After I watch a movie or a TV show, I have to do it – type the name of the production or one of its stars into Wikipedia and become the ultimate creep, wanting to know as much as possible about their lives and what they did after they were famous. It’s a sickness, because more often than not I am disheartened, shocked and downright gutted by what I discover. In order to save you from similar disappointment, I give you five home truths that will serve as a lesson, [...]
Irish Feminists: Rebels without a cause
Feminism, in the first wave of the early 20th century, was a radical idea. Not ...
Irish Feminists: Rebels without a cause
Feminism, in the first wave of the early 20th century, was a radical idea. Not exactly a new one – after all one could argue that powerful female figures throughout history have brought to the fore female empowerment- but it was certainly one that was challenging the ideals set down by a regimented patriarchal society. Women marched, fought and were imprisoned in their quest to achieve basic rights: marriage rights, property rights, and of course the vote. Huge strides were taken by these “sisters”, impassioned suffragettes who were in a [...]
Director of Kony campaign is detained
The co-founder of the Kony campaign, Jason Russell has been taken to hospital in San Diego after he was seen partially naked and yelling at passing cars. ‘Officers responded to a radio call to check the welfare of an individual who was said to be running in the street, interfering with traffic, screaming’ stated Andra Brown, San Diego police spokewoman. The statement continued to explain that Mr Russell was ‘suffering from exhaustion, dehydration and malnutrition.’ He was detained and taken to a medical facility. The executive director, Ben Keesey of Invisible [...]
The Do’s and Don’ts on St Paddy’s Day
The beloved day of St Patrick is almost upon us and everyone here at Studenty would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy St Paddy’s Day. We have put together a little guide of do’s and don’ts while celebrating the festivities over the weekend. Some of the do’s and don’ts may seem pretty obvious to people who have woken up the day after Paddy’s Day with all their body hair still intact. Meanwhile those of you who have arisen from your drunken slumber on the [...]
Studenty seeks a Social Media Marketing Guru
Studenty.me is unique. We’re the world’s first national online student community We’re still at an early stage and we’re recruiting a high calibre leadership team to execute our highly ambitious business plan. We have a website that’s on target to generate in excess of 1,000,000 visitors this year and has a realistic monetisation strategy ready to execute. Our overall strategy is fast growth and first to market, initially in Ireland, but then quickly into GB and beyond.Within our significant and attractive market niche, we have NO EFFECTIVE COMPETITION – GLOBALLY. We’re [...]
The Success of the Sun on Sunday
In the midst of the Leveson inquiry and the new allegations towards journalists from The Sun newspaper, you’d expect Rupert Murdoch to be lying low and taking things easy. Instead, he has just released Britain’s next biggest selling paper with it’s debut sales reaching 3.26 million copies. The Sun on Sunday made it’s debut release on the February 26 2012 and sold more editions than any other UK paper for four years. The last newspaper to reach figures in that scale was it’s now closed sister newspaper, News of the [...]
Electric Picnic 2012 line-up announced
The Cure, Sigur Ros and Elbow are set to headline Electric Picnic boutique music and arts festival this year. Other big names coming to Laois in late August are Glen Hansard, Bell X1, The Roots, The Horrors, Ed Sheeran, Christy Moore with Orbital being the big dance act for this years event. Other acts include Grizzly Bear, Hot Chip, The xx, Metronomy, Azealia Banks, Roots Manuva, Staff Benda Bilili, Milagers, Alabama Shakes, Cranes, Little Roy, Land Lovers, Baxter Drury, Jonathan Wilson, Solar Bears, Fatoumata Diawara, Willis Earl Beal and Lanterns [...]
Monkees’ lead singer Davey Jones dies at 66
Davy Jones, lead singer of the ’60s made-for-TV band The Monkees whose hits included I’m a Believer and Last Train to Clarksville, died of a suspected heart attack in his home in Florida on Wednesday. He was 66. The Manchester-born star, originally an actor, joined Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork to form the so-called US equivalent of The Beatles. “Mr. Jones began to complain of not feeling well and having trouble breathing,” said the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, adding that emergency services took him to hospital where he was pronounced [...]
Costa Lines Costa Allegra is on fire and adrift tonight off the Seychelles with 1,000 onboard
The Costa Allegra is owned by the same company as Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the Italian island of Giglio in January with the loss of at least 25 lives. Planes and ships are speeding towards the Costa Allegra, which is reported to be adrift and without power 200 miles south-west of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. The cruise ship left Madagascar on Saturday and was due to arrive in the Seychelles tomorrow. “The shipboard fire-extinguishing system and procedures were promptly activated and the special fire-fighting squads intervened to extinguish fire,” Costa Cruises said in a statement today. “As [...]
National Enquirer Prints Photo of Whitney Houston in Coffin
Fans were left reeling after seeing an image on the front page of the National Enquirer which showed Whitney Houston in her coffin at her open-casket funeral service held last week. The image, which came from an unknown source, showed the singer laying in the coffin, in a purple dress. The caption of the photo read, “Whitney: The Last Photo!” Her fans’ horror is clearly visible on social networking sites such as Twitter. “It really made me upset that they have pictures of Whitney in the coffin all over. Like really?” @lesbihonest [...]
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