Food
Superfood of the week: Wild Salmon
You’re either into fish or you’re not. The smell of it is enough to put some people off and others just don’t even think of adding it into their diet; poultry and red meat is Read more…
Year: 2013
Articles
Season ends on a high for DCU Ladies G.A.A – DCU 4-10 St Mary’s 2-11
DCU’s Ladies Gaelic football’s second team lifted the Lynch shield after a five point victory over St Mary’s last Thursday evening to end the season on a high. The Dublin side were given a very Read more…
FluxFeat
When Celebs Attack: Stars Vs Paps
When Justin Bieber attacked a photographer earlier this month, there was uproar. The video went viral in a matter of hours and people were shocked that the baby-faced “Baby” singer even had it in him. Read more…
Music
Review: Kate Nash – Girl Talk
“You’re trying to tell me sexism doesn’t exist? If it doesn’t exist, then what the fuck is this?” Some of the lyrics from “Rap For Rejection” the 11th track on Kate Nash’s Girl Talk. For Read more…
Náisiúnta
Réabhlóid maidir leis an nGaeilge ag tarlú i Nás na Rí agus Cill Dara ina iomlán
Is cinnte go bhfuil ceisteanna dáiríre le freagairt maidir le cé chomh héifeachtach is atá polasaithe maidir leis an chaoi ina múintear an Ghaeilge i scoileanna na hÉireann le blianta anuas. Fágann na mílte daltaí Read more…
FluxFeat
Let’s Talk About Sex: Well, why not?!
“Don’t have sex, because you will get pregnant and die. Don’t have sex in the missionary position, don’t have sex standing up, just don’t do it, OK, promise? Now everybody take some rubbers.” In Ireland Read more…
Film
Review: Identity Thief
We start off with a gullible idiot and a thief, but by the end of this slapstick movie we have two good friends brought together by a series of increasingly bizarre events. With a director Read more…
FluxFeat
Haters Gonna Hate? The top 10 things you just can’t dislike
It’s a free country and we are all absolutely entitled to be our own person, sure. However, there are just a certain few things nobody should ever mention disliking for fear of losing an eye Read more…
Music
Review: Mmoths – Diaries EP
After a much acclaimed self-titled debut, Mmoths returns 12 months later with EP number two, Diaries. The title is comes from a collection of photographs taken by Jack Colleran (a.k.a Mmoths) during his time spent Read more…
DCU News
Business and Humanities Schools perform strongest in first semester exams
DCU’s Business School and the School of Humanities achieved the highest overall pass rates of all faculties in final exams in semester one. Almost 93 per cent of final exams taken in modules delivered by Read more…
Music
“Oh my god, you don’t listen to THEM, do you?”
At a recent party, a friend of mine got up after a couple of drinks and was able to sing his way through ‘Jumbo Breakfast Roll’ and ‘Aon Fhocal, Dha Fhocal’ in their entirety – Read more…
Other Sports
Pendred on the verge of UFC
Recent Analytical Science graduate and Mixed Martial Arts rising star Cathal Pendred (25) is the new Cage Warriors Fighting Championship Welterweight title holder, and is on course to be the second Irish fighter to join Read more…
Rugby
Can the Lions become the Wizards of Oz?
This summer rugby fans in the northern and southern hemispheres will be fixated on the Lions’ tour of Australia, where they have not played since losing the test series 2-1 in 2001. At this stage, Read more…
Travel
The Story of a Trinity Jailbreak
“We could go anywhere in the world we wanted for free”- Australia is 15,696 kilometres away from Ireland. The country has a hot climate and some amazing beaches and is home to nearly half of Read more…
Other Sports
Former DCU student, Cathal Pendred, on the verge of the UFC
On March 9th of this year, DCU graduate, Cathal Pendred, usurped Gael Grimaud as the Cage Warriors Welterweight Champion after a compelling five round battle in front of a sold out crown in London’s HMV Read more…
FluxFeat
Luke and Eimear’s Special Favourites
Luke Reilly and Eimear Shannon, for the last time, run down the things have provided them with maximum joy over the last twelve months. Read more…
SU '13
Aaron Clogher on the USI, fees and “student apathy”
Aaron is the current Vice President for Education and your potential President for next year. DCU students voted to re-affiliate with the Union of Students Ireland in a referendum in February. But on March 28th, Students’ Read more…
SU '13
SU Elections: Campaign day in pictures
Candidates were out in force today to try and get your support. There were brownies, rice cakes and even a banana – life sized. To get the full info on your future President, Welfare and Read more…
SU '13
Sneak peek at the DCUSU13 Opinion Poll
The College View and DCUfm News are running a joint Opinion Poll to gauge how students will vote in the upcoming SU Elections. With Good Friday and a Bank Holiday falling in the midst of Read more…
DCU News
USI Affiliation Referendum: Timeline of events
An overview of the timeline of events which led to the USI re-affiliation referendum being made null and void last night. Read more…
Randoms
Money matters: from cattle to coins
Abba told us that money must be funny in a rich man’s world. But money isn’t all that funny. Abba was wrong. The Swedish lied to us. The definition of money is “anything accepted by Read more…
Laughing Through Life
Getting the foot in the door
You’ve got it, finally. That elusive piece of paper you’ve been working towards for the last three or four years – well, for some it could take the guts of a decade. The days of Read more…
Through My Eyes
Through My Eyes: The crash
Two days before Christmas I wake up to this Facebook message from my boyfriend’s sister: “Have you heard?” These words caused the bottom of my world to drop off. It was one of those things Read more…
Articles
The Science Behind…Faith
Some atheists say that religious belief is a kind of irrational glitch in the system that we should work hard to overcome, but things are much more complicated than claiming religious people are uneducated or Read more…
Laughing Through Life
DESIGNED – A system that would drive you insane
It was a damp, muggy evening in an industrial estate typical of recessionary Ireland. Along the black vastness of an empty car park, a small, blue Fiat carefully careened its way around corners and abandoned Read more…