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Ramadan and Resistance

Contributing Writer Baneen Talpur writes about Ramadan and how religion can help us make sense of the world. It is becoming harder for young people to identify as religious in Ireland. Most of the people I know are either atheists or agnostics. Science is advancing at an astronomical pace, and with the rise in education […]

Poetry- The Call in the Night

The Call in the Night – By James Carroll They say you never forget your first  First love, first heartbreak, first kiss..  But you were my first everything.  I’m not scared of the dark anymore  Because you took me apart in broad daylight I held you in my arms like a god could hold the sun […]

Editorial IV – Resistance

  By Niamh Browne The word Motley is defined as ‘incongruously varied in appearance or character; disparate’. This to me is the strength of Motley, the magazine. We are various, eclectic and we have the freedom of being freaks. To quote Jughead Jones, a character on one of my favourite tv shows, Riverdale: ‘I’m weird. […]

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Chained Bodies

An inside look at a special upcoming performance by Final Students from the UCC Department of Theatre by Séan Edna Donnelly ‘L’homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.’  Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains  – Jean Jacques Rousseau  A supernatural redemption. A utopia with a terrible secret. […]

Waiting room in hospital

Poetry- Anointed

By Lizzie Kelly The doctor brings it up. I have never asked for a way out. He offers it to me always. Fists clenched and convulsing.  Dead, dying unborn. That  would not be unusual, for a girl of your age.  The blood looks yellow, as it hits the floor, diluting from the  moment it leaves […]