worried girl

Struggles of a 20-Something Female

Your twenties are supposed to be your glory days. Your skin is yet to be tainted with wrinkles, nowhere has started to noticeably sag and you have the luxury of being ‘not quite a teenager but not quite an adult’. You have youth on your side. You are in the...
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Savages: Adore Life Review

London based punk-rock band Savages have released their second album Adore Life. Savages achieved chart success back in 2013 with the release of their debut album Silence Yourself, which reached number 19 in the UK Albums Chart. The group was nominated for...
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Room Review

Producer Ed Guiney, of Element Pictures, has had a, well, curious year. First, was the frank weirdness of The Lobster. Then came the awful and embarrassing 11 Minutes. And now, with Room, based on the book by Emma Donoghue, Guiney has produced one of the bes...
january blues

Why January is the absolute worst & why 2016 will only get better

Apologies to anyone who celebrates a birthday in January, but it is safe to say that it is definitely the least favourite time of year. Living in the shadow of its more attractive and over-achieving brother, December, January can just never live up to the fun ...
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Cocktails for charity? When Pyg(malion)s fly…

Do you like being a good citizen? Do you like drinking alcohol? But do you find it hard to combine the two into one ultimate super-hobby? Well, doing your bit for charity has never been more fun thanks to Pygmalion on Southwilliam Street, Dublin 2. The ...
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Oxygen Goes Go Karting

At Oxygen, we like to make sure we do things right. Whether it's the tonnes of prizes we give away every month, or the hard-hitting journalism of The Spanner, we like to do things right. Which is why, for our most recent Christmas party, we decided to forgo ...
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The Revenant

The Revenant (15) Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Written by: Mark L. Smith & Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Cast: Leonardo Dicaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson and Will Poulter. Running Time: 156 Minutes. Oscar winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñ...
Villagers

Villagers New Release: Where Have You Been All My Life

Less than a year after the release of their last studio album Darling Arithmetic, Villagers have graced us with a new release: Where Have You Been All My Life. This new LP is not a standard studio album release however. Where Have You Been All My Life is a ...
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Last Year’s Smedias Categories

Print Journalism Publication   NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR Awarded to the newspaper that sustains the highest quality of journalism, editorial standards, production values and overall professionalism despite budgetary and other limitation...
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The Worst Films of 2015

Looking for film suggestions? Hate yourself and want to be subjected to visual torture? Well then, look no further than Oxygen.ie’s Top Ten Worst Films of 2015, a clump of the year’s biggest and best cinematic bowel movements. Terminator Genisys ...