"Shot at the Night" is a song by American rock band The Killers. The song serves as the lead single from the band's second compilation album, Direct Hits. The song was produced by M83's Anthony Gonzalez, who had supported the band on their Day & Age World Tour. The song has received positive reviews from music critics. NME listed it top of their "10 tracks you have to hear this week 18/09/13", noting "it's a fittingly triumphant mix of Gonzalez's glittering synth-pop and The Killers' own huge-hearted bombast", adding "it has a euphoric chorus that's as reminiscent of '80s power-pop as the anthemic indie that Nevada's finest have become renowned for.

The video features Dark Shadows actress Bella Heathcote, and The Social Network star Max Minghella. Heathcote portrays a hotel maid at the Cosmpolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, clearly unsatisfied with her mundane lifestyle, matching the song's melancholic lyrical yearning "Give me a shot at the night...". She accidentally encounters a handsome hotel guest, portrayed by Minghella, and his friends. The two form an instant connection, leading Heathcote's character to abandon her shift and explore Vegas by night with her new found love interest, thus getting her very own "shot at the night".

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Laura's Bio: I’m Laura, a marketing and tech enthusiast who recently landed in Dublin, Ireland. For the past year, I’ve been channeling my passion for technology at Google Cloud. There, I work with exciting early-stage companies, helping them achieve explosive growth by leveraging cutting-edge solutions.

My journey actually began in Denmark, where I spent four years immersing myself in the world of branding and marketing management. But I wasn’t done learning! I furthered my education by diving into digital concept development, ensuring I have a solid foundation in today’s dynamic marketing landscape.

Throughout my career, marketing, fashion, and entrepreneurship have always been my driving forces. Lately, I’ve become particularly fascinated by the possibilities of sustainable fashion business models. This is an area I’m actively exploring, and keen to better understand the ways to make my love fashion still be sustainable for environment.

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Dr Amy Booth is a medical practitioner from South Africa. While working during the COVID-19 pandemic, she became aware of the environmental impact of health systems, prompting her to embark on research in this area. She is currently based at the University of Oxford where she is doing doctoral research, funded by a Rhodes Scholarship, on the carbon footprint of the pharmaceutical supply chain.

She concurrently co-runs a Sustainable Health Care course at Oxford. She has previously consulted with the World Health Organisation on the role of environmental sources in contributing to anti-microbial resistance, with the United Nations on developing a standardised framework for measuring sustainability, is a member of an EU-wide Erasmus+ project on sustainable prescribing and sits on the Global Lethal Humidity Council. She has several publications on the intersection of climate and health and has presented on this topic on multiple national and international platforms, including featuring on the BBC Focus on Africa podcast. She is a member of the first cohort of the UK Young Academy and an Emerging Research Leader in Climate and Health.

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William Rory Gallagher; 2 March 1948 – 14 June 1995) was an Irish musician and songwriter. He is known for his virtuosic style of guitar playing, and is often referred to as "the greatest guitarist you've never heard of". A number of guitarists, including Alex Lifeson of Rush, Brian May of Queen and Eric Clapton have cited Gallagher as an influence. He was voted as guitarist of the year by Melody Maker magazine in 1972, and listed as the 57th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2015.

In 1966, Gallagher formed the blues rock power trio Taste, which experienced moderate commercial success and popularity in the United Kingdom. After the dissolution of Taste, Gallagher pursued a solo career, releasing music throughout the 1970s and 1980s and selling more than 30 million records worldwide. Gallagher's popularity declined throughout the 1980s due to changes within the music industry and poor health. He received a liver transplant in 1995, but died of complications later that same year in London at the age of 47.

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"We Choose to go to the Moon", formally the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, is a September 12, 1962, speech by United States President, John F. Kennedy, to bolster public support for his proposal to land a man on the Moon before 1970 and bring him safely back to Earth. Kennedy gave the speech, largely written by Presidential advisor and speechwriter Ted Sorensen, to a large crowd at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas. In his speech, Kennedy characterised space as a new frontier, invoking the pioneer spirit that dominated American folklore. He infused the speech with a sense of urgency and destiny, and emphasised the freedom enjoyed by Americans to choose their destiny rather than have it chosen for them. Although he called for competition with the Soviet Union, Kennedy also proposed making the Moon landing a joint project. The speech resonated widely and is still remembered, although at the time there was disquiet about the cost and value of the Moon-landing effort. Kennedy's goal was realiaed posthumously, in July 1969, with the Apollo programme's successful Apollo 11 mission.

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David W. Higgins is an economist based in Dublin also the co-host of the Next Round podcast that he co-hosts with Dale McDermott. He recently finished a 9-year stint at Carraighill, an independent financial research firm with clients in New York and London.

David studied statistics in college where he nurtured a passion for understanding the world of data analysis and predictions. In 2016 he ran "Irish Election Stats", a website which attempted to predict seat results at Irish elections.

In recent years he grew a following on twitter, sharing his analysis of data on the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland.

Lately, David is passionate about the housing crisis and how it feeds into a wider problem of delayed life milestones. He calls this the "milestone recession" and would love to someday write a book on the topic.

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Hazel Hogan is a poet from Dublin. Her poem ‘Grangegorman’ was on the recommended list to be studied as part of the Junior Cert syllabus. Her poetry was submitted into the Irish Poetry Reading Archive as part of the University College Dublin (UCD) digital library. She has given many workshops to children and adults across schools and communities in Dublin and most recently works with MoLI on the Ukrainian Creative Hub. Hazel is on the Board of Fighting Words.

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