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Playwright, screenwriter and columnist Colin Murphy has been announced as the 2026 Rooney Writer Fellow by Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity's flagship Arts and Humanities Institute. Best known for his series of plays about Irish political history, Colin will join the Trinity Long Room Hub's distinguished fellowship programme supported by Dr Peter Rooney.

When Scotland's finance secretary, Shona Robison, delivered the Scottish budget for 2026-27 on January 13, she framed it as a budget for families that would ease pressure on household finances. Coming only a few months before the Scottish parliamentary elections in May, this budget is especially significant.

Posted on: 05 December 2025 Dr Carey, from Trinity's School of Physics and the AMBER Research Ireland Centre for Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research, will now build an independent research group in Trinity.

An Irish art project depicting a full-scale re-enactment of Raphael's The School of Athens fresco with an all-women cast has gone on tour to Rome to celebrate St Brigid's Day. Devised by the art collective Na Cailleacha and staged in collaboration with Trinity's History of Art and Architecture Department, the image is entitled The School of Hibernia (after Raphael) and features women from a variety of age profiles and backgrounds.

Posted 9 January 2026 proslgn/Shutterstock Lithuania is entering 2026 with a tax shift that brings its system closer to countries like Ireland and the UK. From January 1, the long-standing flat 15% personal income-tax rate for self-employed people is being abolished for higher earners.

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