Smedias 2022

Best Hidden Spots in Cork

While some of you have had three or four weeks to settle back into the college lifestyle and revisit your old haunts, first years and second years that didn’t get to visit Cork City last year will be looking f...

The Best of Netflix: Horror Edition

And we’re back! After a long, twenty-one-or-so month summer, colleges are re-opening, students are loitering and lecturers are desperately scrambling for their seminar notes after hitting play on the same pre-...

Changing the Game with Women’s Sports

“We could see - as sports fans, parents, people in the world - the huge difference that female players, women's games and girls teams received. Our culture was so deeply ingrained with this long-term sublimina...

Onscreen Offscreen

The first in a series of columns by Connor Howlett, updating us on the latest news in the film and TV world. They’ve Done It Again One of the most recent egregious examples of the film and TV industry g...

Ranking Irish Politicians’ TikTok Accounts

Irish politicians have caused a frenzy on TikTok over the last year - some of the videos published have ranged from the slightly embarrassing to the downright heinous. It begs the question, should TDs be legal...

No-Nonsense Student Recipes

I was given many student cookbooks when I first went to college and, to my dismay, found them secretly very complicated. For those who may want to branch out from pesto pasta, I’ve collected a few tried and te...

TCD Together Consent Outreach Programme

A sunny Wednesday morning on Trinity College Dublin’s campus saw the launch of Student Counselling’s Together Consent Outreach Programme. Having facilitated workshops to students for 5 years, the educational p...

The Many Saints of Newark Review

As a big fan of The Sopranos, the prospect of a prequel film giving key background information for Tony and many of the characters from that series was an exciting one. There is a deep history in the show whic...

Government Announces Plan to Improve Irish Nightlife

Student nights out are soon to be back and better than ever! Earlier this week Catherine Martin, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, published a Night Time economy report includ...

The Do’s and Don’ts of Charity Shopping

Charity shops and their sustainable treasures have exploded in popularity over the last while. For those who want to be the best-dressed while on a budget, here are some tips and tricks to help you find the pe...