DCU News

DCU to host cultural festival Anam

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]DCU[/dropcap] is collaborating with RTÉ radio programme South Wind Blows to host Anam, a two-day festival dedicated to music, poetry, film and drama. The event, which takes place on the 11th and 12th of April Read more…

Food

Grub Guide: Dolce Sicily

April 4, 2018

Aakanksha Surve tells us about the sweet taste of Sicily that is available from the coffee shop, Dolce Sicily, hidden just off Grafton street. Read more…

Features

Pope Francis to visit a changed Ireland

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]P[/dropcap]ope Francis is scheduled to come to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families in August 2018. However, he is coming to a country that is very different to the ‘catholic Ireland’ that the last Read more…

Lifestyle

Ireland’s gin revolution

April 4, 2018

As one of the most popular drinks of the moment with trendy fruit concoctions, mixers and balloons glasses to accompany it, gin has become the drink of the year with exports seeing a massive growth in Ireland recently. Read more…

Articles

The severity of period pains

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or most girls their period can be a bit of a hindrance, making them cramp up, break out or bloat. But for some, it can disable them from their everyday life.

National News

Campaign launched for warning labels on takeaways

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]C[/dropcap]hinese takeaways and ready meals should carry health warning labels on their packaging and menus for high salt content, according to health campaign group Action on Salt.

Lifestyle

The journey to the J1

April 4, 2018

As J1 season rolls around again, Ashleigh Nolan told her tale of how she organised, funded and prepared for her trip to America last summer. Read more…

Hurling

DCU retain Freshers hurling title

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]D[/dropcap]CU retained their All-Ireland Fresher 1 hurling title last weekend, spelling a bright future for the college’s hurling ambitions.

Other Sports

DCU run elite UCD close in swimming intervarsities

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]D[/dropcap]CU’s Swimming Society had an amazing run in the Irish Intervarsity Swimming Championships, placing second in overall, male and female categories with the male team just nine points behind UCD.

Features

Light sabers light up children’s ward

April 4, 2018

<dropcap>T</dropcap>he capacity to show kindness is perhaps what defines goodness: for one young man who battled brain cancer, this capacity allows him to give back to the hospital ward that treated him in a novel Read more…

Student Life

45,000 waiting for driving test date

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here are currently 45,000 people waiting for a driving test date in Ireland. Although the RSA waiting time target is 10 weeks maximum, Buncrana and Gorey see average waiting times of 19.3 weeks and 18.4 Read more…

Music

DCU Glee dazzle at the Helix

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]The[/dropcap] Helix hosted incredible singing and dance routines as DCU’s Glee performed on Monday 26th March.

Articles

Ready Player One novel falls flat

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]You[/dropcap] could debate for days about book to movie adaptations. Ernest Cline’s ‘Ready Player One’ leaps from pages to the silver screen in Ireland on March 30th, a release that is highly anticipated due to Read more…

Style

Is Ballet an under appreciated art?

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]Ballet[/dropcap] itself is an artform, with the human body being used in a similar manner to that of the paintbrush of an artist or the voice of a singer; conveying passion, grace, elegance and physical Read more…

Music

George Ezra’s ‘Staying at Tamaras’

April 4, 2018

[dropcap][/dropcap]E[dropcap][/dropcap]nglish singer George Ezra released his first album in 2014, immediately receiving high-praise and reaching number one in the UK charts. Though he’s 24, his deep and rich voice makes it hard to believe he is anything Read more…

Film

Red Sparrow: empowering but inconsistent

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]The[/dropcap] release of Francis Lawrence’s film, Red Sparrow has received a series of mixed reviews since its initial release on February 28, 2018.

Articles

The Wombats at the Academy

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]Last[/dropcap] month, the Wombats took to The Academy to give Irish fans a night to remember. The band’s long awaited show was extremely well received, an obvious fact made clear by the large audience that Read more…

Books

The dramatic poetry of award-winning Leonita Flynn

April 4, 2018

[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ast month, poet Leonita Flynn won the Irish Times Poetry Now award for her collection ‘The Radio’. Previous winners such as Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Sinéad Morrissey and Caitríona O’Reilly show that she is up Read more…