Sin Award Winners 2009/2010

Notes from an urban warzone: Kevin O'Connor in Bangkok

Sin's Kevin O'Connor gives a dramatic eye witness account of his sweaty arrival into Bangkok, where he is greeted by towering plumes of black smoke, burning tyres and gunfire.

Bridge to link NUIG with Fisheries Field

A pedestrian bridge linking Fisheries Field with NUI, Galway is to be built. Plans for the proposed new bridge will go on public display in early June and this will be followed by a public consultation period.

The Tories are back!

Paddy McMenamin takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the political manoeuvrings that led to the Tories returning to power.

The lipstick effect

Girls, are you blue from listening to all the doom and gloom recession talk? Lipstick could be the answer to your woes.

Ignoring the Facebook friend request

Whisking up our social lives, why do we do this to ourselves? A couple of days ago I ignored a Facebook friend request.

The tortuous activity of going to the gym

Do you know the feeling when you are standing in the changing area in the gym before a work out and just can’t decide which t-shirt to wear? Or even worse, when you can’t decide whether to wear the white or black hair band? I don’t! I’m usually too focused on convincing myself that the pain in my left foot that oddly enough started about three seconds after I entered the changing area isn’t in fact real.