UCD Alumnus fails in bid for Mercury Music Prize
There was disappointment for Irish band Villagers last Wednesday as their second album {Awayland} lost out to James Blake’s Overgrown for the 2013 Mercury Music Prize. The Malahide based indie-folk…
Body and Dole
A broke Ciaran Breslin reviews the experience of volunteering at Ireland’s fastest growing music festival. The week before I left to go to camping for four days in Westmeath, cialis…
Forbidden Fruit Reviewed
This summer marks the first time I am spending any considerable length of time in Dublin (or really anywhere in Ireland) as anything but a student. After three years of…
Happy My Bloody Valentines Day
Ciaran Breslin and Peter Sweeney celebrate the end of a twenty year wait for My Bloody Valentine’s new album Music, discount as we know it now, here is a uniquely…
THE BOOK NOOK
Pull up a chair and grab one of Aoife Byrne’s top picks for year ahead” Z – Therese Anne Fowler Fowler’s biographical novel centres on southern aristocrat Zelda Fitzgerald, viagra…
BREATHING CORPSES
Cathal O’ Gara catches up with Lisa Carroll as she prepares for the opening night of Laura Wade’s ‘Breathing Corpses.’ “Amy’s found another body in a hotel bedroom There’s a…
Animation Ardor
Darragh O’Connor catches up with director James Kelly of Fennish Productions to talk about his Jameson Dublin International Film Festival offering Fionnuala: Small Puppet on a Big Journey ‘There are…
The Siren’s definitive guide to…ERASMUS!
You may be one of those second years who have handed in the last of the Erasmus applications, or merely an elder statesperson of UCD, longing for the heady days…
Review: Foals
Foals like to keep it old school. They haven’t released an album since 2010, drugstore so their third album has been greatly anticipated to say the least. If you’re feeling…
‘You Like Me, You Really Like Me!’
It’s that time of year again: AWARDS SEASON. The glitz, seek the glam, the gossip: it’s the time that just keeps on giving. Me? I’m a movie fanatic. Love, live,…
Film Reviews
Les Misérables Director: Tom Hooper Starring: Hugh Jackman, viagra Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried Plot: Based on the Broadway musical based on Victor Hugo’s epic Les Misérables, the film…
60 SECOND SOCIETY
Rebekah Rennick, viagra auditor of UCD’s Trampolining Society tells Elaine McDonald what exactly the “Tramps” are doing: What has the society been doing this year? Anything new or is first…