The encampment at Trinity College Dublin and blockade of the Book of Kells has come to an end after the university went to the negotiating table with the protestors and agreed to their demands, which includes divesting from Israeli companies.
A statement from the university confirmed that an agreement was reached at a meeting this afternoon, and that plans are being put in place to return to normal business.
The five-day protest over the war in Gaza demanded Trinity divest from investments in Israeli companies.
In its statement, Trinity management confirmed that it will “complete a divestment from investments in Israeli companies that have activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and appear on the UN Blacklist in this regard,” adding that this process is expected to be completed by June.
TCD said that it will endeavour to divest from investments in other Israeli companies, and that the issue will be considered by a taskforce.
One Israeli company on Trinity’s supplier list will remain until March 2025 for contractual reasons, the statement said.
Senior Dean Prof. Eoin O’Sullivan, who led the talks for Trinity, said: “We are glad that this agreement has been reached and are committed to further constructive engagement on the issues raised. We thank the students for their engagement.”
The planned taskforce will “address a number of issues,” among which will be a review of Trinity’s student exchanges with Israel.
Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union President, Lászlo Molnárfi welcomed the news, writing on X that “There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen.”
“5 days is all it took for @tcddublin to commit to fully divesting from Israel,” Mr Molnárfi wrote.
There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen. 5 days is all it took for @tcddublin to commit to fully divesting from Israel. A testament to grassroots student-staff power. https://t.co/EE77Z1JhPZ
— László Molnárfi (SU) (@TCDSU_President) May 8, 2024
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TRINITY SPOILED RICH KIDS END BLOCKADE AFTER UNIVERSITY AGREES TO THEIR DEMANDS WITH THE HELP OF MUMMY AND DADDY
they all should of been kicked out of there education
They should because their brains are clearly immune to it. Although im sure that trinity is probably a marxist indoctrination center run by communists now. After all holohan got his nest egg job in there regardless of the countries outrage against him for supervising the bio weapon.
Here is an insightful comment by an historian:
“First, society takes the attitudes and antics of the young far too seriously. In an era when we are reliably informed that adolescence persists well into the twenties, it is strange that we deem the views of anyone under the age of thirty to have any real significance or merit. Yet it seems to be an unspoken assumption that young people, especially young, angry, and opinionated people, are to be indulged as important. World leaders were clamoring to have cringeworthy photo ops with Greta Thunberg when she first rose to prominence. Thunberg types now abound on the left and right of the political spectrum. They often combine their ill-informed opinions with a confident youthful extremism that should be summarily dismissed or mocked without mercy rather than featured on the news.”
See the article, What the pro-Palestinian campus protests are really all about on website of firstthings dot com
Thanks for the lead. Very interesting article. Applies here just as much.
Due to the information age they have heaps of knowledge at their fingertips. But unfortunately very little wisdom
Don’t tell me you weren’t inspired by listening to Malala screeching?
so we should take the opinions of old fools like Biden for instance more serious?we gonna put a cap on when opinions are valid from the age of 30-50s?old enough for it to be significant but young enough that it’s not from someone too old and stuck in their way,out of touch,stuck in the past or in the throes of dementia or some other neurodegenerative affliction?…”mocked without mercy” lol yeah seems a great way to go for any difference of opinion and serious debate..it’s not the old farts inventing better ways for a better future for everyone now is it…you know when we are long gone they will have to fix the mess left behind? the majority of people are actively trying to make the world a better place for their young and don’t blindly dismiss their opinions or concerns and usually try to encourage them to independently question everything…that is as insightful as a patient observing other patients in an asylum…insane…
Absolutely insane to give in to communists.
is a communist a socialist?
Who cares.
@gript, can we get some investigative journalism on this SU president? It would be good to know who and what he is, given he has the most prestigious college in Ireland bending the knee to him.
This is a truly shameful decision. Prof. Eoin O’Sullivan says agreement has been reached. There was no agreement there was a complete surrender to antiemetic racist bigots’. Utterly shameful. Its a pity that the spoiled brats protesting did not burn the place down.
Trinity and Ireland will suffer for this surrender. They have no moral compass it that dump.
To what extent will students’ ability to travel abroad be impeded by being flagged and placed on watch lists?
Will these same students protest and call for Ireland to disinvest in all companies and banks and countries supporting the Western military industrial complex? They exploit and encourage wars requiring weapons and ammunitions. They enrich an elite group of people and politicians. If these students are upset by the 35 000 deaths in Gaza, they should be even more horrified by the 600 000 and more deaths of Ukrainian men and perhaps double that number injured. I doubt we will ever see them protesting for negotiations and the restoration of peace between Ukraine and Russia.
is their a Russian version of this script your wrote directed at Russian industry to Russian people,or are you anti west living and working here and sending money back home to that side of world to feed kids and cloth them and call ús scumbag in your language,just a curious Sinn Féin supporter 💚
I know people whose lives were ruined in WW2 including my mother’s only brother who was one of a number of Irish in a prisoner of war camp in Germany. I have had friends from both Ukraine and Russia in Ireland. I believe that Western politicians had the opportunity before Russia invaded in Feb 2022 to push for a peaceful resolution but did not make the effort.
I believe people like an elderly German who grew up in Russia after WW2 and was imprisoned for refusing to do military service. After being allowed to return to Germany he has had much contact with people in both Ukraine and Russia. The picture he paints is different from that in mainstream media. He is a passivist and I am not but I find myself in agreement with much that he has written. There may be much wrong in Russia but it is no longer the same as the USSR.
While I agree with you that the students should be directing their ire towards the American Military Industrial Complex, I still see this as a good thing as it shows peaceful protests can achieve change. I remain hopeful that you will eventually see protests against those companies and their influeance given they are the source of most of the death and suffering in the world.
With regards to peace between Russia and Ukraine, peace was very close. In March 2022 and early April 2022, there were peace negeotations going on in Istanbul between a Russian delegation and a Ukrainian delegation that were progressing quite well. There was no formal agreement reached yet but all indications were that one would be reached and the war would end.
However a visit by Borris Johnson (likely on the orders of Washington) to Kiev led to the abandoment of these negeotations by Kiev and the flooding of Western military equipment to Kiev. This has been readily admitted by a number of members of the Ukrainain parliament among others.
https://www.intellinews.com/top-ukrainian-politician-oleksiy-arestovych-gives-seventh-confirmation-of-russia-ukraine-peace-deal-agreed-in-march-2022-302876/
“[The Russians] were ready to end the war if we accepted neutrality like Finland once did. And we would make a commitment that we would not join Nato. When we returned from Istanbul Boris Johnson came to Kyiv and said: “We will not sign anything with them at all and let’s just go to war,” Arestovych said.
This means that Johnson should be tried for war crimes given his actions have directly led to the deaths of 600,000 Ukrainians and 1,000,000+ wounded. I honestly wonder how people like him sleep at night.
yeah Ukraine rejected peace talks,not he same at all,Ukraine chose this…the majority wanted them to negotiate but they refused even after coming close to a deal…the 600,000 deaths there are soldiers that Ukraine used as cannon fodder and that is one army against another …Ukraine has 10k civilian deaths and 19k injured since Russia invaded you do know that is a 2yr period right?or more close to 26 months…are you saying not enough civilians in Palestine have died or what?
oh and lets not forget that anyone who did promote peace between Ukraine and Russian were slandered,putin apologist , kremlin stooges …probably dirty commies..the only thing Ukraine want is more weapons and cash…if you don’t have that to give them then maybe don’t tell them what to do or what others should risk to do this for them….
like you do not even care…you are just trying to make a point in your favor right?…no doubt you were the same person slandering and moaning at people who did want peace,and for sure you would do the same thing today if anyone was talking about it…you don’t care at all…you just want to turn one against another…
This is a totally ignorant and unfounded remark. If you have been following my posts on Gript and elsewhere you would have noticed that I was arguing for peace since early in 2022. At the time I even spoke to a number of people far more influential than I am about the wisdom of asking for terms of peace. This was not well received. I also said nothing about not caring about the 35000 deaths in Gaza. All wars are horrible and we should do all we can to end them. Our leaders and most in the EU have failed miserably in this regard.
bad move
Yup… Another example of inmates running the asylum.
Trinity blackmailed by a bunch of yuppies. Wonder how many of them follow bambie thug.. 😂
https://youtu.be/0wU2RQAvYQc?si=-9K9tOjH5yKE7Uco
a pretty dirty arabic song for ya’ll obviously calling for the opposite of what anyone wants…they are nothing like us ,filthy unhuman right?they deserve all they get and the more that get annihilated the less for us to take…that is good all around…
*note my sarcasm …
ya’ll are so stuck on propaganda ,do you ever think at all we are just all looking for the same thing ?like your average person,regardless of color,religion,culture…no you automatically go to the darkest place…that says more about you really…I am over 30 and less than 60 so you have to listen to my opinion right?A call for Honesty said so…greatly disappointed in the world,in Ireland and you all…didn’t think we were into starving people to death after our history you know…
https://youtu.be/1OaE73iHS04?si=G4lKIEmWEZ3CQdmG
`so you know,Israelis voted this in so they are all equally guilty right?all of them…there is not a single innocent person in Israel at all…
hamas accepted this ceasefire a few days ago already but it is still not enough right,how will you spin this to justify killing more civilians ,women and children mostly?please,I await the article for this…
Maria, regarding Israel, if it was you locked away in a tunnel under the Gaza strip, being tortured and used as a sexual plaything by Islamic terrorists, having been kidnapped after watching your family tortured and murdered in front of you, your baby placed into an oven alive….you would want your country to stop at nothing to get you back, or at the very least avenge you and yours.
There’s a case to be made for children in Gaza, but I have 0 sympathy for any adult over there. They voted Hamas in, they’d vote Hamas in again even after all of this. They celebrate the torture and death of Jews for simply being Jews.
Excellent outcome for those principled young men and women, and the icing on the cake was seeing Owen Jones give that Zionist weasel Shatter an absolute thumping on TV3’s Tonight Show.
tiny little country called Ireland saves the world again by a few students that will bé future Simon Harris types , the magority of this country that live from payday to payday will vote sinn féin for brighter future and all Ireland that controls it borders and not be flooded by Indians and muslims from UK that fg/ff say we have great relationship with , immigration and housing and health are top issues of the day and main media outlets are running on rich kid students and Donal trump béd time stories, the auld scratch here will be on the Sinn Féin candidate box on voting cards , remember fill in all the boxes and g/ff/fg scratch on the last box so transfer does not get to them , Simon (R.I.C.) Harris got in on 15 count because people did not fill in all the boxes ón voting slip for preference 1 2 3 👍
I saw TV3. I am no fan of Alan Shatter but I felt the programme was unbalanced – happy TCD student leader Lazlo on a zoom call and UK leftie Owen Jones in the studio – so two against one. The subject needed more time and Shatter was very frustrated about the time he claimed the other two had. In the end Shatter and Jones were both talking – they ignored the presenter Clare Brook and she had to call an advert break to shut them up and finish the item.
people are going homeless here in Ireland family’s with kid’s and would the mostly blueshirt students do the same for them,asking as a proud and patriotic Sínn féin supporter
Why do you bother with this crap. Has Marylou tasked you with this stupidity ?. Nobody is upset by your provocation. We know what you are. A deluded fool.
ok Jimmy 💚
Now that we are on first name terms I will put you on my Christmas card list.
A “proud and patriotic” sinn feiner who hides behind a pseudonym 🤣 at least be honest and call yourself a cowardly sinn feiner who hides online – much like the perverts who use fake profiles on social media.
so people like A Call for Honesty you mean?
I mean they could but that would make no difference,the government are not interested in building social housing any more and if they bring in a referendum on the policy they already have to change it you can be sure the kind of people who comment here will vote yes..that means less social housing and more homeless because lets face it,these are not well off people,they are homeless right?I grew up in a council house with my siblings,my mother lives alone there now for years and has been trying to give it back to the council,she needs an exchange to one of their elderly housing areas but she needs a form filled out by 2 different health professionals(who has more than a GP really?)she even tried to apply for a tenancy swap…so my mother is stuck in a 3 bed house she does not need and can not care for but they will do nothing,she will die there and they will board it up for 3 years I guarantee it,she isn’t the only one either…blaming tenants for their bad practice then people getting hysterical about foreigners over it even though people are on these lists going back 15+ years…
and putting the time and price into perspective ,when I rented my second home I went from a 2 bed apartment to a 5 bedroom house,we are talking 800euro for that at the time,and besides myself maybe 5 other people were at that viewing…it wasn’t desperate then…didn’t the Government boast like 2 years ago that they built more houses than that was built in the 70s or 80s?like it was something to be proud of…lol…and how much of that stock have they sold on to the tenant in the same period?
btw having a house boarded up does add to places free,just not what can be lived in…again will not make a tap of difference if they take a house from someone and board it up for years while they drag their feet to do any work needed and give it to a person on that list…