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Vol. XVII, Issue 5

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

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DCU students launch petition against gay male blood ban A group of DCU students have started a petition asking for the ban on men who have sex with men to be repealed Finnian Curran Deputy Editor @finnc94

A GROUP of DCU students have

started a petition to repeal a ban against gay males donating blood to the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS).

The Irish Student Activism Network (ISAM) have gathered just over 100 signatures in two days against the ban and will decide the next course of action at their first public meeting which is to be held in the coming weeks.

“We have just over 100 signatures which we gained within two days. At the moment we haven’t decided whether to accept that number or try and continue to increase to a much larger target. But that will be decided at our first public meeting”, said Sean Cassidy of ISAM. They also plan to discuss SU involvement in the petition at the meeting.

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“We have three fundamental aims. To increase engagement, to increase activism and to build a broader discourse amongst our students,” Cassidy said when speaking about the foundation of the group.

“It’s solely DCU based at the moment but our aims and their implementation could be reflected across campuses,” he continued.

ISAM was started when a number of DCU students met and spoke of the political apathy associated with students in DCU. “We felt that if we could broaden the activist base within dcu and spread the values that have informed what we do, that it could only a positive effect and would be a stimulant for faster change within our student community.”

The ban specifically excludes men who have had sex with other men from donating blood. The IBTS have cited a higher risk of HIV being transmitted if men who have had sex with men donate.

However, in England, Scotland and Wales men who have sex with men are allowed to donate blood providing they haven’t had sexual activity with men in the past 12 months.

The IBTS “accepts that they are being discriminatory; we discriminate against several groups in the community insofar as we refuse to allow them to donate blood on the basis of perceived increased risk of spreading infections through blood transfusion.”

Several campaigns have been launched to repeal the ban but none have succeeded so far. As one of his last acts as Minsiter for Health, James Reilly had requested that the ban be repealed in a letter to chairperson of IBTS, Prof Anthony Staines.

ESOC Beg, Borrow, Steal winners, Edin-broz, at the final checkpoint in Edinburgh Credit Aidan Broletti

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Editorial Team Editor-in-Chief: Michael Cogley Deputy Editor: Finnian Curran Production & Layout Editor: Gianluca Avagnina Deputy Production & Layout Editors: Mark Hogan, Victoria Ivaylova News Editors: Finnian Curran, Sharron Lynskey Deputy News Editors: Katie O’ Neill, Elaine Carroll, Laura Colgan Opinion Editor: Christine Allen Lifestyle Editor: Orlaith Farrell Deputy Lifestyle Editor: Emma Dungan Features Editor: Catherine Devine Deputy Features Editor: Jade O’Leary Irish Editor: Caoimhe Ní Chathail Deputy Irish Editor: Barry Scanlon Sports Editor: Ruaidhri Croke Deputy Sports Editors: Cian Roche, Kevin Taylor Flux Editor: Odrán de Bhaldraithe Deputy Flux Editor: Bryan Grogan Images Editor: Aidan Broletti Phototographers: DCU Paparazzi Online Editor: David Matthews Online News Editor: Mark Hogan Sub-Editors: Jordan Kavanagh, Megan Roantree, Nicola Ayres, Anna Kazadojeva, Giulia Luzi, Lisa O’Donnell, Kevin Kelly, Conor Jack Martin, Aoibheann Diver, Chaitanya Brady, Aura McMenamin Contacts editor@thecollegeview.com news@thecollegeview.com features@thecollegeview.com opinion@thecollegeview.com gaelige@thecollegeview.com sports@theccollegeview.com Printed By Datascope, with the DCU Journalism Society Thanks To Sportsfile, SLC, Office of Student Life

Esoc’s ‘Beg, Borrow, Steal’ shows the potential of the student and how to make the most of your fees the clubs all across the college.

From soccer to athletics a huge amount of money is pumped into @michaelcogley the active clubs and their facilities that you’re paying for too.

What has long been revered THIS past weekend saw fifty as a sure-fire investment, third DCU students race across the UK level education is now seeing its and Ireland all in a bid to raise graduates forced to fields afar to vital funds for a truly terrific char- gain employment and in some ity in the Donal Walsh #LiveLife cases, with those unwilling to do Foundation. so, the investment begins to look The hugely successful event like a waste of money. shows the type of activities stuResults of a new survey cardents can get involved in outside ried out by the League of Credit of traditional lectures and indeed Unions have revealed that 64 per shows the power of the student. cent of parents are struggling The whole event, which saw with the cost of putting their its message shared across various offspring through college. national media outlets, raised The survey, titled ‘Third €17,000. A staggering amount of Level Education Costs Survey and money and indeed invaluable to What’s Left Tracker’, has found the foundation. that of the 79 per cent of parents So when the value of college funding their child’s third-level is weighed up in a monetised experience, the average they are fashion elements like this are contributing is €428 on a monthly often omitted. College is expenbasis. sive, sensationally so. But if a However, despite the huge student chooses to get involved cost, which includes fees, rent, with clubs and societies they truly books, living and more, parents begin to see the worth of their are continuing to shell out for fees. highly expensive degrees in the In this week’s issue we break- hope that it will ensure a good job down the money that goes into for their child.

Michael Cogley Editor-in-Chief

Yet, in an almost catch 22 scenario, parents’ biggest fear is that their child remains unemployed after college, which highlights the unease around the third-level system.

The results of the survey showed that parents’ fear of their child being unemployed after college was starkly higher than any other fear, including the abuse of drugs and alcohol, their child becoming homesick or lonely or even teenage pregnancies.

With parents saving on average eight years in anticipation of their child’s college ambitions and colleges themselves happily charging a small fortune for students to attain degrees and masters, third-level education still remains an enormous financial risk in a country that boasts ‘free education’.

All in all college is an expensive risk. However if you get involved, go out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself, the risk gets smaller and smaller and the money you pay becomes more and more wisely invested.

We are JournoSoc, DCU’s Society dedicated to helping all aspiring journalists, freelancers, and broadcasters.

With The College View, you get an incredible shot at earning some valuable expertise in the world of journalism. A student-ran, student-written, student-focused paper, chock full of stories that matter to you.

JournoSoc is here to help out any way we can, from workshops to guest speakers. The year ahead looks great, and we hope you’re with us all the way… facebook.com/journosoc twitter.com/dcujourno

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DCU takes part in first College Awareness Week DCU is holding talks and events in conjunction with College Awareness Week Laura Colgan Deputy News Editor @Laura_Colgan

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About 800 sign up in SU’s major Voter Registration Drive The drive, organised by the SU, the USI and GLEN took place across campus last Thursday Sharron Lynskey News Editor @sharronlynskey

DCU Students’ Union, along with

the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) and the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN), held a major Voter Registration Drive last Thursday in order to push students to register their vote prior to the upcoming marriage referendum.

An estimated 800 signatures were collected on the day with sign-ups taking place in stations all around campus.

This major voter registration drive was an initiative by the USI and GLEN to make sure young

people were registered to vote prior to the upcoming marriage equality referendum in 2015.

Welfare Officer for the SU, Eve Kerton along with Gillian McInerney, Chairperson of the LGBTA Society in DCU, fronted the voter registration drive in DCU last week and collected voter registration forms off students for the past number of weeks.

Eve says she was “delighted” with the turnout at last week’s drive and says that this referendum is something students are really engaged in.

“I think this is the only time I’ve seen students actually want to get involved” she says.

I went into a lecture hall yesterday and I went to the top of the class and I asked, ‘Who wants

to register to vote?’ and maybe one or two put their hands up.

Then when I said to them, ‘If you don’t register this time around you will not be able to vote in the equal marriage referendum’, then all the hands shot up”.

Eve admits that, like a lot of students, she only registered to vote in the past few weeks.

“I just never felt interested or passionate enough. I always felt that if I was to vote, it wasn’t going to make any difference.

Whereas, I know this one will.

And I know that’s what other young people are thinking too”.

The Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) also helped register students on the day and Patrick Sweeney, a representative from GLEN, says their nationwide campaign has been going strong.

“The reception’s been great...

In UCC in the last few weeks we’ve had over 3,000 people register-

ing and IT Carlow registered 800 people in a matter of days. DCU had a great turnout also” he says.

“We’ve had people like Angelica Heuston, Colin Farrell, Victoria Smurfit and of course, Panty Bliss supporting us so it’s really taken off”.

Patrick feels that apathy amongst young people won’t be an issue for the upcoming referendum.

“Apathy is a big problem but this is such a social issue. Whether you’re politically engaged or not this is something that’s relevant to you and everybody knows someone who is LGBT. Whether it’s a friend, a person in their family or neighbour – everybody knows somebody and for that reason this referendum is different.

“It’s a huge social issue and can have a really positive impact on Irish society.”

tional College Awareness Week.

The week launched for the first time this year and takes place from November 24th to the 30th.

DCU held a number of events this week to mark College Awareness Week across campus.

DCU’s Access Office held an evening talk called “Let’s talk about college” last Tuesday.

This was an information evening for parents and students about applying through the CAO, SUSI grants and applying for the HEAR and DARE schemes.

A workshop that introduces students to coding and computers in college will be held in conjunction with Coder Dojo on Saturday, November 29th.

Transition year students from various secondary schools will visit DCU for a tour, presentation and meeting with student ambassadors on Monday 1st December.

Access Schools Outreach Officer Susan Hawkins will also be visiting secondary schools throughout the month of November.

The goal of the week is to spread the message that going to college is both important and achievable. It celebrates the importance of going to college, and showcases local role models who attended college. It creates a college-going culture and helps students to become ready for college. It also supports the increase in the number of students who attend college.

College Awareness Week is being supported by the Higher Education Authority; the Department of Education and Skills; the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals; the Society of St Vincent de Paul; Institute of Guidance Counselors; and Irish Business and Employers’ Confederation.

St Patrick’s College is taking part in College Awareness Week too. The college will hold a coffee morning on Wednesday, November 26th and a colouring competition on the 27th.

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Over 360 DCU students turn out to donate blood Hayley Halpin News Reporter @HayleyHalpin1

OVER 360 students donated

blood earlier this month when DCU’s blood donation clinic returned to The Hub. The Venue was home to a popup blood donations clinic for three days, which was set up by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS).

A total of 366 students attended the clinic from November 10th to the 12th, and over 235 units of blood were successfully collected over the three days.

“It is so comforting to look at these figures and see how young students came in such numbers to offer to help others with no gain for themselves. Ireland’s future is indeed brighter with these young citizens,” IBTS reported. “Those 235 units of blood will enhance the care of many patients young and old over the next few days and indeed save many lives” they added.

Close to 3,000 blood dona-

tions are needed each week in Ireland. At present, only 3 per cent of the Irish population give blood regularly. Giving blood takes approximately 8-15 minutes. The total volume of blood taken during a typical donation is 470ml, less than a pint.

In order to be eligible to give blood, you must be between the ages of 18 and 60 and weigh between 50kg and 130kg. Pregnant women or women that were pregnant in the past 12 months cannot give blood. The IBTS will not accept blood from men who have had sex with other men. Anybody who has had a tattoo or body piercing in the last four months is also not eligible to donate.

Alia Luddy, a first year Law and Society student who donated said: “The process was a bit slow, I was waiting a good while to donate, but it was understandable considering how many people were donating when I arrived.”

“Everyone running the clinic was really nice and were a bit of craic too”, she added.

THE VENUE was home to a pop-

Open days held in DCU, St Pat’s and Mater Dei Aaron Gallagher News Reporter @thecollegeview

DCU open days went down a suc-

cess last weekend, with the college attracting hundreds of students across Ireland to its campuses in Glasnevin and Drumcondra.

Students were welcomed to explore DCU, St Patrick’s College and Mater Dei on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th November.

Students weighing-up which college to choose next year flocked to the campuses to get a feel for the atmosphere, with organisers emphasising the importance of student life.

The two-day event was filled with activities ranging from seminars and workshops, to accommodation tours and one-to-one interactions with current students and members of academic staff.

Music and dance was heavily featured throughout the day as well, with a stage and DJ positioned outside the Henry Grattan building, prompting in-

volvement from the visiting students, as well as an appearance from SPIN 1038 on Saturday.

As the days progressed, more introductory presentations showcased to students, with each school highlighting its given courses.

DCU student and tour guide for the open days Aodán Farrelly spoke of his own experience visiting DCU campus as a leaving cert student.

“It was a great experience to be part of because I remember coming to the open day two years ago as a 6th year student and completely falling in love with DCU from that day, so to be able to get involved was brilliant,” he said.

Interactions via social media were also promoted, with DCU running a competition for students to win an iPad by sending in a selfie with their favourite part of the campus. With the integration of St. Patrick’s College into Dublin City University next year, free transport was provided between both campuses for prospective students and their families.

The Hub provided a fulcrum

Alumni relations in Ireland are ahead of international norm

of activity over the two days, also showing students what clubs and societies DCU has to offer, all in-keeping with proving to students that college life exists beyond the lecture halls.

Despite poor weather conditions on Friday, volunteers said that the atmosphere on campus was fantastic, with attendances an Andrew Ralph unprecedented high.

News Reporter @AndrewRalph7

THE quality of Alumni relations

in Irish universities came under scrutiny at a summit held at Iveagh House last week.

Representatives from most of Ireland’s third level institutions and delegates from a number of fee-paying secondary schools assembled at the Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade earlier this month to discuss the current state of university-alumni relations in Ireland.

This conference was organised by tech firm KonnectAgain and was hosted by the government.

KonnectAgain is a start-up company that was founded by graduates from University College Cork with the aim of facilitating relations between Irish Credit Steve Kampff universities and their alumni

through an online platform.

CEO of Diaspora Matters, Kingsley Aikin, said that Ireland’s “public private model” was ahead of the international norm when it comes to engaging with the Irish community overseas. However, Aiken went on to say that the alumni model in the US was successful due to mass engagement.

Director of Alumni relations at UCC, Dr Jean van Sinderen-Law, said that Irish people were “reactive givers” and that the challenge was to make people more proactive.

When asked about his views on the relationship between DCU and its alumni, interim Alumni Director Padraig McKeon suggested that the model used for alumni relations in the US should not be used as a benchmark to measure the quality of Irish alumni relations. He added that alumni relations in Ireland were more comparable to the UK and Europe.

The nature of the conference was “parallel”, as it brought together diaspora and alumni alike, according to McKeon. These sentiments were echoed by the Minister of State for the Diaspora Jimmy Deenihan TD. “Engaging our alumni overseas is the next obvious step at reaching out to our diaspora,” he said.

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Academic boycott of Israel the topic of two talks held in DCU Academics have chosen to boycott Israeli universities, following the struggles between Palestine and Israel was an almost apocalyptic war”.

He said that Palestinians, when asked, predominantly supported Hamas and Israeli press surveys indicated 85 per cent of the population supported government policy in Palestine.

MacCormaic also commented on Israel’s criticism of western press, accused of siding with Hamas. “Israel see Palestine as part of a body of countries that are hostile towards Israel and believe by containing Hamas they’ll be more secure as a nation,” he said.

Chaitanya Brady News Reporter @Chai_108

TWO events emphasising the

continuing struggle between Palestine and Israel were held in DCU two weeks ago.

Dr Ghada Karmi, a Palestinian doctor of medicine, author and academic, and Professor Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian and socialist activist, spoke at a talk held on the 13th of November concerning issues for third level institutions.

The academics highlighted the plight of Palestinian academics, who struggle to study under Israeli regulations. Karmi talked of “an Israeli campaign of harassment: they think of all sorts of ways of preventing Palestine from gaining any type of academic distinction”.

Karmi said blockades prevent students from getting to and from universities, meaning they can’t be sure if they will be able to sit their exams.

Pappe, an Israeli himself, said that “the charade of peace is one principal of which the Zionist movement wishes to have a Palestine with as few Palestinians in it”.

He believes that “Zionism is a far worse ideology for the native people of Palestine than apartheid was for the Africans”.

He called it “inhumane”, “rac-up Blood Donations Clinic for three days earlier this month Credit Nicola Leddy ist”, and “supremacist”. Zionism

1,250 additional college places to be added to ICT from next year The Higher Education Authority plans to double the number of ICT graduates over the next four years Elaine Carroll of the HEA, said: “We have nine Deputy News Editor out of the top ten global soft@elainecarroll93 ware companies, nine out of the top ten US tech companies and an increasingly exciting scene for indigenous tech start-ups. To IN response to the global demand maintain this position into the for Information and Commu- future, the pipeline of skilled ICT nication Technology graduates, graduates from Irish higher edthe Higher Education Authority ucation must continue to grow.”

(HEA) has proposed to double the Rory O’Connor, Head of number of graduates from ICT The School of Communicacourses over the next four years. tions in DCU highlighted the The proposal seeks a com- importance of gauging demitment from the higher ed- mand for ICT course in Ireland. ucation system to increase “In addition to increasing the number of additional stu- ICT course places, there must dents on core ICT courses by also be action to address stu1,250 each year, up to 2018. dent interest in and demand Colleges proposing additional for ICT, to increase student deplaces will set out their links with mand and interest in ICT and fethe ICT enterprise community and male participation in particular.” the work placement opportunities O’Connor added that ICT that will be available to students. needs more promotion nationalTom Boland, Chief Executive ly: “There is a role for universities

to ensure they are getting the message out to school leavers. Also there is a role for industry and government bodies such as the IDA to promote careers in ICT areas.”

The addition of more ICT course places would also have a direct impact on the shortages of staff, equipment and physical space in many higher level institutes according to O’Connor.

“Whilst DCU would like to see more people opting for ICT courses, we have to be mindful of the challenges of additional students. There are ongoing resource challenges which need to be addressed.”

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is a movement for the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.

Both Karmi and Pappe are activists for the BDS movement which began 10 years ago and promotes an academic boycott of Israel.

In the second talk, held by DCU Law Society, the Irish Times legal correspondent Ruadhán MacCormaic spoke about his time reporting from Gaza during two of the wars.

He noted the difference between Israel and Gaza: “I was in Tel Aviv and I watched the World Cup. There was a huge crowd in t-shirts drinking beer while almost two miles down the road there

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Student Slingshot takes over Dublin Castle Alison Ring News Reporter

LAST Tuesday, 150 of the coun-

try’s top entrepreneurial students met with business leaders and innovators from all over Europe for the first ever Student Slingshot event in Dublin Castle.

Student Slingshot was started

by UCD graduate Patrick Guiney five months ago. Its aim is to bring the best and brightest Irish student thinkers together with business leaders to promote student entrepreneurship.

“The idea came about, because we wanted to meet students from colleges across the country from all backgrounds.

From there we wanted to redefine how people met individuals from companies all over the world and in Ireland” said Guiney.

Speakers included Barry Andrews, CEO at Goal, Jane McDaid, founder at Thinkhouse and Niall McGarry, creator of Joe.ie.

The evening was introduced by Minister for Business and Employment, Gerald Nash.

The event consisted of individual speeches, panel discussions and roundtable ses-

sions led by CEOs, prominent academics and student leaders.

Students were able to engage and ask questions during the roundtable part of the evening, hearing from experts in digital and online marketing, social entrepreneurship and finance investment amongst others.

The panel discussions were engaging, with people such as the creators of Boojum, Google employee Eoghan Phipps, and Olympic rower Paul Donovan adding varied points of view.

Slingshot’s Head of Marketing and Student Engagement, Katie Mannion reflected on the night saying “the students were remarkable. Getting the chance to meet so many inspiring people my age was an absolute pleasure.”

The closing address was given by director at Arthur Cox, Jane Babb who emphasised the importance of consistent hard work and dedication, who said:“Don’t wait for that Eureka moment of expertise, it doesn’t exist.”

Next February the Student Slingshot Academy will launch, teaching the next generation of 10 to 12 year olds the skills and qualities needed to be an entrepreneur.

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Esoc Beg, Borrow, Steal raises over ¤17,000 for charity DCU students beg, borrow and steal their way to Edinburgh in the Enterprise Society charity race Katie O’Neill Deputy News Editor @thecollegeview

FIFTY students who are members

of DCU’s Enterprise Society set off last Friday in a bid to be the first to reach Edinburgh in the charity excursion: Beg, Borrow, Steal.

Twenty five teams of two left from the Hub just before 10 on Friday morning with their sights set on Edinburgh. The teams who were in first, second and third position in terms of fund-raising got a 15, 10 and five minute head start respectively from the rest of the teams. The aim of Beg, Borrow, Steal is for the teams involved to make it to Edinburgh without using a cent of their own cash, their transport expenses must

be begged, borrowed or stolen (we use the word stolen lightly).

Before arriving in Edinburgh, the teams were required to make it to two different checkpoints. The checkpoints were not made known to the teams until the morning of the race ensuring no participant set up travel plans prior to the race beginning. The first checkpoint that teams had to embark upon was in London’s Trafalgar Square and the second was in Newcastle at the Millennium Bridge The first team to triumphantly reach the final destination in Edinburgh was comprised of Mark Farrelly and Stephen Gorman or team “Edin-Broz”.

The race is not just about students having fun but is in aid of the Donal Walsh live life Foundation

which aims to provide facilities for terminally-ill teenagers and promotes anti-suicide. Thanks to the relentless efforts of the Esoc committee, #BegBorrowSteal trended on Twitter for the majority of the Friday, the team posted updates on the progress of the teams competing frequently on Twitter and Facebook throughout the race.

Initially, participants of Beg, Borrow, Steal aimed to raise €8000 which is a target that they surpassed significantly with the event raising over €17,000. To be eligible to enter the race, each team had to raise at least €50 each for the Donal Walsh Live Life Foundation.

Beg, Borrow, Steal is now into its second year. Last year participants had to race to Cork from DCU.

24hr Sleepout raises more than ¤1,400 for homeless Jamie Concannon News Reporter @jamie_concannon

THE annual DCU Saint Vincent de Paul 24 Hour Sleepout took place on campus last week, with volunteers raising over €1,400 for the homeless.

Last year DCU students raised roughly €1,000 through

the same event held by the St. Vincent De Paul Society to raise money in aid of vulnerable people living on the streets of Dublin. The aim was to raise awareness and funds to give practical support for homeless people.

“Our new initiative this year is that we want to provide ‘warmth kits’, containing basic necessities like hats, scarves and gloves to guard people against the cold,” a

DCU students huddle for warmth last Wednesday as they approach the last few hours of the annual 24 hour sleep-out in aid of the St. Vincent de Paul charity. The SVP society in the college raised over €1400 throughout the day, which will go towards the weekly soup runs and warmth kits the society provides to the homeless in Dublin. Credit Kirstin Campbell

spokesperson for DCU SVP said.

“We’ve noticed that as the colder months are approaching, homeless people are not properly protected against the cold, and that in particular is something we want to put our funds towards,” the spokesperson said. “As well as that, the money will go towards the soup runs we do every week, providing sandwiches and drinks.”

Despite the annual report for last year from the Peter McVerry Trust showing an increase in homeless people in Dublin, SVP said “in general we haven’t noticed an increase or decrease in the number of homeless people. Sometimes it does depend on the night, but you would usually recognise many of the same faces on the street.”

“We want to thank Bank of Ireland for their donation, as well as the various facilities around DCU, all of whom supported us greatly. Also, we want to thank Camille restaurant in Phibsborough for donating food.”

As the festive season approaches, the annual SVP Christmas Toy Appeal will be held to allow people to donate gifts to homeless children. There will be a Christmas tree in the Hub where people can donate gifts.

Anybody interested in these projects can contact the society at dcusvp@gmail.com.

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DCU hosts ‘Next Top Model’ Orlaith Farrell News Reporter @Orlaith_Farrell

DCU Style Society ran their first

DCU’s Next Top Model event yesterday evening.

The event was the first of its kind and was a parody version of the hit TV show, ‘America’s Top Model’.

Members from a number of different societies on campus each nominated a model to represent their committee with contestants from Enactus, Cumann na Gaelach, Cancer SOC, ESOC, RAG, Drama, Dance, LGBTA, Art Soc taking in the show.

Similar to the Tyra Banks’ popular television show, America’s Next Top Model, each contestant took to the stage and performed a series of hilarious

challenges and photo shoots, in the hope of being awarded the DCU’s next top model title.

The show was hosted on the night by DCU’s own Tyra Banks, Alison Ring.

Speaking to The College View prior to the event Alison spoke about how she was looking forward to the talent on show.

“I genuinely can’t wait; it’s going to be hilarious. I’ve been watching old seasons of Next Top Model to make sure I’ll be as accurate as I can. Style have done a really good job so far with photo shoots and filming.”

Judges on the night included former Style Society chairperson and Lifestyle writer for the Irish Independent, Freya Drohan, vice chairperson Claudia Gocoul and Shane Hayes.

Speaking to DCU Style’s Event Manager, Aoife Rice Murphy, prior to the show she said, “it’s basically a parody of America’s Next Top Model; we thought it would be a fun idea for Style to show that we don’t take ourselves too seriously.”

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All Ireland Dance Experiment fever hits the Helix LAST Tuesday November 18,

The Helix played host to The All Ireland Dance Experiment which featured performances from Trinity College, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), St Patrick’s College and our own DCU dance society.

The experiment is in its sixth year now and is organised by the committee of DCU dance society fronted by chairperson, Stephanie Larkin and deputy chairperson, Eimear Mac. DCU student, David Atkinson played host for the evening and kept the energy alive to the crowded theatre. The theme of the showcase was: Fearless and each of the acts featured in the show were encouraged to base their routines on the idea of fearlessness and courage. The theme, fearless, was in conjunction with St Pat’s mental health week.

All proceeds from ticket sales of the dance experiment were donated to the Irish Cancer Society through DCU Cancer society.

Various styles of dance were represented in the show including hip-hop, ballet and jazz. The acts that featured in the show

were: DIT dance society; DCU Jazz; Trinity dance; So Little Crew; DCU Ballet Squad; DMC, Dance Republic; DCU Irish dance squad; The crew; The Dolls; Dance Mania; ID2; DCU contemporary; Ian Harris and Alex O’Neill; NUI Maynooth dance and finally the show concluded with the DCU dance mix piece with featured a variety of styles of dance together.

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Katie O’Neill Deputy News Editor @_Katie_ONeill

DCUtv prepares for marathon 24hr Broadcast

he Helix on Tuesday night. The performance was part of the 6th All Ireland Dance Experiment Credit Gianluca Avagnina Eoghan O’Connor

lighted with the enthusiasm.

“It’s brilliant to have so many members involved in this year’s PREPARATIONS are underway broadcast. The money raised for DCUtv’s 24 Hour Broadcast during the show will all go towards this week. The event is set to take the Histiocytosis Trust and I for place from 9pm on Friday the 5th one am proud of each and every of December all the way through member that is taking part. Hopeto the same time on Saturday the fully we will hit our target of €4,000 and also help raise awareness 6th.

This year, all funds raised for this heartbreaking disease”.

Several teams are already in during the broadcast will go towards the Histiocytosis Research place and working hard to make Trust. The organisation was the event as successful as possible, including a brought to the atsponsorship team, tention of the Media a behind the scenes Production Society crew, in studio proby Niamh Ní Ruarí, ducers and editors, a first year Commuand a comprehennications student, sive public relations who herself is affectteam that is getting ed by the disease. word of the broadThe show will be cast out nationwide. broadcast live from Bank of Ireland, loinside the Henry cated in the Henry Grattan building, and Credit Isabelle McCabe Grattan building on will be packed full of a host of exciting and entertaining campus, is again providing the shows, some of which include The main sponsorship for the event.

Weakest Link, Top of the Socs, The event will be broadcast Challenge for Change, and even live on www.dcumps.com, and their very own DCU Toy Show. a link for making donations will Over 110 shows were pro- also be made available through posed to DCUtv Manager Glenn this website.

Griffin, who says he was deNews Reporter

Trinity plan tax avoidance for new online sector The college is seeking charitable status for the separate online education entity in order to avoid tax John Casey News Reporter

TRINITY College Dublin has ap-

proved plans to create a new legal entity that will allow it to avoid paying tax on the profits generated by its new online sector. The new entity will be known as “Trinity Dublin Online” and will be responsible for all online education at the college.

The proposal was approved by the university board on November 5th. The proposal included detailed earnings projections which envisioned the online division reaching profits of €1 million per year by the 2019/20 ac-

ademic year. It is estimated that it will cost €2.1 million to set up.

The expansion of Trinity’s online courses was an important objective of their latest five year strategic plan which was launched earlier this year. The college will focus on Continuous Professional Development courses aimed at people already in the workplace.

Trinity plans on seeking charitable status from the Revenue Commissioners for the new entity. If this status is granted the university will be exempt from paying tax on any profits generated by incoming tuition fees.

No tax is currently paid on tuition revenues for traditional courses at Trinity. This is due to the courses being accredited un-

der the national education system. The proposed online courses would be self accredited and therefore would not be exempt under normal circumstances.

Trinity Dublin Online plans on having roughly 1000 students spread over 19 courses. The initial fees are being proposed at €3,500 for a postgraduate certificate, €5,500 for a postgraduate diploma, and €10,000 for a postgraduate masters. Each course will be sponsored by an individual member of the college’s academic staff.

Trinity has already launched its first open-access, online-only course. Irish Lives in War and Revolution. This was set up as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in September and ran for six weeks, with over 10,000 people participating.

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NUIG lecturer awarded ¤70k in equality case

Bed-bugs force accommodation evacuation in Trinity Andrew Ryan News Reporter

SEVERAL students of Trinity

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The Equality Tribunal last week found that Dr SheehySkeffigton had been discriminated against on the grounds of her gender Sharron Lynskey News Editor @sharronlynskey

A lecturer in NUI Galway has

been awarded €70,000 in damages and been promoted following a gender equality case.

NUI Galway was instructed by the Equality Tribunal to immediately promote Dr Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington and award her the damages after the tribunal found the college had discriminated against her on the grounds of her gender.

Sheehy-Skeffington applied for a senior lectureship post in 2009 but was not appointed.

In it’s ruling, the tribunal described NUIG’s interview process as “ramshackle” and ordered the college to review its policies and procedures in relation to promotions.

DR Sheehy-Skeffington, a highly qualified botanist, applied to become a senior lecturer in NUIG in 2009 for the fourth time, after 19 years as a college lecturer.

She was not appointed

and following an unsuccessful internal appeal, she took a case based on gender discrimination to the tribunal.

The tribunal last week found in her favour and cited both direct and indirect discrimination and found that on paper, promotion to senior lecturer at NUIG seemed to be fair.

It emerged at the tribunal that there was no training for interviewers or no meeting to discuss candidates. The tribunal also showed concern that one male candidate who was promoted was not even eligible to apply for the position.

“All female applicants short-listed met the requirement of having enough service.

Clearly all men did not,” it stated.

No candidate, successful or unsuccessful, has supervised more PhDs to completion than the complainant, it added.

It found that men at NUI Galway had a one in two chance of being promoted to senior lecturer whilst female academics had a less than one in three chance of getting the same position.

Dr Sheehy-Skeffington has taught at the School of Botany in NUIG since 1999 and is a highly qualified botanist who has been widely published.

The university initiated a major review of senior lecturer promotion procedures in 2012/2013.

The university said it regretted the distress caused to Dr Sheehy-Skeffington and thanked her for her contribution to NUI Galway over many years.

College in Dublin were forced to evacuate their accommodation earlier this month following a bed-bug outbreak in one of their apartment buildings.

Residents of House 69, Goldsmith Hall accommodation complex on Pearse Street, belonging to Trinity College Dublin, were evacuated from their residences when it emerged that one of the bedrooms had suffered from an outbreak of the insects.

Despite the outbreak being confined to just the single room in one apartment, all residents were forced to leave to avoid a wider outbreak of the bedbugs to other apartments or other residential complexes within the college.

The issue was first brought to light in an e-mail, sent by the college to students, warning the residents of an “insect infestation” which had been discovered in one of the bedrooms in House 69.

In a follow up e-mail sent on the 7th of November, students were informed of an “issue”.

The affected students were then asked to report to the Accommodation Officer whom would ex-

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plain “the nature of the problem”.

In a statement made to the University Times by Ian Mooney, Welfare Officer for the Trinity College Students’ Union, Mr Mooney said that “bed bugs regularly arrive in luggage, furniture, or other routes”.

“The incident is completely isolated and as far as I am aware, every precaution is being taken to ensure that it spreads no further”, Mooney added.

As well as being evacuated, the students have been asked not to bring any other clothes or per-

sonal belongings with the exception of laptops, tablets or mobile phones. However, Trinity College has also given the students involved 150 euro in order to cover the cost of personal belongings.

To compensate for the students losing their residences, the students involved have been allocated temporary accommodation in Dublin City Apartments on Granby Place, which is located behind the Convention Centre whilst the College carry out attempts to get rid of the insects, according to the University Times.

Northern Ireland colleges plan to cut 1,100 student places Carina Canavan News Reporter @CarinaCanavan

NORTHERN Ireland’s univer-

sities are expected to cut student numbers by up to 1,100 next September, as a result of an executive budget announced earlier this month.

It is estimated that the Department for Learning and Employment will lose almost £81m in next year’s budget.

The vice chancellors of the universities, Patrick Johnson of Queens and Richard Barnett of Ulster, confirmed in a joint statement that their spending power would be cut by “at least 10.8 per cent, putting the future of North-

ern Ireland’s economy at risk.”

Both Johnson and Barnett said that students would now be forced to go to universities in England, where they will pay fees of up to £9,000.

“In effect, the executive will be encouraging local talent to leave Northern Ireland whilst subsidising universities in England and Scotland.”

They said that the loss of these students will not only be very damaging to the universities, but also the entire province, as they are the “the lifeblood of local and international businesses, the research base and ultimately, our economy.”

It stated that, “reducing the number of graduates will affect the skills base and ultimately have a devastating impact on this re-

gion’s investment proposition.”

The chancellors said that it will be difficult to predict the consequences of the cuts on the world-wide research carried out by both universities.

“Some of the world’s greatest advances have been pioneered by our universities and Northern Ireland has the second fastest growing knowledge economy in the UK. The decision to cut the higher education budget places this achievement, and our future, at risk.”

When asked what their immediate plan is due to the cuts, a University of Ulster spokesperson said, “Ulster University is facing unprecedented cuts, the impact of which is currently being discussed. A number of scenarios are being considered but no decisions have yet been made.”

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Let’s Stop Labelling Caitlin Mary Contributor

‘WHAT is it with this incessant

desire to Label?

I am a girl who was raised in New Jersey by a mother from West Belfast, a father from East Belfast and a step-father who is Greek. So what nationality am I? To put it simply, I am whichever nation’s passport gets me through the airport queue quicker. That’s about the extent of it. What am I however? That’s an entirely different matter.

I am a mother. I am a woman. I am a liberal. I am an activist. I am a believer in equality.

I am a student. I am a lover of all things, as Iggy Azalea would say, ‘fancy.’ I am an absolute riot when I choose to be. I am a bit vain. I am bisexual. I could continue a lengthy list of all my attributes (and flaws), but I’ll end with I am bisexual.

Only in the last few years

have I started referring to myself as bisexual. Not because I recently discovered that I was, but because it never mattered to me. Nor was my ‘silence’ on the matter due to fear of being discriminated against.

Growing up in the nineties and noughties, I never really experienced any direct discrimination due to my sexual orientation. In fact, people just quietly assumed that my sexuality was a phase, as so many obnoxious and uneducated people still believe. (Even as a young teenager the idea that some middle-aged mom or dad chalked my desires and ‘trysts’ up to experimentation or a phase was (and still is) infuriating.)

So I continued on my way, dating a guy, kissing a girl, never feeling the need to verbally identify myself as bisexual.

As I got a bit older however, I felt a societal pressure to pick one or the other. The whole idea

of labels based on sexual preference seemed ludicrous to me, but I had grown a bit tired of my innate need to be non-conven-

equation (I certainly hadn’t excluded them in the definition I had floating around in my head).

I have heard a lot of young-

That said, does anyone else feel that we are in real danger of running out of words in which to ascribe to in our obsession with

Does anyone else feel that we are in real danger of running out of words in which to ascribe to in our obsession with placing ourselves into little tiny boxes? tional and a non-conformist.

So, bisexuality it was. It sounded inclusive and the LGBT community is downright awesome so I was quite happy to formally be a part of it. As fate would have it however, as soon as I became comfortable with this label, the label dictionary went and changed on me.

Apparently, by today’s standards, the definition of a bisexual is restricted to mean someone who is attracted to men and women. Full stop.

Bloody hell, well that was certainly not the lovely, flowery and inclusive image I had dancing around in my head.

This left me with a question I had not felt the need to ask myself in years:”Who am I?” Pansexual is the new lingo these days to classify those who don’t see gender as a determining factor - I imagine to include transgender people into the

er kids throw around the term pansexual, seeming to think they were the first to be feeling it, that they are the open minded sexual revolutionaries of this generation.

Personally, I have felt that gender was not a contributing factor in my attraction to others for pretty much my entire existence; I never had a name for it and I never wanted or needed a name for it.

Which goes back to my inherent belief that labels are ludicrous.

I am not by any means saying that if people need a label they shouldn’t be allowed to use one. Whatever makes you feel comfortable, whatever you do or do not want to belong to, whatever you do or do not want to be classed as is absolutely fine by me; because basically, it does not affect my life in any way.

placing ourselves into little tiny boxes?

For someone who absolutely detests labels, I do feel a constant need to give myself one. So, why is everyone so damn nosy and where did this sense of entitlement come from?

This evident entitlement of late, that we, as humans have ascribed to is wrong. We have zero right to know the innermost details of someone’s sex life. We have no right to judge people on things that they can (or cannot) change. We have no right to push a particular label onto anyone, nor insist that any individual align themselves to one.

That said, I no longer want to be known as “that bisexual American mother, who is actually an Irish pansexual.”

For future reference, I’m Mary, the girl with two passports who gets to skip the queue in the airport.

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Opinion

Watch Your Language Odrán de Bhaldraithe The Suss Editor

body who uses the ‘c-word’ is a misogynist. However, the unfortunate truth is that any use of the word contributes to a culture of misogyny. Personally, I feel that it would be best to shelve the insult altogether.

I feel the same about the word gay. Growing up, everything was referred to as ‘gay’. My friends told me that the music I liked was ‘gay’.

How the music I listened to had any connection with my sexual orientation was beyond me, but kids will be kids, and that kind of ignorance can be common. However, without education it carries over into adulthood and that’s where the problem arises.

The common argument is that people aren’t actually referring to gay people when they use the word ‘gay’ to describe something that they perceive as negative. I reject this defence.

Again, this is not to say that everyone who uses the word gay as a descriptor of something negative is a homophobe, but by using it, they do contribute to a culture and atmosphere that is too at ease with casual homophobia. After all, if you substitute the word gay for bad, whether consciously or subconsciously, you are essentially equating the two.

The Special Olympics have made it their aim to end the use of the word ‘retarded’ as an insult with their ‘Spread the Word to End the Word’ campaign.

They have been collecting stories regarding the use of the word on a page on their website since 2013 and currently have 53 pages of such stories. See specialolympics.org for further information.

Values Matter

within a society this can cause a shock to the system - when practically every pillar falls in such a short space of time this can cause a deep trauma to the nation’s psyche, the consequences of which we may never be able to fully grasp.

Yet these events have resulted in little public discourse regarding their negative impact -

@ odranwaldo

THE days following the Joan

Burton incident in Tallaght have been a time of reflection. For me, the reflection wasn’t on the

This article isn’t intended to defend Joan Burton or to criticise people exercising their right to protest, its intention is to highlight how we as a society have become so desensitised and ultimately flippant, when it comes to using certain words myself included.

The ‘c-word’ originated as

We as a society have become so desensitised and ultimately flippant, when it comes to using certain words - myself included incident itself, but on how the word scholar Germaine Greer referred to as “one of the few remaining words in the English language with a genuine power to shock” has become so commonplace that some people deemed it acceptable to hurl it at the Tánaiste.

Sean Cassidy Contributor @ deckof52

THE role that values play in so-

ciety and that underpin the motivations of the citizenry entered the national discourse with the election of Michael D. Higgins to the Irish Presidency in 2011.

In the various speeches that President Higgins has made

slang for female genitalia and was in turn, a misogynistic insult; the insult being that it dehumanises women by reducing them to nothing but body parts.

The body part used for sex no less, to imply that women were good for nothing else.

This is not to say that any-

since his inauguration, he has put particular focus on values and the important role they play within wider society.

Such examples can be seen in the President’s criticism regarding Ireland’s reluctance to cater for the direct provision for asylum seekers and the liberal and free-market thrust of economic policy that now prevails across the European Union.

This focus has been met with

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two distinct responses.

The first response is one where the media celebrates that we have a President who is bringing an intellectual standard to a political system where it is often found lacking.

The second is the casting of aspersions on the President’s motivations when he discusses values. Claims have been made that he is using this topic as a route to side-step the constitutional non-political nature of his office.

While both points have merits, the genuine importance of these contributions are overlooked by both the media and the public.

Since the beginning of the economic downturn in 2008 the public has been focused on the direct effects of this downturn, despite the occurrence of much more worrying events.

Since this time we have seen every pillar (Political, Religious, Professional, Policing & Justice and Media) that would normally be seen as fundamental to a well-functioning democracy and society, collapse before our eyes.

When one pillar collapses

As children, most of us recited the sticks and stones rhyme, but as we grew older, we learned that we were wrong - names can hurt.

While slagging will inevitably occur, perhaps it’s time we be more mindful of the words we avail of when we next decide to insult something or someone.

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especially so amongst young people and students.

It is of moral imperative that as one of the relatively safer groups within society, we should be the ones offering assistance and campaigning for those who are most vulnerable and in need.

The first step on this path would be a willingness to engage in discussions amongst ourselves

Defining and maintaining positive values is important, especially so amongst young people and students save President Higgins’ contributions.

When we look at the higher level education ‘bubble’ in which most students exist in, it is an effective shield against the trouble that wider society is undergoing.

It’s not that students do not suffer or have not been hit by the downturn, it is simply that they are in a closeted environment where support is easier to gain and obstacles easier to overcome.

However this does not give us the right to disassociate ourselves from these problems. After all, values inform our attitudes, actions and our general world view. Defining and maintaining positive values is important,

around the issue of values.

It is our generation who will inherent this moral and fiscal debt. It is our generation who now have less opportunity and in turn hope, because of this reality. It is our generation who are being forced to leave the country in their droves because of this reality.

The onus is on our generation to heed and participate in the discourse President Higgins has created. Continued indifference will only result in the repetition of past mistakes, while continuing to entrench in our politics and our society a culture that through its intransigence opts for regression over progress.

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Taylor Swift takes on Spotify while Keira Knightley takes on Kim Kardashian

Inherent Viceof the movie event the year

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DO THEY KNOW THEY’RE MILLIONAIRES? Do they know it’s Christmas time at all? Maybe, maybe not, but given that the majority of Ebolastricken West Africa claim Islam as their religion, they probably don’t care.

For the third time, a group of millionaire musicians have joined together to convince us to give them our money to help Africa. As the everyday person hands over their hard-earned wages, what do they get in return? A second cover, by a group of bad-tomediocre musicians, of an already bad song.

Of course, you shouldn’t really be looking for anything in return when donating to Africa or any other worthwhile cause. It’s when people who routinely earn more for one concert than your parents do in a year try to sell you a substandard product in order to enhance their image that the problem arises.

If you were to combine the net worth of just five of Band Aid 30’s participants (Bono, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Roger Taylor of Queen, Ellie Goulding and ringleader Bob Geldof), estimated by www. celebritynetworth.com, you get a pretty sum: $1.07 billion. Given that these five people are only a small minority of the participants, their insistence that it is we, not them, who donate to help fund the fight against Ebola, reeks of smug condescension.

The project, like the two Band Aid projects before it, has the classic white/Western saviour complex about it. It comes as no great surprise then that the two biggest perpetrators of this complex in popular culture, Bono and Bob Geldof, are at the centre of the project.

Bono, who has an estimated net worth of $600 million, is pop culture’s premiere neoliberal, selfserving philanthropist. Eyob Sellassie, the founder of Africa Aid Action criticised Band Aid and Bono for not working with grassroots organisations in Africa and thus, increasing African dependency on Western aid.

All-in-all, Bono and Band Aid’s endeavour to give our money, not their money, to Africa, adds further credence to Paul Theroux’s theory that people like Bono are “people who wish to convince the world of their worth.”

Throughout all three of its incarnations and for nearly 30 years now Band Aid has presented a myopic view of Africa. Of course they know it’s Christmas. There is a great deal of Christians in Africa and the Western world shoves it down the throat of those who may not know. Rapper Fuse ODG cited Band Aid’s negative image of Africa as the reason he rejected the opportunity to participate in this year’s version.

Morrissey famously called the original Band Aid “the most self-righteous platform in the history of popular music”, and he was right, although it seems that Bono and Geldof better themselves in terms of self-righteousness with iteration.

Africa needs help, it really does. So if you have the money to help, please donate to charities like Concern Worldwide or Trócaire instead of stroking the egos of narcissistic venture capitalists masquerading as musicians such as Finglas’ most self-serving export.

Odrán de Bhaldraithe

Arts Editor: Odrán de Bhaldraithe Deputy Arts Editor: Bryan Grogan

Lifestyle Editor: Orlaith Farrell Deputy Lifestyle Editor: Emma Dungan

26 November 2014 | the suss

sharp darts -James Franco’s band, Daddy, have announced their debut album, Let Me Get What I Want. The songs will be based on a series of poems, written

by Franco, inspired by The Smiths. Former Smiths bassist Andy Rourke will appear on every song. Each song will be accompanied by a video, which will form a film when watched in sequence.

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Interpol’s tour of America ground to a halt for a few days as the band’s tour bus got stuck in a blizzard in Buffalo, New York -We can all bless the rains with Toto at Vicar Street on May 23rd next year - if we’re lucky enough to grab a ticket when they go on sale on

James Franco has announced his debut album as part of the duo Daddy

Thursday 27th of November.

-Louise Gluck picked up the National Book Award for poetry on the fourth time of asking. The Pulitzer Prize winner was given the prestigious American-based award for her collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, at a reception in Cipriani Wall Street on November 19th.

-Interpol’s tour of America ground to a halt for a few days as the band’s tour bus got stuck in a blizzard in Buffalo, New York. The band survived, in part due to the fact that they live in their tour-bus anyway, though they were forced to cancel shows in Toronto and Montreal.

-Mike Nichols, director of

One Line J.U.S.T.I.C.E League campaigning for injustice, Rashida Jones continuing to be amazing and more dragons.

Daddy’s “This Charming Man”: Surprisingly really not terrible.

Band Aid 30: Just as bad as Band Aid and Band Aid 25.

Beyoncé’s “7/11”: Either Beyoncé listens to Future or Future wrote this song.

Jennifer Evans’ Works from the Dip and Foul: The voice!

The sound! The lyrics!; and all it took was four years.

Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, making a racist joke

The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of

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Director Mike Nichols passed away on November 19th aged 73

Virginia Woolf and Catch 22, passed away on November 19th at the age of 73. Nichols’ work stands testament to his sense of humour, warmth and intelligence, all of which remained with him for the extent of his life.

Odrán de Bhaldraithe Bryan Grogan Stephen Keegan

Squarehead’s 2025 video with Domhnall and Brian Gleeson: Cute as hell, and for charity too!

The trailer for Dragon Age: Inquisition: But I haven’t finished playing Skyrim yet.

Grand Theft Auto V in point-of-view mode: Won’t someone please think of the children?

J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League’s tweets about Bill Cosby: Damn, just stick to making beats for Rick Ross.

while hosting the National Book Awards: Is anyone funny onstage? Apart from comedians, Rashida Jones will obviously. co-write Toy Story 4 Rashida Jones cowriting Toy Story 4: A good decision for what would have probably been a bad decision for a sequel otherwise.

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the life and times of roger ebert The late Roger Ebert led a life worthy of any of the 10,000 films he reviewed in his 50 year career, the final moments of which are captured in Steve James’ just released documentary Life Itself. Ebert took film criticism to a new level, becoming the first film critic to be awarded The Pulitzer Prize, all the while battling alcoholism and depression.

He famously championed previously unheard voices from all walks of life such as

Martin Scorsese and Michael Moore and brought film criticism to the mainstream, championing a more informal, conversational style, often to the chagrin of his more high-minded peers.

James vividly captures these early years, with the memoir driven scenes obtaining a Kid Stays in the Picture feel, but it’s Ebert’s later years that hit hardest. Diagnosed with throat cancer in 2005, Ebert began to lose his ability to swallow or speak, and eventually had to have his lower jaw removed. Unable to present his show, chew food, walk and being forced to use a computer and keypad to speak, Ebert at times appears to be a mind trapped in a prison of a body. These moments are all the more unbearable knowing that this is a man whose words and voice were his greatest tools.

What is truly inspiring about Ebert though, and the film itself, is the man’s determination. Rather than waste away, he put his keyboard and computer to use. He continued to write reviews on his website with the same productivity and quality for which he was

the swift vs. spotify conundrum “I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators of this music,” said pop sensation Taylor Swift to Yahoo following her public refusal to support the music industry’s arguably most popular streaming service, Spotify.

The songstress initially refused to stream her new album 1989, but later made the decision to remove her entire catalogue from Spotify.

Swift is not the first to raise issues with the streaming

service - Radiohead’s Thom Yorke described it as, “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse” - alas, she’s the first

is not the “Swift first to raise issues with the streaming service

to take initiative.

It’s difficult to get the whole picture, but two things are very clear in this situation.

famous (all of which are available to view and online and are essential reading) even as his body dilapidated. The normally cold and distant Werner Herzog puts it perfectly: “He is a solider of cinema, who cannot even speak anymore and yet he ploughs on, that touches my heart immensely.”

James avoids presenting Roger as flawless. Harsh words are reserved for him by friends as well as rivals, with one old friend describing him as “a nice guy. Sometimes.”

One of the most fascinating aspects of Roger’s story was the relationship he shared with his co-host Gene Siskel.

The film unearths outtakes from their show wherein the two don’t share tension; so much as they are downright

First: Taylor Swift herself, her label, and several other artists feel that Spotify is doing the music industry a disservice.

Secondly: Spotify and its supporters would dissent regarding the way people are getting their music today and would argue that artists are benefitting from this kind of streaming rather than being cheated out of entitlements.

With over 50 million active users and 12.5 million paying subscribers, Spotify has gathered itself quite the fan base since its launch in 2008. For chart artists like Swift such numbers amount to decent rewards. According to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, based on projected audiences prior to pulling her music, Swift was on course to earn a whopping $6 million a year—unfortunately, the figure didn’t seem to cut it for the singer.

In Swift’s opinion, such

Steve James has created a documentary based on Roger Ebert’s memoir, Life Itself

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James avoids presenting Roger as flawless. Harsh words are reserved for him by friends as well as rivals, with one friend describing him as a “nice guy.

Sometimes” earnings are not nearly enough in perspective to her label’s efforts. She expressed such opinions in an interview with TIME Magazine, “I think there should be an inherent value placed on art. I didn’t see that happening, perceptionwise, when I put my music on Spotify”.

So basically what she’s saying is that her fans shouldn’t want to listen to her music for free? For artists who are just starting out, streaming services are certainly not enough to make a living from but for Swift, who reportedly made $40 million in 2013 alone, making her America’s highest paid artist according to Billboard, finance is not a major concern. Swift gives the impression that her music is so priceless that

hostile with each other.

Like life itself, the film is all the more heart-breaking due to the inevitability of the ending. Eventually even Roger’s hands give up, shortly after which he passed away. His legacy is immeasurable and thanks to his website and James’ film, we have him forever. Full of love, rivalry and passion, James’ film captures all of this. Mandatory viewing for fans of cinema.

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it shouldn’t be accessible to audiences in all locations and situations, thus helping her fan base grow.

Whether the singer likes it or not, there’s no denying that streaming services like Spotify are the future of music.

For someone with such an appreciation for her fans such a decision is rather contradictory, but she has made this one and it must be respected. In the meantime, fans can only estimate how long 1989 will remain at the top spot on pirate service, Grooveshark.

Scout Mitchell Taylor Swift caused ripples in the music world

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why inherent vice is going to be the film event of the year The Director Paul Thomas Anderson has shown himself to be pretty adept at adapting stories for the big screen, with his film There Will be Blood loosely based on the Upton Sinclair novel Oil! He’s also quite good at capturing an atmosphere, like in Boogie Nights, one of Anderson’s biggest successes, which takes in the story of Dirk Diggler who is conceived as one of the biggest stars of the Golden Age of Porn. He’s not opposed to transcending reality either, as seen when frogs fall from the sky in Magnolia and when the ensemble cast mystically sing Aimee Mann’s “Save Me” in unison.

The Plot A barely there kind of story, Inherent Vice is mostly concerned with the 60’s Zeitgeist and how the FreeLove Generation ended up bankrupt and being chased down by capitalist America. Like our main charac-

ter, P.I. Doc Sportello, we see everything happen through a layer of fog. Confusion reigns supreme as Sportello tries to track down the boyfriend of his ex-old lady, fighting motorcycle Nazis, police brutality and insidious Beach Boy-esque band members.

The story might seem a bit similar to The Big Lebowski on paper, but at the same time this is a story about the loss of community, triggered by the Manson family killings. It’s an investigation into all the little vices and paranoia’s that brought about the distrust and cynicism at the end of the best decade ever.

a similarly repressed character in Her and though there mightn’t be as many cringeworthy moments in Inherent Vice, Phoenix will have to dig deep to communicate the emotional struggles that lurk beneath Sportello’s glassy eyes and vacant expression.

We also get the opportunity to see Josh Brolin crack jokes, which is always pretty surreal, while Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon and a host of other big-name stars fill out the cast.

The Writer Pynchon will become one of the first major postmodernist writers to have his work The Cast adapted to the big screen. AlThis is Joaquin Phoenix’ though Inherent Vice doesn’t second film with Paul Thomas contain the kernel of PynAnderson and, though they chon’s work, it still remains seem to be building up a bit a big task to take on this of a rapport, any thoughts of project. His novels are known nepotism can be swept aside. for being pretty difficult, (he His character, Sportello, actively set out to induce spends the majority of the forgetfulness in readers while story fighting the comedown writing his 1,085 page tome at the end of the 60’s. This Against the Day) and have sounds pretty straight forslowly been shoved into the ward, but it isn’t. He played un-filmable category along-

side giants like Don Delillo or David Foster Wallace.

It’s going to be very interesting to see how Pynchon’s whimsical, but erudite tone translates and how Anderson portrays the metafictional aspects in his work. My guess is that the outcome will be something along the same lines as David Lynch’s Blue Velvet but with confusion, rather than fear or nerves, informing our interpretation.

Joaquin Phoenix stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice

The Music Jonny Greenwood returns to score his third Paul Thomas Anderson film, after There Will be Blood and The Master, bringing an unreleased Radiohead track “Spooks” with him.

The fact that Greenwood is an integral part one of the most innovative bands in the world is obviously a good sign that the soundtrack won’t be lacking.

Bryan Grogan

dcu music society raise €300 for temple street DCU Music Society raised €300 for Temple Street Children’s University Hospital during the society’s DCUrovision, the main event of DCU Music Week.

The event, styled after the Eurovision, took place on Wednesday, November 12th, and was the first of its kind in DCU. DCU Dance Society’s ID2 troupe, who performed River-

dance, and former Irish Eurovision contestant Mickey Joe Harte, were also on show on the night.

DCU Drama Society ended up as winners with their rendition of the Father Ted classic “My Lovely Horse” clinching top prize. In second place was the Media Production Society with their take on Moldova’s SunStroke Project

DCU Drama Society ended up as winners

and Olia Tira song “Runaway”, made famous by the viral “Epic Sax Guy” videos.

DCU Sober Society rounded out the top three.

Over 200 students were in attendance at The Venue at an event that Music Soc PRO Meg Dooley referred to as “a massive triumph”. She went on to say that “the committee are over-joyed with the turn out this year and hope to run with it again next year.”

In all, eleven societies took part in the competition, which also included a live stream from the “Greenroom” with presenters Seán Defoe, Gearóid Clesham and Heather Rainey.

A major coup for the event was the presence of Ireland’s 2003 Eurovision representative, Mickey Joe Harte. Famed for his own Eurovision hit “We’ve Got the World,” Harte performed four songs and

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Over 200 students were in attendance at The Venue for an event Music Soc PRO Meg Dooley referred to as “a massive triumph” was joined on stage by a large portion of the crowd by the

end of his set.

Music Soc’s Music Week took place from Monday, November 10th until Thursday, November 13th. Dooley pointed towards a SingStar competition, in conjunction with DCU’s Games Society, as the week’s most successful undertaking other than the DCUrovision.

Other events during the week included a céilí and a Facebook like competition to win a free spot on the society’s trip to Liverpool in the New Year.

Odrán de Bhaldraithe

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Interstellar Christopher Nolan In the near future, Earth is no longer able to support human life and the next generation will either starve due to lack of food or suffocate due to poisonous gasses from the atmosphere.

Earth’s only hope is to look to the stars for a new planet to call home.

Father of two and former pilot Coop (Matthew McConaughey) is given the chance to save the human race by his former professor (Michael Caine). By going through a wormhole

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The acting is superb as the McConaissance continues

placed there by “them”, along with the professor’s daughter (Anne Hathaway), they can In My Own Words Paul Galvin In the opening page of his new autobiography, In My Own Words, Paul Galvin admits that one of the toughest questions he can be asked is: What are you doing with yourself? A simple question to us, but a complicated answer for the footballing legend.

We already know a huge deal about the Kerry half-forward, but in his attempt at answering the question, we see a

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find new worlds. The catch is that years will have gone by when/if he returns.

Interstellar comes across as a typical Christopher Nolan film. He takes an epic adventure of the biggest scale imaginable but still manages to tell a real human story in the midst of it about desperation, discovery, abandonment and love.

The visuals are top quality, with the travel through the wormhole particularly impressive.

The acting is superb as the McConaissance continues.

McConaughey is brilliant in the role of the father missing his children grow up because he is ensuring they have a place to live in. Hathaway is good as the loved-up scientist, while Caine and Jessica Chastain put in respectable turns but don’t have as much screen time as the other two.

Where this film lives or dies, however, is not the plot, but how the plot unfolds.

The story itself is interesting,

original enough and genuPeople are familiar with inely relevant considering our black holes and wormholes so current situation of global warming. It’s one of those films that really stretches the line between science fiction and fantasy.

They are different. Fantasy is about things that can never occur but are fun to think about. Science fiction is usually based on theories about how to do things but just can’t be done yet. They might never they will accept their presence be done but at least there are even if they don’t understand ways to try and attempt it. them, but when they start

whole new side to the sports star.

In his book, Galvin not only tells, but shows us exactly what he has been doing, and what he shall continue to do with himself. The Lixnaw native illustrates his first appearance in Croke Park as a primary-school student while partaking in the Mini7s Primary Game Initiative, as a hurler, to his final appearance, in the 2013 All-Ireland Semi Final against Dublin, as a footballer – and everything

in between.

We see him growing up as a young boy on Penny Lane, witness him strive as a student in UCC and watch him battle and fight as a footballer throughout his footballing career for Kerry.

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Where this film lives or dies, however, is not the plot, but how the plot unfolds

talking about manipulating gravity for transport or time being a physical dimension that can be entered, the believability might be stretched a little bit too far. The ending will also be a moment of contention for many.

All in all, it is a visually pleasing, well acted, interesting space adventure that will have you debating it afterward, one way or the other.

Gavin Nolan

Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) with his daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy)

that helped him succeed at a county level. He speaks kindly of his Kerry teammates and the pivotal role they had in his career.

A page-turner full of unforgettable memories, the autobiography doesn’t completely concentrate on Paul Galvin himself. With a short chapter dedicated entirely to the late, inspirational Donal Walsh, it becomes very clear, very soon that Galvin isn’t one to concentrate on himself.

Admirably speaking of his In one short and poignant friends, his family, his wifesentence, he captures the to-be Louise, his classmates essence of the young man’s and his teammates, Galvin ambitions, saying “Donal depicts the most memorable Walsh didn’t defy death but moments of his lifetime so far. maybe he defied life.”

We see his fondness for his loAn impressive sportscal club, Finuge, and the men man, on a hurling and on a

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A page-turner full of unforgettable memories, the autobiography doesn’t completely concentrate on Paul Galvin himself

footballing level - with 45 full championship appearances, seven All Ireland final appearances, eight Munster final medals and four All Ireland medals – a three time All Star winner, Footballer of the Year title, a teacher, a fashion icon, an editor for Ireland’s biggest online men’s magazine joe. ie and now an established writer. There should only be one question that should pose a difficulty for Paul Galvin: what can’t you do?

It is no surprise that In My Own Words was shortlisted for RTÉ Radio 1’s John Murray Show Listeners’ Choice Award, alongside fellow sporting hero Brian O’Driscoll and Late Late Show rival Graham Norton, to name but a few.

It is a must-read for football fans.

Emily Crowley

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top five indulgent essentials for winter

The winter months have well and truly arrived so here is a list of the top five indulgent essentials you need to survive the cold run up to Christmas.

Lip Balm The cold weather can cause havoc with your lips and skin. It causes them to go dry and crack, which can be extremely painful. La RochePosay Cicaplast is a saviour for this. It repairs any breakage and keeps your lips moist for hours. It brands itself as a

“barrier repairing balm” and it does exactly what it says on the tin. It can be bought from any Boots store.

Moisturiser The skin unfortunately suffers the same damage as the lips do when it comes to colder weather. Cold weather can cause dry and flaky skin so

it’s important to keep moisturised.

E45 cream/ lotion is a simple and economical cream that keeps your skin moist without making it oily. The cream is slightly thicker but the lotion

26 November 2014 | the suss is an effective choice for an all over body moisturiser.

It is important to keep your face moist also and a small bit of the E45 cream can go a long way, just be careful not to use too much as this can clog your pores. This too can be bought in Boots and most pharmacies.

Travel Mug A travel mug is a great accessory when stepping out during these cold months. For the walk to college or work, this winter essential can keep your hands nice and toasty.

Not only will your hands be warm, but whatever hot liquid you choose to fill it with will warm up your stomach until you reach your destination.

If you have to go outside, a travel mug is a must. These can be bought almost anywhere including Penneys and Dealz.

Hot water bottle The perfect accompaniment to your onesie is a hot water bottle. Like a personal heater, it keeps you warm while you escape from the weather outside. All you have to do is boil the kettle and you’re ready to go. Again, these can be purchased from shops such as Dunnes Stores, Penneys and Tesco.

Onesie The perfect winter outfit is, of course, the onesie. Onesies are ideal for when you’re at home relaxing and it’s a cold one outside.

A onesie will keep you comfortable and cosy while making your Christmas list or getting your assignments done by the deadlines.

These can be bought in many different styles from animal print to superhero, whatever takes your fancy.

Penneys, Dunnes Stores and Boohoo have a wide range.

Pippa Doyle

paul costelloe for dunnes stores Earlier this month leading Irish fashion designer, Paul Costelloe, launched his new womenswear collection for Dunnes Stores.

Costelloe, who already has menswear, occasionwear and living collections within the store, unveiled the ‘studio’ collection which comprises signature and elegant pieces for the everyday, sophisticated woman.

The designer, who has been an influential figure in Irish fashion for more than 30 years, launched the ‘studio’ collection with intention

Paul Costelloe Living Studio Chiara Coat €295.00

of producing an affordable luxury.

On 13th November his ‘Living Studio’ collection was launched. It includes jeans, pencil skirts, leather bags and form-fitting jackets, but most notably coats. With the top price of 295 for the Chiara coat, the collection isn’t as budget friendly as the Savida or Dunnes Stores Signature collections, however the quality of the products appear to be far superior. By combining a mix of cashmere and wool, Costelloe achieves a luxurious, winter coat without breaking the bank.

Costelloe is highly regarded in Irish fashion and is considered one of Ireland’s most valued designers along with Philip Treacy, Louise Kennedy and Orla Kiely.

Speaking to the Irish Inde-

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The designer, who has been an influential figure in Irish fashion for more than 30 years, launched the ‘studio’ collection with intention of producing an affordable luxury

pendent, Costelloe remarked, “The question is whether we can attract that loyal Paul Costelloe customer to Dunnes Stores. I quite like that challenge.”

Paul Costelloe Living Studio Monica Sweater €35.00

Orlaith Farrell

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kim versus keira: the photoshop debate Last week the internet was indeed broken as Kim Kardashian revealed all on the front cover of Paper magazine. Hundreds of thousands of internet users were shocked to witness the provocative images of Kim K. However, what sparked the most controversy was the fact that the images were incredibly Photoshopped.

From her perfectly sphere derriere; to the magical champagne bottle that miraculously pours into the glass, it was pretty evident that the photos were extremely ‘retouched.’

Editor of Paper, Kim Hastreiter, explained to Digiday that “of course it was

Photoshopped. Do you really think that you can open a bottle of champagne and get it to spray in a thin line over someone’s head and land perfectly in a glass sitting on that same person’s bottom?”

And so the great Photoshop debate spread across the internet once again.

Organisations such as Bodywise, explained the negative effect that these images can have on young people. As Kim Kardashian is seen as a public and influential figure, youths can become obsessed with trying to morph their figure into something which is physically impossible.

Kim Kardashian’s controversial shoot

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t the beginning of the summer, I embarked on my journey back to Ireland after being given a taste of expat life for three years in the United States of America.

Keira Knightley posing topless for Interview magazine

In August, Keira Knightley agreed to pose topless for Interview magazine on one condition – the photo would be untouched and no Photoshop would be used. For years, Knightley has come under public criticism for her slim figure. She explained to The Times that, “I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s Moving at the age of fourteen to the land of green chile, hot air balloons, and Breaking Bad, I experienced a major culture shock as I started my first year of high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Despite being in school and the 3.80 million square miles of terrain open to exploration, I still managed to see a lot of the states. I could probably write a short novel on my travels, but fortunately for readers, I’ve decided to hone in on one extremely memorable experience: my road trip of relocating from Albuquerque to Portland, Oregon.

A 21 hour drive excluding traffic and sight seeing in a car with my other four family members, the pet fish, and the majority of our belongings does not paint a pretty picture. Having fallen in love with the New Mexican lifestyle, its stunning landscapes, and endless blue skies—I left with a heavy heart. Fortunately, the attractions of the famous West Coast and what came in between it were a welcome distraction.

We began our journey on Route 66 and eventually found ourselves in the seemingly unremarkable city of Flagstaff, Arizona. The Grand

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I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times... That shoot was where I said: ‘OK, I’m fine doing the topless shot so long as you don’t retouch Canyon stop the following day made up for its mediocrity.

Pictures do not do this landmark any justice. Described to me as “a massive hole in the ground” by an apathetic friend, I was slightly apprehensive in my expectations. However, its vastness and vivid colours were nothing less than spectacular.

From Arizona, we traveled on to sin city. For someone under 21, Las Vegas, Nevada does not have a lot to offer in the entertainment sector but in dining options it is not lacking—the breakfast buffet at The Bellagio was comparable to that of a Hogwarts feast.

Before reaching the final destination, a brief stay in two of California’s most famous cities Los Angeles, and San Francisco followed. A devout Gleek at the time, I was only delighted to see real life Sue Sylvester, Jane Lynch exiting a vegan cafe in downtown L.A and equally impressed with the movie-like, foggy drive over San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.

Nearing the end of the trip, we passed through the Shasta

paparazzi photographers or for film posters. That [shoot] was one of the ones where I said: ‘OK, I’m fine doing the topless shot so long as you don’t make them any bigger or retouch.’ Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.”

While Knightley’s image only became a phenomenon in the past couple of weeks, her stance on anti-Photoshop has proved successful.

Yet with personalities such as Kim Kardashian promoting the opposite side, it is apparent that the Photoshop struggle will continue to exist.

Orlaith Farrell mountains, and Eugene before making it to our new home in Portland. A city of hipsters, coffeeholics, and all things strange, the city’s laidback and positive vibe aided in it quickly becoming a second home. But I will admit I would trade the New Mexican weather for its cloudy skies or that of Ireland’s any day.

While any stay in America wouldn’t be long enough to see it all, my many road trips and daily life in the two states I lived in gave me enough insight to realize I loved life in America and whether or not I return, I will remember my experience for years to come.

Scout Mitchell

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college hacks to prevent the piling pounds As we all start to spend a little more time on campus trying to get those pesky Christmas assignments done and dusted, the temptation to ‘reward’ ourselves with munch for managing to stay a whole hour in the library and only going on Facebook 3 times is a hard one to resist, but alas people we must. As we all know, the Starbucks counter is very difficult to resist. The smell of hot lattes wafting through the air and heated double chocolate muffins is enough to drive anyone crazy.So here are 10 little hacks to curtail that college cushion.

1. This one is a real pain. Take the stairs in the multi-story car park. You can do it. Work them buns.

2. Get your latte, don’t punish yourself for God’s sake – but get it with skinny milk. Guarantee you won’t notice the difference.

3. No cream on your hot

chocolates guys and gals.

4. A ”tall”, is not that small – make do.

5. Resist the strategically positioned snack bars and packets of crisps at the counter.

6. Bring a lunch with you to college. You’ll avoid the temptation of the ‘bakedgoods’ section in the canteen.

7. Next time you want to order chips for your dinner, swap them for sweet potato fries. So. much. better.

8. Cut out the Coke, Diet Coke and Coke Zero. Face it. None of them are doing you any favours.

9. Gals, get on the vodka and soda water buzz.

10. Boys, get off the beer buzz and onto the vodka buzz.

(The Ed Sheeran diet.)

Emma Dungan

mantalk: an unimaginable world

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uring reading week I was part of a water and public health brigade to Honduras with Global Brigades. This is a country like you cannot imagine. A country where the sky opens up for months on end to wash the land clean, then the sun bakes the mud and from this baked mud they make adobe houses to live in. These are mud huts with mud floors and battered doors, where wasps and flies burrow into the brickwork to make their home in each house. And the red soils seep into the rivers so it seems like

the whole country is bleeding out. Which it is.

This is a country with the ability to create life but without the means to sustain it.

The whole country is crying out for clean water. The average income is three dollars a week per family, which forces people to take out loans to create water systems like the one we were lucky enough to finish, so that the first thing their children do every morning isn’t walk to the nearest stream to gather ten gallons of dirty water.

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top tips for the perfect fake tan Considering we are now approaching the Christmas season and many of us fear the thought of bearing our pale, Irish legs in this Baltic climate, now has never been a better time to perfect our faketanning routine.

By following these simple tips, you’ll be left with legs that rival Miranda Kerr’s, and avoid looking like Ross Geller’s post-tan disaster.

This is a country where a little is a lot to almost the entire population. And they even offer what little they have to you when you enter their homes. The children don’t care that we don’t speak their language, they still want to play and sing and hold hands with us. The only reward they could offer us was gods blessing.

And then we return home, with the burden of white guilt lifted from our group momentarily and we talk about all the good things we did until our friends are bored of our stories because they can’t relate.

They don’t know what it’s like to have no toilets or floors or

Hair removal It’s always best to wax or shave 24 hours before applying your fake tan. If you don’t, you could be left with red, irritated skin.

Exfoliate and moisturise This should also be done 24 hours before tanning. Exfoliating gloves are an essential for preparing your skin for a flawless tan. Try use shower gel as greasy exfoliators can mess up your tan. Once you’ve exfoliated be sure to moisturise from top-to-toe.

Pay particular attention to your wrists, elbows, knees, ankles, and any areas that may be prone to dry skin.

Preparation Apply Vaseline to your eyebrows and around your hair line to avoid the tan from clumping in these areas. If you have dry skin apply a small amount of moisturiser to dry areas but be sure to let it fully sink in before tanning.

Applying a coat of clear nail varnish to your nails will help to avoid discoloured nails.

clean water. And neither did we, to be honest.

Volunteering on this brigade was hard work (it’s really tough mixing cement in 40 degree heat), but it is the best thing I ever did, in college or otherwise.

While

Tanning Grab a tanning mitt or latex gloves and your favourite tan and apply. Start with your feet and work upwards. Once you have tanned your body, use a small amount to tan your hands or face. If you use a tanning mitt, lightly brush over your face and hands without applying more tan to the mitt.

Drying Avoid putting clothes on until the tan is dry, then throw on loose, dark clothing. Leave tan on for about 8 hours before showering.

Our top three recommended tans: Coco Brown 1 hour tan: €7.99. Cheap & cheerful with a great result. bBold self-tan lotion: €18.95. An even base which leaves no streaky residue.

St Tropez selftanning bronzing mousse: €42.99. The ultimate fake tan product.

Clare Brennan Lauren Healy the fundraising may seem daunting, just think about the end result.

Chris Kennedy

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THE COLLEGE VIEW│Wednesday 26 November 2014

Gaeilge

HeadstARTS agus fiontair shóisialta eile faoi bhláth Barra Ó Scannláin

le háit eile a thabhairt do dhaoine faoi míchumas a gcuid talainne a fhorbairt, agus bheith i gcuideachta a chéile, gan iallach orthu páirt a ghlacadh i spórt.

Beagnach dhá bhliain níos DEIRTEAR nach bhfuil sárú moille agus tá HeadstARTS, dá ar fáil ar gháire a bhaint as dubhfuil feicthe agamsa, faoi ráth ine inteacht; cuireann sé tú féin agus tá ag éirí go breá leis an tionag gáire fosta, agus oibríonn an scadal fiúntach seo. Tá an lá ag rud uilig mar rotha. Cruthaíonn druidim nuair a chuimhneoidh sonas sonas, agus cruthaíonn na rannpháirtithe m’ainmsa, lúcháir lúcháir. Sin an tuairim ar ach faoi láthair is leor dom go a dtáinig mé agus mé ag dul na n-aithníonn siad m’aghaidh agus bhaile i ndiaidh mo chéad seisiún iad ag teacht isteach an doras.

HeadstARTS. Oíche fhliuch ghruTá sé furast le feiceáil go mbainama a bhí ann, bhí mé báite, bhí eann na rannpháirtithe fíoran bháisteach ag teacht isteach sult agus leas as teacht isteach fríd bhoinn na mbróg, ach bhí mé achan seachtain; bíonn siad ag ar mo shaimhín só. Fuaimníonn dúil go mór leis an tseisiún agus sin santach, agus cé go bhfuil sé téann siad amach an doras ag fíor go gcuireann HeadstARTS 8 a chlog ag mothú gur bhain sonas ar na deonaigh, ní sin an siad rud inteacht amach, agus tuige gur cuireadh ar bun é. bhain. Ag deireadh na bliana Fiontar sóisialta atá in Headcuireann HeadstARTS taispeánstARTS, a thugann cumhacht do tas na Nollag ar siúl sa Helix, a dhaoine faoi míchumas intleachthugann seans do achan duine ta fríd na healaíona. I measc na taispeáint dá gcairde, dá dtuistí, ngnéithe a chlúdaíonn siad, tá dá gcúramóirí, agus daofa féin, ealaín, rince, dramaíocht, agus caidé a d’fhoghlaim siad, caidé a ceol. Liam Redmond, iar-mhac chruthaigh siad, agus caidé mar léinn Fiontar, atá ag obair anois a d’fhorbair siad i rith na bliana.

I mbliana ‘sí Katie Mannion, mac léinn ghnó sa dara bhliain, atá i gceannas ar an chraobh OCBÁC. Chuir sí suim sa tionscadal agus í sa chéad bhliain, mar “nár leor léachtanna agus tascanna” di. “Thosaigh mé ag glacadh páirte sa rang damhsa agus gan mhoill bhí mé á theagasc. Bliain amháin ina diaidh cuireadh mé i mbun na craoibhe.” Dar léi, an rud is fearr faoi ná aithne a chur ar na rannpháirtithe. “Cruthaíonn muid gaolta gairide leis an oiread sin daoine tréitheacha a thagann fríd ár ndoirse gach Máirt. Tá gach uile duine acu speisialta agus tógann siad croíthe ár ndeonach. Níl deighilt ar bith le mothú idir na rannpháirtithe agus na deonaigh; oibríonn muid uilig le chéile san ealaín, damhsa agus dráma,” ar sise.

Labhair mise le Emer Ní Bhrádaigh, léachtóir le fiontraíocht anseo in OCBÁC, mar gheall ar HeadstARTS agus éachtaí na hollscoile s’againne ó thaobh na fiontraíochta de. “Is cuimhin liom go maith an lá ar tháinig an bunaitheoir Liam Redmond isteach i m’oifig ag fiosrú an bhféadfadh sé fiontar sóisialta seachas fiontar chun brabúis a bhunú,” ar sise. Cuireann sí síos I measc na ngnéithe a chlúdaíonn HeadstARTS, tá ealaín, rince, dramaíocht, agus ceol.Credit: Enactus DCU ar Liam mar a chuirfeá síos ar Leas-Eagarthoir Gaeilge @barryscanlon

le Enactus Éireann mar chlárbhainisteoir, a chuir tús le HeadstARTS in OCBÁC sa bhliain 2012.

Mar chuid dá chéim, Gaeilge agus Gnó, b’éigean do Liam comhlacht nó fiontar a bhunú. Agus é ina oibrí deonach le blianta anuas, ag obair le Cluichí Oilimpeacha Speisialta Éireann, chinn sé dul sa treo sin arís. Dar le Redmond, tá 27,500 daoine in Éirinn faoi míchumas intleachta, agus níl ach 11,000 ina mbaill de Chluichí Oilimpeacha Speisial-

ta Éirinn. Mar sin, fágtar thart faoi 15,000 gan bhealach amach dá gcuid cruthaitheachta. Tá sé mar aidhm ag HeadstARTS dul i ngleic leis an easpa bainte seo.

Tá sé ráite ag Redmond nach fear spóirt é, ach siocair go raibh sé ag iarraidh cuidiú le daoine faoi míchumas, thosaigh sé féin ag teagasc cispheile daofa.

Mar sin féin, bhain sé úsáid as na hacmhainní agus na scileanna sna healaíona atá breá flúirseach ar an champas s’againne

Fiontar sóisialta atá in HeadstARTS, a thugann cumhacht do dhaoine faoi míchumas intleachta fríd na healaíona

fhiontraí ar bith eile, ach tá seisean mar chuid de dhream fiontriathe speisialta: fiontraithe sóisialta. “Níl siad dírithe ar an airgead - tá siad dírithe ar na deiseanna agus na féidirtheachtaí. Seasann siad amach ó dhaoine eile. Agus sin atá uainn ó chéimithe Fiontar, agus DCU i gcoitinne.”

Seasann a bhfuil ráite aici leis an smaointiú gur OCBÁC an ollscoil is nuálaí in Éirinn, agus níl dabht ar bith ann ach gur fíor di.

“Tá polasaí ar leith ag OCBÁC an fhiontraíocht a chothú i measc na mac léinn - fiontraíocht chun brabúis agus fiontraíocht shóisialta,” arsa Ní Bhrádaigh. Dar léi, tá tábhacht ar leith ag baint leis an fhiontraíocht sa tsochaí, agus go bhfuil ról lárnach ag fiontraithe sa lá atá inniu ann. “Feiceann fiontraithe bealach níos fearr le tabhairt faoi rudaí, agus tugann siad faoi iad féin. Ní fhanann siad thart ag fanacht ar dhaoine eile é a dhéanamh. Tá fuinneamh ag baint leo; bíonn físeanna acu.”

Is fíor gur fiontar sóisialta é HeadstARTS, mar is eol d’achan duine, ach má amharcann tú thart tá lear mór fiontair shóisialta inár measc i ngan fhios dúinn.

Chuir Emer seo in iúl domhsa, “ Is fiontraíocht atá i gceist le bunú an Sober Soc.” Ní shílfeá riamh é, ach rud inteacht mar sin, a fheiceann muid go laethúil, nó a bhíonn os ár gcomhair an t-am uilig, thiocfadh leis bheith ina fhiontar sóisialta.

FOCLÓIR fiontraíocht = entrepreneurship

rannpháirtithe = participants

míchumas intleachta = intellectual disability

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Todhchaí mhórthaibhseach á chruthú le Student Slingshot Caoimhe Ní Chathail Eagarthoir Gaeilge @caoimhechats

CHRUINNIGH 150 mac léinn

na tíre seo i gCaisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath ar an 18 Samhain. ‘Student Slingshot’ a bhí mar ainm ar an ócaid agus an aidhm aige staid a thabhairt do na mic léinn buaileadh le heiseamláirí de chuid mórán gairm éagsúla. Bhí aíonna speisialta ag caint faoi a rogha ábhair agus b’iomaí an oiread teagmhalaithe in aon seomra amháin. Bhí gach rud a chlúdach acu, le plé ar a leithéid de spás, dlí agus dearadh.

Chuir idir Katie Mannion agus an tAire Gerald Nash tús leis an oíche. Mac léinn de chuid OCBÁC í Katie Mannion le teideal oifigiúil mar ‘Cheannasaí Caidreamh Mac Léinn’. Ón Roinn Post, Fiontar agus Nuálaíochta a thagann an tAire Nash, aoí oiriúnach don oíche i gceist.

Cuireadh an chéad chomhrá ar siúl ina dhiaidh, leis an grúpa scartha ina trí bhraisle, ag plé topaic an cheann. Margaíocht Digiteach, Fiontraíocht agus Infheistiú Maoinithe ábhair phléite an 20 noiméad sin. D’fhreastal mé féin ar chomhrá faoin Mhargaíocht Digiteach. Jane McDaid ó Thinkhouse, Niall McGarry ó Maximum Media, Kieran Flanagan ó Hub Spot, David Walker ó Subrosa agus Aileen Power

ó Wolfgang Digital a shuí linn.

Chuir siad ar fad béim ollmhór ar an tábhacht atá ann go dtuigfeá an sochaí atá amuigh ansin, go háirithe i measc daoine óga. Mar a mhínigh Niall McGarry, is orainne atá na brandaí móra dírithe agus mar sin cé a thuigfeadh níos fearr muid ach muid féin? Phlé an braisle an dul chun cinn mórthaibhseach sa Mhargaíocht Digiteach agus mhol siad a bheith ag coinne leis an fhorbairt ar fad.

B’fhéidir gur an t-ábhar a chuir mé féin an méid is mó suime ann ná láithreas an lanúin a bhunaigh ‘Boojum’. Tá aithne ag gach mac máthair ar an bhialann iontach sin faoin am seo agus labhair John agus Karen Blissard maidir le fás orgánach gnó s’acu.

Bhí an bheirt acu páirteach sa phainéal a phléigh comhairle a mbeadh acu do ‘Generation Y’.

B’fhéidir nach rud a smaoineodh láithreach faoi ach tar éis dom freastal ar an chomhrá maidir leis an chuidiú go féidir le dearadh tabhairt d’oideachas an chéad ghliúin eile, fuair mé léargas ar an dearcadh sin. Bhí sé an-suimiúil éisteacht lena leithéid den dearthóir Fabian Strunden atá ag iarraidh dreoilíní teaspaigh a thabhairt do pháistí chun aird s’acu a dhíriú ar chothú sláintiúil. Sin a bhí mar aidhm leis an ocáid ag deireadh an lae; tú a chur ag machnamh.

Chuaigh Jane Babb, dlíodóir de chuid Arthur Coxx go mór i

bhfeidhm orm, mar aoí de chuid an comhrá ar Dhlí agus mar chainteoir deiridh na hoíche.

An comhairle a bhí aici don slua ná tús a chur le rud inteacht agus é sin a dhéanamh go hanmhaith. Chuirfeadh sí fonn ar an duine ba éighníomhach iarracht a dhéanamh sa saol mór.

Oíche lán comhluadar, teagmhálaithe agus spreagadh a bhí ann agus cinnte gur todhchaí mhórthaibhseach atá á chruthú againn lena leithéid d’ocáidí agus ‘Student Slingshot’.

Téann uathachas i bhfeidhm ar pháiste amháin as gach 166 páiste.Credit: Blogspot.com

TÁ tionchar ag uathachas ar fhor-

bairt shóisialta, ar shamhlaíocht agus ar scileanna cumarsáide an duine.

Téann uathachas i bhfeidhm ar pháiste amháin as gach 166 páiste agus ar pháiste amháin as gach 100 páiste fireann. Téann

eiseamlairí = role models mórthaibhseach = impressive machnamh = contemplation

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ABACAS Droichead Átha Áine Marie Ní Mhainicháin Ranníocóir @ainemonk

FOCLÓIR

an t-uathachas i bhfeidhm ar chúig oiread buachaillí nó cailíní.

De ghnáth, feictear na comharthaí i measc páistí níos óige ná 3 bhliain d’aois. Is iad na gnáth-thréithe a bhaineann leis an neamhord seo ná easpa cainte, gan an cumas a bheith ábalta féachaint isteach i súile an duine eile, a gcéadrogha a bheith ina aonair in ionad i gcuideachta daoine eile agus riachtanas céadfach difriúla.

Bunaíodh ‘ABACAS School for Children with Autism’ i nDroichead Átha sa bhliain 2003. Bhunaigh grúpa tuismitheoirí an scoil chun oideachas a chur ar fáil dá gcuid páistí a bhí uathachas acu.

‘Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA)’ an córas atá i bhfeidhm sa scoil acu agus feictear go bhfuil sé oiriúnach go maith do na daltaí.

Thug an Roinn Oideachais stádas oifigiúil don scoil sa bhliain 2010. Bíonn na ceachtanna dírithe ar pháiste amháin ag an am, chomh maith le tacaíocht a fháil ó thuismitheoirí. Bíonn aidhmeanna ag daltaí agus na múinteoirí ann maidir le scileanna sóisialta agus cumarsáide, neamhspleáchas agus iom-

praíocht. Baineann na haidhmeanna seo leis an gcóras ABA. Freastlaíonn 30 dalta ar an scoil i nDroichead Átha faoi láthair, go mór mar gheall ar an scoil nua. D’fhreastal idir 5-15 ar an scoil sna blianta tosaigh.

Bíonn eachtraí, grúpaí sóisialta agus tacaíocht eagraithe ag cathaoirleach ABACAS, Jacinta Walsh. Ta club óga curtha ar fáil do pháistí agus daoine óga leis an uathachas. Freastlaíonn páistí atá níos mó ná 8 mbliana d’aois ar an gclub chuile Sathairn i nDroichead Átha. Is féidir leis na baill a scíth a ligean agus bualadh le daoine nua in áit shuaimhneach.

Téann an grúpa chuig an pictiúrlann, ar turais, ag babhláil nó chuile rud atá na baill ag iarraidh a dhéanamh ar an Sathairn. Tugann an club seo seans do dhaoine a bheith níos sóisialta agus níos neamhspleách agus iad ag roghnú gníomhaíochtaí iad féin.

Cuirtear cúrsaí ar fáil trí scoil ABACAS do thuismitheoirí, daoine gairmiúla agus feighlithe chun cabhair níos fearr a thabhairt do pháistí agus daoine óga atá an t-uathachas orthu.

Chomh maith, cruthaítear scéim nua do dhaoine óga atá an t-uathachas orthu. Tá an obair seo déanta ag ‘Praxis Care’, ‘HSE Louth Disability Services’, ‘The Genio Trust’, ‘Autism Support

Louth and Meath’ agus ‘ABACUS School for Children with Autism, Drogheda’.Tugann an scéim seo deiseanna dóibh scileanna a fhoghlaim agus a fheabhsú nuair a fhágann siad an mheánscoil. Bíonn seans acu a bheith páirteach sa phobal áitiúil.

Tá ABACAS ag iarraidh airgead a bhailiú chun trealamh riachtanach a cheannach don scoil nua. Má tá suim ag duine ar bith tiomsaitheoir airgid a eagrú ar son an eagraíocht charthanúla seo, téigh go www.autismsupportlouth.com.

FOCLÓIR uathachas = autism

eagraíocht charthanúla = charitable organisation

neamhspleáchas = independence

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Features

The beauty of Beijing Róisín Nestor Contributor

Róisín talks about the exquisite beauty of Beijing, its vibrant markets and how to get the best out of its rich culture.

28 hours on planes. 1 visa (emer-

you’ll miss out on the exquisite, so I accepted the staring (but not so much the spitting) as I immersed myself in the nightlife, markets and travelling.

With an increase of university students coming to study in Beijing, there’s plenty of bars and nightclubs to choose from. When you’re the only western people in the nightclub, you become a novelty. Our Asian admirers bought us fruit platters and shots on fire. At one stage we even had groups of people copying our dance moves. It’s bizarre but extremely fun. Be smart though, not all people are so welcoming to internationals, pickpocketing, racism and sometimes even violence can occur.

Nothing can prepare you for the Chinese markets and the constant shouting of “MICHAEL KORS PURSE? I’LL GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE PRETTY LADY!” It’s a haven of counterfeit goods; Nike Free Runs, Ray Bans, Michael Kors. One of the women in the Silk Market assured me “China does the best copies in

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gency booked). 1,267 portions of noodles eaten. 10 wonderful days.

As part of our work with Enactus DCU and social entrepreneurship, fellow DCU student Katie Mannion and I were awarded a bursary by KPMG to travel to the Enactus World Cup in Beijing. We met with students and business leaders from across the world and afterwards had the opportunity to absorb all Beijing had to offer.

I’d heard how different China would be in comparison to Ireland but nothing had prepared me for the culture shock or the beauty I was about to experience.

Western people are a rare sight in Beijing, I can’t describe the unusual feeling of people queuing to take photos with you or people photographing you and wandering off. Spitting is also completely acceptable and it occurs everywhere, you just have to get used to it.

If you focus on the unusual

the world” and it’s certainly true.

The Silk Market is where tourists mainly go but the Yashow Market is much cheaper and you’ll pick up a greater range of souvenirs.

When you are ready to ditch the markets and nightclubs, prepare to be culturally enriched at three spots to knock off your travel bucket list; Summer Palace, the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.

The Summer Palace is a beautiful gem, nestled in the mountains overlooking a spectacular lake. It was built as an imperial garden for royal families to relax in and escape the heat of the Forbidden City during the warm summers. Panoramic views, temples and gardens await you. It is well worth the trek to the Buddhist Temple, situated at the very top, to get a view of the entire area.

The Forbidden City looks even better in real life than in Mulan. The carved archways, buildings, sculptures and overall allure of the Forbidden City is

beyond comparison. Inside the Hall of Supreme Harmony you’ll see the Emperor’s golden dragon throne, it’s as impressive as it sounds! Peer into the different halls to see the extravagance of the Ming and Qing dynasties that ruled here for almost five centuries.

The Great Wall is one of the many historic sites in China that will humble you. Many of the workers who died building the wall are buried within it.

Although Badaling is the most visited part of the Great Wall, request your taxi driver or tour guide to go to Mutianyu part of the Great Wall. It’s significantly quieter and you can take in the spectacular views with a cable car on the way up and whizz down in a toboggan.

Not everything is rose-tinted though. You’ll feel extremely annoyed as taxis drive past you because you’re western. There’s severe pollution and a clear sense of the power the Government have. However every country has disadvantages and these

differ depending on the place.

It’s both refreshing and intimidating to visit somewhere like Beijing. Travel should be about experiencing a culture so different that it gives you a new perspective and broadens your mind.

Beijing you stole my heart and various belongings but I’ll forgive you.

In short: Do: Visit as much sights as possible. Haggle viciously at the markets. Visit Club Mix. Watch for pickpockets. Download a VPN to access Facebook/Google/emails. Write where you are staying and all destinations in Chinese as virtually no taxi drivers speak or read English.

Don’t: Drink ‘vodka’ from a 5litre plastic drum. Expect taxis to have seat belts. Go to public toilets. Expect cars to obey the traffic lights. Get scammed by taxis.

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Features

Band Aid 30: We all know that it’s Christmas Catherine Devine Features Editor @Catherinedevin1

RECENTLY Bob Geldof and

his team released the newest version of “Do they know it’s Christmas?” 30 years after its first release. I’m pretty sure the Africans know that it is Christmas time by this stage.

Releasing the single on the X Factor guaranteed the perfect audience of pop culture-crazed teens with profits reaching 1 million by the end of the show.

Profits are to go to West Africa to help deal with the Ebola outbreak.

While it became the fastest-selling single of 2014, with more than 206,000 copies sold on the first day, it received much criticism in the media.

Artists such as Adele and Fuse ODG turned down the opportunity to appear in the video alongside artists such as One Direction, Olly Murs and Bono.

The fact that some of the lyrics were changed in an attempt to modernise the song seemed to be a problem. Fuse ODG claimed that he turned down the opportunity as the lyrics were “not in line” with the positive message of the New Africa movement.

Tensions were also expected to be high on set, with Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding and Niall Horan all in the same

Catherine Devine asks if it’s about time that we tire the ceaseless track. room, singing merrily. Allegedly Goulding cheated on Sheeran last year with Horan, inspiring Sheeran’s hit song ‘Don’t’. You can imagine the awkwardness of the reunion.

The video was also criticised for its gory images of a dead, Ebola-stricken woman being lifted from her bed. The woman is left without dignity and it was broadcast on the X Factor, which many children were watching. However, Geldof retaliated by saying that it is important to show what is really going on in Africa.

Geldof’s team also came under fire over the proceeds with many claiming that most of the money was not going to Africa at all. It was also suggested on Sky News that if the artists taking part in the song paid their taxes properly then we wouldn’t need a charity single like this one.

Geldof responded by saying that it was a ‘load of bollocks’ and the interview was quickly shut down.

It would seem that Band Aid has outlived its purpose and that many have grown tired of the track. With 30 years having passed since its initial release it may be time to retire the song. At the end of the day though, these stars coming together to release the charity single have raised

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huge funds and while all of it may not reach Africa, they have still made a difference. While humming along to the ceaseless

track this Christmas it may be best to focus on that.

Muhammad Yunus: when injustice seeks the just Fionnuala Jones Contributor

ON October 18, DCU recognised

the world’s leading social entrepreneur Professor Muhammad Yunus by awarding him an Honourary Doctorate.

The 74-year-old Nobel Peace Laureate founded the Grameen Bank and pioneered microfinancing – the concept of giving small loans to those too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus also serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation.

However, in 2011, the Bangladesh government fired Yunus from his role at Grameen Bank, citing legal violations and an age limit on his position. Yunus is appealing the position.

How was a healthy able man, who a month prior had co-founded a global social initive project allowed to be ousted from his own organisation?

Allegations of embezzlement and loan sharking have plagued Yunus since 2010. Danish film maker Tom Heinemann alleged in his documentary, Caught in Micro Debt, diverting 7 billion taka (about $100 million) given by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation from Grameen Bank to another organisation in 1996. Though NORAD went on to clear Yunus of any wrong doing, the story was widely spread by the Bangladeshi media.

“Rather than first seeking clarification and response from Grameen Bank as to the validity of the TV programme, the media and society pounced on it with unseemly enthusiasm, using it as an opportunity to cite wrongdoing,” Bangladeshi economist, Rehman Sobhan, commented.

The Bangledeshi government has proven to be Yunus’ biggest opposition, despite owning a 25 per cent stake in the bank. Yunus attempted to found his own political party in 2007, much to the upset of Prime Minister

Sheikh Hasina. The government launched an investigation in 2011 into Grameen Bank’s activities, despite the bank being cleared by the Norweigian government of all allegations of misused funds. This fuelled suspicion that the attacks might be politically motivated.

Hasina accused Prof Yunus of treating Grameen Bank as his “personal property” and claimed that it was “sucking blood from the poor”. The Friends of Grameen group alleged that Prof Yunus had been subjected to “politically orchestrated” and “increasingly aggressive” attacks.

People began to question the effectiveness of microfinance and microfinance institutions (MFIs). Policies of coercion, peer pressure and harassment were reportedly enforced in some specific MFIs. This, on top of Grameen’s reported 23 per cent interest rate and tax free status, though the latter has recently been removed, has undermined Yunus’ and Grameen’s credibility.

At 72, he was 12 years beyond the legal retirement age for civil servants in Bangladesh in 2011.

Government spokespersons called for Yunus to step down and declared: “We need to redefine the bank’s role and bring it under closer regulation.”

Muzammel Huq, the government-appointed chair of Grameen Bank publicly criticised

Yunus, saying: “I think he is a good man with a small heart ...

He cannot give credit to anyone but himself.”

Despite his ousting, Yunus has continued his crusade against social injustices, most recently calling on Obama to release a report by the US Senate into the use of torture in the early years of the War on Terror.

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THE COLLEGE VIEW│Wednesday 26 November 2014

Features

Dublin’s pickpockets profit from our lack of awareness Gavin O’Callaghan Contributor

IT’S Thursday evening at Abbey

St. Luas stop and passengers endure a numbing wind while waiting to board. As the tram pulls up, congestion builds with it.

At the back of the queue waiting to board stands a young girl, wheelie bag in hand, eager to catch her train from Connolly. She checks the time on her phone and places it back in her jacket pocket as she minds her step onto the tram.

The bell sounds and the doors proceed to shut, she looks down to see a hand in her pocket that isn’t hers. Before she has a chance to react the doors close and on the other side stands a man with a new iPhone and a grin.

Many people see the incident but stand helpless as the doors remain closed and the tram pulls off to the despair of this young girl. A couple of seconds was all it took for her to lose the most valuable item in her possession.

With Christmas holidays drawing closer, a higher number of potential victims will be taking to the streets. Many of them will be unwittingly paying Christmas bonuses to the opportunists loitering in our city centre.

A wallet or purse is no longer a top priority for the common pick-pocket. An iPhone 6 can be sold second hand from 450- 600 with similar prices set for a Samsung Galaxy S4 and many other smart phones. These are much easier to snatch than a purse or wallet. A quick glance around any of Dublin’s public transport facilities and you will notice countless phones in hands, on laps and bouncing in and out of pockets with no caution as to who may be observing.

Over 12,000 phones worth an estimated €5 million were reported stolen to Gardaí in 2013 showing a 33 per-cent increase since 2011. The Mirror newspaper also reported that ¤10,800 worth of phones were snatched in one night by a gang during a gig at Vicar Street on January 27th 2013.

Sgt Alan Rougheen of the National Crime Prevention Unit said that smart phone users need to be more vigilant, particularly as we come into the Christmas season when we are more likely to be out socialising. ‘’All too

A couple of seconds is all it takes to lose your most valuable possessions on the streets of Dublin often we see smart phones worth hundreds of euro being left out on tables in bars, nightclubs, cafés and restaurants while people chat, and this makes it very easy for criminals to simply walk past and steal them. People should also avoid using their phones while walking on the street as it means you are distracted and won’t be able to react to prevent your device being taken from you mid-sentence.”

Tourists are also more vulnerable as their unfamiliarity with new surroundings works against them. The American Embassy reports that around 200 of its citizens’ passports are lost or stolen each year when visiting Dublin.

TV3 documentary ‘Ireland’s Pick Pockets’ illustrates how

simply a theft can be executed and highlights tactics used by criminals in order to avoid arrest. The more organised gangs will pass goods on within seconds of taking them in order to be completely free of stolen items, this makes it impossible to arrest them on the spot.

According to the CSO, the amount of reported thefts from a person has risen from 2,691 to 6,521 since 2009. This is a 142% percent increase. The Gardaí have arrested more than 1,100 people throughout the year in separate undercover operations.

Of the 1,100 arrests made, 610 were Romanian while another 100 people were from different countries such Bulgaria and Algeria. The rest were Irish citizens. Senior Garda Officials

say there “seems to be no end” to the problem of foreign nationals regularly being brought to their attention.

The spike in Dublin thefts came in sync with London’s hosting of the Olympic Games in summer of 2012. It was originally thought that criminals would travel to London and by the time the games were drawn to a close, many of the opportunists would have moved on to the next event. This has not been the case according to Gardaí Deputy Inspector Michael Cryan.

The talent and expertise shown by the gangs who engage in this activity draw a disturbing conclusion that many more are benefiting greatly without facing any kind of consequence.These and many other arrests have

prompted Gardaí to inform the public to take more precautions.

On their website they give many tips on how people can avoid being targeted. They advise you take note of your phone’s unique IMEI number which is found on the back of the phone, or can be retrieved by dialling *#06#.

Although it’s of an uninspiring standard, they also have a recreational video depicting actors and actresses having their phones easily removed from their grasps as ‘’thieves’’ make their getaways at an almost stationary pace. But like the third pair of socks on Christmas day, it’s the thought that counts.

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A swipe for awareness Jade O’Leary Deputy Features Editor @ JadeOdette_

UNLESS you’ve been living

under a rock for the last two years, you will be familiar with an app called Tinder. The online dating service’s popularity keeps on growing, with more and more people joining it every day. Whether you’re looking for friendship, romance or a bit of fun, Tinder is the place to be.

It’s a very light-hearted process, a simple swipe right to ‘like’ the person who pops up on your screen, or a swipe left for a prompt ‘see ya l8r m8’. It’s all just a bit of craic - more of a game than an in depth search for ‘da wun’. People swipe until they can swipe no more.

But what if something more sinister is lurking behind that seriously attractive young lady/ man that you just matched with?

What if their face has been put up there against their will? What if they are underage, physically abused and forced to meet up with strangers for sex?

According to Denise Charl-

Jade O’Leary looks at the innovative new anti-sex trafficking campaign launched earlier this month. ton, Chief Executive of the Immigrant Council of Ireland, not enough Irish people realise that sex trafficking is a reality in the country.

“Sex trafficking is one of the most lucrative crimes with the sums involved on a par with those for drug smuggling and gun running, yet many people are not aware that it is a reality in communities right across Ireland.”

Irish online advertising agency eightytwenty has launched a new anti-sex trafficking campaign on behalf of the Irish Immigrant Council to raise awareness for victims of the sex trade. The campaign is centred around the Tinder app and is affiliated with the Turn Off The Red Light Campaign, and sees fake profiles tell the story of various trafficking victims.

The user will come across what looks like a normal, pretty girl, but when they swipe through her profile, they will

see pictures that depict the sad reality of her situation. One profile, Kim, shows photos of a girl with a bruised face and burst lip, a victim of violence in the sex industry. Another profile, Natalia, claims to be 21, but as you look at her other photos it becomes evident that she is underage.

The second last image on every profile contains slogans such as “Made up to work here, but too young to be there. Girls as young as 14 years old are trafficked into Ireland for sexual exploitation.” and “A swipe to the left, and a swipe to the right.

The physical scars of sex trafficking will eventually fade, but the mental scars last a lifetime.”

The final photo on each profile contains a link to the ‘Turn Off The Red Light’ campaign’s website, and urges users to help end it now.

“This is the first use of Tinder in Ireland for a campaign of this nature and one of the first globally. Tinder has become

an extremely popular app in Ireland, and it provides us with a unique, innovative and stand out way of communicating to

men the issues faced by women involved in sex trafficking,” said Cathal Gillen of eightytwenty.

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My DCUfm Experience TY student, Rosie Mohan, tells of her time at DCU’s student radio station Rosie Mohan Contributor

WHEN I first applied for my

transition year work experience at DCUfm I had little knowledge about radio or media studies. I was nervous to see whether or not I would find it interesting and what I would be doing.

However I can honestly say that I have learned so much from my time at DCUfm. I had the pleasure to do things others could only dream about. Reading out news and sports bulletins, being in a recording studio, interviewing people, using the RSC system, adding songs to the radios desktop and so much more!

It really has given me a taste of what radio is really like and also the great courses that are available at DCU College. It has definitely made me rethink my future career choices.

I have very much enjoyed this experience and I am sad that its coming to an end.

All I can say is a huge thank you to everyone who helped me throughout the week and allowed me to be part of the team and also be on your shows. A special thanks to Sean Defoe and Eoin Sheahan who allowed me to do my work experience at DCUfm and taught me so much. I really appreciated this great opportunity and hope to see DCUfm in the future.

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THE COLLEGE VIEW│Wednesday 26 November 2014

Sport

Rumbling on with DCU RAG Cian Roche talks to RAG Vice-Chairperson, Eoin Luc O’Ceallaigh, ahead of the society’s biggest event of the year, The RAG Rumble Cian Roche Deputy Sports Editor @cian_roche

THE RAG Rumble returns to the

DCU campus for a fourth consecutive year, with 25 athletes expected to take part in the charity event.

Eoin Luc O’Ceallaigh, vice chairperson of DCU’s Raising and Giving society, told us a little bit more about why it’s the society’s biggest event of the year.

“The money we raise from all our fundraisers goes back into social projects. We have the old favourites like “Go Gaga for GAA” to get young people out and active.

“Another is RAG Rhythms, teaching kids how to play instruments. So any money raised goes into buying gear for the GAA lads or instruments.”

These worthwhile initiatives take place in local areas like Ballymun and involve many volunteers working in primary schools.

“We’re always trying to keep the projects we have going and once we have funding for them, we go on and set new projects up. We currently have four new projects in the pipeline.”

Since beginning their strenuous training routine, O’Ceal-

laigh believes the athletes are just about ready for the task ahead. ““We’ve been training for six weeks prior to the fight. Terry [Keegan, coach] feels that that’s long enough to get to the right standard considering most people haven’t boxed before.

“Training was usually early morning, 7.30am Tuesday and Thursday mornings for the most part. Last week we were doing three sessions a week, Monday Tuesday and Thursday to reach that fitness level.”

Students from the school of engineering, communications and computing all look set to take to the ring for the event on Thursday night.

The event is focused around raising money through donations, ticket sales and sponsorships, with each athlete looking to raise upward of €60.

“Each boxer is raising their own money through sponsorships.

We’re only asking for enough to cover the gear and that means that all the money made on the night will go directly into the projects.

“Last year was absolutely brilliant [in terms of money raised] and if we could match that I’d be absolutely delighted. We’re always looking to go bigger and better.”

RAG sought the help of DCU’s Amateur Boxing Club, one of the

LAST year’s RAG Rumble was a huge success and that’s hoped to continue this year Credit James McInerney

fastest growing societies in the college and have given the participants the chance to train in renowned amateur boxing club, St Saviours in Dublin’s inner city.

The event will be streaming live tomorrow night via a YouTube link and college radio station, DCUfm are set to provide

live commentary of proceedings.

With the final preparations being put in place, O’Ceallaigh is gearing up for another big year with the society.

“Social media was kicking off really at the start of this week, we’ve got videos, posters are up and there’s going to be a few dif-

McGraynor and Sigerson squad set sights on success Conor McGraynor reflects on the league campaign and looks forward to the Sigerson Cup Kevin Taylor Deputy Sports Editor @Kev_T_

IT’S a wonderful time to be in-

volved in a DCU Senior GAA team, be it football or hurling.

Like DCU’s Fitzgibbon panel, the Sigerson team are blazing a trail in the league and a 2-19 to 2-13 comeback win over UCC means they have reached the Division 1 League Final.

Spirits are high in the camp

and DCU’s Wicklow forward Conor McGraynor believes that the win over UCC says a lot about this year’s squad.

“The UCC game tells us a lot about the team. We went in at half time 5 points down and had a poor start to the second half, going 9 points down within the first 10 mins.

“The team showed massive strength and character to battle back and produce a 15 point turnaround. The belief in each other was phenomenal.”

DCU take on St Mary’s in the league final this evening Credit Gianluca Avagnina

Players from 11 different counties featured for DCU in the League semi-final, in contrast to a UCC team represented by mainly Cork and Kerry natives. McGraynor thinks that this diversity is extremely beneficial in college

football and has helped DCU. “It’s great to have a massive spread of counties represented. It brings players who are used to different styles of play in their counties together, battling for the same goal. We all learn lots from each

ferent events before the event on Thursday night’s event.”

The event is only one of many so far this year, with the introduction already of RAG Runners this semester, as well as volunteers who took place in Cancer society’s “Movember Scavenger Hunt”.

other at every training session.”

There’s a lot of football left to be played before DCU can start to think about a Sigerson title and McGraynor is cautious about making predictions. However there’s no denying what the final goal should be for such a strong side.

“It’s still early doors in the season but we have set a good foundation with a strong league campaign.

“That bodes well for chances of getting a Sigerson title this year and from what I’ve seen so far we are well on track to achieve that.”

With high levels of performance comes competition for places in the squad. The 21 yearold Avondale man is under no illusions about how tough it will be to claim a starting 15 spot in the DCU team for the Sigerson Cup. “The Sigerson 15 is far from decided there is a serious competitiveness among the panel to get one of the starting 15 jerseys.

“It’s a healthy competition though and one that only drives the team on.

“The lads who have played in the league have really staked their claim to be involved come Sigerson.

“With some players to come back from club commitments, and the fact there will always be a player or two carrying a knock or injury, the team come February could be a whole different lineup.

“But as I’ve said the lads who have played in the league have really stepped up to the plate.”

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Men’s Gaelic football club take more than 10 per cent of CLC budget The CLC grant allocations were announced last week

Credit Ruaidhrí Croke and Aidan Broletti

Ruaidhrí Croke Sports Editor @Ruaidhri_Croke

THE DCU men’s Gaelic football

club is the largest recipient of the Club Life Committee grant allocations for 2014-2015, pocketing €35,100.

Figures attained by The College View show that over 10 percent of the CLC budget was allocated to the men’s football club, with 67 percent of that allocation going towards covering the expenses of 11 coaches within the club.

The allocation received by the men’s GAA club is €10,000 more than was assigned to the men’s soccer club – the second largest recipient of the CLC grant allocations and the club with the third

THE ALLOCATION RECEIVED BY THE MEN’S GAA CLUB IS €10,000 MORE THAN WAS ASSIGNED TO THE MEN’S SOCCER CLUB – THE SECOND LARGEST RECIPIENT OF THE CLC GRANT ALLOCATIONS AND THE CLUB WITH THE THIRD LARGEST AMOUNT OF SIGNUPS AT THIS YEAR’S CLUBS AND SOCIETIES DAYS.

largest amount of signups at this year’s clubs and societies days.

The total budget of €345,570 was divided between 39 clubs with men’s GAA, men’s soccer, hurling, tennis and men’s rugby making up the top five recipients.

After two years of success that included reaching a league final and a Collingwood Cup semi-final the men’s soccer club have seen their allocation increase to €25,694, overtaking the hurling club as the second biggest receiver of funds.

The hurling club is now the third largest receiver of funds, pocketing €19,646 .

Overall, the five GAA clubs – men’s football, hurling, ladies’ football, camogie and handball – were awarded €80,340 - 23 percent of the total budget. This is down €21,996 in the last two years and

the budget in total has dropped a similar amount in that time.

The camogie club was the recipient of the smallest budget of all of the GAA clubs taking in €7,618.

Of the five clubs that are divided into men’s and women’s sections - basketball, Gaelic football, rugby, soccer, hurling and camogie - the men’s clubs were allocated €105,184 while the women’s clubs received a total of €34,228, that’s €872 less than the men’s GAA club alone.

The surf ‘n’ sail club received the most amount of signups during the clubs and societies days, taking in 446 new members, and are now the 10th highest funded club in the college after they were allocated €12,724.

A full list of club allocations can be seen on The College View website.

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Fast start to the intervarsity year for DCU athletics

Final game victory enough to give DCU home Both DCU Men’s and ladies’ teams came home with quarterfinal tie medals last week DCU’s senior soccer team saw off Trinity College to secure second place in the Premier Division North

Aidan Delaney Sports Reporter @CVSport

DCU Athletics Academy enjoyed

success in the first intervarsity event of the year recently with the men’s team claiming gold while the ladies’ team took home silver.

The 2014 IUAA Road Relay Championships took place last week in NUI Maynooth and saw DCU’s men come away with another gold medal winning performance while the women had to settle for second place.

The men were defending their title after winning the competition last year and consisted of runners Darragh Lynch, David McCarthy, Brian Kelly and Cormac Kelly who were led by captain Joe Warne.

It was Lynch who got off to something of a tough start in this very competitive race as he ran in the first leg. Lynch finished the leg with a time of 4:27 which was only eight seconds behind the leader Shane Fitzsimons of Athlone IT. AIT are newcomers to the competition and kept up their great start as they finished the second leg on top. DCU’s Joe Warne managed to claw his way up to third before handing off to David McCarthy.

McCarthy powered his way through his three laps with an impressive time of 13:28 which saw him in first place after overtaking AIT’s John Travers.

It then became a two horse race as DCU and AIT battled con-

Ruaidhrí Croke Sports Editor @Ruaidhri_Croke

DCU senior soccer team will take

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THE 2014 IUAA ROAD RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS TOOK PLACE LAST WEEK IN NUI MAYNOOTH AND SAW DCU’S MEN COME AWAY WITH ANOTHER GOLD MEDAL WINNING PERFORMANCE WHILE THE WOMEN HAD TO SETTLE FOR SECOND PLACE.

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BOTH the men’s and the ladies’ teams are hoping to build on last year’s success Credit Lindie Naughton

stantly but great running from Brian Kelly and Cormac Kelly saw DCU over the line. The victory on Saturday mean’s that DCU have now won seven of the last 10 races.

The women’s race also provided some great entertainment with the DCU team of Deirdre Doyle, Mary Mulhare, Maria O’Sullivan and Mary Ann O’Sullivan holding off UCC to finish second with UCD finishing with the gold medal.

Doyle ran a good first leg but it was UCD’s Ciara Everard who

stormed into the lead. She was first to pass the baton followed by runners from UCC and UL with Doyle passing off in fourth place.

UCD continued their dominance in the second leg and never really looked back as the race for second place heated up between DCU and UCC. DCU’s second leg was taken on by Mary Mulhare who fought hard but couldn’t catch up to UCC’s Sinead O’Connor before handing off to the third runners.

Maria O’Sullivan ran for DCU as she made up a lot of ground putting pressure on the UCC runner Orna Murrary with only 5 seconds splitting the two.

It was down to Mary Anne O’Sullivan to make up the lost ground for DCU and she did it in style as she ran a time of 5:08 to take home the silver medal for the DCU ladies.

The performances of both teams indicates another strong year ahead for DCU Athletics.

on Waterford IT in their CUFL quarter-final after cruising past Trinity College in their final group stage match to secure second place.

A 4-1 win for the Glasnevin side was enough to pip UCD to second place on goal difference, ensuring a home tie for DCU in the quarter-final.

Goals from Alan O’Sullivan, Jack Memery and a brace from Mark Walshe gave Declan Roche’s side the three points.

The second place finish, just one point behind table-toppers NUI Maynooth, included a loss to DIT, wins against UCD, IT Sligo and Waterford IT and a 0-0 draw with the Kildare side.

DCU now face Waterford in St Clare’s at 2pm this afternoon after the Munster side sealed third spot in CUFL Premier Division South with a 2-2 draw in Athlone on the last day.

The institute of technology came through the first stage with two wins, two draws and a crushing 7-0 defeat to IT Carlow in their opening game.

It is last year’s CUFL champions Carlow that are looking the most dangerous again this year, racking up four wins and a defeat in the group stages as well as netting an astonishing 28 goals along the way - that’s an average of almost six goals a game.

Indeed it was Carlow that knocked DCU out of the competition last year at the semi-final stage. This season’s group stage win was their third in succession and the loss to Athlone IT ended a twelve game winning streak at the group stages. With that in mind there’s no doubt who the favourites to lift the title are as we enter the knockout rounds.

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World Championship injury heartbreak for Grace Cian Roche Deputy Sports Editor @cian_roche

A deep cut over her left eye forced

DCU student Claire Grace to withdraw from the Women’s World Boxing Championships in Jeju, South Korea.

Grace, who received the cut during her first round win over Romania’s Christine Stancu, was treated in hospital and required stitches.

Management for the Kilkenny native gave a number of reasons for withdrawing from the competition.

Grace may have had to compete in a number of successive bouts over the course of the week, increasing the risk of further damage to the cut.

At only 20-years-old, the team decided that it was unsafe to carry on and aggravate an injury that may affect her in future tournaments.

“It’s devastating to have won but now I can’t continue and deep down it is hard to take,” said the third year Health and Sports Science student, “If it was my own choice to make I would have gone on with it.

“It’s very upsetting. I was delighted when I got the win and I had hopes of going through the week.”

Grace herself felt the seriousness of the cut after the match and defended her team’s decision to pull out of the championships.

“I knew straight away it was a deep cut. But it’s so early in the tournament that it might reopen and get worse. The coaches agreed that long term it was not worth taking the risk.”

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THERE was heartbreak for Grace but joy for Ireland as Katie Taylor won gold Credit Sportsfile

“Whatever about passing the medical today, I was never going to pass another one if I went in to fight.

“I don’t know how many stitches they put in but I know it feels worse this morning than it was yesterday.”

Grace would have met Gulzar Kara in the next round, an opponent which she had already beaten.

Bantamweight Michaela Walsh also bowed out of the tournament after she was beaten on a split decision by Anna Alimardanova of Azerbaijan. not only boxers in DCU but all athletes to go the extra mile.

“As far as I can see the club will continue to grow in strength due to the commitment of its members and, under the guidance of our coach Derek Ahearne, the only way is up.”