Greetings and thank you for subscribing to our latest edition of the Student Hub digest! This week’s highlights include recent updates from Hollywood where the esteemed Irish actor Cillian Murphy nabbed the best actor award; a detailed analysis of the last week’s referendum backlashes, which left the government shaking, presented by Jack Horgan-Jones and Una Mullally dissecting some of the influencing factors behind the outcome; A focus on Irish artistic language strategy; The once second largest St Patrick’s Day parade in the U.S, located in Savannah, Georgia, and a compelling narrative of a woman who tied the knot with a complete stranger and is now facing severe financial losses with no help in sight.
During the 2024 Oscars, our very own Irish compatriot, Cillian Murphy, claimed the best actor award. This win contributed to the seven awards earned for Oppenheimer, in which Murphy starred as the title character, the father of the atomic bomb, under the direction of Christopher Nolan.
In current pop culture, references to Hitler seem perennially spring-like. Barry Manilow’s musical ‘Harmony’ which revolved around a Jewish group in a Nazi-era barber shop ensemble, only recently concluded its Broadway run. Concurrently on the west coast, The Zone of Interest, penned and directed by Jonathan Glazer was a contender for five Academy awards, including the coveted best picture at Sunday’s Oscars.
The past weekend showcased an unambiguous dismissal of referendums regarding care and family, which has amplified apprehensions within the government relating to potential voter instability, looking at the prospective elections.
We’ve singled out five key takeaways from the referendum failures. Lessons learned from the Yes-Yes campaign, in particular the government’s shortcomings, have been magnified by the definitive outcome of Friday’s referendum. Whilst complexity often goes unnoticed in ballot counting, it provides depth to the overall result.
In one pocket, he held the Gaelic Embedded Arts Strategy and in the other, the brochure of the Gaeltacht Department, State Minister of the Gaeltacht Patrick O’Donovan had good news to deliver to the embedded arts realm and the Gaelic-speaking community. Spotlight falls on Norman Freeman at the St Patrick’s Day parade in Savannah, Georgia, a celebration second only to New York’s in the United States in scale and spectacle.
The death toll in Gaza, shrouded in blame exchange between US and Israeli officials, crosses 31,000, as reported by The Irish Times. Biden has designated the Israeli incursion in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, sought as a refuge by over a million people, as a ‘red line’.
The tale of a romance fraud is under Pricewatch’s scrutiny. As distressing as the specifics may be, the victim’s relatives wish to bring attention to the wreckage it brings to both the victims and their households.
We’ve gathered five valuable lessons from Ireland’s loss to England and the weekend at Six Nations.
Plans to make registration mandatory for properties meant for short-term rentals have been under the scrutiny of the European Commission for the past year. There’s a concern that the Government has failed to back the need for stringent measures with substantial information and proof.