TCD student referendum result, Kneecap, Trinder, Cultural snobs and more...

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Trinity College Dublin students have voted against slashing the funding of The University Times following a referendum on whether to dramatically cut funding for the newspaper. Read more here.

As I enter the arts block with an impending hangover that will probably send me reeling later, I pause to do what every other student has done since Trinder has started: I check to see if someone has posted about me. Read more here.

Think opera is only for cultural snobs? A free crash course might help: In 1997, conceptual artists Kolmar and Melamid teamed up with composer Dave Soldier to create The Most Unwanted Song. Read more here.

Kneecap are two MCs, Móglaí Bap and Mo Chara, along with DJ Provaí, who have become an underground hit, earning praise from fellow rappers within the exhilarating Irish hip-hop scene. Read more here.

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Some films build themselves so determinedly around a central performance that you can't imagine them existing without their star. Wild Rose is such an animal. Tom Harper's fist-pumping Glaswegian crowd pleaser relies as heavily on Jessie Buckley – a Kerry woman whose time has come – as Top Hat did on the talents of Fred and Ginger. Read more here.

Who knows where the time goes? It's been close to a decade since I last met Jonah Hill. In 2010, he and Russell Brand – then still a plausible film star – visited Dublin for promotional duties on Get Him to the Greek. Donald Clarke reports.

Almost a century after it was first published, James Joyce's Ulysses has become a talking point in the race to become the Democratic Party's nominee in the 2020 US presidential election. Amy O'Connor asks how Ulysses become a talking point in the US election?