Welcome (or welcome back for most) to UCC! From all the staff here at Byline we hope you had a fantastic summer, either at home working or abroad working for slightly less money. I think it’s fair to say by the end of this week we will all be equally broke, tired, behind on college…
September is the New Years of college life. New semester, new me. Each and every year without fail, students make far-fetched promises to themselves about how this year is going to be their year. Golden weeks will abound, they’ll be in the library every night of the week, and the Mardyke staff will know them…
Oh my god has getting this issue out been exhausting. If you don’t like me or my writing, this mightn’t be the issue for you, because I am fucking everywhere in this thing (even where you wouldn’t expect me to be). Pretty much every random problem that could happen, has happened: laptops have crashed, deadlines…
Student accommodation complexes have been fully booked out, despite the majority of college places not being offered until late August. Round 1 CAO offers are not given out until August 21st, but all of the bigger student accommodation options have already been booked. University Hall, Victoria Lodge, Victoria Mills and Castlewhite Apartments, all of which…
Guess what I’ve been doing recently? Gaming! I know: after all this time, I’m finally a hip youth, playing ‘vidya’ games and all. I was never a gamer, you see. I enjoyed a bit of Crash Bandicoot when I was small – didn’t we all – and since then I only dipped in and out…
It’s hard to write an editorial for a features section; the whole thing is basically an editorial anyway. Consequently, this will be as much a love letter as an editorial, enjoy. Writing this feels as close as I will ever become to being one of the string quartet who played on the deck of James…
As I write this I can only assume that this will be the last editorial I will ever write for you, the dear readers of the UCC Express (or at the very least, the last one I write to keep your arse dry outside the back of Coffee Dock…). For those of you who’ve read…
First of all, it would be remiss of me if I didn’t thank Michelle, who did an excellent job by the way, in stepping in and taking over news for the last edition while I was off with the elections. In all of my editorials thus far, I’ve given my thoughts and ideas on some…
In light of RTÉ’s perceived neglect in sufficiently covering the Strike 4 Repeal, and the subsequent call-to-arms for Repeal protestors to picket outside RTÉ studios to call attention to this silence on what is arguably the biggest protest in recent years, I’ve decided to use my one and only editorial to ensure The Express offices…
It may sound like a contradiction but actually it is an important distinction that maybe we need to be more aware of in today’s world. When you form an opinion, or change an existing one you held, it is because you will have been exposed to new information which alters your view as it reasonable,…