Summer can be tough on your bank account at times; whilst the majority of people who stay in Ireland for summer are working to save money, it’s general knowledge that the day after payday can be a harrowing experience. You …
Culture
“You three are a right pair if I ever saw one”
What tickles your funny bone? Do your sides split? Ciaran Sunderland looks at why so many Irish comedians succeed abroad and how different cultures appreciate and understand comedy
Human existence, comedy and tragedy are ancient companions. In the immortal words of an Irish mother: “You three are a right pair if I ever saw one.” The three are intertwined and inextricable, a rich seam that underlies Irish culture. …
Lack of party politics on campus is all too evident
Despite current student activism evidenced in numerous campaigns, Aidan Carolan finds that party politics are all but dead on campus
“It’s clear that there will be no significant progress until the day comes when new ideas, not just new suits, are voted in.”
Maybe it was fate that on Monday of Freshers’ Week, when I was at my most wide-eyed …
Review: ‘Someone You Love’ photography exhibition
Shane Kenneally sets the scene of the vibrant event, showcasing pro-choice art, in the Copper House Gallery
Down the crooked roads which trail off Camden street, I find myself passing an endless stream of quaint brick houses, remnants of Dublin’s Georgian past. The area which surrounds the Copper House Gallery is authentic, antiquated one could say. Smoke …
Student life in Helsinki
As Stephen Frain embarks upon his year abroad, his initial impressions in Finland have lived up to the Nordic ideal
It is indeed a unique and wonderful experience for this year’s freshers to walk through front arch and begin their college years. Starting your university life is a wonderful and special feeling that you will never experience again, or at …
Traveller Ethnicity Needs to be Recognised
” You need to be born into the group to be one. One cannot simply become an Irish Traveller”
Once more in its long history the Irish state has proven itself unable, and it seems unwilling, to cherish all children of the nation equally. Despite recent recommendations of international bodies to grant ethnic minority status to Irish Travellers, the …
The League of Ireland and cultural capital
The far too often repeated nauseating cliché that rugby is a “hooligan’s game played by gentlemen while football is a gentlemen’s game played by hooligans” is constantly rolled out as a sweeping generalisation that is bought into by far too many people.
This September, I moved into a flat beside Dalymount Park, former home of the Irish national football team and current home of Bohemians football club. Never having watched League of Ireland (LOI), I was intrigued by the prospect of living …
Ulster Says Art
Conor McGlynn
Deputy Comment Editor
Derry is a city that is trying hard to reinvent itself after its troubled past. It wants to promote itself as a dynamic, forward-looking place that has overcome the deep historic divisions that have scarred …
Wolf Gang: all bark and no bite
A pretentious front for big business to deal in depoliticised revolt and subversion; John Kennedy explores the failings of the hipster subculture as a scene and as a movement.
Can you be a fake hipster? Where are the real hipsters? …
Red
Red
2:2
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Bruce Willis, Mary Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Karl Urban, Brian Cox & Helen Mirren
Although based on a po-faced “graphic novel” and starring an assortment of over -the-hill actors, Red somehow manages …