DCU News
DCU spent €4.25 million on Covid measures
Over 7% ( €312,000 )of DCU’s overall Covid-related expenditure has been spent on antigen tests in the last four months alone. Read more…
Pandemic
Features
Ireland’s Mental Health Crisis has Escalated to an Emergency Due to the Impact of Covid-19
Covid-19 arrived on Irish soil in early March 2020 and we are still living with the long-term effects of the pandemic 19 months later.
Opinion
What’s Happening with Pandemic Puppies?
The need to interview dog owners before they purchase. Read more…
Lifestyle
Adjusting back to the ‘old normal’ might be easy for some, but not for all
While we craved all the hallmarks of our normal lives with its foreign holidays and weekend getaways for 18 months, now that we can gradually reintroduce those aspects to our lives, many will experience what has been termed as post-pandemic anxiety. Read more…
National News
Eating Disorders: “There’s no set definition of recovery”
At the end of 2019, the Coronavirus pandemic took the world by surprise. Scientists worked long and hard over the past year to develop a sufficient vaccine, and they succeeded. But as the pandemic is slowly regressing due to the vaccination rollout programme taking place across the world, there are still other deadly illnesses that cannot be deterred by vaccination immunity. Read more…
Lifestyle
The good, the bad and the coronavirus: How the pandemic changed fashion
According to a report published by Business of Fashion website and the management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company, the industry is forecast to experience a 90 per cent fall in profits and a 15 to 30 per cent decline in sales in 2020 compared to the 12 months previous. Read more…
Television
How reality TV adapted to the pandemic
While people are at home watching television more than ever in the last number of months, reality TV has had to take a knock due to coronavirus restrictions.
The Hype
Pandemic brings viewers to the frontline of a health crisis
Overcrowded hospitals, exhausted doctors, misinformation, white masks and hazmat suits.