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The Talks That Ended Trinity’s Blockade

Trinity’s May 2024 announcement records the terms of the agreement and the support it had arranged for students from Gaza.

Trinity said the encampment and blockade would end after talks between protesters and senior management. The agreement set out a taskforce with an external chair and staff and student representation. Its recommendations were to go through the college’s existing governance committees.

The same announcement reported that Trinity had identified places for eight scholars from Gaza, waived fees and planned housing support through its Sanctuary Fund. The college dated that work to January 2024. That chronology separates the talks that resolved the blockade from the education programme that was already underway.

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Transport and access. Protest activity disrupted traffic near Dublin Port Tunnel on October 2, 2025. Transport Infrastructure Ireland reported that the incident had been cleared, with traffic metering in place. No value for lost travel time was published in that report. RTÉ reporting with the operator update

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