Features
Technology – a wireless world
Wireless technology might not be the utopia you think it is.
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Life after the leaving cert
The transition from Leaving Cert to college can be formidable and terrifying. It’s especially huge for people who have no experience of living alone or providing for themselves. Should it be such a massive adjustment, Read more…
Health
Celebrities and health – help or hindrance?
Lady Gaga lies on a sofa, crying in pain as the whole right side of her body goes into spasm. One of her assistants massages her face and holds ice against it.
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A world of our own
According to French philosopher and journalist Albert Camus, “to be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” Isn’t that however, one of the fundamentals of being human? That we care? It often seems Read more…
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Burying a life
Imagine if there was a different way we approached death – a different way we approached funerals and burials, something different from what we are so used to now?
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Sacrificial goals: balancing life with college
Most college students have things other than college going on in their lives. Whether that’s work or individual interests and hobbies, sometimes life itself can get in the way of fulfilling ones full potential in college. No matter how hard Read more…
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Girls just wanna: female representation at Newstalk
Dublin based station Newstalk FM, has been deemed a “misogynistic” radio station by an Irish Times columnist due to its lack of female presenters, and the recent firing of a long time female presenter at the Read more…
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Queen of the night
There is a certain seediness in leaving the bright sunshine of an early summer evening to disappear inside the whoosh of a door. From the hustle and squeal of traffic on Georges Street, into the icon Read more…
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College loan scheme sows the seed for a viable solution
Two weeks ago, thousands of students took to the streets of Dublin with placards in hand and a message for the Taoiseach that made its way out of a cacophony of stomping feet. The message Read more…
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How taxing is an internship
While most of my peers were out at festivals, working in summer camps abroad or travelling around Europe, I spent my summer working in an accountancy, audit and tax firm and I loved it. Though Read more…
Student Life
What I learned by changing course
There is no way to prepare someone for university – unless, like me, you take a very expensive trial run. Most students are very young (84 per cent of Leaving Certificate students applied for college places Read more…
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The requiem of life vs celebrity
While scrolling through your social media feed this week what did you see? Were you greeted with the rumours that Kylie Jenner is pregnant or were you greeted with the most recent news coming from Read more…
Articles
Living the bus life
College life is like no other – gone are the days of being told what to do by parents and teachers, you now have control to do what you want, when you want. But what Read more…
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When it’s life’s blood
Blood donors are needed each week in Ireland, 3,000 of them, according to Irish Blood Transfusion Services; and blood never goes out of fashion. Only three per cent of the eligible Irish population give Read more…
Articles
Back to the future-ish
Once upon a time, those of us over the age of 27, imagined that by now, we would glide through our daily routines, resplendent in suits of crystal LED’s, attending to life from the noiseless Read more…
Features
The F word says it all
The English language is rich with colourful expletives. Being used constantly, they represent the very staple of human emotion, and have been applied variously in the classic and modern English literary canon: from James Joyce’s Read more…
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Trumped by the NFL
Another week in the Whitehouse and another controversy surrounds President Trump. This time it’s not with a foreign leader or an A-list Hollywood actress, but one of the biggest sports organisations in the United States: The Read more…
Health
7 hours and fifteen days
Mental health is, for the most part, a taboo subject and many seem to push it aside and decide to avoid the conversation. Until it’s too late. It isn’t until something drastic occurs that people decide Read more…
Articles
X and the giant Apple
If man and machine lived harmoniously in perfect co-existence, Apple would be its all-nurturing Biblical force – assuming the role of guardian over the bliss artificial utopia. An A11 bionic chip, True Tone display and Read more…
News Features
I am not to blame
Rape. It’s a tiny word that contains so much emotion, violence, destruction and devastation. It means, by it’s dictionary definition; to plunder, to strip bare of resources, to sexually assault. There is no question of Read more…
Student Life
Feeding the fire
As long as there are studies, there will be conflicting advice. A glass of wine is good for you as is a chocolate bar, however, don’t eat them on a day of the week with Read more…
Features
A quirky guide to Dublin
Sometimes it’s the things we take for granted which surprise us the most, and our fair city of Dublin is no exception. For many students attending DCU, this is their first time to live away from home. Read more…
Health
Smoking mirrors
Iconic movie legends of the 1940s and 50s were the trend setters of their day. In a time when the world was shrugging off the vestiges of war, a well-tailored pencil skirt and a pair Read more…
News Features
The last good, Good Friday
Bibi Drumm, lifetime parish member and a devout Catholic, sits down in her compact living room, leaning her walking stick gently against the arm of the upholstered chair. “Once you get over 65 – which Read more…
Randoms
Love letters
Letter writing is a concept often idealised and romanticised. Once a useful way of talking to people, does it serve a purpose in the modern world of social media? While there is definitely space for Read more…