Another week has rolled by. Clubs are now training, the season is well under way and each evening a new sporting spectacle awaits us. If you are like myself; a sports mad television addict, it is this time of year when things really heat up. On any night of the week you can have your…
I’m going to take this opportunity to apologise to my immediate predecessor Brian (who will have graduated from his Masters the day before this comes out – if you actually read this Brian, congrats brother). All throughout last year I wasn’t quiet about my gripes with the workload as Designer of the paper, and the…
I make the point of not doing your usual, run of the mill editorials, it’s simply not who I am. I was never one for talking about myself, what I did, what I’m doing and so forth, so those editorials always bored me, and I never really saw the point. That’s why I prefer to…
When I was a kid, and even as I grew up, I always had a hard time standing up for myself. And I don’t mean physically, I mean having an opinion and sticking to it. Whether it’s because I had very convincing friends, because I was too anxious to lose them or whether I was…
The last week of September is one of my favourite weeks of the year. Is that, you may ask, because World Maritime Day happens to fall on the last week of September (the 29th, to be exact)? Well, no, and that’s not just because the only time I ever went sailing I got hit in…
At the time of writing this we are about 24hrs removed from the Orlando shootings. I have tried to sum up how I feel in the wake of this massacre, this attack on the LGBT*Q community, even just to myself: to make sense of this all internally. The truth of this, however, is that there is…
Yesterday afternoon I had the once in a lifetime chance to meet the Irish national team. I was in a cauldron of emotion: my hands were rattling like the goal nets, my mind was a whitewash of wants and wishes, and with each passing moment things were becoming more real. Right here before us were our…
So as you all likely know by now, the 8th Amendment Referendum is still ongoing on UCC Campus. As the nature of a college campus is to be a place of diverse people from different backgrounds, we all tend to have a fairly varied group of friends & colleagues, even the odd person from Kerry….
So today and tomorrow, the 23rd and 24th of November, UCC students have the chance to vote on whether or not the Student’s Union should campaign to repeal the 8th amendment to the Irish Constitution. If you’re a business and law student you can vote in the ORB, arts students can vote in the Boole…
My Belief in Humanity Issue 6, 17/11/2015, Zoe Cashman This week I received an email from one of my lecturers from last year, stating that he really enjoyed my editorial on fear in the last issue and that he feels “it should be on the required reading list for all students and lecturers”. Drawing attention…