Huge congratulations to Paul Mescal - former student of The Lir - who has just received an Oscar nomination in the Best Actor category for his role in Aftersun! 🎬
An incredible achievement 🎉
#Oscars95
I’m nearly tearing up watching the cast and crew of
@quietgirlfilm
switching between Gaeilge and Béarla on the Six One. Can we retire the ‘it’s a dead language’ shite for good now, please? Radio hosts and columnists, I’m looking at you
Some personal news 😅 I’ve upped sticks to London! I was so excited to drop into the newsroom at
@BBCNews
Broadcasting House where I’ll be starting as an advanced apprentice journalist next month ♥️
Lots of very heavy reading here but one particularly depressing statistic: 22 per cent of male respondents agreed with the statement "she asked for it". 18 per cent were neutral.
(taps mic timidly) 🎤 some personal news…
I’m delighted to be joining the news team at
@thejournal_ie
next week as a
@googlenewsinit
Fellow! Really excited to get stuck in with such a talented team 📰
I’m trying to imagine the consequences that a minimum-wage worker would face for falling asleep on the job, but I can’t because that could never happen in retail or hospitality when you’re on your feet all day
Hundreds of students in Sligo could be left with no choice but to commute, defer or drop out due to plans to repurpose student accommodation for refugees.
I’m running for Editor! UT has been my life and soul since early on in college and I want to keep us at the high standards we’re at — and make sure the paper is a place for everyone 🗞
Lectures with over 150 people will be held online next year, with individual schools deciding whether lectures of between 50 and 150 will be held in person or virtually
Students going on a J1 have blasted USIT for poor communication, with some due to travel in a few weeks still waiting on a visa. My story in
@thejournal_ie
today
Trinity has decided to ‘suspend engagement’ with the Graduate Students’ Union over the GSU’s failure to file accounts for its most recent financial year, which ended in August
There will no be no GSU representation on college committees
Exciting times ahead!! I’m absolutely delighted to be taking on the role of Assistant Editor, leaving the news section in the very capable hands of
@saran_fogarty
! We have a stellar team lined up this year and I can’t wait to work with ye all 🐸
Cormac Watson has appointed Molly Furey as Deputy Editor of The University Times for 2020/21, while Emer Moreau and Aoife Kearins will serve as assistant editors
TCD security have removed the protesters. Incoming TCDSU president Laszlo Molnarfi was among them. He said Ryan and the Greens have blood on their hands for both the govt's climate response and its decision to lift the eviction ban
Did you know that the Python programming language is named after Monty Python, in reference to the developers’ aims that it would be fun to use?
Further research is needed but anecdotal evidence suggests this is absolute shite
Trinity is launching a working group to examine the name of the Berkeley library and human remains taken from the island of Inishbofin without islanders’ permission
George Berkeley was a philosopher who is known to have owned at least four slaves
‘It was also during the 1970s that [Colm] Bairéad’s father taught Irish to Brendan Gleeson — yes, that Brendan Gleeson’
Irish-language cinematic universe
“The tie between the Irish language & the glitz & glamour of Hollywood was something that people really couldn’t have imagined, so it’s had a huge impact on the status of the language in Ireland & that’s what we were setting out to do.”
- Alan Esslemont.
I really don’t know who SNL thinks it’s appealing to whenever it does these godawful ‘the irish are drunks and no one understands their accent’ bits. But you could say that about most SNL content tbh
I know there’s going to be a lot of wheedling to buy Irish on Black Friday, but seriously:
@KennysBookshop
is infinitely better than Amazon in my experience. I got a Noam Chomsky book the other day for €5.75 with free delivery!!
This is an excellent piece of research and one which I hope people will read and meaningfully think about, but something that bothers me in discussions about online abuse is the idea that perpetrators are faceless and void of an identity. They’re not
Health influencers are almost always bad news but these two seem to have given themselves an air of legitimacy because they have a shop and cookbooks. They’re no different to any other amateur health gurus
Broke: accidentally appearing in the back of tourists’ photos outside the Book of Kells
Woke: accidentally appearing in the back of wedding photos in Front Square
Bespoke: accidentally appearing in the back of influencers’ photos in Botany Bay
I’m going to bed. Some thoughts:
- UT staff are more than entitled to defend themselves and the newspaper
- UT, me and my deputy have been subject to vitriolic, personalised criticism all year. I’ve ignored it all year but I’m fed up
- making the editor work for free is (1/
Muttering ‘get it together Emer’ repeatedly is not a good way to self motivate when one of your assistant editors who is also named Emer is in the room
idk who needs to hear this but before you have a go at someone for ‘staying silent’ please remember that you can start conversations or make donations without documenting it on social media
This is a bit different to the stuff I normally write, and I honestly feel a bit weird about putting so much of 'myself' into an article, but when the DCU research came out I couldn't stop thinking about how online abuse is basically accepted as normal by female journalists (🧵)
9 years ago today, taylor swift released the pop masterpiece “i knew you were trouble” as part of a four-week release countdown.
-as she premiered one song on GMA & released it on itunes, each week from sep 24 until red's release date oct 22
october 8, 2012
NPHET recommend 5pm closure time for hospitality from Monday next. This will be considered by Government tomorrow. Also spectators at sporting and live events recommended to be kept to very low numbers.
I walked Cornelia Street (again) to talk to Swifties who made pilgrimages from across the Eastern Seaboard to “pay respects,” the CBD shop owner who recommended a strain for heartbreak, several blasé neighbors, and one very pissed off 80-year-old man:
I feel for this year’s crop of CAO applicants — 601 for psychology is truly eye watering. Questions will be asked about the feasibility of a predicted-grades system after this year, I think
Points increases were almost universal across Trinity's courses this year, with many going up significantly. Here is a breakdown the points for first-round offers