spotlight

Spotlight Review

When John Michael McDonagh made Calvary, a film about a good priest, he was hoping to get ahead of the wave of anti-church films coming our way. Well, now the wave has crashed with Spotlight, a film about the child sex abuse scandal in Boston. The story focuse...
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2016: What to Watch

Keep your eyes peeled for some of the most anticipated television and movie releases of the year - here's Oxygen.ie's essential watch-list for the coming months. Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2 It's time root out the zombie apocalypse survival kits once more...
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Gays bored having achieved equality

May 22nd will forever be known as the day that love triumphed. It was a historic day for the world at large, but it was so much more than that to Ireland. For us, it was our opportunity to give the Catholic Church a giant, long-overdue "Fuck you". It really wa...
Tinder

BREAKING: Girl on Tinder looks better in photos than real life

A Wexford man is seeking compensation from online-dating giant Tinder, after a recent hook up went pear-shaped. 24-year-old Enniscorthy native Mick*, was talking to Tinder user Claire* for two days before they agreed to go on a date. “I was looking forwa...
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...
savages

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...
room review 2016

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 ...