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What do Forrest Gump, Jiffy peanut butter, and the Looney Tunes all have in common? They’re all phenomena associated with a conspiracy theory that has made its way into brightly lit and well-managed YouTube channels, rather than coming from…

There comes a time when every parent faces one of the biggest decisions that they have to make for their kids. They’ve brought them up and so far, what results is a pretty decent version of a human being. They just have to get them through…

“Don’t forget your potato skinner, mate.” I let the sentence register for a moment and assess how I should take it. Have I just been racially abused? Or is this just a bit of harmless fun between friends? I’ve agreed to meet an English…

Last week UTV Ireland announced that it would be rebranding as, drum roll please ladies, a brand new female focused channel. Thank God. Me and my vagina were struggling to find something to watch. In a step that neither goes forward nor…

My heart sank deep into the pit of my stomach this week as I read once again about the ordeal of Gillian and Ronan Treacy and how their son Ciarán was snatched from them by a drunk driver. Losing a child in such tragic, painful…

“Northern Ireland?” The cashier in Gregg’s takes my ten pound note suspiciously, scrutinising it first before turning her attention to me. “I don’t know if I can take this,” she says. “I’ll have to check.” I’ve attempted to pay for steak…

Three weeks have passed since Donald Trump’s shock election as US President. In that time, he has flirted with neo-Nazis (literally) and sought to appoint some of them to positions of power within his Administration. He has renewed a…

When it comes to LGBT+ rights, Ireland has come a long way in the past couple of years. Marriage equality and gender recognition are now both realities, and considering Ireland’s dire record of LGBT+ support in the past, these are brilliant…

"An example of rape culture? When Brock Turner raped an unconscious girl a lot of people had sympathy for him because he was a swimmer in Stanford. The whole thing seemed to be more focused on the fact that he was a swimmer with a lot of…

More so than “grab ‘em by the pussy,” more so than “basket of deplorables,” more so than “nasty woman,” and more so than email scandals, the moment that seemed to seriously underline just how absurd this election cycle was came when Hillary…