The Best COVID-19 Takeaways
What strange times we live in. Locked up in our homes, constrained to a 2km radius by law and working/studying whilst lounging in our beds. Happily, there remains one constant;…
Planning For A World When We Can Shake Hands Again
You know that door-opens-into-a-portal thing they show in Sci-Fi shows, where a person opens a door and steps into a new realm? The day we opened that door was the…
WHAT’S HOT: Great Student Reads During Home Isolation
So uh.. this is all quite awkward, isn’t it? With most of us here in UCD on our third or fourth week in isolation, there is a growing unrest in…
Quarantine Bucket List
We are creatures of habit. We find comfort in routine, in getting a morning coffee, in seeing that same stranger at the bus stop every morning, in looking forward to…
The Frightening Reality of ‘The Stranger’
In a world as connected as ours, with information at our fingertips and an all-encompassing social media sphere, it’s easy to think that we can know everything about a person,…
Netflix Recommendations
Tiger King Limited Series ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The series serves as an exposé on untold drama and crime surrounding the most influential players of the big cat community…
Disney+ Finally Launches in Ireland
Plans were made for Disney Plus to launch in Ireland, among other European countries such as Britain, Spain, Italy and Germany, on March 24th way back in January. The Disney…
Nostalgia Zone: Videodrome
Nostalgia Zone: Videodrome ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Among the category of great filmmakers, we often hear the familiar names of Lynch, Hitchcock or Kubrick. I would dare to say…
Broadcasting From Isolation
It’s the 2nd of April, and Swedish rapper Yung Lean is performing to an audience of thousands from the back of a truck parked in a darkened port. Inside, it’s…
What’s Fresh: Sleepyhead by Cavetown
What’s Fresh: Sleepyhead by Cavetown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cavetown’s new eleven-song album Sleepyhead captures the sensation of a good hug, in that it is comfortable, soft and lasts…
Heaven to a Tortured Mind – Yves Tumor
Heaven to a Tortured Mind – Yves Tumor ★ ★ ★ ★ Yves Tumor’s Heaven to a Tortured Mind is a drastic departure from 2018’s Safe in the Hands of…
Melee – Dogleg
Melee – Dogleg ★ ★ ★ ★ Dogleg’s debut album, Melee is a cathartic dosage of destructive riffs and screamed vocals that evoke immediate comparison to Joyce Manor’s brutal self-titled,…