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BBC News Published image captionEric Kinsella and his wife Barbara made the €30m donation Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has received a €30m (£26m) donation from a former graduate and his wife. Eric Kinsella, executive chairman of Jones Engineering group, and his wife Barbara made the donation, believed to be the largest philanthropic gift from individuals to any Irish university. The money will go towards the first building on the new Trinity East campus at the Grand Canal Innovation Distri...

The funding from Mr and Mrs Kinsella will be used to develop the first building on the new 5.5 acre campus.

The 76-year-old Switzerland-based businessman is Ireland’s 128th richest person with an estimated fortune of €136m. 2 Read more Trinity College Dublin has thanked the couple for their gift by saying, "Mr. and Mrs. Kinsella are long-term benefactors to Trinity, and have already funded a multi-million euro 24-hour study facility, Kinsella Hall in the Ussher Library as well as a programme of engineering scholarships for talented students." Trinity East is the first new campus proposed by...

Share this article Trinity College has been handed the largest philanthropic donation an Irish university has received in the history of the State. The Executive Chairman of Jones Engineering Eric Kinsella and his wife Barbara have donated €30m to the college. The money will provide seed funding for the development of a new campus in the Dublin Docklands. Trinity said the Kinsella’s are long-term benefactors to Trinity and have previously funded a multi-million Euro 24-hour study facility a...

Share The University of Cambridge announces the appointment of Dr Diarmuid O’Brien as the new Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise, effective September 2021. Dr O’Brien takes over one of the world’s most successful university centres for technology transfer from outgoing chief executive Dr Tony Raven, who has grown Cambridge Enterprise into an innovation powerhouse with a portfolio of spinout companies that have raised billions in follow-on funding and help power the UK’s thriving in...

jkiaski@heraldstaronline.com SPECIAL MEETING, SPECIAL MEMORIES — Twenty years after her birth, “Miracle Baby” Abbigael “Abby” Balzano, seated center, looks at a scrapbook of photos taken after her birth in 2000. With her are her mother, Rachel Balzano, seated left. During a routine prenatal doctor’s visit, Rachel’s water broke and a prolapsed umbilical cord emergency situation put a team of health care professionals at then Trinity East into action to have Ab...

Prof Linda Doyle will spend the next couple of months campaigning to become the next Provost of Trinity.

The Provost elections kicked off in earnest last night as candidates fielded questions from an online audience about what their provostship would look like.

“College Board will decide the fate of Trinity East – College’s large-scale capital investment project – in March of this year, with a temporary halting of the project on the table. According to minutes of an October meeting of the College Board, the chief governing body in Trinity will decide the ‘future direction of the project’, which was previously called TTEC, in two months’ time, and the option to pause the project will be considered …” (more) [Cormac Watson,

Taking Jesus Explosion online Tags While the coronavirus pandemic has increased uncertainty over future events, the organisers of Jesus Explosion (JE) have adapted to the new normal and confirmed that this year’s conference will take place Saturday, December 12, albeit virtually, for the first time in 18 years. Speaking to Catholic News via phone, JE Coordinator Ayanna Griffith explained that the structure of this year’s JE conference remained but with an added “hybrid experien...