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IrelandQCI team demonstrates quantum-secure communications with Dublin City Council

Researchers from the CONNECT Centre headquartered at Trinity, working with partners in the IrelandQCI project, successfully demonstrated quantum-secure communication at Dublin City Council headquarters today as part of the project’s first engagement with a local authority.

17 Feb 2026

Research|Science

CONNECT and iCRAG launch SmartScape: a new Centre-to-Centre collaboration using fibre networks to sense the city

SmartScape brings together experts to explore explore how Dublin’s existing telecommunications infrastructure can be transformed into a powerful, city-scale sensing platform.

12 Feb 2026

Innovation|Research|Science|Society

Professor Yvonne Buckley honoured with Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal

Professor Buckley, a world leader in plant and animal population biology, has been honoured with the 2026 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Environmental Sciences, Geography and Geosciences.

12 Feb 2026

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity Executive Education to deliver Garda leadership development programme

An Garda Síochána has appointed Trinity Executive Education, Trinity College Dublin, to deliver a national senior leadership development programme over the next four years.

12 Feb 2026

Business

One in eight older people in Ireland require medical attention for a fall each year

New research from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing shows that falls represent a major and growing problem for the health system in Ireland.

11 Feb 2026

Health|Research|Society

Trinity formally endorses Fossil Fuel Treaty

Trinity has formally joined the global network calling for a Fossil Fuel Treaty, following approval by the Environment and Sustainability Principal Committee of Board.

11 Feb 2026

Environment|Sustainability

Simulating quantum chaos: how Trinity researchers are helping to push quantum computers beyond their limits

How rapidly does information spread through a quantum system? How does a quantum system forget its past? And can today’s noisy quantum computers tell us anything trustworthy about the limits of these deeply complex regimes known as quantum chaos?

11 Feb 2026

Research|Science

‘Character is better than wealth’ – exhibition celebrates legacies of Michael Davitt

The exhibition in the Long Room and accompanying online exhibition celebrate Michael Davitt's lifelong efforts to combat poverty, injustice, and oppression.

10 Feb 2026

Culture|Research

Learnovate launches RAIL initiative on responsible Artificial Intelligence for teaching and learning

Learnovate, a leading global future of work and learning research hub in Trinity College Dublin, is leading a new Community of Practice for AI implementers and practitioners involved in teaching and learning.

10 Feb 2026

Innovation

Colin Murphy to join the Trinity Long Room Hub as new Rooney Writer Fellow

The Fellowship enables a creative writer to join the research community in the Trinity Long Room Hub and to engage with the institute’s research themes and programmes.

9 Feb 2026

Awards and Funding|Culture