It might not have been loud enough to hear, but a subtle half-time whistle blew over the past week. Three months into the biggest behaviour change project Ireland has ever participated in, we discarded our jerseys and took a breather.…

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally shifted the way that Americans work, socialize, and generally go about their lives. Access to healthcare has been impacted by the pandemic as hospitals are dealing with huge numbers of cases across…

A few weeks ago, Twitter’s algorithm showed me one of the most circulated recipes of the lockdown. It’s a coffee recipe, made with instant coffee grounds, sugar, hot water and milk. If you spend time on social media, you’ve almost certainly…

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, I lived my life like most other young gobshites. Thinking I was invincible. I wore gloves, and social distanced etc but still laboured under the mistaken belief that the coronavirus could only be…

Now is a time for lecturers to reflect “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.” So claims the Old Man in The Road, Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 post-apocalyptic novel. Ireland in the time of COVID-19 has not yet reached the grey,…

In absolutely every aspect, the public sector has been severely affected by COVID-19. Unemployment is reaching heights unseen in years and the anxiety filling the atmosphere is smothering us all. No market or sector is safe, and the music…

We were torn between not adding to the onslaught of Covid conversations that are pelting us from the airwaves and social media, but not ignoring the socially-distanced elephant in the room. We opted for a well washed hand-wringing in…

Folks, lockdown is shite craic. I’m lucky enough to still be working from home, but some of us don’t have that luxury. Our local creatives are especially vulnerable. Some have already lost their job, others are at risk because of the…

Bob Hoskins’ 1988 film The Raggedy Rawney on-the-face-of-it appears to be about why some humans must die so others may survive. But the film also deals with themes of social destruction and the futility of war. Focusing on a Romani group,…

Iron & Wine, the moniker of singer-songwriter Sam Beam, returns with Light Verse, his first non-collaborative album since 2017, following his 2019 collaborative album Years to Burn with Calexico. Stepping away from collaborations, Beam…