YOUTH 02: Strength In Numbers

When the world is starting to seem so scary and divided that you’re afraid to turn on the news for fear of what you’ll see next, we felt it was an apt time to discuss people coming together to do amazing things...

Burnt Out

Burnt Out is a collective of young creatives from North Dublin who combine their varied skill sets to explore working class identity in a variety of different mediums, without restriction. YOUTH met with Dave and Paul from the collective in an intimate conversation about their work, expression and opinions on youth culture as they see it.

Girl Crew

Girl Crew is a worldwide community that helps women make new friends. It began when Girl Crew’s founder was looking for some girls to go dancing with on a Friday night. She changed her gender on Tinder and replaced her profile picture explaining that she was a straight girl looking for other girls to go dancing with. Within a couple of days she had hundreds of replies. From this simple idea grew a global phenomenon which has changed thousands of women's' lives. YOUTH spoke to Áine Mulloy, one of the founder members and CMO of Girl Crew, about what friendship means to her...

HunReal Strength

The HunReal Issues is a website, social stream and movement “that addresses the issues that every hun needs to be knowin’ about”. It was started with the goal of taking the snobbiness and elitism out of the politics that affect every woman - whether she cares or not. In this article, founder Andrea Horan explains to YOUTH her motivation for creating the movement…

Grime!

There is something rather peculiar about the United Kingdom that breeds youth subcultures like no other place on earth. There are, of course, countless positive forces within our country that drive art and culture forward, but more often than not it’s the divisions - the class system, the general sense of dissatisfaction - that acts as an evolutionary catalyst driving Britain’s young cultural subterranea to constantly re-energise and innovate their landscape. Punk, ska, hip-hop, the blues; these are endless examples of people turning sociocultural misery into musical magic, as if from water into wine. Some of these subcultures last no longer than a blink of an eye, but every so often the planets align and something extraordinary happens, something so distinct and deep-rooted that it actually transcends the music itself and pours out into fashion, art, language, attitude and lifestyle.

Wrestling With Ambition

When Joe Carbery was signed to a development contract with the world’s largest professional wrestling company, the publicly traded entertainment behemoth, WWE, he had dreams of joining the select group of ‘Sports Entertainers’ who make vast sums of money travelling the world doing something they love. After relocating from Dublin to Orlando, Joe was dogged by injury, and became disheartened by the gruelling schedule and cut-throat politics of WWE. In this interview, Joe tells YOUTH about leaving the company, returning to Ireland and deciding to set up his own promotion, Over The Top Wrestling, determined to give wrestling fans an alternative product, and wrestlers a place where they could hone their craft, free from locker room politics.

Festival Plants

Held in Denmark, Roskilde is one of the largest music festivals in Europe. When it started in 1971, it had roughly 10,000 attendees; that’s grown to over 130,000. It’s massive. The festival campsite is over 80 hectares, with people arriving days before the festival officially starts to get prime spots in the campsite. The pre-festival is so massive that, for years now, festivalgoers have been building elaborate speaker systems called ‘Festival Plants’ to get the party going in the campsite long before the official acts get underway.