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The Meteor Music Awards took place on the 19th Feb in the RDS in Dublin. This is one of the major events in Irish Music and the 10th year of sponsorship from Meteor. There were live performances on the night from Westlife, Pixie Lott, Paolo Nutini and the Coronas. Florence and the Machine opened the show with ‘You’ve got the Love’ and the crowd loved it.  Some of the winner on the night included Ray Foley (Best National DJ), Snow Patrol (Best Irish Band), Christy Moore (Best Irish Male), Wallis Bird (Best Irish Female), Westlife (Best Irish Pop Act), The Coronas (Best Irish Album- Tony was and Ex Con), The Script (Best Irish Live Performance- Oxegen 2009).

FREAKED. Can’t open my eyes! Oh… they are open, I just can’t see. Clouds, or dust, or something. Not darkness anyway. Don’t think I’ve gone blind, so that’s something. God, where the f**k am I? Can’t even remember what happened to me. Are my eyes closed again? It’s gone dark now….

Feeling a bit intimidated in groups while the “Popular Girls” steal all of the attention?  You spent aaaages getting ready, look like Cheryl Cole and are wearing the perfect new outfit yet Motor mouth Melissa has all the gorge lads chatting to her?  You mutter the answer to a teacher’s question, but Betty Blabbermouth shouts the answer louder so gets the credit?

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Wicked is the internationally acclaimed musical based on the novel by Gregory Maguire. Wicked tells the side story of the Wizard of Oz. We’ve all seen it, Dorothy with her red shoes and her companions on the yellow brick road, off to see the wizard. Remember the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch of the North? Wicked tells the story of the past friendship between Glinda and Elphaba. Glinda and Elphaba meet at the University of Shiz where the two girls are sorcery students. The girls seem like polar opposite’s; Glinda the popular, beautifully dressed blond and Elphaba the green skinned misunderstood student, struggling to obtain some of her fathers affection. However the girls do become friends but upon meeting the Wizard of Oz things start to change. Elphaba and Glinda are faced with a decision that sends the two girls in opposite directions.

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For a movie that I hadn’t heard was coming out till three days before; Astroboy was a thrilling children’s film. It is about a robot clone of a child loaded with a positive blue energy. Pinocchio style, the robot boy thinks he is real, and rejected by his father the boy retreats to “the surface”. Metro City is a metropolis in the sky where robots are slaves to humans – they do all the dirty work like cleaning up and so on – and are then cast away to the rubbish heap that humans have turned Earth into miles below the city. He is forced to return when another robot (powered with the by-product of the blue energy; negative red energy) starts to destroy the floating Metro city.

The teenage years are, in my opinion, totally unique to any other phase of life. They are times of great growth- mental, physical and emotional. With these changes come happiness, acceptance and maturity but possibly fear confusion and pain too. How can a person so young cope with so much change during a relatively short space of time? Do adults recognise the true extent of our difficulties or do they look back on their own past with rose-tinted glasses? As they say, time heals all, some day I too may come to treasure memories on this difficult time.

1-4-3-2-4-8. The soft black numbers sit carved almost in perfect alignment across my grandfather’s left arm. He sees my eyes tracing their shape and quickly pulls down his sleeve. I am five, and this is the only memory I have of not knowing about ‘IT’. The black shadow that has always lurked around my family and appears once a year during the designated Memorial Day-the Holocaust.

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This new portrayal, by Guy Ritchie, of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous characters, Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson sees the pair embroiled in a plot where Lord Blackwood the black-magic-practicing menace has risen from the dead to cause all sorts of bother. The opening scene portrays Holmes and Watson rescuing a young woman from Lord Blackwood who planned to offer up the young woman as a ritual in order to strengthen these magical powers. We are not talking about fairy magical full of kindness and goodness, it’s all about the darker side of magic powers.