Gig Review: Daughters Live at the Button Factory
Hailing from Rhode Island, Daughters have consistently pushed the envelope with each new release since their formation in 2002. Switching up their genre with every entry in their discography, 2018’s…
Album Review: Colorado – Neil Young and Crazy Horse
★ ★ ★ ★ “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” Neil Young sang those words forty years ago. With his latest release he’s showing no signs of…
Album Review: Sea of Worry – Have a Nice Life
★ ★ ★ ★ Sea of Worry is Have a Nice Life’s third studio album, and their most different yet. 2008’s Deathconsciousness became a cult classic for its suffocatingly atmospheric…
Album Review: FEET OF CLAY – Earl Sweatshirt
★ ★ ★ Earl Sweatshirt’s Some Rap Songs proved to be one of the most critically-acclaimed releases of 2018, with an average critical score of 86/100, as per Metacritic. Some…
Oireachtas na Samhna – in Citywest?
Is é Oireachtas na Samhna an féile is mó agus is gaelaí sa tír dóibh siúd le suim sa Ghaeilge agus cultúr na hÉireann, coincheap bunaithe ar Eisteddfod na Breataine…
Big Brain Power: Mastermind by Revive Active
*This is a sponsored article* The brain is the most complicated structure we have yet to encounter in all of nature. Essentially, it is a living biological computer. Its job,…
Hidden Waste: Microplastics in Unexpected Places
Microplastics are any piece of plastic less than 5mm in length. They can originate from the breakdown of larger pieces of plastic, the release of microfibers from synthetic clothing or…
CRISPR Just Got CRISPRer: Developments in Gene Editing
It has been nearly 30 years since the gene-editing tool, CRISPR/Cas9 was discovered, and only six since it was used for the first time in human cells. Of course, its…
Brazilian Butterflies: Chaos Theory and the Weather Forecast
You might wonder why RTE and Met Eireann can’t seem to accurately and consistently predict the weather. Sometimes, the weather report for a specific day says sunny but shifts the…
Battle for Westminster: Predicting the Unpredictable Brexit Election
While the United Kingdom is embroiled in a Brexit crisis, the public is heading to the polls for the third general election in just five years. The government lost its…
Social Democracy: The Meandering Road from Radical Marxism to Reformist Neoliberalism
This year is the 125th anniversary of the formation of the Irish Trades Union Congress which was the first Irish based trade union movement and the precursor to the Irish…
Let’s Talk About Sex Baby! Navigating Contraception in 2019
Various forms of contraception are now more accessible in Ireland than ever before, and yet for many it remains difficult to find what works best for them. When it comes…