August 20th, 2010
Who goes, you decide. Except if you live in Ireland. Then you can’t vote at all. Which is a pity. “Get John James out”. Unfortunately one syllable names are much easier to chant. With Jo and Ben long gone, it could be Sam’s turn tonight so. Either way, four of the remaining housemates are to [...]
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August 17th, 2010
Now that the silly season of the Leaving Cert results is upon us, many young people will be making the big transition from secondary school to college. There’s plenty of hardship that comes with finding a place to live (be it digs, campus accommodation, or a house with mates or strangers). So I thought I’d [...]
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July 2nd, 2010
Big Brother House, this is Davina, you are live on Culch.ie, please do not swear. Big Brother 11 braces itself for the third eviction tonight, and only one question is on everybody’s lips. Who actually was the person who got evicted first? Can anyone remember? I don’t ever hear the housemates talking about the evictees, [...]
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June 25th, 2010
Day fo’een in the Big Brother house (you’re putting on the voice, aren’t you?) As promised, two weeks after my original post, I’m checking in to see how the housemates are getting on in the final season of UK Big Brother. I was considering doing a ranking of the top housemates from 1 to 13, [...]
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June 10th, 2010
It’s that time again folks. Television stations are clogged with boring drivel that interrupts regular programming, and it’s usually more than one channel too. And that’s just what some of the ladies are saying about the World Cup starting tomorrow. What about this week’s other big launch, the last ever UK Big Brother on Channel [...]
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June 6th, 2010
It’s that time of year again folks. No, not the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival in Kilkenny, but something far more hilarious. The winners of the 2010 Lyttle Lytton Contest have been announced. For those of you who don’t know, the Lyttle Lytton Contest was established in 2001 and celebrates the worst first line of a [...]
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May 19th, 2010
It’s that time of year again. The birds are singing, the sunbeds are filling up, the clouds are starting to clear, the ash is clogging up… wait, strike that last part. It’s summer, and the time for everyone’s annual trip away from it all. So whether you’re going to the Ring of Kerry or to [...]
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May 6th, 2010
Many of you may have read Dracula or Dorian Grey as part of Dublin’s One City, One Book month this year or last. But now a bigger event is trundling into town…every town. One Book, One Twitter began yesterday, and is the brainchild of Crowdsourcing author Jeff Howe. The book chosen was decided by a [...]
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April 27th, 2010
Yesterday on twitter I asked my followers where they bought their books online in order to help you save some money on your purchases. So the following are the Best Places to Buy Books Online. (All deliver to Ireland, obviously) AMAZONAmazon started off as a US book retailer before branching out to supply nearly everything. [...]
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April 10th, 2010
I’ve never written about music for culch.ie before (preferring to leave that kind of stuff elsewhere), but I felt this was too amazing not to share (again and again). Fantastic news Frames fans; this summer will see the re-release of two of the Frames’ greatest albums (in my opinion, Glen Hansard’s best ever work appears [...]
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March 25th, 2010
The mid-season finale of Glee was shown on TV3 last night (sister station 3e broadcast it last Friday, with E4 in the UK due to air the thirteenth episode of season one on Monday). So what better time to count down the top ten tunes from the series so far…
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March 17th, 2010
Dúnmharú sa Daingean…nó an bhfuil sé Dingle/Daingean Uí Chúis anois? Bunaithe i gCorca Dhuibhne, meascann ‘Dúnmharú sa Daingean’ ealaín an iarthair l’anord an oirthir. Scríobhta l’Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, tugann an leabhar dea scríofa seo, seans dúinn chun filleadh ar an nGaeilge le scéal atá fíor-shuimiúil agus taitneamhúil ag an am céanna. Insítear scéal faoin príomhcharachtair, Saoirse, atá i ndeireadh na féide [...]
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March 4th, 2010
Something different for this instalment of Broken Spine. As you may have read, today is World Book Day, a celebration of reading. A lot of us are avid readers, and make our way through many books each month. However, with so many books out there, it’s hard to find the right ones. Previous editions of [...]
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February 24th, 2010
Great news game geeks. Sid Meier’s Civilization is back this autumn with the fifth instalment of the multi-million selling PC franchise. Firaxis is currently developing the game, due for release “Fall 2010″. No definite date yet, but there are plenty of interesting pieces of information, as well as some gorgeous screenshots. For those of you [...]
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February 5th, 2010
That’s right ladies and gentlemen, a new Sonic the Hedgehog game is on the way. And none of this Rush, Adventure, Rivals, Olympics, or Black Knight/Secret Rings nonsense either. It’s the proper sequel to the Mega Drive (Genesis) series. It’s an old-school 2D side-scrolling platformer, just like Sonic 1-3 and the criminally underrated Sonic & [...]
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