Features

“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.

SciTech

Laughter in the Lab: the indisputable importance of humour in scientific discourse

Kevin Lyons discusses the vital role that humour plays in scientific research and explains the predominant lack of humour in peer-reviewed scientific publications.

SCITECH

 

If you tickle us, do we not laugh?

Science is a serious business. It requires serious people to write serious grant applications, to convince serious funding agencies to support serious research projects. Furthermore, the results of these projects are published

Life

This House Does Not Regret Going to Law Society’s Comedy Debate

A combination of self-deprecating humour and a slandering of online millennial culture provided the basis for the speakers’ hilarious and even thought-provoking speeches

‘’Millennials only like hashtags because they look like potato waffles’’ – the line that launched the flurried removal of mobiles from pockets to tweet and check in at LawSoc’s Comedy debate in the GMB Chamber on Tuesday.

With law professor …