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The company of wolves: should large predators be reintroduced to Ireland?
What we really need is a study, not on the feasibility of wolves or lynx here, but on people and how our values, attitudes and perceptions might evolve to accommodate them
Meet the Trinity students managing a €700,000 fund
Corporate sponsors contribute an annual cash infusion each year, and gains are typically reinvested
Putting seismic waves through their paces with machine learning
Research Lives: Dr Eoghan Totten, postdoctoral researcher, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Eimear McBride: ‘When my brother died, it was not only losing him but losing all the illusions that you were going to be safe’
Having abandoned the pursuit of a career in acting after her brother’s death, the author came to the realisation that she wanted to be a creator, not an interpreter
‘If we just focus on paramilitaries, we’re missing the bigger picture': Study on trauma in Northern Ireland shows need for concerted action
A groundbreaking study has detailed the individual, social and economic costs of adverse childhood experiences - but also has indications of hope
Six in 10 adults in North had a childhood trauma in ‘major public health challenge’
Four or more adverse childhood experiences – a threshold more likely to lead to poorer health and educational outcomes – reported by 17.6% of people surveyed
Queen’s University Belfast launches voluntary job cuts amid €15m deficit
Financial gap remains significant despite other measures taken, management says in email notifying staff
Michael Longley funeral: Poets and politicians gather for writer who ‘touched the soul and imagination of many’
Michael D Higgins joined Theo Dorgan, Frank Ormsby, Medbh McGuckian and others at ceremony
Student solicitors win place in Irish Times debate final
David Rattigan and Emer Nolan take team place, while Trinity’s Mary Woods makes individual final
Reimagining James Joyce as doctor of medical science
Novelist’s work is packed with references to medicine, sickness and health
Seven factors to consider when making your college application
Applying for college this year? Whether applying for a course at home or abroad, here’s all you need to know
Ken Reid obituary: Journalist who covered Northern Ireland from war to peace
Reid had an agreeable nature and could make friends with anybody
Dogs mirror human stress levels, Queen’s University study finds
Research reveals dogs may get stressed when owners are under pressure
Political art on the doorstep: ‘You’re going to find my work in surprising locations’
Collaborations between writer and historian Conor McCabe and artist Augustine O’Donoghue include a series of door mats with political messages and a new event called Counter-Culture Nights
Motivations of the Irish who served in the first World War were complicated
Many were from the vanished tribe of Catholic ‘loyalists’ who saw no contradiction between their faith, desire for Home Rule and loyalty to the British Empire
Police officers injured during protest against Hillary Clinton Belfast visit
PSNI investigating scenes of public disorder outside Queen’s University as US presidential candidate spoke at summit
Four arrested after protests during Hillary Clinton visit to Queen’s University
Protesters chanted ‘shame’ and carried Palestinian flags and a cut-out of the US politician with blood on her hands
Brexit survey: most voters in Northern Ireland back retaining trade deal but hardline unionists strongly opposed
Survey finds Windsor Framework rules, under which the North continues to follow some EU laws on goods, backed by majority in North as Assembly vote looms
Northern Ireland’s young people may change the world, but first they have to learn to vote
Under-25s divide equally between a united Ireland or staying in the United Kingdom
Skeleton service - Frank McNally on why horses’ heads (and the occasional saint) used to be buried under buildings
The foundation sacrifice
Belfast astronomer to take part in European Space Agency’s groundbreaking asteroid mission
Hera will seek to gather new data and insights about how to deflect asteroids which may be bound for Earth
Southern students enjoy the good life at college in Northern Ireland: ‘It’s the best thing I could have done’
Cheaper cost of living and being able to afford that move away from home prove an irresistible attraction
How Irish scientist John Tyndall supercharged the modern debate on consciousness in lecture 150 years ago
Tyndall contended there was no point in the history of the cosmos when ‘creative acts’ of a ‘deity’ were required
Will 200-year-old maps help inform decisions on crucial habitat restoration and future land use?
New digital archive of first ordnance survey maps of island of Ireland coincides with completion of first detailed national land cover map
Queen’s University announces more money to help Palestinian students take up scholarships
A scheme set up in 2020 funds tuition fees and accommodation, but not visa or travel costs
Are universities an obstacle to climate action by reinforcing the status quo?
Research has found universities play a key role in perpetuating unsustainability and are increasingly being run as businesses
First Minister welcomes ‘milestone’ mother and baby homes inquiry in North
Michelle O’Neill hopes first draft of Bill for redress scheme will be introduced in Assembly before year-end
Queen’s University rejects claims of ‘body donation scheme’ with mother and baby homes
Campaigner says college used the remains of 1,980 people from mother and baby homes for research purposes
Remains of almost 2,000 people from mother and baby homes used at Queen’s University Belfast
Stormont committee told it is not known what happened to vast majority of remains and body parts after use in research and teaching
Dramatic shifts in extreme weather conditions likely to affect sleep patterns, study finds
Animal study insights likely to apply to humans with possible implications for neurological disorders in later life
Cross-Border educational agreement focuses on advanced manufacturing
More accessible training expected to help the ‘most marginalised’ young people towards better jobs
Solar farms in space could help solve global energy crisis following tech breakthrough, Irish scientists predict
QUB team successfully deploy technology on satellites that can constantly turn to face the sun and send power back to Earth in form of microwave energy
Glasses don’t just improve eyesight, they can make a big difference to income too
For nearly one billion people in the developing world, glasses are a luxury that many cannot afford
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