In Defence of Skylar White
Deputy Entertainment editor Chloe Barrett looks back at one of the greatest productions to ever grace television: Breaking Bad while attempting to unravel the constant hate thrown at the show’s main female character. Breaking Bad is deemed as one of the greatest television series of all time. The universe, which features the prequel series […]
What is a Woman?
Staff Writer Jessica Anne Rose examines what it really means to be a woman. What is a woman, really? What marks me as a female? What is it about me that inherently screams ‘girl’? Perhaps you’d say, well naturally, you were born female. The nurses took a look at me squirming around on the hospital […]
Bigger Tunes, Bigger Parties: Staff Party on Musical Identity, Community and Plans for ’23
Staff Writer Emily Mary Dollery interviews Staff Party. Formed in late 2021 at MTU Cork School of Music, six-piece indie rock band Staff Party have gone from strength to strength since their first sold-out gig in April 2022. Staff Party are characterised by their energetic live performances, nostalgic yet innovative fusion of indie and dance-punk, […]
Marie and the Supremes:
Motley’s Editor in Chief Niamh Browne speaks to Justice Marie Baker on her time in UCC, her career as a barrister and her role as the first woman from Munster to sit on the Irish Supreme Court. Justice Baker is an exceptional individual, as anyone who sits on Ireland’s highest court is assumed to be. […]
Editorial V- Vagina Monologues
Niamh Browne – Editor in Queef Aristotle once defined woman as a ‘deficient man’. That she was somehow hollow, empty or lacking something fundamental of the qualities that man possessed. This quality of lacking meant she was inferior. The origin and structure of patriarchy is long, complicated and disputed but there is no doubt […]
Poetry- Us On College Road
By Paul Dylan Pink, blue sky of College Road tunnels through my mind,rows of houses joined togetheras a modern retro paradise. Walls are down when we are just ourselves.Without rent, blade, you’ll slice a grapefruit,show me inside. Babe, my tranquil eyes stream over your back like twilit rainbows. In the dark tunnel of blue faces […]