VideoDoc to Provide Free GP Healthcare to USI Members
The Union of Students Ireland (USI) has announced a partnership with VideoDoc worth approximately €7 million. The partnership will allow students who are members of the USI to access a…
Is The Abolishment of F1 Pit Girls a Step Too Far?
A polarising decision has been made to abolish the long-standing tradition of ‘grid girls’ from Formula 1. Sean Bratches, Managing Director at Commercial Operations at Formula 1, made the announcement…
Mary Robinson Claims We Are Heading for “Catastrophe” During James Joyce Acceptance Speech
There was a huge crowd in the Fitzgerald Chamber on Thursday to attend a talk and award presentation with Ireland’s seventh President – Mary Robinson. Originally from Ballina in County…
Promoting Positive Parenting
This semester the UCD CHilD (Childhood and Human Development) Research Centre in collaboration with a number of partners including UCDSU are presenting three separate one-hour long seminars on the strategies…
The Politics & Law Behind PESCO
Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) is the way in which EU Member States will work closer together on security and defence issues. It will build on the EU Global Strategy for…
Should Gender Neutrality be Distended to the Runways?
There have been some major changes with fashion weeks in the past couple of years as a result of many fashion houses attempting to keep up with the times and…
Sports and the Law: In a League of Their Own
It has been over 20 years since a relatively unknown Belgian footballer faced the toughest opponent of his professional career and succeeded in changing the world of modern football forever.…
The Big Science of 2017
So here we are, a month into the new year, a brand-new semester, and it’s pretty safe to say we’re not exactly missing 2017. Politically, environmentally and morally exhausted, it…
Dolores O’Riordan: A Life That Defied Expectations
In essence, the Cranberries were a band that defied expectations. They emerged when Britpop was the zeitgeist in Britain and the same could be said for grunge in America. The…
Loot Boxes & Accumulators: How Gambling Has Saturated Society
How many betting companies can you name? One? Three? Five? At 23 years old and being an avid sports fan so I’ve seen a lot of gambling advertising in the…
Album In Review: M A N I A – Fall Out Boy
Mania is an album that is trying to be too many things. You can almost hear the struggle between the band and their music in every song, as they try…
Unpacking Ownership and Music
I recently read two great pieces about cultural appropriation that reminded me of a minor music news story from last year, Kenan Malik in the New York Times and Briahna…