SMEDIAs 2023 Journalist of the Year with the Irish Examiner

For this year's National Student Media Awards, we are pleased to announce that The Irish Examiner has returned to sponsor the ‘Journalist Of The Year’ category! Founded in 1841, The Irish Examiner is one of Ireland’s largest national newspapers and has bee...

SMEDIAS 2023 Editor of the Year with the Irish Independent

We are delighted to announce that The Irish Independent is back to sponsor the Editor of the Year award at the Smedias 2023! As part of the Independent News and Media PLC (INM), The Irish Independent provides high-quality global, national, and local news t...

SMEDIAs 2023 Newspaper of the Year with the Irish Times

We are once again, gladly, working with the Irish Times this year, who will be sponsoring the Newspaper of the Year Award at the Smedias 2023! The Irish Times has delivered top-quality news, opinion, and analysis since it was first published in 1859. As me...

The Erasmus Diaries: Chapter 4

I am currently being snowed under by assignments and exams that I was only made aware of a week before they happen. I never thought that I would miss Irish bureaucracy but after my third letter from the CAF (student housing assistance) informing me that my do...

‘Normalise’ Hating Mental Health TikTok

Let me ‘normalise’ something for you. Mental Health TikTok is triggering, spreads misinformation, and dilutes the legitimacy of diagnoses and symptoms. At first, it was incredible, to see a such platform being used to discuss mental illness and mental health....