Football is a funny game. To anyone off the street it is the simple notion of kicking a ball into the back of a net and your supporters go wild. Once it’s broke down; that’s it really. 90 minutes on a field, you wear your scarf they where they jersey and you al sing and…
Irish conjures up different things to different people. Some think of it as a dying language, some think of Peig Sayers and wince at the misery of leaving cert, 30 years later. For me, it’s so much more than that. It harks all the way back to the Tuatha De Danann, a proud supernatural race…
With the release of Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, there are now 802 confirmed Pokémon, throughout all the games. 802 ridiculous Pokémon names which give me ample material to make terrible puns as I talk you through my thoughts on the latest release in the franchise. Pokémon Sun and Moon open with a surprisingly large…
There’s always an interesting dynamic among football fans in Ireland, in that people rarely support their local teams, instead opting to follow a team across the sea in England. You have Liverpool, Man U, Chelsea and Arsenal fans in spades, usually depending on how successful they were when the person in question was a kid….
Students’ Union LGBT* Rights Officer Rob Cas fully expects next week’s Marriage Equality Referendum to pass. The vote on marriage equality is being held alongside a referendum on UCC’s continued affiliation with the Union of Students Ireland on the 26th and 27th of January. Although Student Council has already passed a motion to ensure the…
Robbie Byrne inspects the social media dominance of Sinn Féin and whether it adds up to true political power. Some weeks ago The Guardian posed a simple question: “Does The Sun really speak to more people than Russell Brand?” Many scoffed; it was an absurd question, perhaps the most brainless of the year. The Sun…
Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler was the first main stage production taken on by the Dramat Society this year. Directed by Katie Melia, the Granary Theatre saw its surroundings turned into a 1940s film noir style setting. Hedda Gabler, one of Ibsen’s most popular plays, depicts a complex woman’s struggle to deal with the suffocating existence…
[dropcap style=boxed]F[/dropcap]ive of a total of 14 empty houses renting through the UCC Accommodation scheme were found to be in breach of the law after advertising exclusively for female tenants the Private Residential Tenants Board (PRTB) confirmed. Michelle Tritschler, a Client Director for the PRTB, stated that “landlords may not discriminate against potential tenants on…
[dropcap style= boxed]A[/dropcap]lthough UCC has an assorted history of student publications, the UCC Express traces its origins back only 17 years. That corresponds to the first ever issue of the University Examiner on the 9th of October 1997, a publication which was founded by Fionnán Sheahan. Sheahan had been the penultimate Editor of the Gazette,…
Steve Barry [dropcap style= boxed]F[/dropcap]rom the creators of Halo comes the brand new, shared-worlds, first-person shooter, Destiny. Announced early last year, Destiny is set in a post-apocalyptic future where humans colonised other planets, but are now on the brink of extinction, and it’s your job to stop that from happening. After a very successful beta…