Category: TY Posts

Get the best experience

The Dangers of Cocaine and The Infamous Involvements of Pablo Escobar

An article written to inform you on the dangers of cocaine and drugs, as well as a historical background to the most well known drug criminal of all time, Pablo Escobar. This article contains informations and imagery some may find disturbing. Please proceed at your own discretion.

Three Dreams that Revolutionised their Respective Industries

Before I start, let me ask you a question. Markus “Notch” Persson, George Lucas, and the Wright brothers. What do these people all have in common? “Three Dreams That Revolutionised Their Respective Industries”. The first dream is the oldest of the three: The Wright Flyer. In 1903, two brothers started working on what seemed like…
Read more

Another billionaire buys up another social media platform

The purchase On April 25th Twitter’s board of directors unanimously accepted a $44 billion offer from Elon Musk to buy the social media giant. This follows Musk being critical of the running of the platform, over the past few years. An example of this is his opposition to the banning of Donald Trump after the…
Read more

The importance of giving people personal space

Imagine this, It was a long and hard weekend and it was more work than relaxation. Eventually you head on back into school to tell your “friends” about your weekend. But for some reason, they don’t care. You may be wondering “why do they seem tired of me” “why is no one talking to me…
Read more

Political Narratives

Storytelling The journalist and ​​writer George Monbiot has pointed out that political failure is at heart a failure of imagination, and to trigger imagination we need narrative. Broad political movements all have their own narrative. Those narratives have a villain or villains who is the cause of the bad and disorder in the world and…
Read more

Severus Snape and the Marauders – Better Than The Original?

A review of the 2016 short, fan-made film “Severus Snape and the Marauders” and why I believe this thrilling masterpiece is better than the original Harry Potter films.

The Climate Change Pandemic

How bad is climate change? One of the most frequently asked questions… Pretty bad if you ask me. I am going to start by explaining what climate change is. Climate change is often confused with global warming, so I would like to explain the difference. Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather…
Read more

A majorly expanded, greener and free public transport system, or more climate catastrophe: which would you choose?

Stark Warnings Last August the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published the first study of its sixth assessment report, which found that it is only possible to avoid warming of 1.5 °C or 2 °C if massive and immediate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are made. The Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres, called the…
Read more

SparkED TY Programme

SparkED is a youth leadership programme that empowers young people by teaching them valuable life skills. Our online platform allows the students to access all our workshops and extra resources remotely. Students will be able to complete interactive workshops on our website sparked.ie, in areas such as CV Skills, Presentation Skills, Interview Skills, Time Management…
Read more

The Situation in Ukraine, The UN, and African politics: An Interview with John Hogan

I recently spoke to John Hogan, a lecturer and researcher of International relations at VU Amsterdam. I wanted to talk to him to get an expert’s perspective on the situation in Ukraine, but we also spoke about areas he specialises even more in like African politics and international security. You can watch the video here:…
Read more