Dear ExpressIt, I’ve moved away from home for the first time with my friend from home and am finding my housemate really annoying. It’s just this one guy, he’s insufferable. He plays his terrible music really loudly the entire time and he never cleans up after himself. He does nothing but play computer games all…
Robert Joseph Bolton argues that the barbarism of capital punishment goes beyond the destruction of the ‘right to life’. Wednesday 10th of October marked World Day Against the Death Penalty, with UCC’s Amnesty society leading a campaign against this outdated and backwards barbaric act. As if the last century wasn’t violent enough, the idea…
Gavin Lynch-Frahill examines the recently announced changes to the Junior Cert cycle in secondary school. On Thursday October 4th an event occurred that made us all a bit older. Most of our parents speak of when they did their Inter-Cert and we thought they were old; when we speak to our children of our…
Kieran Murphy looks at the gender politics at play in the reaction to the video of the two Cork school girls fighting. If someone was told a few years ago that someone had gone ‘viral’ you’d be more concerned with foot and mouth disease but in these days it has taken on a different…
Eoin Marsh looks at the ever contentious topic of hunting in Ireland Animal welfare has and always will be a point of contention and just discussion for mankind. It is not merely a discussion on how we treat our organic brethren but also as a way to how we discuss the treatment of each…
So third week in already and it feels like you’ve been here a lifetime (but in a good way!) You’ve studied the flyers and sussed out the best student venues, liked at least a hundred new people on Facebook, joined a dozen societies and as many clubs and, oh yes, you’re eating well too which…
Opinionated Robert Bolton has decided that we all need to speak up a little bit more and start a few debates. I reflect on the importance of opinions and the fear for being judged for those opinions I have been given supportive and impressive looks when I’ve said I’ve written two articles for the…
Can Psychic Wayne live up to his name? Former Deputy Editor Brian Byrne finds out… Psychic Wayne of Psychic Readings Live performed a reading for me today. I’m convinced he was reading the wrong page. Of the twenty seven or so statements he made about me and the people in my life, more than…
An epidemic nationwide, suicide is leaving an indelible mark on Irish society. Ryan Gallagher spoke to Bernadine, a UCC graduate whose son Mark committed suicide at 22. How was life before suicide? “I enjoyed life, was happy and loved travelling, had everything. I enjoyed home life and my two children. I had just gotten married…
Deputy Features Editor Úna Farrell examines the difficult stages of drinking. Alcohol, in whatever form, does very specific things. It lowers your inhibitions, increases your confidence, basically it makes you act and do things you wouldn’t normally. For those of you who drink, the stages below will sound all too familiar. For those who…