Cancer does not have to be deadly
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ear. That’s all that Máire can recall. It seeped into her veins, into her mind and into her soul. On the day that Máire was diagnosed with breast cancer, all she heard was the dreaded Read more…
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ear. That’s all that Máire can recall. It seeped into her veins, into her mind and into her soul. On the day that Máire was diagnosed with breast cancer, all she heard was the dreaded Read more…
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or some people the idea of backpacking and students represents a tacky idealism of Thai full-moon parties, fluorescent revellers and the proverbial buckets of whiskey. And, while there can be no denying the allure of Read more…
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]now covers pockmarked roads, a crunchy backdrop to a husky crescendo promising ‘We won’t have to drive too far, close to the border and into the city.’ A conjuring of prose and clever song lyrics, Read more…
“[dropcap]H[/dropcap]uddled in a corner, my brother and I fiddled with the radio until we caught the signal of an American radio station. ‘We’re coming to save you,’ the presenter would say, in Lithuanian. But they Read more…
[dropcap]Veganism[/dropcap] may be the new trend, and a lifestyle synonymous with Generation Z, but with limited options at the best of times, students have struggled in the past to find the right foods to match Read more…
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen the South Great Georges Street branch of music retailer Waltons closed on Monday 19th, after almost thirty years in business, the move hit some particularly close to home. “Personally, I feel pretty disappointed” former Read more…
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ith two months ticked off the calendar, 2018 has been a whirlwind for social media. Facebook oversaw various changes to their algorithm and an overhaul in their employee operations as a result of the upcoming Read more…
[dropcap]R[/dropcap]uPaul’s famous catch phrase has echoed around the world and will now echo A’la Irish style, in a yet unnamed Dublin Venue: “Gentlemen, start your engines and may the best woman win”.
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]rish Women won the limited right to vote 100 years ago, and today, women have a voice and are treated as first class citizens in almost all countries. Here are the some of the most powerful Read more…
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ssie was the most handsome traveller that ever lived and the princess told him that he was too handsome to ever grow old. She took him away over the sea to the Land of Eternal Read more…
[dropcap]R[/dropcap]yan Tubridy sparked a national conversation on whether we have fallen too far down the rabbit hole of social media into all its filtered wonder and forgotten how to interact with our fellow human. Tubridy Read more…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the wake of claims of sexual harassment in Cambridge university, a number of Irish students have come forward with stories of sexual assault and harassment, experienced in Irish universities.
[dropcap]G[/dropcap]rooming is the common term used to explain how a sexual predator draws a child into their trust, with the core objective; to meet the child in the real world to commit sexual abuse.
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen ‘Official Ireland’ was a land of saints and scholars where contraception and divorce were illegal, the Kerry Babies scandal shook the nation. Joanna Hayes found herself at the eye of the hurricane that was Read more…
[dropcap]E[/dropcap]very Monday evening from outside the National Tennis Centre in DCU, you can hear shouts of encouragement, instructions being called, the clash of rackets and a strange jingling noise. For many of the players on the Read more…
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e are what we eat. Or so goes the popular adage. In no other circumstance is this more evident than in our drastic rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]reland has blazed a trail when it comes to the advancement of LGBT+ rights. The referendum passed in 2015 marked Ireland as the first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote.
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]prawled out across a damp second-hand mattress in a dimly-lit sitting room littered with beer cans and left-over dinner, he barely flinches when the door swings open.The room temperature is tepid on a cold Autumn Read more…
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]uying art has never been a cheap deal and is mostly considered to be a pastime for the superrich, the world’s top 1%. The record for the highest price ever paid for a painting was Read more…
[dropcap][/dropcap]The first rule of journalism has always been verification. If the story isn’t true, then it isn’t a story. Based on the premise of verification, Mark Little founded Storyful in 2009 as a social intelligence Read more…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s you walk into DCU’s community garden, tucked away in a corner behind the library, the sounds of the outside world fade from earshot as a myriad of sights and smells cocoon you in an Read more…
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]arkness does not discriminate. Few people are bypassed when dire possibility and self-doubt eradicate even the faintest glimmer of light. Darkness can live within us all. For most, it pays only fleeting visits. For most, suicide is not Read more…
“Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name,” is forever ingrained in the minds of any young person who attended a Catholic primary school. A prayer in the morning, a prayer before or after lunch and Read more…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]21 year old eyelash technician and entrepreneur has brought her booming beauty business to the DCU Glasnevin campus.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here was an empty silence in the halls of the Henry Grattan building on the evening of 8th November. The lecture halls had been cleared out and the only solitary sounds were the shuffling of feet Read more…