{"id":254587,"date":"2026-01-20T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254587\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:03:07","slug":"three-people-brought-to-hospital-after-chemical-spill-at-trinity-college-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254587\/","title":{"rendered":"Three people brought to hospital after chemical spill at Trinity College Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Three people were taken to hospital after a chemical spill at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/trinity-college-dublin-tcd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/trinity-college-dublin-tcd\/\">Trinity College Dublin<\/a>, the university has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Responding to questions, Trinity\u2019s spokeswoman said the spillage took place at 11am on Tuesday at the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI) on Pearse Street. \u201cThree individuals were transferred to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/st-jamess-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/st-jamess-hospital\">St James\u2019s Hospital<\/a>,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Information was not immediately available from Trinity on whether the people taken hospital were students or staff of the university. Neither was information available on their condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-fire-brigade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-fire-brigade\">Dublin Fire Brigade<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na<\/a> attended the scene but have since left and the situation is under control,\u201d the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe building is closed for environmental cleaning. We have no further update at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The TBSI carries out research with the schools of biochemistry and immunology, chemistry, medicine, pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences and the centre for biomedical engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people were taken to hospital after a chemical spill at Trinity College Dublin, the university has said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,615,34724,61,60,43,50042,15342],"class_list":["post-254587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-fire-brigade","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-st-jamess-hospital","tag-trinity-college-dublin-tcd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}