Her name was Lucille Ball. An actress that was like a meteor shower in Hollywood, making everyone sit down in the evening and talk about nothing else, but the greatest comedy of all time – I Love Lucy. Every week, as soon as the new episode came out, people would whisper and discuss how brilliantly…
In the interest of not getting anything twisted, I’d like to preface this article by saying this: I know nothing about comics or ice hockey. I’m a pretty strictly defined bookworm, and my knowledge of sports starts and ends with a short-lived secondary school hockey career. Or at least, I knew nothing about comics or…
It’s probably an understatement to describe the exhaustive degree to which masculinity is a subject of contention in today’s society as ‘strange’. People argue about masculinity all the time. It’s used as an avenue through which to bully, mock, demean and degrade – but why? It’s not as if masculinity can be accurately described or…
On October 3rd, The University Express compiled a survey entitled “Racism in UCC”, designed with the intent of highlighting instances of on-campus racism which would otherwise go unseen. The survey was sent out via e-mail to every student currently attending UCC. The survey was short and simple, consisting of eight questions, including the option for…
Twitter is often spoken of as being somewhat of a scary place. If you’ve ever, even passively, partaken in the consumption of mainstream media, you’ve probably heard ominous warnings of the dreaded social media platform. “It’s the end of human civilisation as we know it” they say. Over 250 million registered users, all screeching into…
Tony Duffin is the CEO of the Ana Liffey Drug Project, a Dublin-based non-profit organisation which advocates for a health-based, harm-reductive approach to the issues of drug-use and drug policy in Ireland. First established in 1982, the Ana Liffey Drug Project offers services to people who use drugs in the Dublin, Mid-West and North-East regions…
Once upon a time, if you asked most people if they’d ever listened to Brockhampton, one would have received a response like “No. Who’s he?”but now, having recently released their long-awaited fourth studio album, ‘Iridescence’, the U.S. based hip-hop boyband are soon to become a household name, both in and out of the rap community….
I’m writing this on the morning of Thursday, the 11th of October. It’s early morning and, uncharacteristically of me, I’m just not in the mood to keep my eyes shut and engulf myself in the warm thickness of my heavy winter blankets. I’m uneasy and jittery and feel like there’s something inside of me that…
Last week Mary Crilly of Cork Sexual Violence Centre announced that three students in Cork have come to them having been raped in the first two weeks of colleges re-opening. Two of the three students of UCC and CIT have dropped out of college to go home to their families. Mary Crilly tells us that…
‘I’m calling because I have pills in my room, and I’m afraid that if I don’t have any distraction tonight, I’ll try and kill myself again.’ As I listened, the man on the other side of the phone began to describe his life and pains to me, more openly than with his girlfriend, his roommates,…