The Irish Times, than have been more than 40,000 applications to study courses at Trinity through the Central Applications Office (CAO) system.
This is an 11 per cent increase from last year.However, Irish college students were a bit confused by the whole thing and took to Twitter to voice their concerns about the reality of studying there that the successful applicants would come to realise.One wrote: ‘Imagining a bunch of yanks applying to study in trinity because of the romanticism of Ireland in the show, getting their place and realising the only place they have to live is a pull out couch in a boxroom that has a sink for 900 a month‘.Since Normal People, Trinity have had thousands more applications – an 11% increase since last year.I.
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