Features

This race is no drag

February 21, 2018

[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”.

Features

There is something about Mary

February 21, 2018

[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…

Features

They shoot horses, don’t they?

February 21, 2018

[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…

Articles

Time to switch off

February 21, 2018

[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…

Features

Permission required – sexual harassment needs to stop

February 14, 2018

[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.

Image Credit: Orla O Driscoll
Features

Grooming – the dark channels of cyber deviancy

February 14, 2018

[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.

News Features

The future of Europe will need a united front

February 9, 2018

[dropcap]On[/dropcap] the 23rd of June 2016, there was a seismic change that reverberated throughout the continent of Europe. Social media was flooded with responses of shock and, in some cases, outrage at the results of Read more…

Features

Meet the athletes making a racket on the court

February 8, 2018

[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…

Student Life

No Room at the Inn – student accommodation woes

December 6, 2017

[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…

Features

Mark Little and the Neva ending story

December 4, 2017

[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…

Features

Zen and the art of garden maintenance

November 29, 2017

[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…

Features

No good time for goodbye

November 29, 2017

[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…

Features

A balance of religion

November 29, 2017

“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…

Features

Cash in on the lash

November 29, 2017

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]21 year old eyelash technician and entrepreneur has brought her booming beauty business to the DCU Glasnevin campus.

Features

It’s time to talk about porn

November 15, 2017

[dropcap]Porn:[/dropcap] is it an opiate for sexual urges or a catalyst for gender harassment? Experts say neither – society suggests both.