Opinion

The debacle of power

November 15, 2017

Power is capable of creating lunacy. Our own history echoes this. Ireland’s rocky relationship with the church is a vocal point of people of power taking advantage of those they believe they have control over. The similarities are eerie. Read more…

Opinion

RTE’s newest recruits

November 15, 2017

Women shouldn’t have to beg for jobs because ‘women can do it too’, they should just be given it on merit, not because they are a woman. Read more…

Features

My Christmas is bigger than your Christmas

November 15, 2017

[dropcap]Halloween[/dropcap] is over. As soon as that last firework fizzled into the sky, the sound of bells can be faintly heard jingling in the distance. The shops burn all their spooky gear in a bonfire Read more…

Film

Does Thor Ragna-rock?

November 15, 2017

[dropcap]Since[/dropcap] its introduction in 2011 the Thor movies have struggled to stand out in the crowded Marvel Cinematic Universe, but with Ragnarok Marvel has stumbled on a winning formula.

Music

In Love with Kygo

November 15, 2017

[dropcap]Kygo[/dropcap] is a 26-year-old Norwegian EDM artist, who has to this point worked with well-known names such as Selena Gomez and Ellie Goulding, and gained popularity for his remix of Ed Sheeran’s “I See Fire’.

The Hype

The Endless Shimmering shines on

November 15, 2017

Belfastheavyweights And So I Watch You From Afar return with their fifth offering, the first since the heavily disputed Heirs was released in 2015 . Ailbhe Daly reviews the Belfast band’s latest release. Read more…

The Hype

The Thrill of Sam Smith

November 15, 2017

After an 18-month hiatus following a string of emotional Billboard hits, Sam Smith is back in the spotlight. The lead single, ‘Too Good at Goodbyes’, has already dominated night-time radios and multiple playlists titled “Future Read more…

Books

The 10 Most Timeless Reads

November 15, 2017

[dropcap]A[/dropcap] leading art critic of the Victorian era once said, “All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.” This quote is still true today. Here are Read more…

Television

A World turned upside down

November 15, 2017

  [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Netflix cult show picks up around a year after Will Byers’ escape from “Upside Down”, but behind the colourful arcade screens and Halloween decorations, there’s something strange lurking in the town of Hawkins. Read more…

The Hype

Videogames – A hobby or unhealthy obsession?

November 15, 2017

[dropcap]Since[/dropcap] the 1970s, when the first ever arcade video game Computer Space was unveiled to the modern world, videos games have become an integral part of our society. According to a recent study 1.2 billion Read more…

The Hype

The sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur

November 15, 2017

[dropcap]Rupi[/dropcap] Kaur, the Instagram poet who has arguably changed modern poetry,  has published more of her work in a collection called ‘the sun and her flowers’. It is, to put it simply, another literary masterpiece.

Television

Sex and Drugs: Life in the red light zone

November 15, 2017

[dropcap]I[/dropcap] was a 16-year-old addicted to drugs. Now, I’ve got three beautiful children, that live with my mum, because I can’t look after them,” Kayleigh says, looking directly above the camera and into the producer’s Read more…

The Hype

Queens Of Rock’n’Roll

November 15, 2017

[dropcap]What[/dropcap] springs to mind when we think about women and music? The music industry has no shortage of influential female artists and if anything, it’s an industry where there is no such thing as under Read more…

Features

Who killed JFK – what will the papers say?

November 1, 2017

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1992 a precedent was set by law which locked away, from prying eyes, thousands of papers in relation to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Flux

Review: The Snowman

November 1, 2017

Backlash against progressive Nordic feminism haunts every flake that falls on The Snowman as surely as it haunted the ancestral homes and unwelcoming streets of the Millennium films. More explicitly social-minded than its Swedish cousin, Read more…

Flux

Review: St. Vincent at The Olympia

November 1, 2017

Annie Clark tends not to bend the knee to convention. In her second of back-to-back sold out shows at the Olympia, she showcases her eccentricity and unloads a mammoth 90 minute set that examines the Read more…

Opinion

Two Sides of Cultural Appropriation

November 1, 2017

David Kelly: This is nonsense [dropcap]N[/dropcap]o more Halloween, kids. Nowadays, people aren’t interested in what to dress up as, but what not to dress up as. A slew of articles have been released that explain Read more…