During the covid-19 pandemic and the inevitable lockdown, in order to survive these trying times many people turned to nostalgia. The need to escape to more simpler times led to the resurgence of many things Read more…
The European Union have announced a new regulation for all mobile devices to adopt the same charging cable by 2024. This new EU law will make it mandatory for all technology companies to provide a Read more…
In the 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the bandsman Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) amazed audiences. In one of Infant Sorrow’s songs, Snow encourages listeners to ‘do something’… anything really. While the lead singer does not specify what Read more…
The film is a discussion on not only Irishness but an examination of the decay that results from spending your entire life in the same suffocating environment. Read more…
Reputation and Folklore have had a baby – and it is glorious. Read more…
Halloween costumes and trick-or-treating are just “the norm” in November, but that wasn’t the case for me as a kid. My childhood was not spent dressing up cartoon characters or scary costumes, so I don’t Read more…
From the beginning of the abuse accusations people were quick to show their support for Johnny Depp, as male abuse victims are unfortunately often taken less seriously. However, he was treated more like one of his movie characters rather than a person who was also accused of serious physical abuse. Read more…
Hospitals must prepare for a massive influx of babies and children for care this winter due to a post-lockdown ‘immunity gap’, the medical journal The Lancet has warned. Published during the summer several leading, experts have warned Read more…
Ireland cannot turn away new asylum applicants despite current pressures facing the system, Tanaiste Leo Varadkar has warned as refugees face the prospect of homelessness this winter. Speaking to WLRfm, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade Read more…
The Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Act 2022 was signed on the 20th of July this year and it has now been confirmed that it will come into effect on the 1st of Read more…
A new law has been introduced allowing the Northern Irish Assembly to defer elections for six weeks with the allocation of a six-week extension to be placed after if necessary. Read more…
Students in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) will march to Dáil Éireann as part of a climate protest to demand for “emergency action on planetary polycrises” during the COP27 summit in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. The protest is Read more…
Tá Corn an Domhain ar siúl ar feadh 10 lá anuas. Is mór an t-athrú atá tagtha ar an saol. Bhí ocht lá againn ina raibh cluichí ar súil óna 10 a chlog ar maidin Read more…
When I became Editor-in-Chief in March of this year, I was delighted when I also found out I’d be working with Muiris as my Deputy Editor. We both had big ambitions and plans for the Read more…
Faced with expensive college fees– students are juggling between work and college, working 40 hours a week – to pay for college fees. Over two weeks ago, thousands of students around Ireland walked out of Read more…
Ireland is the only EU member state to report an increase in gas consumption in the second quarter – April, May, June – of this year despite growing concern about energy supply not meeting demand Read more…
Sean McGinley produced a fantastic performance to win the Junior Men’s 6000m race at the Autumn Open on the National Sports Campus in Abbottstown recently. McGinley who is a first year PE and Biology student Read more…
After sealing qualification to their first ever World Cup, the Irish WNT caused a massive stir in the media both at home and in the U.K. Following their victory in Hampden Park, footage emerged on Read more…
The DCU Sigerson team got their season off to winning ways last week as they claimed a narrow victory over UCD in St Clare’s. Paddy Christie’s side came from behind to claim victory by a Read more…
“Footballers played for the club 20 years ago. These days, clubs do everything for the players”, according to former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger speaking to German newspaper Bild in 2018. The topic of player power Read more…
The United Rugby Championship, now in its second full season, has proven to be a more complex challenge for the Irish provinces, than any previous structure this competition has taken in the past. The South Read more…
Minister for Further and Higher education, Simon Harris announced this plan on the 13th of October. This occured as a result of increasing sexual violence and harassment figures across third level education. Based on figures Read more…
Last month, Minister of State for land use, Pippa Hackett launched a vision for Ireland’s trees, woods and forests until 2050. The new plan outlines promising guidelines for “the right trees in the right places Read more…
The world is ready for the return of this 2000s legend. Read more…
Halloween Ends as a stand-alone movie provides an engaging and entertaining story, with great characters, and with many funny and horrifying moments. However, this movie as the ending to a great horror trilogy is both a divisive and obscure choice to finish on. Read more…