Features
15 years, nine months, and 25 days
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] 15-year-old girl gives birth, alone, beside a holy statue in a church yard.
Orla O Driscoll
Opinion
Age is just a number
I found defence inside a shell. In three years I rarely took a day off, I am lucky, my husband has been my fall guy. I was not sure year two would happen. Read more…
Inspirations
Giving while living – the sharing billionaire
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he rhyme says sharing is caring, but billionaire Chuck Feeney exemplifies the concept: “I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living,” Feeney says. Read more…
Features
You drive me crazy
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]now covers pockmarked roads, a crunchy backdrop to a husky crescendo promising ‘We won’t have to drive too far, close to the border and into the city.’ A conjuring of prose and clever song lyrics, Read more…
Features
There is something about Mary
[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?
[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…
Features
Grooming – the dark channels of cyber deviancy
[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.
Features
No good time for goodbye
[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
Contempt of freedom of expression
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ur constitution guarantees that we have a right to freely express our convictions and opinions.
Features
Queen of the night
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is a certain seediness in leaving the bright sunshine of an early summer evening to disappear inside the whoosh of a door. From the hustle and squeal of traffic on Georges Street, into the icon Read more…
News
Sunbed VAT rate increased due to “clear evidence” of link to skin cancer
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]inister Paschal Donohue increased the VAT rate applied to sunbed services in yesterday’s budget, due to “clear evidence” of a link between sunbed use and skin cancer. The increase from 13.5 percent to 23 percent Read more…
Political
Budget 2018: Tackling cancer
[dropcap]Minister[/dropcap] Paschal Donohue increased the VAT rate applied to sunbed services in yesterday’s budget, due to “Clear evidence” of a link between sunbed use and skin cancer, he said.
Articles
Back to the future-ish
Once upon a time, those of us over the age of 27, imagined that by now, we would glide through our daily routines, resplendent in suits of crystal LED’s, attending to life from the noiseless Read more…
News Features
I am not to blame
[dropcap]R[/dropcap]ape. It’s a tiny word that contains so much emotion, violence, destruction and devastation. It means, by it’s dictionary definition; to plunder, to strip bare of resources, to sexually assault. There is no question of Read more…
Health
Smoking mirrors
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]conic movie legends of the 1940s and 50s were the trend setters of their day. In a time when the world was shrugging off the vestiges of war, a well-tailored pencil skirt and a pair Read more…
News Features
Postcards from abroad
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair.” So says the great author JRR Tolkien. As Ibrahim Halawa spends yet another Read more…
Features
The Great Debate: are SU elections just popularity contests?
For by Michael O Scannáil: Students are bombarded with free food from the friends of Students’ Union election candidates. We once again must decide who we want to make up the new SU, who we Read more…
Articles
Goodbye Lucy
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ccording to Aristotle; At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst. In the mire, which carpets the underbelly of the sex trade, in the Read more…
Features
Sticks and Stones
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me; perhaps that used to be true. Or, perhaps it applied to a time before technology invaded safe spaces, before the insidious nature Read more…
Features
Splitting the movie myth of split personalites
[dropcap]Teasing[/dropcap] a fear from the depths of safety delivers a rush of adrenaline, increases our heart rates and is often referred to as the fight or flight response; the edge of the unknown. Little children Read more…
Features
Paws for thought
[dropcap]He[/dropcap] arrived five years ago, saved from the promise of a plastic bag and the murky water of the grand canal. He arrived tiny, quiet, and resembling a cloud with a chance of rain. After a Read more…
Features
Alan Smeaton and the wonders of data analytics
[dropcap]Professor[/dropcap]Alan Smeaton was not expected to be an innovator, or an academic. As a young man, he did well in school but his family background didn’t indicate that a university education would be his path. Read more…
Randoms
We do not cry because we knew them
[dropcap]Death[dropcap] visits us all eventually, the game however, is to thwart its arrival for as long as possible. Ultimately though, it will arrive to embrace us and for those we leave in our wake, the Read more…
News Features
How to save a life
[dropcap]Humanity[/dropcap] is not the perfect species, there is no promise of healthy perfect babies, but few people become pregnant with the expectation of having a child with a life altering disease. Cystic Fibrosis is a Read more…