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Sunday night saw the beginning of the awards season frenzy leading up to the Oscars, starting off with the Golden Globes. In light of recent sexual assault allegations within Hollywood and the wider entertainment industry, the awards…

Tech is all around us. Every. Single. Day. It lets us perform tasks with ease, stay in touch with loved ones over long distances, helps us get from A to B and it even saves us time and money. But there are strange uses of technology we…

Some names have been changed to protect privacy. I sat at the bar waiting for Bru twenty minutes past the time we had agreed to meet.  When he did arrive,  I recognised his spiky black hair from his photos.  It was a strained date.  He…

Roommates are a mixed blessing, most of the time. If you’re living in a dorm, hopefully you’re assigned to someone who’s a decent match for you. If you’re on your own and paying rent, you may end up living with a coworker, classmate or some…

Do you like connecting with people?  Finding out what your friends from school are up to these days? Sharing funny images and random thoughts that lead to chit chat? Me too. At least, this is what I used to like back in 2008, when…

It has certainly been a year, alright. It's been a year on Twitter as well - 2017, if you want to be exact. Over the past 12 months, lots of things have happened. Some of those things have been good, some of those things have been…

Let me tell you a bit about how I flirt. Come on, we can have a laugh and later, I can have a cry. I know how to flirt. I do. At least, I know what flirting is. It’s about eye contact, open body language and, if the Cosmo article I read…

They tell you that Christmas phobia is like a holiday phobia that stems from ‘some early childhood Christmas related trauma’ but your early childhood Christmases were fine. They were better than fine, they were idyllic, magical, wondrous…

I'm writing this while still giddy from the news that the Joint Committee on the 8th Amendment voted unequivocally to put a repeal referendum to the nation.  The 8th amendment is now 34 years old. I just turned 33. It was voted in while I…

Last month Apollo House was sentenced to demolition. The office block which served as a symbol of hope during the beginning of the homelessness crisis last year will be part of a €50 million euro development. A development which will…