Kieran Murphy

Glee defined my first year in college with Don’t Stop Believin’ becoming the last song played at the end of every club night and pre-drinking with Don’t Rain On My Parade. The first two seasons dealt with issues such as coming out, weight loss and teenage pregnancy in a manner that made it believable as [...]

Many regard Cork and Dublin as the two major cities in Ireland, while many would argue that this isn’t true it only takes a 5 minute walk around places like Galway to see it’s really a village with a University and a Debenhams. Both cities have many false ideas about the other with people from [...]

Bogger turned city slicker Kieran Murphy takes us on a self indulgent journey of his life in Dublin. Having climbed the Himalayas and shifted every person in the vicinity of Gorby’s, he decided to try his luck in the big Shmoke. When you’re an Arts student, going to the bathroom is a daunting task. While toilet cubicles are [...]

Former University Observer Fashion Editor Kieran Murphy points out the differences between UCD and UCC, loike. Obviously I’m in UCD, which makes sense because I would’ve been murdered if I went to UCC and say what I say about your college up in the big smoke but unbeknownst to most UCC-ers I took a visit [...]

Artist: Britney Spears Album: Femme Fatale Rating: 3/5 Britney Spears may be forever associated with her teen-pop roots, but her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale, audaciously attempts to change these perceptions through a mish-mash of musical flavours, from dubstep (‘Hold It Against Me’) to Euro dance (‘Till The World Ends’). Everyone knows that Spears isn’t revered for her vocal [...]

  Think you should be dissecting frogs instead of translating Medieval English? Let Kieran Murphy and Paul Gorman decide for you Paul: Science students are better than Arts students because we would win in a fight – hands down. We have robots to fight for us. Sure you have Geography students (Geography, the only Science so lame it’s an Arts [...]

Despite being accepted by the docile masses, Kieran Murphy dislikes Facebook and your behaviour on it Social networking is not a new phenomenon. Some people reading this may have had a Hi5 account, or even played around on Faceparty before they realised it was a dating site. However, social networking really took off with Bebo. We were [...]

Are women envious of your buttery soft hands? Kieran Murphy helps you roughen them up with The Art of Manliness   Manliness has gone out the window due to the onset of metrosexualism and the likes of David Beckham and his hair bands and Armani underwear advertisements. Men nowadays have hands softer than their mothers and are focused [...]

For all its chutzpah, The Rocky Horror Show lacks a certain spark, writesKieran Murphy The Rocky Horror Showtook place in the Grand Canal Theatre, thrusting itself across the Dublin stage just in time for Halloween. The musical is narrated by Christopher Biggins, who we best know from I‘m a Celebrity GetMe Out Of Here, and who had a role in the movie [...]

Mostly written by Amy Bracken, story broken by me. Students attending the Student Bar have reported seeing two people outside the bar selling cigarettes and asking students to participate in a survey on which cigarette brand they smoked. Speaking to The University Observer, students claimed that PJ Carroll and Company Ltd, a supplier of cigarettes to the [...]