Tourist visits to environmentally sensitive areas such as those along the Wild Atlantic Way have no identifiable impact on such sites, according to new research.

The voting behaviour of American citizens heading into the 2016 US presidential election was not influenced by foreign disinformation campaigns on Twitter, a new study involving researchers from Trinity College Dublin has claimed.

Working group to examine 'reputational impact' of renaming Berkeley Library, named after George Berkeley, who called the Irish poor 'a lazy destitute race' who were more 'abject' even than slaves

'The deluded dreams of billionaires aside, there is no Planet B', he said in his opening remarks on the climate and nature crisis.

All forms of domestic abuse increased during the pandemic with social workers claiming some abusers used Covid-19 as a reason to deny them access to homes. They also said coercive control, verbal abuse, and emotional abuse soared.

Project 'Vigilant' will work with four European countries to equip them with tools to better tackle disinformation online

There's a culture war going on and our view toward cycling is blinkered

Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien criticised the way the proposed secondment of Tony Holohan to TCD was handled

Sinn Féin health spokesman says he can't see why the Minister for Health can't attend both Oireachtas committees, health and finance, to discuss Tony Holohan's now abandoned secondment

A letter sent to the committee from Mr Donnelly's private secretary said: 'Neither the minister nor his officials are in a position to attend the meeting'

Martin Fraser has also made clear that he had no conversations with the Taoiseach or anyone in the Department of An Taoiseach about the proposed move before media reports emerged on the matter last month.

Senior academics have expressed their anger at the proposed move for the outgoing chief medical officer.

The actions of Department of Health secretary general Robert Watt will remain under scrutiny, write Daniel McConnell, Elaine Loughlin, Paul Hosford, and Aoife Moore

A letter from the Department of Health to Trinity shows the university was offered a ringfenced funding agreement for the establishment of the professor of public health role.

TCD sources express concern at potential 'reputational damage' after the issue was raised at college's board meeting in March 

A 'comprehensive report' is to be presented to senior government officials today on the now-abandoned secondment of Chief Medical Office Tony Holohan to Trinity College Dublin

CMO's move was dogged by controversy over the salary arrangements and had been paused by Taoiseach Micheál Martin

Outgoing chief medical officer will remain a civil servant and his salary will be paid by the Department of Health when he takes up his new role 

TCD confirmed that the role is a secondment from the Department of Health

An estimated 600 babies are born in Ireland each year adversely affected by alcohol. Now the HSE and voluntary groups alike are stepping up the focus on fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Could Ireland become a centre for psychedelics? A trial in Dublin may see magic mushrooms, or psilocybin, play a role in the future of mental health services

College students to be spared thousands of euros

TCD researchers find 51% increased likelihood of developing symptoms

New research carried out with 10,043 Irish-based third-level students suggests a clear disparity in salary expectations between genders

Report says some parents are influenced by false claims about vaccines

More than €1bn has been spent on homeless households over the same period

After an initial drop in referrals at the start of the pandemic, more people have been seeking help with stress

The QS rankings provide a comparative analysis of the performance of the world’s top 1,300 universities across some 97 countries

Europe is evaluating the application to extend the use of Pfizer-BioNTech jab to the younger age group

New research says that, though commuting is an unpleasant everyday experience for most people, its implication and effect on daily life within organisations is often overlooked

Trinity College Provost Linda Doyle talks to Mick about growing up in Cork and her career to dat

In Ireland for the first time, after 429 years, the male dominance of the Presidency of Irish public universities has been shattered.

Organisers say there have already been more than 100 expressions of interest in completing the course 

A leading expert has warned that Ireland is potentially vulnerable to threats to our seas and airspace because of its lack of defensive capabilities.

TCD has so far refused to disclose its reasons for not allowing Dr Sarah Alyn-Stacey to go before its 800-plus electors

Irish teenagers who gather on Instagram, Snapchat and other platforms to feel 'socially connected' admit that their social media use has mostly problematic impacts on body image

Our battle with back pain is an uphill struggle and possibly even more so since we’ve started to work from home prevent the spread of Covid-19

The “Smart Working Model” proposes turning existing labs into student accommodation and the sale of surplus parts of the campus

Four new sculptures of female scholars are to be commissioned at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), the first time women are to be featured amongst the figures on display at its prestigious library.

Solvotrin Therapeutics, headquartered in Little Island, is now valued at €45m

Munster has seen the biggest fall in property sale prices in the last 12 months - with a drop of 4.9% - according to figures released by Daft.ie.

Led by Dr Bidisha Ghosh, assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin's School of Engineering, the RedMap project will measure and model real-world emissions from more than 150,000 vehicles at four locations.

A 'green list' of countries with unrestricted travel access to Ireland could be published next Thursday.

An Egyptian student has been named Journalist of the Year at the National Student Media Awards (Smedias).