Audrey Ellard Walsh
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Brain drain is not the end
Seán O’Connell finds reason to be hopeful about Ireland’s future economy, as research and technology remain strong.
Valediction
When I took on this job, I wasn’t sure what to do with the Motley name. Some people advised me to change it, remarket the magazine and start fresh, away from the sporadic history that was Motley before this year…
An emotional rollercoaster in music
Peter Neville talks us through the power of the ballad in modern music, pinpointing some of his favourites.
Play a song for me
Music Editor Kevin O’Neill explores the art of song-writing and offers the best of the current crop.
YUCK – Album review.
Jack Broughan runs the rule over the debut album from hotly tipped Londoners Yuck.
Rock music is dead y’know?
Or at least that’s what everyone from Lester Bangs in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous to recent blogs on the NME website would have you believe.
Destination München
Robert Fehilly travels to Munich in the next instalment of his inter-rail diary.
Get your kit off
Brian Byrne talks to Steve Sharpe, Societies Guild PRO, about this year’s Nearly Naked Countdown to one of the biggest balls of the year, the Clubs and Socs Ball.
Too cool for school
Cáit Moloney has decided to become ‘cool’ and permenantly eschew reading books or literature of any kind.



