Writes Paul McLauchlan There’s not much to second guess in images of celebrities Kim Kardashian West and Paris Hilton strutting in and out of a gas station in Los Angeles. It is also no surprise seeing the pair dressed in matching velour tracksuits straight from Kardashian West’s shapewear line SKIMS. Yet, this is a world…
Writes Aoife Gleeson Plastic has to be the best invention that mankind has ever made, right? I mean it is super cheap and easy to produce, has literally millions of uses, and is both strong and durable but crucially lightweight. So, this has to be a “super-material”? Plastics were first produced commercially in the 1970s…
Writes Andrea Horgan Imagine walking into your favourite coffee shop for a cappuccino and a natter with your friends for your weekly catch up or going for a few pints with the lads (when COVID-19 finally departs us that is!). Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Imagine knowing exactly what you want to order, but suddenly nothing…
Who doesn’t love a random act of kindness? One frosty night last Winter I was walking past Fitzgerald’s Park on the way to the Mardyke and I came across a lady who’d been locked into the park (it’s a common enough occurrence, it has happened to me twice before.) I had ABBA blasting through my…
Offering access to unlimited quick free-delivery, a free streaming service and discounts on thousands of products daily, Amazon has focused its target on placing the student at the forefront of its business interests. Handing out an initial six-month free subscription, with a discounted student subscription cost thereafter, you may have seen some people you know…
Writes Matthew Hanrahan After a summer of uncertainty for students and staff as to what University learning would look like, for many once the 2020/21 academic year began, that uncertainty remained. On Friday 25th September, the Minister for Higher and Further Education announced that all third level colleges would not open for at least 3…
It has been said ad-infinitum but we are currently living through truly ‘unprecedented’ times. But, no generation could arguably be more better equipped for such a scenario than today’s generation of young people. It’s been remarked that for many of us nineties babies, a global pandemic is merely a cherry on top of a chaotic…
Wrties Elisha Carey and Eoghan O’Donnell In 2005, a group of ten-year old children participated in an AOL study about their online worlds. At the time, they predicted that the future would be packed full of hoverboards, jetpacks, robot teachers and alien languages. While there’s no sign of widespread use of hoverboards just yet, 2020…
Recently, while going through a journal I keep irregularly and write in spontaneously, I came across an entry I wrote in early May. Many of the details are mundane: “MAY 4th … quarantine is still ongoing, but at least the weather is nice.” Later in the entry I contemplate the coronavirus (as most are likely…
clicktivism /ˈklɪktɪvɪz(ə)m/ noun 1. the practice of supporting a political or social cause via the Internet by means such as social media or online petitions, typically characterized as involving little effort or commitment. On a raw February night in 2012, 17-year old African American, Trayvon Martin was walking through his gated community in Sanford, Florida…