GAA
Aussie game will bring challenges, admits Rowe
Former DCU and current Mayo star Sarah Rowe is switching football for the AFL. Read more…
Month: October 2018
Television
Sierra Burgess is a Loser vs Insatiable – who does body positivity better?
Insatiable’s message is that even if you outwardly ‘fix’ your problems, in this case, by becoming skinny, everything under the surface still remains. Read more…
Rugby
Ireland calls for Hooban after Inter Pro victory
DCU rugby star Emma Hooban talks about her surprise at her first senior Ireland callup after her recent Interprovincial success with Leinster. Read more…
Articles
Dealing with the setback of an injury
If you’re an active person it is more likely than not that you have experienced one or more injuries in your lifetime. Read more…
Football
DCU Powerchair Club make European Champions Cup
Aoife McNicholl spoke to The College View ahead of DCU Storm PFC’s involvement in the European Powerchair Football Association Champions Cup in Denmark. Read more…
Television
South Park’s season premiere critique’s artificially “woke”
Cartman is a parody of the typical ‘Woke’ individual. He engages in insincere virtue signalling to prove that he is not a racist, despite having not said anything racist. Paradoxically, his reduces Token to his race identity by assuming that all black people think collectively. Read more…
Music
Lil Wayne returns with Tha Carter V
The redemption from this is undeniable though as Wayne drops Uproar, a diss track fuelled with a fiery passion. Sampling the beat from ‘Special Delivery’ by G-Dep, Wayne tells his enemies to beware of him. Many are speculating that the biggest enemy in question is Birdman, CEO of Cash Money records with whom Wayne had the legal battle. Read more…
National News
Government announces new action plan on online safety
The plan will tackle some of the issues faced by young people in the digital age. Revenge porn and stalking are problems that the legislation will aim to address. Revenge porn is currently legal in Ireland. Read more…
The Hype
A visit to Roderic O’Conor and The Moderns
Similarly, one can see how O’Conor begins to discard the styles of Impressionism. Instead, he focuses on the emotions that pervade a painting and how that can change its direction. Within this room, we can see when O’Conor truly embarks into Post-impressionism territory alongside Gauguin. Read more…
National News
CSO and Met Éireann team up in new “rescue” project
The data will improve weather risk management and help understand climate change, while eliminating the over-inclusion of more recent weather events which have “better media coverage and folk memory”. Read more…
Books
Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive inspires hope
(He) hammers home the point that depression and anxiety do not pick and choose who to affect. Being rich or successful is not an immunity against mental health problems. Read more…
Articles
Makeup Bag Essentials: Save or Splash
With so many different makeup brands on the market, it can be hard to know what is good and what isn’t! Read more…
National News
No alternative subjects provided for students who opt out of religious education
The changes will affect up to 160,000 students at post-primary level across the country, which equates to half of the secondary school population that are in Education and Training Board (ETB) and community schools. Read more…
Opinion
How impactful are body positive magazine covers?
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ollowing the controversial Cosmopolitan magazine cover featuring plus-sized model Tess Holliday, Clara Kelly and Orla Dwyer discuss whether the reaction was blown out of proportion or a real issue.
Features
A place to call home
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is now a light at the end of the tunnel for students who have paid ever-increasing rent prices for student accommodation during the past few years.
National News
Delays in eye care may lead to patients going blind
Patients in the south of the country may go blind as a result of delays in the provision of eye care, hospital consultants have warned. Read more…
National News
Campaign set to encourage women to do apprenticeships
[dropcap]The[/dropcap]Connect Trade Union voted unanimously at the union’s first conference on 6th October to launch campaign to get more women involved in apprenticeships.
National News
Seán Gallagher: Presidential Candidate
Gallagher was leading in the polls in 2011 until the “Tweetgate” controversy where Pat Kenny read out a tweet which alleged Gallagher had financially corrupt involvement with Fianna Fáil. Read more…
Features
Breaking Brexit- breaking barriers
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]rexit. That one word that everybody questions. Regardless of how Brexit is viewed, the impacts of it affect mostly the UK and Ireland, especially those who travel either to or from the UK for a Read more…
National News
Project to help people shopping with dementia launched in Raheny
Getting the Messages, a project that aims to make a supermarket more accessible to people with dementia, has been launched in the Raheny area. Read more…
Lifestyle
Getting in the Halloween spirit
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s the air turns cold, the leaves turn brown and woolly hats and scarves are rooted from the depths of our wardrobes, the autumn winds carry with them, a sense of enchantment, of mystery and Read more…
Irish & Languages
Rinne mé dearmad – Modhanna a bheith níos eagraithe ar an ollscoil
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]á aisling ag gach aon duine a bheith chomh spreagadh agus eagraithe do choláiste is gur féidir leo, agus tá a fhios againn i saol réalaíoch ní tharlaíonn sé.
Opinion
The dangers of unprofessional tweeting
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen someone says something they regret or says something the wrong way, it can be quickly explained to the small group of people who may have heard it and then it can be forgotten. It’s Read more…
Film
Review: A Simple Favour
The film is reminiscent of the thriller “Gone Girl” and has enough to fill viewers expectations. Emily won’t answer Stephanie’s calls or text messages so Stephanie takes to her blog to begin investigating Emily’s sudden disappearance. Read more…
National News
Water in Limerick becomes contaminated
People in Rathkeale were urged not to uses contaminated water. Read more…