Television
‘I don’t get the reference’: the life of a TV phobe
What happens when you’re the only one not watching the latest small screen hit? Glen Murphy offers advice to readers. Read more…
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Television
REVIEW: ‘Scream Queens’
Ryan Murphy’s latest small screen endeavor Scream Queens begins its first season with a series of murders at a sorority house. There’s a murderer on the loose in Kappa Kappa Tau but there’s no shortage of Read more…
Film
REVIEW: ‘Legend’
The latest offering from writer/director Brian Helgeland, Legend is a crime thriller set in 1960s London starring Tom Hardy as both of the infamous gangster twins, Reggie and Ronald Kray. Based on a true story, Read more…
Music
Under the covers
Editor Fionnuala Jones assesses Ryan Adams’ motives for covering Taylor Swift’s smash album, ‘1989’. Read more…
Flux
Hardly working? How Hard Working Class Heroes is letting artists down
Deputy editor Stephen Keegan investigates the recent controversy surrounding the Hard Working Class Heroes festival. Read more…
Flux
The Reality of Your TV
Conor Jack Martin looks at the continued fixing of reality shows, and asks whether its the cause of their decline. Read more…
Music
The Hoosiers – Interview
Ryan McBride spoke to pop rockers The Hoosiers ahead of their Freshers’ Ball debut. Read more…
Flux
Festival Season 2015 – Review
The College View team reflect on a summer of glorious music. Read more…
Music
Cry Monster Cry – Interview
Deputy Editor Stephen Keegan spoke to Cry Monster Cry about their whirlwind year. Read more…
Flux
Editorial
Ahoy ahoy! My name’s Fionnuala, and I am equally delighted and apprehensive to be helming The Suss for the incoming year as editor. Following in the footsteps of Odrán and Bryan is daunting to say Read more…
Television
Welcome back, Game of Thrones.
Last Monday, the SU held a charity screening of the season five premiere of Game Of Thrones. What is it that has students obsessing over the show? Read more…
Film
Summer’s big money movies
With awards season firmly behind us, it’s time to look ahead to the summer’s finest film offers Read more…
Television
Reviewed: Daredevil
Kevin Kelly took a look at new Marvel series Daredevil on Netflix. Read more…
Music
Is Record Store Day dying?
Once a celebration of independent record stores, the event is facing more criticism than ever Read more…
Television
Renewed: True Detective
True Detective is back with a brand new cast. Gary Grimes tells us what to expect. Read more…
Music
Indiependence: the lowdown
Indiependence announced some exciting new additions to their lineup last week … Read more…
Music
Review: Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp
Carrying on with the stripped down production and low-fi vocals that have characterized their last two albums, Waxahatchee’s third studio album brings a new maturity without compromising the raw, youthful writing that has characterized Katie Read more…
Music
Sharp darts
Kurt Vile is working on a new album that he hopes to release in the autumn.
Music
Make or break time for Villagers
Since the release of Villagers’ first album, Becoming a Jackal, Conor O’Brien’s star has risen immensely. Villagers have found themselves at the centre of the Irish alternative scene, with two Mercury nominations under the bands Read more…
Music
Review: Death Cab for Cutie – Kintsugi
It’s been four years since Death Cab for Cutie released the divisive Codes and Keys, which marked a departure from the alternative rock group’s typical sound. Now the boys from Washington are back with their Read more…
The Hype
Easter Rising centenary events to get underway in August
With Easter just over, you may be forgiven for missing the news that €22m is to be spent on commemorations for the Easter Rising in 1916 over the coming year, what with all that chocolate Read more…
Television
Channel 4’s Teens is so invasive it makes your skin crawl
“I’ve got a secret but you can’t tell anyone- not even a soul,” is one of the messages that is read out on Channel 4’s new reality show, Teens. Over one million of these invasive Read more…
Music
One-line reviews
Earl Sweatshirt’s I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: Exactly the opposite of every expectation that comes with a major label rap album, Sweatshirt stands alone in the world of hip-hop. Castlepalooza: Hercules and Read more…
Music
The Suss’s Summer Playlist
Summer is pretty great; that shouldn’t need to be expanded upon, but we’re going to anyway because as well being seasonal playlist enthusiasts, we here at The Suss also like explaining things until people stop Read more…
Books
Editorial: Ending Things on a Positive Note
Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man Without a Country is a memoir comprised of the author’s greatest one-liners, the most memorable of which has a simple message: “The arts are not a way to make a living. Read more…