Spirits vs Lager: The Great Debate
It's Friday night and you're in the pub. You're about to make the biggest decision of your life. This vital decision will dictate how your night, and quite possibly your life goes. Do you make the safe choice ...
The best places for a pint in Dublin.
The weekend is nearly upon us and that means one thing: Pints, pints and more pints. Finding a good place to get some of that sweet nectar can be difficult in this day and age. All lot of the time, you feel it...
IT Carlow Students forced to redo exam after marking scheme handed out
It's either the stuff of dreams or the stuff of nightmares. Imagine having to stay back to repeat a exam while all your mates are having the party of a lifetime. If you were truly f****d like I was for the maj...
How to avoid a college related breakdown
Its that time of year again. The stress is starting to build up as those essay deadlines creep up and we start planning changing our identity and moving to New Zealand. I'm here to tell you all to calm down an...
Summer Stories – Part 1
There is something universally exciting about summer. Whether you're 12 years old and its a couple of months before you start secondary school, you're a young student about to spend the next 3 months working i...
Peoples Choice Award Nominees – Smedias 2019
The People’s Choice Award is the only Smedia to be chosen, not by judges, but by a popular vote. It puts the power back in the hands of the people as your fellow students decide who most stood out in the med...
10 things we love about the N26
If
we’ve learned anything from the recent press coverage of ‘Revolut’, it’s that the
old saying about ‘all publicity being good publicity’ does not apply to the
world of alternative banking methods. Rumours of...
5 Tips for the Student Traveling on a Budget
1) Make A Budget
I promise you that this list will most assuredly get more helpful or nuanced but right now let us get the obvious out of the way, make a budget. They’re not sexy, they’re not fun but they’r...
5 Tips For Cooking As A Student
For many people their first experience of living away from home comes when they go to university, but for most freshers the task of cooking a decent meal can be a little daunting: it's much easier to get a piz...
5 things that are worse than the mock exams
All across Ireland, students have started mock exams for the Junior and Leaving Cert. And while the exams can be stressful, they are a test run for the real exams. Studying is hard but there are worse things i...