Category: University
Icarus: Woke TCD Poetry Journal Publishes Fake Poems Written by The Burkean
Icarus magazine currently holds the reputation of being Trinity College’s — if not Ireland’s — premier poetry journal. In yesteryear, it has been edited by such litterateurs as David Norris, Derek Mahon and Brendan Kennelly, and with contributions from Seamus...
UT in the Firing Line: What has Trinity College Journalism in Turmoil?
Move over Mariupol, the latest journalistic affray in Trinity College Dublin looks set to outmatch the carnage coming out of the Donbass this month. News of a campaign to strip Trinity College’s premier student newspaper the University Times (UT) of...
NUIGSU Elections: Has the Left Peaked on Campuses?
The results of the recent NUI Galway students Union elections marked a watershed in leftist dominance of Student Union politics at NUI Galway. In the SU election last Friday, candidates supposedly more associated with the ideological far-left lost to more...
Battle of the Girlbosses? TCDSU Elections 2022
“Wokeness is God's gift to the radical right, not for Hannity-tier "they've gone too far" reasons—its runaway humanitarianism has shifted a chunk of IQ elite outside the academy by barring psychologically healthy people. Once IQ hegemony goes, the barrier to...
The Udoma Committee: TCD Phil’s POC Powwow
Ireland's rising tide of colour seized temporary control of Trinity's GMB debating hall for the inaugural Udoma subcommittee geared at incubating 'POC' debaters. Not knowing where else to spend a squally February evening, this at the time rather intoxicated Burkean...
Chu for Seanad (Again)? Will Diversity Gimmick Woo Voters?
The characters (玩世不恭) denote the word cynicism in Mandarin Chinese and it appears that the impending Seanad race will be getting that in spades with news of Hazel Chu's snap involvement. Thought to have slung her political hook by burning...
Stop the Seminars! Maynooth Takes on Populism
Another day, another seminar on the far right, or so the phrase goes. “StopFarRight” (kudos on the name) is a series of seminars designed to bring about “discussion and debate between academics and civil society groups on how best to...
Sympathy for the Neocon? Mark Humphrys vs DCU
Blood has been in the water for Ireland’s most prolific and perhaps only self-identifying neoconservative over the past fortnight, with the targeting of DCU lecturer Dr Mark Humphrys by anti-racist campaigners. Aiming to put the Computer Science lecturer and part-time...
Trinity Trans Referendum to Boycott Irish Times Flops
Ireland's cultural revolutionaries went just that bit further in undermining themselves yesterday with the failure of a referendum intended to boycott the Irish Times in Trinity College. Driven by the embattled paper of record's decision to platform trans critical feminists...
Knives Out for Irish Times with TCD Trans-Boycott Referendum
There’s nothing better than being handed an open goal by your political opponents. And yet, TCD Student Union’s upcoming referendum to boycott the Irish Times presents us all just that. The Trans Lobby Comes for Irish Times Ireland’s trans mafia...