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K-Pop Rookie Groups to Check Out! (Part 2)

January 26, 2016 KpopIreland

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Kpop Ireland’s resident rookie expert is back! Here is part two of Linda’s K-pop rookie groups you need to check out! G-Friend The first group I’m introducing is a six member girl group named G-Friend which stands for “girlfriend”. The group are under Source Music and debuted at the start of 2015 with the song […]

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Cosplay

Opinion: Crowdfunding For Cosplays

January 12, 2016 Tendai Muzwidzwa

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Cosplay is a great and wonderful thing. After tumbling head first into it just 3 years ago I have not looked back. Alas, with the highs come the lows: controversy, fights and disturbing news. The latest thing to pop up is not a controversy as such, but an open discussion. Cosplayers all around the world […]

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Music

David Bowie – In Memoriam

January 12, 2016 Anthony McGlynn

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There’s no word great enough to truly encompass the grandeur of David Bowie as a creative entity. Every attributed title or caption must come with a massive caveat. Yes, he’s a musician, but he’s not just a musician, yes, he’s an artist, but he’s not just an artist. His body of work, which clocks in […]

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Featured

Screen Savers: Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus (2009)

January 9, 2016 Laura Kelly

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Continuing with the shark theme from last week, today on Screen Savers we’ll be reviewing the legendary Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus, a clear masterpiece of our time! Or at least I would say that if there were any redeeming qualities to it at all, but more on that in a bit. First off, let’s […]

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Anime/Cartoons

Steven Universe: On Queer Magic And Censorship

January 7, 2016 Declan Doody

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By now you may have heard of the Steven Universe petition currently circulating the Internet. Fans aren’t asking series creator Rebecca Sugar for more episodes, or specific story, they’re not asking for a movie or live-action series. No, a petition was posted on change.org asking Cartoon Network UK to end the ‘homophobic’ editing/censorship of the beloved cartoon. For the […]

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Music Monday: We Are Motorhead, And We Play Rock N’ Roll

January 4, 2016 Anthony McGlynn

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The mighty Lemmy left his mortal coil behind him just before the end of last year. Leaving behind a long, storied history of pure rock n’ roll, Lemmy was a man inarguably more a cultural tome than his own musical legacy – except for ‘Ace of Spades’, of course. But Motorhead released 22 records and […]

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Dave’s Biggest Surprises And Disappointments Of 2015

January 3, 2016 Dave McEvoy

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Best of and Worst of lists have a tendency to be all very similar, as people sum up the year. Not that there’s anything wrong with that but Instead of compiling a list of my own personal favourites and worsts I decided to write about things I thought were better or worse than they could have […]

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Games

Ciaran’s Top Four (And A Bit) Games Of 2015

December 31, 2015 Ciaran Nolan

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So it’s come to the end of another year! A year of sequels, broken AAA titles and dodgy business practices. The biggest games of the year being sequels to game franchises I have no attachment to, this year was quickly looking to be a fairly quiet one for me. With the leaving cert and my break from […]

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Movies

The Fan-Fiction Awakens: On Rey Being Considered A Mary Sue

December 30, 2015 Anthony McGlynn

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[SPOILER WARNING FOR STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS] Throughout Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Daisy Ridley‘s Rey is ceaselessly portrayed to be both extremely competent and un-needing of others’ help. She’s skilled in combat, highly intuitive, an expert mechanic and someone who is basically an expert of her own world, speaking multiple languages and generally […]

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Movies

Forgotten Christmas: Trading Places (1983)

December 24, 2015 Danny Kelly

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The Initial Release (1983)  Trading Places is directed by John Landis and features an all-star cast of Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott and Don Ameche, among others. The setting of the film takes places around the holiday season, but was curiously released in the month of June in 1983. The film […]

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