Features
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OPINION: Help or hinder, Celebrities and charity
Image by Sacca via Flickr Having grown up with the internet at my fingertips, perhaps I have developed a cynical eye – a digitally fuelled distrust, when it comes to the marriage of wealth and poverty. Last week, news of Kate Perry’s appointment as…
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Turning up noses: Food Snobbery
Make no mistake, I’m not the most health conscious person around when it comes to food. I eat what I like and tend to avoid what I don’t. But with obesity affecting more people than ever before, especially children, there are fewer and…
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10 ways to ‘endear’ yourself to your local bar staff
Ciaran D’Arcy has a bone to pick. Read on as he outlines 10 ways to ‘endear’ yourself at your local bar. 1. Remember to order your drinks one at a time, they love running backwards and forwards as it keeps them fit. 2.…
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Mournful locals speak of hero Mandela’s death
There were fears that Mandela’s passing on December 5th would send his homeland spiralling into violence and civil unrest, but so far all that has swept the nation is a hushed and mournful stillness, according to an Irish man working in the East…
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OPINION: Does the ESB really have the right to strike?
The threatened ESB strike that was scheduled to happen on December 16th has been called off. A deal was struck between ESB management and unions on Sunday resulting in the withdrawal of threatened strike action. The strike was called due to a €1.6 billion hole in…
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Can’t We All Just Get Along?
This is the rant of an old man, I know this, but I can’t let it go. I feel very strongly about this. Why is everyone so bloody grumpy and anti-social on the bus in Dublin? Every morning hundreds of thousands of grumpy,…
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Blog to basics
Throughout the history of blogging you can find news outlets writing its obituary, citing dramatic declines from reports and statistics that hold no true value, only standard data manipulation. I could name but a few said publications, but their readership continues to drop…
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This is why everyone hates feminists
In a recent article entitled ‘Sigh: So Kill Me’ in the University Times, Leanna Byrne commented on the popular Irish fashion and beauty blog So Sue Me, decrying it as a mark of shallow consumerism and an affront to womankind. Says she: “What…
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5 european cities you have to see
Every continent has its array of beauty, culture and heritage. Asia has its oriental mysteries, Africa with savannahs of land, the enchantment captures a visit to South America whilst north of the Mexican Gulf lay the sky scrapers of the USA. And then…
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The 5 worst Christmas songs in the history of forever. Ever.
Christmas songs are like marmalade; you either love them or hate them. Many Christmas songs are undeniably very good songs ( ‘Let it Snow’ The Rat Pack, ‘Little Drummer Boy’ famously performed by David Bowie and Bing Crosby in 1977 and ‘Driving Home…
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