and 15:00. Duffy was a Student activism, student activist and a former president of the Union of Students in Ireland, Aontas na Mac Léinn in Éirinn (AMLÉ). He is married, is the father of Multiple birth#Triplets, triplets, and resides in Clontarf, Dublin. He won a Jacob's Awards, Jacob's Award in 1992. On 8 May 2025, Duffy announced that he would be retiring from RTÉ after 37 years with his final ''Liveline'' show on 27 June 2025. Early life Duffy was born on 27 January 1956 in Mountjoy Square, Dublin. He was brought up in Ballyfermot, one of five siblings. His father was Jimmy and his mother Mabel. Jimmy, who had problems with alcohol, died aged 58 in 1984. Joe Duffy' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (Ireland)
The Labour Party (, ) is a centre-left and social democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. Founded on 28 May 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin, and William O'Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trades Union Congress. Labour continues to be the political arm of the Irish trade union and labour movement and seeks to represent workers' interests in the Dáil and on a local level. Unlike many other Irish political parties, Labour did not arise as a faction of the original Sinn Féin party, although it merged with the Democratic Left in 1999, a party that traced its origins back to Sinn Féin. The party has served as a partner in coalition governments on eight occasions since its formation: seven times in coalition either with Fine Gael alone or with Fine Gael and other smaller parties, and once with Fianna Fáil. This gives Labour a cumulative total of twenty-five years served as part of a government, the third-longest tota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivana Bacik
Ivana Catherine Bacik () (born 25 May 1968) is an Irish politician who has been the Leader of the Labour Party (Ireland), Leader of the Labour Party (Ireland), Labour Party since 24 March 2022 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay South (Dáil constituency), Dublin Bay South constituency since winning a 2021 Dublin Bay South by-election, by-election on 9 July 2021. Bacik previously served as Labour Party (Ireland)#Seanad leader, Leader of the Labour Party in the Seanad from 2011 to 2021, and a Seanad Éireann, Senator for the Dublin University (constituency), Dublin University constituency from 2007 to 2021. She previously served as Leader of the Seanad, Deputy leader of the Seanad from 2011 to 2016. Bacik came to prominence due to her Abortion-rights movements, abortion rights campaigning from the 1980s onwards. Personal life and education Bacik's paternal grandfather, Charles Bacik, was a Czech factory owner who moved to Ireland in 1946. He eventually settled in Waterfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Cancer Society
The Irish Cancer Society (formerly known as the Conquer Cancer Campaign) is the national charity in Ireland dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem, and improving the lives of those who have cancer. History Foundation of the society The Society was founded on , as Conquer Cancer Campaign by Austin Darragh, a general practitioner, and is 94% financed by voluntary contributions from the public. It is the largest voluntary funder of cancer research in Ireland. The four strategic goals of the Society's current strategy statement (2013–2017) surround improving the lives of those affected by cancer, reducing the risk of cancer, influencing public policy on cancer and leading excellent collaborative research. The Society is governed by a board of directors composed of leading medical, scientific and business persons. The Board is also advised by a number of expert committees. In 1992, the Irish Cancer Society and the Irish Heart Foundation co-founded ASH Irela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Averil Power
Averil Power (born 26 July 1978) is an Irish former politician who served as a senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel from 2011 to 2016. She first held office as a member of Fianna Fáil, but left the party in 2015 and sat in the Seanad as an independent for the rest of her term. She stood as an independent candidate for Dáil Éireann at the 2016 general election, but was not elected. Early life She grew up in a council estate and was the first person in her family to finish school and go to college. She has a degree in business, economics and social science from Trinity College Dublin, where she was elected to the positions of President (2001–2002) and Education Officer (2000–2001) of Trinity College Dublin Students' Union. She also has a Diploma in Legal Studies from King's Inns and is a graduate of the Boston College Political Leadership Programme. She unsuccessfully contested election for President of the Union of Students in Ireland in March 2002, losing out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The University Times
''The University Times'' (often abbreviated as ''UT'' or ''the UT'') is a student newspaper. Published from Trinity College Dublin, it is financially supported by Trinity College Dublin Students' Union but maintains a mutually agreed policy of editorial independence. In 2017, it won the award for best all-around non-daily student newspaper in the world, as judged by the US-based Society of Professional Journalists. In 2015, the newspaper's website had over one million unique readers for the first time. Its print edition, which consists of a broadsheet newspaper, magazine and culture supplement, is published every three weeks during the academic year. History ''The University Times'' was founded in 2009 by Robert Donohoe, the then-Communications Officer of Trinity College Dublin Students' Union. It replaced that union's previous paper, The University Record. In his first editorial, Donohoe wrote about the importance of the free press, stating: "Any measure that attempts to impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
