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Dinner for €4?
Living on a student budget is never easy, especially if you’re trying to eat good, hearty food – but Jake O’Brien reckons you can get two proper evening meals for…
Gigabyte
Navan to London and back again... Jake O'Brien catches the well-travelled Dylan Moran …
TV / Madder than a Bag of Spiders
“Boys in the West of Ireland tryin’ to get out of a small town to the Big Schmoke” – well, it looks like they’ve made it! Jake O’Brien sits down…
otwo Attempts: Sobriety
Jake O’Brien takes a look at festivities from a clearer perspective, staying off drink for a friend’s birthday party…
Festivals / Sziget reviewed
Once you find yourself nicely stranded on Óbudai Island on the outskirts of Budapest for the Sziget Festival, it rapidly becomes evident that there is something viciously different about this…
Theatre / Fellifluous Theatre
With the world premiere of Tom MacIntyre’s play Only an Apple around the corner, Jake O’Brien meets with the idiosyncratic director Selina Cartmell.…
Film / The Uninviting
Jake O’Brien writhes in anger at the appropriately named cinematic disaster that is The Uninvited.…
Enemy at the Gates
Moving from strength to strength, The Enemy are fast becoming the self-proclaimed prophets of another angst ridden-generation. Jake O’Brien talks to drummer Liam Watts about the band’s success, and discusses…
O-Two Icon / Hunter S. Thompson
Jake O’Brien retrospectively glances at the freak who brought ‘weird’ to a national level…