By Maeve O’Keeffe On Friday the 15th of November, Britney Spears fans and advocates of the #FreeBritney movement rejoiced, as her 13-year long conservatorship was terminated. Spears was placed under conservatorship after what can only be described as an incessant paparazzi pursuit that contributed to her mental health difficulties and erratic behaviour. The New York…
By Aoife E Osborne Here’s the thing. I’m a winter person. Give me a woolly jumper and a pumpkin-spice-latte by a roaring fire over a bikini with a cocktail on the beach any day of the week. I love my chunky cardigans, my fluffy socks, and come every October I cannot wait to bid farewell…
By Róisín Noonan For millennia now humans have had a close relationship and fascination with the moon. According to Nasa, the moon was created over 4.5 billion years ago, when a mars-sized body collided with earth created debris that accumulated together to form the moon. The Ancient Greeks were the first to observe the moon…
By Maeve O’Keeffe This article contains mentions of Image-Based Sexual Abuse. If you feel that at any point you may be triggered please refrain from reading this article. We have also listed supports at the end of this article. Image based sexual abuse (IBSA) is defined as the non-consensual creation and/or distribution of private sexual…
By Imasha Costa This article contains topics of sex work and sexual violence. If at any point you may feel like you might be triggered, please skip this article. Earlier in the month of October, UCC Students Union had reopened their Food Bank after they saw the rise in students struggling financially. The food bank…
By Maeve O’Keeffe I recently subscribed to the email lists of some prominent Irish newspapers, and usually there is nothing too ground-breaking about the headlines that ping into my inbox every morning. There are stories about COVID-19, the state of the economy, the environment, match reports, and the controversies and scandals of both political and…
By Roisín Noonan Whether you are a first-year student experiencing Cork city for the first time, a foreign exchange student experiencing Ireland for the first time, or a Cork native, Cork city and it’s surrounds has something to interest everyone. When I first arrived in Cork as a student from Limerick, I was clueless to…
By Maeve O’Keeffe As a woman and a feminist, tackling gender stereotypes from a female perspective is a consistent priority of mine. In this column, I have discussed how toxic masculinity and sexist rape myths can affect women. However, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that men are also frequent casualties of…
By Billy O’Connor The line between cultural appropriation and appreciation has long been a blurred one. Oftentimes, it is talked about in terms of hairstyles and vernacular regarding black American culture, but a recent ‘trend’ has brought to the forefront an under-represented and under-appreciated practice that is sacred to Buddhists and Hinduists in particular. While…
By Maeve O’Keeffe “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” – Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi “I am so sick of forking over a tenner just to get into that kip of a club,” my friend moaned during our customary Friday morning debrief in the kitchen…