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Housing Promises Keep Coming – Rooms Not So Much
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Opinion
Opinion
It’s Not Them, It’s Us
As the posters go up, we are once again presented with a familiar set of assurances. The candidates promise affordable student accommodation, a better campus life, and a new focus on commuter issues. We, as Read more…
Features
Rental Family Review: BRENDAN FRASER WHOLESOMELY PLAYS A ‘HIRED’ FATHER
After a scene-stealing turn as a distraught father in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, Brendan Fraser returns to the screen to play a man who has never been a father and never had a father. Hikari’s Read more…
Articles
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB is the most important film of the 21st Century
It feels wrong to critically evaluate The Voice of Hind Rajab. Especially when you consider that this is just one of thousands of stories. There are thousands of Hind’s out there, whose stories never got Read more…
Articles
Is the new Taylor Swift album that bad?
Taylor Swift dropped her new album “The Life of a Showgirl” on Friday, October 3rd 2025, and the Swifties went wild. However, not in a good way; in fact, they were losing their minds. Longtime Read more…
Features
Guillermo del Toro, or the Art of Humanising Monsters – a Frankenstein (2025) Review
Revisiting the Myth: Del Toro vs the Pop Culture Monster Green skin, a square head, barely intelligible speech, bolts in the neck, scars everywhere: Frankenstein’s creature has become a true icon of horror. Yet, Mary Read more…
Articles
The Rise of Letterboxd – A New Way of Watching Films?
Six years ago, when I was still an active member of ‘stan Twitter’ – if you know, you know – I first heard about an app through my American mutuals: Letterboxd. At the time, I Read more…
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Modern Love – or Not?
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Opinion
Is the book better?
One night at the end of their graduation, Emma and Dexter meet for the first time, in Edinburgh, 1988. The book One Day, while illustrating a coming-of-age story between the two protagonists, is told through Read more…
Opinion
‘Safe Speeds lead to Safer Roads’ – Does the RSA turn a blind eye to drink driving?
Earlier this year, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) along with the Department of Transport rolled out a new scheme to lower speed limits across local and rural roads. This was to help reduce the speed Read more…
Features
“Does it really help, though?” Palestinian solidarity and the bid for action from Irish universities
Activism in academic settings has long been a tradition, and Ireland is no stranger to student-led protests. Yet in Israel’s destruction of Palestinian universities, there lies a central question: what does academia stand for? Beyond Read more…
Opinion
Immigrant ‘issue’ can’t be solved with international student caps, step up like Ireland
The anti-apartheid activist, Nelson Mandela recognised education as a “powerful weapon” to change the world and it is, indeed, a political weapon in 2025 to fight the illegal immigrant issue suffered by developed countries, deciding Read more…
Opinion
Should Unpaid Internships be Illegal?
The definition of an internship is ‘the position of a student or trainee who works in an organisation, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.’ They offer Read more…
Opinion
From ‘Chick-Lit’ to ‘Smut’: The Language of Dismissal in Women’s Literature
Ireland has no shortage of remarkable women in literature. Writers like Sally Rooney, NaoiseDolan, Anne Enright, Claire Keegan, Marian Keyes and many more have topped bestsellerlists, been nominated for prestigious awards and won some along Read more…
Opinion
Why existentialism isn’t as miserable as you think
When you hear the word existentialism, what comes to mind? Hopelessness? Dread? Despair? What if I told you that’s not really what it’s all about? In fact, it can actually offer some valuable insights on Read more…
Opinion
A Hail Mary to Rid Lost Mary’s: The Disposable Vape Ban
In September 2024 the cabinet agreed to ban the sale of disposable vapes, as well as a reduction of flavours available on the Irish market. It’s quite a straightforward move to make as a government, Read more…
Opinion
Are We Doing Enough to Support Women’s Health?
Imagine you’re a doctor during a shift in the A&E department. Your next patient is presented to you. The patient has a pain in their chest that came on suddenly at dinner and hasn’t gone Read more…
Opinion
Hurricane Milton and Social Media: Disaster Response in a Distrustful America
On the night of October 9th Hurricane Milton made landfall, hitting Florida’s coast relentlessly. 24 fatalities have been reported and over 160 billion dollars in damages to homes, businesses, and key infrastructure. This fast-hitting disaster Read more…
Features
The Future of American Society, as it Plummets Into the Past
Americans will cast their vote on November 5, and it’s apparent that the anticipated election is more important than deciding if the US will have its first female president or a second Donald Trump term. Read more…
Articles
Signing off…
I still remember my first interview that I ever conducted. It was back in the depths of Ireland’s second lockdown during Autumn 2020. I interviewed Alicia O’Sullivan, the then-Education Officer of the Irish Second Level Read more…
Articles
The potential sterile threat posed by Artificial Intelligence
While the threats of artificial intelligence (AI) have been illustrated and proposed primarily through fictional media and literature, the fast development of artifices like chatbots, voice cloning, and fabricated images and videos, also known as Read more…
Opinion
A final few words
A final few words by Deputy Editor Muiris O’Cearbhaill about his time in The College View Read more…
Articles
Will Ireland be able to handle the impending end on eviction bans in the midst of a crippling Housing crisis?
The eviction ban imposed in Ireland last October will finally be lifted on April 1, 2023. However, with this ban being lifted, there are far more complications and consequences set to occur, consequences that are Read more…
Articles
What will a streaming service levy accomplish in Ireland?
The proposals for a ‘content’ levy by the government and various Irish entertainment groups are intent on increasing funding for the Irish film and television industry through collecting funds from already existing international streaming providers. This Read more…
Articles
EU parliament votes to ban the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2035
The EU has voted to approve a bill that essentially bans the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles going forward. With 340 votes to 279, with 21 abstentions, the Strasbourg Parliament has approved this impending Read more…