Studenty Sunday: Random Edition

Studenty Sunday: Random Edition

Every week Roisin Peddle takes a look at ten stories making the headlines here at ...

Studenty Sunday: Random Edition

Studenty Sunday: Random Edition

By on April 22, 2012 in Features

Every week Roisin Peddle takes a look at ten stories making the headlines here at Studenty.me. One of the silliest ads around at the moment is the one where the skydive instructor tells his bewildered skydivers to pull on the sheep clock which release their rubber duck and he’ll see them on the cupcake. In this spirit, I present a wide, diverse and even disparate group of articles for your edification this Sunday. (Can they tell I’ve ran out of ideas yet? Well, not if you don’t tell them- Ed). 1. [...]

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Plans to build preservation centre in NUIM announced by IFI

Plans to build preservation centre in NUIM announced by IFI

By on April 19, 2012 in News

On April 4th 2012 Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht; and film director Neil Jordan, marked the success of the recent IFI Irish Film Archive Preservation Fund campaign by launching plans for a new IFI Irish Film Archive Preservation & Research Centre at NUI Maynooth. In November 2011, the IFI officially launched the IFI Irish Film Archive Preservation Fund to expand access to, and preservation of, our national film archive collection. A partnership with NUI Maynooth presented the IFI with the opportunity to build a new custom-built Research [...]

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Cannibal cult sells victims as pasties in Brazil

Cannibal cult sells victims as pasties in Brazil

By on April 18, 2012 in News

A man and two women have been arrested in Brazil under suspicions of cannibalism.

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‘Battleship’ whets the appetite for the blockbusting Summer to come

By on April 17, 2012 in Entertainment

Last week saw the release of the anticipated Battleship based on the board game of the same name from Hasbro. This film starts the blockbuster filled summer with a bang. In 2005, NASA discovered a planet that had a similar atmosphere and conditions as Earth. They send out a message in the hope of contacting any life form. The Japanese and US naval corps are at Pearl Harbour in the Hawaiian Islands. An alien group called “The Regents” engage in a battle with the naval fleets and erect an invisible [...]

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Cailín Abroad: Things You Think You Know – But You Don’t, Part 12

By on April 17, 2012 in Life

Moving to a foreign country brings with it challenges and struggles. One of the first obstacles that we encountered upon arriving here was an arduous quest. It involved long hours, conversing with many natives.

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Teaser trailer for Gordon-Levitt and Willis’ ‘Looper’

By on April 16, 2012 in Entertainment

Teaser trailer for new sci-fi action flick Looper starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis released this week. Don’t let the word “sci-fi” scare you off. It’s not conventional, but it’s no Alien either. Looper is a film set in the year 2042. Time-traveling has been invented but it is illegal and only available on the black market. To get rid of someone, mobs send their intended victims back in time (from 2072) where a hitman (called “loopers”) such as Gordon-Levitt’s character, kill them. Life is sweet for the looper until one day his [...]

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Jezebel Dolan Predicts: Dodgy Jaegerbombs

By on April 16, 2012 in Life

  Aries (21 March – 19 April) Peer-reviewed pustule.       Taurus (20 April – 20 May) Caught up in the turf wars of various academic cartels.       Gemini (21 May – 20 June) A pedant of letters.       Cancer (21 June – 21 July) Lost in the deadlights of deadlines.       Leo (22 July – 22 August) An architecture of missed assignments.     Virgo (23 August – 22 September) There is a fairy equivalent of the Easter Bunny; namely the Spiteful Hare. [...]

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Studenty Sunday: Book-Learnin’ Edition

Studenty Sunday: Book-Learnin’ Edition

By on April 15, 2012 in News

Every week Roisin Peddle takes a look at the stories that made the headlines here at Studenty.me this week… We put on our mortar-boards here at Studenty Towers this week, which means only one thing… It’s coming towards the end of another academic year and all that much nearer exams. Here are ten to make you laugh and think this Sunday. 1. Speaking of exams, they can’t be avoided. (Unless you’re an Arts student, boom boom). Jane Kearns arms you with the A to Z of exams. 2. Ever get [...]

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Major Spoiler Alert! 007 ‘Skyfall’ Plot Leak

Major Spoiler Alert! 007 ‘Skyfall’ Plot Leak

By on April 13, 2012 in Entertainment

The news was announced this week that the trailer for Skyfall, the newest installment of the James Bond franchise, will be attached to the Men In Black 3D movie (which is released on May 25). But along with that, ‘someone’ leaked a major spoiler about a plot turn in the film. If you do not want to know, don’t read on. News was announced that Dame Judi Dench is leaving the franchise. Apparently they have just filmed her death scene. It has also been revealed that Ralph Fiennes has been cast [...]

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Real Simpsons’ Springfield Revealed

By on April 12, 2012 in Entertainment

Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, has revealed that Springfield, Oregon was the inspiration for the Simpson family’s hometown. The town lies 100 miles south of Groening’s hometown of Portland.  Groening grew up in Evergreen Terrace, where the Simpson family also reside. Talking to Smithsonian magazine, he said: “Springfield was named after Springfield, Oregon. The only reason is that when I was a kid, the TV show “Father Knows Best” took place in the town of Springfield, and I was thrilled because I imagined that it was the town next to [...]

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