By Claudia Schwarz Everyone warned me, but I refused to believe them: studying literature could potentially destroy your love of reading. So here I am, desperately trying to take my mind off of my pile of assignments by getting lost in Philippa Gregory’s fiction. But I can’t. My mind keeps wandering and I have lost…
by Selina Dufner First of all, with this cover, Harry Styles became the first man to ever land a solo cover on Vogue, and while that achievement alone is simply groundbreaking, it doesn’t stop there. Styles teamed up with his good friend and creative director of Gucci Alessandro Michele, and a collaboration between them is…
Writes David Andrews As the bells of the Angelus from St. Anne’s Church knelled across the sombre city centre on the first Sunday of November, the people of Cork were watching anxiously, at home, as their valiant men battled the Kingdom’s finest for a place in the Munster Football Final. It needed a moment of…
Poems by Claire Aherne I whatyouwant light slowly prisming thru my town i go home there is no word for this, i am just about to be born, hold on i have told u this as long as always, and always will – there is nowhere to meet me, we pass, flies to lamps, lamps…
Writes Selina Dufner Hey, Upper East Siders. Gossip girl here, and I have the biggest news ever. One of my many sources sends us this: “Spotted on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: …” Well, who exactly is spotted is yet to be known, as the cast of the Gossip Girl reboot just…
Writes Elle Kelleher With live music events essentially cancelled, I checked in with Rebecca Dineen and Robin Daly, Chairperson and PRO of UCC MusicSoc, to see how they’ve been adjusting to Level 5 restrictions. University Express: Was there a degree of apprehension in how you were going to get the ball rolling this year?…
A scríobhann Seán Ó hUallacháin Aoibhinn beatha an scoláire, nach é sin a deirtear? Oícheanta amuigh sa chathair, cairdeas, agus craic. Fiú má tá saol na gcaorach ag mic léinn sa lá atá inniubh ann, ní hé sin le rá, áfach, nach mbíonn ár gcuid deacrachtaí againn. Is minic go mbíonn fadhbanna ag mic léinn…
Writes Kim Neiland Nothing will damage you so ferociously as the expectations you have for yourself. Our lives are defined by goals, by figures, by opportunities missed and taken. This year has taken its toll on all of us. Very few will look back on this year fondly, if anyone at all. Holidays were cancelled,…
Writes Nathan O’ Connor As the United States 2020 election slowly drudges to halt amidst discussions of recount and a spectre that is reluctant to leave the White House, we Europeans or even Irish people look at the election with an interest. But – why? If you take one look at Twitter or Instagram, modern…
This article is the first in a new series of collaborative efforts by Irish student journalists. The team comes from four student newspapers across Ireland’s largest four cities. We aim to tell the key stories of our generation, starting off with this in depth look at Ireland’s housing crisis. We are living in a world…