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According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, there are currently about 160 million Americans who are considered to be overweight. That includes children. It’s a number that has been on the rise for years, despite growing…

Your favourite character writhes in pain, a scared look on his face. His arch nemesis stands over him, an energy blast building in his hand. Is this the end for our hero? How will he get out of this one? The screen cuts to black. Then those…

Need parenting advice that doesn’t read like you joined a new age cult? Ask Grainne for the unvarnished truth about modern Irish parenting. Dear Grainne, Summer Holidays. This is supposed to be my vacation too– isn’t it? Like the rest of…

Born in Buffalo New York in 1943, Jackson Carey Frank was 11 years old when he was injured in a fire at his elementary school in Cheektowaga. Jackson and his fellow classmates had been sitting in their music class when a furnace in the…

Netflix’s Black Mirror is back for its fifth season. This generation's The Twilight Zone, writer Charlie Brooker along with producer Annabel Jones have given audiences some of the most fascinating and original sci-fi to air on any platform.…

As our packed mid-year best of list proved, 2019 has given cinephiles a lot of movies to be excited about.  However, there's also been quite a few stinkers, ranging from the pretentious, to the muddled, to the just completely tone deaf. To…

At heart a post-punk and psych rock crossover act, Marty Thompson shines on his new EP, My Kind of Woman. The seven-track release is unapologetically retro. Weird and wonderful, glittered with simplistic but well-placed lyrics and a host of…

Watching Phantasm 40 years after its release, one realises it’s sandwiched between two times. Parts feel very 70s American cinema, a period when it was more acceptable for a mainstream movie to emphasise atmosphere over plot. Blending sharp…

The Minister for Culture and Heritage Joesepha Madigan has recently approved of the insertion of an additional clause into the Ministries and Secretaries Act 1977. This amendment will be promulgated to secure funding for the creation of…

Dublin band MUNKY recently released a song titled 'One in Five'. All proceeds of the track are being donated to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, including 1\5th of their EP proceeds. The song itself was written in response to sexual assault,…