Trinity College Dublin

Five outstanding individuals, including champion boxer Katie Taylor and traditional musician Sharon Shannon, were conferred today with honorary degrees from Trinity College Dublin for their exceptional contributions to a wide variety of fields.  

Civil rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy and Sister Helen Prejean, the anti-death penalty activist who was depicted by Susan Sarandon in the film version of ‘Dead Man Walking’, were also honoured, as was Colm Tóibín, writer of some of the most successful Irish-authored books of the 21st century.  

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Trinity College Dublin has placed 75th in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2027, holding its strongest position in a decade. The university remains by some margin the highest ranked university in Ireland.

The 2027 ranking is due in large part to strong performances in indicators such as International Faculty, International Students, Employment Outcomes, and Sustainability. Trinity placed 29th globally in the Sustainability category.

The QS World University Rankings QS Top Universities evaluated 8,808 institutions and ranked 1,504 universities across nine indicators within five categories.

Trinity’s Provost and President Dr Provost Linda Doyle said: “It is a solid achievement to hold our place at 75th in the world in these rankings, particularly in light of continued government underfunding of Ireland’s universities.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered the inaugural De Chastelain lecture at Trinity today.

"Trinity is much more than a university,” Prime Minister Carney said. “It is a veritable wellspring for ideas, inventions and enduring moral clarity. Some of the western world’s greatest contributions to science, art and literature have their roots here."

General John de Chastelain, Chair of the 1997-2011 Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, An Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Simon Harris and Minister Helen McEntee attended the lecture which was followed by a fireside chat with Alex White SC.

“Drawing on Prime Minister Carney's words at Davos, I believe that universities have a big role to play in wielding the power of legitimacy, integrity and rules," said Trinity's Provost Linda Doyle. "Here in Trinity, legitimacy and integrity are central to how we both serve and challenge society, even more so in a world of conflict, climate and biodiversity crisis and rapidly evolving AI technologies.”

The event was organised in partnership with the Ireland Canada University Foundation.

Read more here: https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/mark-carney-visits/

An Taoiseach Micheál Martin, TD, visited Trinity to pay tribute to the late Chuck Feeney, whose vision and generosity utterly transformed research and higher education in Ireland.

At Trinity, Chuck’s philanthropy enabled, among other developments, the creation of the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) in 2015. At the celebration, speakers including Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Provost Dr Linda Doyle, GBHI Co-Founders Prof Emeritus Ian Robertson and Prof Brian Lawlor and GBHI Site Director Prof Iracema Leroi reflected on how new thinking and emerging research from GBHI are reshaping our understanding of brain health - not simply as the absence of disease, but as central to how individuals and societies function and thrive.

An Taoiseach Micheál Martin, TD, said: “Chuck Feeney had a deep and sincere belief in humanity. He believed that, to achieve a high standard of living in a society, investment in advanced research was not an option, it was essential. And there are few more important public health issues than brain health. It affects our ability to think, learn, work, connect, and contribute to society. The Global Brain Health Institute empowers people with an understanding of their personal agency with brain health. This is the extraordinary legacy Chuck Feeney has left for the people of Ireland.”