By Maeve O’Keefe, Food & Health Editor “Think of the standard, broke, college student’s diet, that’s made up of your beans on toast, pasta, sandwiches and chicken fillet rolls, pizza, cans of Heineken, Guinness… They all have gluten in them, so it’s a constant thing I need to be thinking about when eating or drinking,”…

By Maeve O’Keefe – Food & Health Editor A routine scroll through your social media feed can often feel like a bombardment of messaging about health and wellbeing. Every day, there appears to be a new Instagram influencer hailing an obscure detox tea for a perfectly hourglass figure, gummies for miraculously long shiny hair, and…

Smell is one of our most evocative senses. Imagine the smell of Crayola crayons and jelly babies, and you are transported to the Junior Infants classroom in your local primary school, or the odour of wet dog that will make you crave a 99 like you’re in the back of the car after a day…

  Last Christmas, my mother and I tore about Dunnes Stores back home in Kilkenny in search of TK Red Lemonade. We were frantic, returning to the soft drinks again and again with furrowed brows, until eventually, my mother boldly declared that she ‘didn’t care anymore, they’d just have to make do with white lemonade.’…

One aspect of my daily routine during lockdown that I have clung to for the preservation of my sanity is a walk in the fresh air, either solo or with a friend, almost always punctuated by a stop for coffee. We are fortunate here in Cork that so many coffee shops have remained open for…

For an island surrounded by waters yielding an abundant variety of fish and shellfish, we Irish consume very little fish. In fact, the vast majority of fish caught in Irish waters are exported to the likes of Spain, France, Italy and Poland, where it is guzzled up with relish. In contrast, many Irish people are…

We all know we’re supposed to eat five portions of fruit and veg daily. It’s a message that has been drummed into us from youth, in the form of the universally traumatic Food Dudes initiative in primary school, reiterated by parents over soggy, overcooked root vegetables at dinnertime. Many of us may have long-since abandoned…

The never-ending bombardment of emails about the “unprecedented times” we are living in, the ever-growing stack of assignments competing for attention, the uncertainty and tired speculation about “levels” – a term which previously only evoked thoughts of an Avicii song in a packed nightclub, dare I mention it. Listening to the news or scrolling through Twitter has taken…

The old saying “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” is a prime example of a phrase so overused that it has almost lost its meaning entirely. Typically met with eye rolls, we rarely pause to consider the truth of this statement, or whether it is simply an old wives’ tale. Many of us simply disregard…

Writes Lauren Ní Fhloinn As the beginning of the 2020/21 academic year draws near, students across UCC are undoubtedly filled with fresh resolve and good intentions for the semester ahead. “This year I promise I won’t tearfully scramble to submit my assignments at 23:59, or drink so much Peach Schnapps that I start performing my…