Student Life
Backstage at The Ultimate Wingman
Behind the scenes at the Ultimate Wingman, a new dating TV show produced in DCU,. Read more…
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The Science Behind…Reality TV
A look at why we are fascinated by reality TV, and why we can’t look away. Read more…
Features
How much money can you survive on?
A college student desperately tries to survive for 24 hours without spending any money. Will she make it? Read more…
Laughing Through Life
Laughter is the best medicine
Is laughter the best medicine? Maybe not as good as morphine, but close. Eve Kerton gives her expert opinion. Read more…
News Features
How Far Away is Gay Marriage in Ireland?
A look at how far gay rights have progressed in Ireland over the last two decades. 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…
Articles
The power of dreams
Sigmund Freud is regarded as the “father of psychoanalysis”. He analysed dreams as a way to understand personality in relation to pathology – the science of disease – and revolutionsied the study with his work: Read more…
Randoms
Flying noodles and alien warlords: do we need a higher power?
Since the beginning of time human beings have felt the need to search for a higher power. Christians say God, Muslims say Allah and according to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), the Read more…
News Features
The impact of women in Irish history is finally brought to light
It’s hard to recall many female figures of Irish history being discussed in our secondary school textbooks. If they were mentioned, it was as secondary participants. Of course we all know Constance Markievicz, our first Read more…
Randoms
The truth behind the story – an interview with Roddy Doyle
The taxi pulls up outside number 31. My driver points to the green door, that’s the one. Red brick house, typically Dublin. A calm, cold morning. The doorbell echoes. Inside he throws on a jumper Read more…
Randoms
Sink or Swim? A man survives.
Sean O’Donoghue was 27 when he nearly drowned. Over 100 feet below the surface of the water, in the black of the North Sea, water began to stream into Sean’s diving helmet, slowly filling it Read more…
Student Life
Student politics: do we care?
After the initial flurry of democratic enthusiasm dies down, the polling stations across DCU go quiet. From about 2 pm onwards, students manning the stations become a bit more desperate to get anyone and everyone Read more…
Randoms
Supermacs, Goats and Pagans: All in a St Patrick’s Day
St Patrick’s Day is weird. One: because it’s somehow compulsory and two: because it makes you think that Irish people reproduce like flowers rather than people. Thousands are Irish for March. But where did they Read more…
Articles
The Science Behind…Love
Relationships are confusing at the best of times and when science is thrown into the mix, things get even more complicated. The majority of people assume it’s a simple case of two individuals finding each Read more…
Randoms
Blame it on the Weatherman
Ireland, probably one of the only countries to experience the four seasons in one day, with of course the exception of our sunshine state: Wexford. Monday, March 11 2013 highlighted the ostentatious weather we so Read more…
Student Life
Is it possible to be friends with your ex?
The same five words are uttered every time a couple break up. But just how true is the phrase “we can still be friends’? Is it just something we say to make the other – Read more…
Articles
Fitness model revolution
The summer season of beach bodies is creeping in and Irish people are hitting the gym with a vengeance in a plea to get celeb-like bodies. While the closest a lot of us will get Read more…
Articles
Post natal depression and men
Men and women are genetically and hormonally very different, but we do share certain hardships in life. Post natal depression affects around 15% of Irish mothers and can mean a tough start to what should Read more…
Randoms
What it looks like from behind the bar
Working in bars can be great, because let’s face it, people always provide more entertainment when they’re drunk. And when things are quiet behind the bar there’s nothing better than watching drunks go about their Read more…
News Features
Fianna Fáil: The fall and rise
Dead and buried. Fianna Fáil were written off by many after their crash in the 2011 election, their support plummeting from 41% to a historic low of 17%. Now though, almost exactly two years since Read more…
Through My Eyes
Through My Eyes – Growing Stronger
For most people, getting into college is a great achievement – the culmination of years of hard work and study. For me it was a big achievement, not just because of the effort I put Read more…