Month: February 2017

Video

Video: Profile | DCU Fencing Club

February 26, 2017

We caught up with the folks at DCU Fencing Club — find out about the club, training sessions and what members’ favourite things about fencing are.

Video

Video: New injection centres — Student Opinion

February 22, 2017

The introduction of new legislation to establish supervised injection centres has been approved by the cabinet recently. We asked DCU their thoughts on these new centres, and how they would feel if one were to

News

Former CICE lecturer reveals mistreatment of staff following Incorporation

February 22, 2017

A former Church of Ireland College of Further Education (CICE) lecturer has spoken in detail to The College View about the difficult circumstances they and colleagues have endured over the last year, following the closure of the college’s premises in Rathmines and its subsequent amalgamation into DCU.

Lifestyle

Room to Improve

February 22, 2017

We are almost at that time of the year again. The time where many of us begin to taste the bitter, sugarless, childhood memory that is five weeks without sweets. I will admit, like so

Opinion

Opinion: Nurses strike exposes HSE incompetence

February 22, 2017

The nurses and midwives of Ireland plan industrial action on the seventh of March after the HSE failed to agree terms with the INMO regarding a dispute over working conditions

Lifestyle

How to help the Homeless

February 22, 2017

It is a sad but true fact that homelessness in Ireland is a growing crisis. Here are three different charities that you can get involved in to help tackle the issue. Focus Ireland Being the

Film

Review: T2 Trainspotting

February 22, 2017

Choose regret, denial and rekindling old friendships. Twenty years later, Mark Renton (Ewan Mcgregor) returns to Edinburgh following the death of his mother; Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle) and Spud (Ewen Bremner)

Film

Sussed: The Oscars’ best pictures

February 22, 2017

After last year’s #OscarsSoWhite controversy sparked outrage on Twitter as well as from the actors themselves, the academy have made an explicit effort to recognise diversity in this year’s films. This can be seen in

Features

IMMA programme launch

February 22, 2017

The Freud Project at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) will be expanded this year, director of IMMA Sarah Glennie revealed as part of the launch for the 2017 programme. The programme also hosts

Television

Emotional significance made The Simpsons great

February 22, 2017

‘Mother Simpson’ is not the greatest episode of The Simpsons, but it is my favourite. It presents the defining feature of what made its first ten seasons the greatest animated show and sitcom in television history:

Music

Sussed: Albums of 2017

February 22, 2017

Despite being a year that most people would prefer to forget, when it comes to music releases, 2016 was lit. Kanye’s Life of Pablo, Queen B’s Lemonade, Bowie’s Blackstar, Frank Ocean’s Blonde, The Rolling Stones’