Trinity College Dublin
Robert writes:
I got caught in a rain storm cycling in Dublin yesterday around 7.30pm. I spy Trinity where I attended college in the 90s and seek shelter in the main entrance hall
I’m there without anybody else around for around 30 seconds and a security guard approaches me.
I tell him about the weather thinking he’s just here for chats but he repeatedly asks me if I’ve read the sign outside.
I tell him no and for him to tell me. Basically students only. It’s private property so I have to leave.
I try pull the auld ‘Trinners’ card (I joke with my friends in work all the time about my Trinity Degree – they are gonna love this) but to no avail
If anybody knows the legalities of this situation I would be interested to hear.
P.S. I’ve dried out now and not feeling as pissed off. If I had of been homeless seeking refuge for ten minutes then I’m sure the lack of humanity would last a lot longer and deeper then one soaked middle aged hipster.
Anyone?
Pic: Rollingnews
had you put on an american accent you would’ve been allowed stay as long as you like. In fact the security man would’ve given you his coat and his cup of tea.
The bang of entitlement off you tells us you went to “Trinners”. You didn’t need to spell it out.
‘of’ doesn’t even really sound like ‘have’
‘Attended in the 90’s’ noting your use of ‘of’ I am pushed to ask:
a) Did you graduate?
b) If so, in what?
In “special” circles, this is what is commonly referred to as “haute journalisme” .
Don’t they lock the front arch at about 7:30pm anyway?
I think that once the public exhibits are closed, especially during the summer when the campus accomm is mostly taken up with visiting american kids, they have to think of their duty of care.
No-cans-on-the-cricket-pitch was the thin end of the wedge.
I don’t know about anybody else, but I was on the edge of my seat reading that.
I went back and read it a second time
This is the replacement for Love Island that I’ve been looking for
Don’t forget to flush.
Pick a tense.
You want to know about the legalities of private property?
Trinners, you say? What of you a degree in?
it wasn’t an degree in English wasn’t it not?
I think a true TCD graduate would have said “porter” instead of “security guard” and “Front Arch” instead of “main entrance hall.” I smell a rat. Timeo Danaos and all that.
Lads we have an actual Trinners grad in the audience.
all the cream go there…
It’s Front Gate. “Front Arch” is what papists and parvenues call it.
Piffle. It’s clearly a Wallhole.
+1
i’ve often wondered what a greek christmas looks like – everybody as sketchy as hell trying to get rid of their gifts..
Totes
There’s probably a few 100 thousand pedestrians in immediate area during the day, if everyone went into that small entrance every time it rained it would be a safety hazard, he was doing his job, and it is a private grounds open to public, so they can ask you to leave
You wouldn’t be allowed in my office either, and ex-employees are not allowed in either
That security guard pleb should have lied down for you to sit on whilst the rain decimated from the sky, the cheek of him.
Get on 2 dese hun, deyll sort u out ders a claim der hun no win no fee hun oxoxoxoxo
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maybe he meant the Nassau Street entrance by the arts block
Oh yes, Nassau Street is the tradesman’s entrance. The adjacent Douglas Hyde gallery exhibits lots of forgettable art in the basement down below.
It’s the “Arts Building” in TCD .
The “Arts Block”is in UCD.
Another TCD wannabe exposed…
They’ve gotten fairly strict in recent months. I work for a tour company and they banned every company in the city from coming onto the campus without tickets to the book of Kells. I actually agree with their policy, but the security guards are the ones who’ve had to try to enforce the students/paid tourists only policy and they’re kinda dicks about it. Trinity has always been private property, it’s a bit of a shame though to see it move from being really grand with any member of the public entering it’s gates to being quite strict.
as a tcd association member you qualify to apply for a reading card in the library.
Get in touch with their Alumni Office, I’m sure they’d be interested to hear that former students are being turfed out in the rain. Not exactly likely to make you want to support the college in the future…
Buy an umbrella.
Perfectly practical on a bicycle
He did say he was a hipster.
I have an umbrella and a flask with chilled tonic (fevertree) in it. I add the gin (Monkey 47) from my hipflask and drink it as I cradle my brolly with my neck, cycling energetically along the canal bank. Often, I shout quotes from Paddy Kavanagh at passers-by, to educate them. O COMMEMORATE ME WHERE THERE IS WATER, I roar. People love it.
that sounds like a grand way to spend an avo
gimme a backer
No! GERROFF!
The writer graduated B.A. Soc. Sc. magno cum loud head in the cloud. Next time he should bring a Chinese-made 5 euro small umbrella, if he remembers anything from the Economics lectures.
terrible scenes altogether
hope you’re getting help Robert
stay strong
as the kids and other Trinity heads might say
Obviously Robert isn’t a fellow; otherwise he would not only be allowed in, he would also be allowed walk on some of grass that is normally closed to the public.
Jolly good!
The last time someone tried to shelter from the rain he brought the car in with him and smashed the doors. Probably wary about pesky shelterers now.
Women, Catholics and now Robert.
*boycotts Pav in protest*
“in the main entrance hall”
Surely, “Front Gate”. Obviously you have never been to TCD at all. If you had you would also know there is an Alumni common room where you can get coffee, free-wifi, etc….
As for the ‘If I’d been homeless remark’ – that’s just beneath contempt. If you had ever been homeless you’d never have been to Trinity in the first place.
Promote that security guard now.
Millennial whinger. If people three times your age can stand in the rain in College Park to watch 72 year old Bryan Ferry play a great set five days after his ex-wife Lucy Birley sadly took her own life in Co Clare, I am sure you can endure the suffering of Irish summer rain.
I agree with you that TCD degrees are a joke now, however.
this should be the last word on this topic.
i now declare this thread closed.
I’m interested to know how being a Trinity graduate makes you immune to homelessness, though.
Know a lot of homeless undergrads, do you? Living in Daddy’s car excluded.
Poo.
“Millennial whinger. If people three times your age can stand in the rain in College Park to watch 72 year old Bryan Ferry play a great set five days after his ex-wife Lucy Birley sadly took her own life in Co Clare, I am sure you can endure the suffering of Irish summer rain.”
This is why Broadsheet is awesome.
That is all.
All those formative years sucking on your mum’s rancid breast milk has left this sour taste in your mouth for all the world to smell on your breath, your lapels and your actions!
Spit out that lactose hate. She loved you. Just because she had a cant doesn’t mean she had to be one to you.
You can change. You can grow.
You cannot refer to yourself as a hipster. That is what We call You. Pffff!
Drive a car into the front gate, that’ll learn them.
He’s more the electric scooter / SoloWheel type. Wouldn’t stand an avocado on toast chance in hell of even breaking the varnish on the woodwork. Diddums.
Could he not have packed his Electric Picnic tent and Hunters wellies before going out in the drizzle? What are they teaching people in College these days?
‘(I joke with my friends in work all the time about my Trinity Degree‘
Why? What’s so hilarious about your Trinity degree?
A friend of mine and avowed mUCDiver once tried to take a slash on Front Gate at about 2 AM after coming out of Doyles, he was chased away mid-flow by a security guard with a fire extinguisher. It’s the greatest laugh I’ve ever had in my entire life.
That’s all.