Chucked Out Of Trinity

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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?

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56 thoughts on “Chucked Out Of Trinity

  1. Dr.Fart MD

    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.

  2. Mickey Twopints

    The bang of entitlement off you tells us you went to “Trinners”. You didn’t need to spell it out.

  3. baz

    ‘Attended in the 90’s’ noting your use of ‘of’ I am pushed to ask:
    a) Did you graduate?
    b) If so, in what?

    1. Wellness

      In “special” circles, this is what is commonly referred to as “haute journalisme” .

  4. theo kretschmar schuldorff

    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.

  5. Liam Knuj

    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.

    1. scottser

      i’ve often wondered what a greek christmas looks like – everybody as sketchy as hell trying to get rid of their gifts..

  6. tronners

    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

  7. Captain Rashers

    That security guard pleb should have lied down for you to sit on whilst the rain decimated from the sky, the cheek of him.

    1. Ben Redmond

      Oh yes, Nassau Street is the tradesman’s entrance. The adjacent Douglas Hyde gallery exhibits lots of forgettable art in the basement down below.

    2. Airey Naïve

      It’s the “Arts Building” in TCD .
      The “Arts Block”is in UCD.

      Another TCD wannabe exposed…

  8. Phlegmbryo

    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.

  9. capitan alatriste

    as a tcd association member you qualify to apply for a reading card in the library.

  10. Cupantae

    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…

        1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

          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.

  11. Gabby

    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.

  12. Frilly Keane

    terrible scenes altogether

    hope you’re getting help Robert
    stay strong
    as the kids and other Trinity heads might say

  13. Rob_G

    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.

  14. Murtles

    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.

  15. Airey Naïve

    “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.

      1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

        I’m interested to know how being a Trinity graduate makes you immune to homelessness, though.

        1. Huey Luas on the News

          Know a lot of homeless undergrads, do you? Living in Daddy’s car excluded.

    1. Papi

      “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.

    2. Bob

      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.

    1. Huey Luas on the News

      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?

  16. Lilly

    ‘(I joke with my friends in work all the time about my Trinity Degree‘

    Why? What’s so hilarious about your Trinity degree?

  17. Termagant

    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.

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