Features
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What’s in a name? The facts, figures and trends behind Ireland’s gurgling babies
We often take our name for granted. What inspired the choice? How does it define you? Not everyone has a moving story to tell of how mam and dad looked longingly at their newborn baby, and the perfect name simply floated from the…
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New Age of Horror: Humanity over technology says director Garris
American horror director Mick Garris (Hocus Pocus 1993, Sleepwalkers 1992) debuted the Irish screening of his latest anthology of horror in the IFI last weekend. The annual Horrorthon event was enveloped by a passion for the genre, with fans eagerly gathered over…
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Dublin street culture is alive and kicking in Fairview Park
It’s a brisk sunny afternoon. I’m making my way through Fairview Park over to the skate park. It’s 1.26pm, I’m 34 minutes early. The sun is shining but there a winter’s breeze that’d cut you in half. Glad I stuck on the mountain…
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‘You’re everything from a guidance counsellor to a maintenance guy!’ – Life as a Dublin bar manager
Ross Logan and Tom Kerrigan perform very similar roles, but the eras in which both learned their trades couldn’t be further apart. Logan manages The Lucky Duck bar on Aungier Street, a brand new venue which opened earlier in 2018. Kerrigan has been…
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Ireland is ill-equipped to deal with gaming’s latest threat
The video game ecosystem rarely gets a look in when it comes to the Irish media apart maybe from the odd trailer around Christmas to entice the little ones or a write up about how Red Dead Redemption 2 is the best thing since…
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Media and academic conference featuring Vincent Browne aimed at people of all abilities, a success!
Taking back the web, a media and academic conference aimed at tackling the lack of trust the public has for the media took place for the second time on the 19th and 20th of October in DIT’s Aungier Street campus. The event was…
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DIT Aungier Street suffers the effects of Grangegorman’s development
The ‘Grangegorman Urban Quarter’ is a proposed education, health and community development by the Grangegorman Development Agency (GDA) for Dublin Institute of Technology and the Health Service Executive. The GDA was awarded funding to begin the construction of the new campus based off…
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Keeping ‘Cup’ appearances – just a trend?
It was a Tuesday morning, I was running late for a big day. No time for coffee. ‘I’ll grab one on the way,’ I told myself, ‘I’ll use my KeepCup.’ It was at that moment, like clockwork, that I heard it. The sound…
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Football Manager 2019: key refinements make this new installment a must have for veterans and newcomers alike
Partners, spouses, friends, et al., whose significant others are fanatics of the FIFA franchise, will recognise October as the month of the year that their time spent together experiences a dramatic decrease, as game after game takes up a hefty portion of their…
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Stand-up comedy: is it just for laughs or does it have a deeper meaning
The world is suffocating in sad, depressing news at the moment. Another life-wrecking storm, worrying UN reports on climate change and a president in the United States who is a divisive figure, to say the least. How can we keep our spirits up…
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