Music
TradFest Kicks Off its 18th Year in Dublin
Ireland’s biggest trad and folk festival, TradFest is returning to Dublin City this week, celebrating music and Irish culture for its 18th year running. Read more…
The College View
Articles
The Oscars Go Green with a Record Number of Irish Nominations
The nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards were announced today, with a historic nomination for Ireland in the International Feature film category. Read more…
Lifestyle
‘If you love me, let me go’- Panic At the Disco! disband after 19 years
After 7 studio albums, 4 live albums, 28 music videos and over a thousand concerts, Panic at the Disco! has announced that it will end after its European tour later this year. Read more…
Athletics
DCU Athletics – Forde and McCorry take national multi-event titles
Two national senior titles return to Glasnevin this week after DCU Athletics Club members Jack Forde (St. Killian’s AC) and Niamh McCorry (Raheny Shamrocks AC) won their respective multi-event titles in Athlone. Both athletes competed Read more…
Lifestyle
The Benefits of Participating in ‘Dry January’ Amidst Ireland’s Binge Drinking Epidemic
January is a clean slate. We are all tightening the reigns after the overindulgences we allowed over theChristmas period. We make the same cliché promises every year. The holy trinity; we are going to eathealthy, Read more…
Lifestyle
New Year, More Flights- The Ultimate Travel Guide for 2023.
Have your New Year’s Resolutions already gone awry? Maybe you promised yourself some more “me time”, or decided you wanted to live in the moment more, but are already struggling. Don’t give up just yet. Read more…
GAA
DCU Dóchas Éireann breeze past Queens in Sigerson Cup
DCU Dóchas Éireann 3–14 vs 0-05 Queens University DCU Dóchas Éireann were comprehensive winners for the second week running in the Electric Ireland Sigerson Cup after a ruthless first half display, rampant with aggressive, direct Read more…
Articles
New blueprint for primary schools is a major success
It can be refreshing to hear people share stories of their own experiences with mental health. It’s nice to know we’re not alone and raise awareness for where we can go to get help. What’s Read more…
Articles
This is not the time to be closing Emergency Departments
Many of us have been witnessing the downfall of the health services in Ireland as significant pressure persists due to a surge of patients presenting to emergency departments (ED) across the country, GP practices and Read more…
Articles
A restructuring plan is needed for refugees in Ireland
The desperate plight of refugees and migrants requires rethinking our current system Over 12,000 people applied for asylum in Ireland last year. This represents an over 400 per cent year-on-year increase according to the Department Read more…
Articles
Eurovision hopeful John Lydon calls contest “disgusting”
John Lydon, also known as former Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten, has called the Eurovision Song Contest “disgusting” and “absolutely awful”, despite vying to represent Ireland in it this year. When asked in an interview on Read more…
Articles
Former College View Editor becomes head of Silicon Republic
Silicon Republic, an Irish-based technology news website, has announced that Jenny Darmody will become their new editor from this month. The news website, based in Dublin, covers news on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths), Read more…
Film
Tár Review – A Triumphant Symphony
Tár is a truly incredible character piece. Revolving around the fictional revered composer as she is faced with both the greatest challenge of her professional career and the looming demons of her past, this psychological drama is an uncomfortable yet arresting dive into music, mania, and monsters. Read more…
Film
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody – Review
Musical dramas and biopics may not be everyone’s cup of tea, and I didn’t think they were mine, but this movie was a touching and enjoyable cinematic experience; and while I did not grow up with Whitney Houston, I felt that this film did her justice. Read more…
Film
Avatar: The Way of Water Review – Family is Everything
It makes you care a lot, but you won’t care enough. Read more…
Articles
The proposed anti-union laws in the UK are clear attacks against organised labour
Recently British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced his intention to introduce new anti-trade union and strike legislation. The new law seeks to impose “minimum service levels” for key public sector jobs such as in Read more…
Football
Lionel Messi – The coronation of a king
Any remaining doubt surrounding who the greatest footballer of all time is was extinguished on Sunday 22nd December 2022, when Lionel Messi finally lifted the World Cup trophy for deserved winners Argentina. In a thrilling Read more…
Other Sports
Sporting action you won’t want to miss in 2023
The impacts of COVID on sports in recent years, with their delays and difficulties, appear to have finally receded going into 2023. The last of the major delayed sporting action appears to be over now Read more…
Articles
University of Galway has launched a new €3 million European project for women in agriculture
FLIARA- Female Led Innovation in Agriculture and Rural Areas is a €3 million project, involving Universities across Europe aimed at developing and strengthening policy and government framework involving women in agriculture. The project aims to Read more…
National News
FreeNow Customers to Face New Cancellation and Booking Fees in 2023
Cancellation of a taxi request more than 2 minutes after acceptance will see customers charged up to €10 under new FreeNow Terms and Conditions Ireland’s most popular taxi booking app, FreeNow, has introduced a range Read more…
Athletics
DCU Athletics members win big at Junior and U23 Nationals
Members of DCU Athletics Club got the year off to a perfect start at last weekend at the 123.ie National Junior and U23 Championships in Abbottstown. The large contingent from DCU took home twenty-nine medals Read more…
Articles
Anti-Refugee protests reject far-right ties despite strong connections
Traffic came to a standstill last Thursday in Dublin city after multiple anti-refugee protests were held around the city. These anti-refugee protests have sparked much backlash from political figures, local communities and national media. Read more…
Features
When cough syrups are out – opt for Salabat
Ireland’s Coughing Crisis: As a result of the coughing crisis, many articles reported earlier this week that coughing medicines were running out. However, people can make a homemade remedy to treat their coughs alternatively. “Calpol Read more…
Lifestyle
Blue Monday- Lets tackle it together
So you survived Friday the 13th just to be hit in the face with Blue Monday. ‘Blue Monday’ comes just as the Christmas and party season becomes a distant memory and the January blues officially Read more…
Film
Glass Onion Is Very Fun(ion) – Review
Knives Out is one of my favourite movies of all time. It’s a film that is so insanely well-written, so perfectly acted, so incredibly funny, and most of all, so shockingly clever in its execution. It completely shattered my expectations for what a whodunnit could deliver, even though I already adored the genre. How could someone do that twice? Well, I’ve no idea, but Rian Johnson did it anyway with Glass Onion. Read more…