By Selina Dufner “Naomi was the first. She was the great ambassador for all black people. She broke down all the social barriers.” – Halston February is Black History Month and that is the perfect occasion to write about an outstanding and influential, yet kind of forgotten model – Naomi Sims. She is often seen…
By Elle Kelleher The new year, meant to be full of hope and promise, has instead brought with it yet another blow to Cork’s creative and cultural scene: the closure of legendary arts and music hub, The Kino. As the city fought to maintain a soul amongst a slew of hotels and glass office eyesores,…
By Mia Tobin Power 2021 should be a great year for films, what with the backlog from 2020, as well as a slate of new films, made both during the pandemic and before it. There are quite a few major films to look forward to – such as the James Bond film No Time to…
Writes Aoife Gleeson & Sadhbh Horan On a late Winter’s afternoon, a rare spectacle of nature is witnessed. A weary student traipses up the stairs of their student accommodation. Hiking boots (covered in mud), wellies (chilling in a plastic SuperValu bag), coat (dripping wet), trousers (preferably still intact), body (cold), stomach (hungry), socks (wet), morale…
Writes Joseph Murphy The term “Moneyball” has become popular within sporting circles, mainly referring to the use of advanced statistics and analytics to drive decision making within teams – whether it be in terms of playstyle or recruitment. Its origins lie with the Oakland Athletics, an MLB baseball team that pioneered the use of in-depth…
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…