Opening with a track entitled ‘Where Are We Now’ seems pretty apt considering that this is the first LP American Football has released this century. Though their sophomore offering is still self-titled, the album is Read more…
As a child, Halloween was always one of the biggest events of the calendar year. Trick or treating, fireworks,and pumpkin carving were all highlights of our more innocent years. Unfortunately, once you get beyond a Read more…
[dropcap]The[/dropcap] sky was normally dark, when Amy entered Peter Marks hairdressers at 8:30am. She already had her makeup done but her hair had to be pristine so she did that in the salon before she Read more…
[dropcap]The[/dropcap] impact of a country like the United Kingdom exiting the European Union is something that will be felt throughout the entire world. While the Sterling continues to sharply decrease in value, we here in Read more…
[dropcap]Death[dropcap] visits us all eventually, the game however, is to thwart its arrival for as long as possible. Ultimately though, it will arrive to embrace us and for those we leave in our wake, the Read more…
[dropcap]Volunteering[/dropcap] has always been a fun and productive way for people to give back. Whether you have volunteered with an organisation or a charity, the very basis of volunteering means to give your time to help. Read more…
[dropcap]Over[/dropcap] five thousand people in Ireland die each year from heart attack, and another two thousand die from stroke. Now, in an effort to promote healthy living and encourage young people to look after their Read more…
Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. “Wait, literature?” I hear you say. That’s right. The Swedish Academy has awarded him “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
It’s a long flight of stairs up to the Academy’s main room and on this night, getting close to Samhain, it felt like a liminal space, a passageway between the relative sanity of the street Read more…
HBO are no strangers to producing great drama series. With titles such as Game of Thrones and True Detective under their belt it’s only natural that they added to the CV this year with their Read more…
The Fall came crashing back into our lives at the end of September to remind us that not all cop shows have to be one dimensional. The Northern Irish drama revolves around murderer, Paul Spector Read more…
Raglans are an alternative rock band from Dublin. They consist of Stephen Kelly, Rhos Horan, Conn O’Ruanaidh and Brendan McGlynn. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2014 and was hugely successful. The Dublin based Read more… Read more…
“I’m just one person, I have to look after my own life. I can’t save this stuff… so I’m gonna have a pint,” Mick Flannery tells me over the hubbub in the Dame Tavern, reaching Read more…
We live in a world where technology is constantly developing and improving. This can be seen across all forms of media, and one aspect of media where this can be seen clearly is film. The Read more…
Luke Cage is Netflix and Marvel Studio’s 3rd superhero venture following Daredevil and Jessica Jones. After the critical success of the aforementioned shows, there was a lot for Luke Cage to live up to, and Read more…
Does joining clubs and societies distract from the academic side of education at University or do they add an extra dimension to the average college experience? Opinion’s editor Shirley Donlon discusses the matter. Read more…
Eight years on from the groovy, upbeat album Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams, Solange Knowles has emerged with a clean, crystal cut album full of emotion and thought. Solange Knowles has invited us to Read more…
Ryan Murphy, screenwriter and producer extraordinaire, can never be called narrow and repetitive in his concepts. Murphy’s oeuvre is something of a mixed bag, stretching from the downright ridiculous musical drama GLEE to the reality Read more…
Irish people are finally opening up to the reality of the year 1916 and remembering our lost generation, writes Andrew Ralph.
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[dropcap]One[/dropcap] in four of us will need a blood transfusion in our lifetime. Yet the number of new blood donors coming forward is decreasing while the average donor age is increasing, according to worrying statistics Read more…
[dropcap]Humanity[/dropcap] is not the perfect species, there is no promise of healthy perfect babies, but few people become pregnant with the expectation of having a child with a life altering disease. Cystic Fibrosis is a Read more…
[dropcap]DCU[/dropcap] is known as a campus for enterprise, but what you might not know is that DCU is also now considered an Age Friendly University.
[dropcap]Smiling[/dropcap], laughing, happy students are the first thing you notice when you set foot on any DCU campus. There is a certain euphoric buzz to university life that you will not find anywhere else. This Read more…
[dropcap]As[/dropcap] college resumes for another year, students old and new engage in their new modules and prepare themselves for the work ahead. However there is one fundamental part of college life that at other stages Read more…
[dropcap]They [/dropcap]wear a uniform and their feet pound the same floors each and every day. They comfort patients, provide them with the care that every person deserves. They look after your mother, brother, father and Read more…