Pass the Vinaigrette Please
The vegetarian’s bible Zoe O’Reilly | Staff Writer I’ve been a vegetarian for 48 days now, minus a few lousy slip-ups. I didn’t realise Percy Pigs contained pork gelatin until I’d reached the halfway...
View ArticleQueer Theory: An Introduction to the Spectrum of Sexuality
The spectrum of sexuality. Samuel Riggs | Staff Writer This year’s theme for Rainbow Week is ‘Perfectly Queer’. The word ‘queer’ has been reclaimed, recently, from the meaning it once held for many...
View ArticleToilet Humour
Photo: Ludo Dawney Ludo Dawney | Staff Writer When most people think about journalism, they think interviews with politicians, reporting from disaster zones, or Magnum images of ragged children in...
View ArticleSelling the Family Silver
Maurice Casey | Staff Writer In 1948 the news broke that Russian jewels, once the possessions of the deposed Romanov royal family, had been kept hidden in an elderly woman’s Clontarf pantry for over a...
View ArticleCheltenham ’13: Final Day Preview
Phil Greene | Contributing writer So we’ve made it this far; the final day of the Festival. So far, we’ve had reputations backed up, enhanced and destroyed. We’ve seen hotpot favourites turned over...
View ArticleCheltenham ’13: Day Three Preview
Rachel Dowley | Contributing writer Thursday’s feature, the Ladbroke’s World Hurdle, is without the early market leader Big Bucks. Connections of the four time victor had hoped to see him make it five...
View ArticleCheltenham ’13: The Interviews
Jess Stafford | Contributing writer Dessie Hughes, one of the most highly regarded trainers in Ireland has had a multitude of top class horses. From his stables in Kildare he has produced some of the...
View ArticleCheltenham ’13: Day Two Preview
David Taheny | Contributing writer I hope everyone’s had a profitable first day of the Festival and that we’re all ready for the second day. There’s no doubt as to what, or who, the highlight of...
View ArticleGMB Guest Sourcing
Hugh Laurie’s address to the Phil during Freshers’ Week was one of the highlights on the GMB calendar. Photo: Andrew Murphy Lily McKillop | Staff Writer This year has seen the GMB host some of the...
View ArticleStudent Gambling Addiction a Growing Concern
Conor Bates | Sports editor In 1951, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover boldly declared that “gambling is a vicious evil; it corrupts our youth and blights the lives of adults.” While I personally wouldn’t go...
View ArticleHow useful is your arts degree?
As seen in university toilets the world over. Elizabeth Brauders | Staff writer On my first day of university, an English lecturer opened with a joke about how silly we were for choosing to study arts...
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