College Living

Tick Tock! 5 Things To Do Before Summer Ends

Summer tends to come and go in the blink of a bleary, sleep-deprived eye. On our last day of college, we are full of hope about our four-month break from assignments, late night study sessions and lectures, but...

The 12 Types of People You Travel With

Before you step on the plane, they're your friends. Sure, they each have their own personality, but put them in a foreign country on a group holiday, they transform into the perfect(ly annoying) travel companio...

5 Stages of Exam Results

There is something unique about the wait for exam results that puts it in its own league. Waiting for the next season of Game of Thrones, while ridiculously and inconceivably long, is arguably easier than waiti...

LC Results Day: What Not To Do

Results day is a very stressful day. Everyone knows this.  You wake up for the twentieth time that night, realise its only 7am and try go back to sleep. You wake up again to your mother telling you that “as lon...

Mistakes To Avoid On Your First Week of College

You got through the Leaving Cert. Pat yourself on the back, because you did it. Everyone kept telling you that you couldn't do it, but I knew you could. I had your back. I believe in you, boo. Now that you've g...

7 People We All Meet On The Bus

For the past six months, I have belonged to a rare species at my college: the commuter. Please try and contain your gasps of horror. I’m a pleb, I know. For six months now, I have been commuting to and from the...

Summer Events – The Beatyard 2016

This bank holiday weekend, The Beatyard is back with a bang. On Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st of July boogie-hungry festival-goers will be able to, through a vibrant mix of funk, disco and all things groovy, br...

Facebook Reactions: What they REALLY Mean

Nothing in this world, or in the bit of it that is Facebook, is as it seems. We're constantly being fooled, tricked, duped and plain old-fashioned hoodwinked by the seemingly obvious. That's why, rather than ta...

10 Things About Realising You’re In The Wrong Job

You listened to your mother, your father, your significant other, your bank account, your gut- which mostly made less than pertinent demands for cheese-; whoever it was, you were swayed into taking the wrong jo...

Summer Events – Groove Festival 2016

Festival season, unlike the more by the book summer or winter, is not a 'season' in any traditional sense of the word. It is not marked by a gentle dusting of snow across a field, nor by the falling of leaves, ...