11 Nominations for UL Students in 2019 Student Media Awards
UL Journalism takes centre-stage at the 2019 Smedias with ten nominations for students.
Student Self-Publishes First Novel
By Federica Montella UL journalism student Simon Bourke’s debut novel “And the birds kept on singing” was released on January 26th. The official launch of the novel took place in Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, the author’s hometown, on January 27th . More than 100 people showed up to the event and every single copy of the book was sold. “My mum …
Troy Village Damaged By Locals
By Federica Montella Troy Student Village has been repeatedly damaged by local kids in the past two weeks. Children from the neighbourhood broke the pedestrian gate at the entrance of the student village last Saturday by crashing a bike into it and they also damaged the sensor on the gate last Monday. Their abusive behaviour is nothing new to the …
Perfectly Recreating the Pink Floyd Experience
By Federica Montella You don’t always need a time machine to go back in time and feel like a seven-year-old again. I close my eyes: it’s August, and I’m in my parents’ car. It’s very hot and I’m a bored, impatient young girl asking every 3 minutes “When do we get there?” My father, snorting, turns up the volume and …