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University College Dublin (UCD) has indicated that the financial cost of COVID-19 restrictions on the university may approach €100 million this year. The government restrictions bring financial uncertainties for the…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Among the category of great filmmakers, we often hear the familiar names of Lynch, Hitchcock or Kubrick. I would dare to say…
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 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 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 ★ ★ ★ ★ Yves Tumor’s Heaven to a Tortured Mind is a drastic departure from 2018’s Safe in the Hands of…