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@fionnuala_walsh @kyle_ewald BILL Clinton warned that Brexit is due to people re-assessing “whether what we have in common is more important than our differences”. Clinton said “cooperation is better than conflict or isolation in any environment into which you must be in touch with others,” noting that some Brexit voters did not know what they were voting for. “I’m sorry we can’t stay together, we had a disagreement, oh my god I didn’t know I was going to lose that customs thing with all these economic benefits. Why didn’t anybody tell me that?” said Clinton, pretending to be a British voter. The former president of the United States was awarded an honorary doctorate today by DCU President Brian MacCraith for his crucial role in the peace process in Northern Ireland. “It was really quite something, there’s never been any peace agreement exactly like it before,” said Clinton on the Good Friday Agreement. “It broke like a thunder cloud across the world and other people were fighting in other places and they had this talk to say ‘well really do I want to put our children’s generation through this? Or if they can pull this off after all those decades maybe we could too.” Clinton said universities should be a place for open discussion about if people should live in individual tribes, or as communities with shared values and respect for one another, especially in today’s political climate. Dr. Martin Naughton and Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy were also honoured at the Honorary Conferring Ceremony in the Helix which held
THERE was minor damage to a building and two trees down across the three campuses in DCU after hurricane Ophelia passed through Dublin last week. A tree fell and hit the side of the Bea Orpen building near the postgraduate residences on the Glasnevin campus, damaging part of the roof and gutting. The tree appeared to be rotten at the roots. “We got off very lightly but we were prepared for a lot worse,” said Declan Raftery, Chief operations officer at DCU. “We were expecting worse, with the size the campus is and with the older trees we were expecting a lot of trees down,” he added. The main Ballymun road entrance to the college was blocked off from Sunday night due to the hazard of broken or fallen branches. “A fair few sizeable branches came down and if you’re in the Credit: Fionnuala Walsh Former US President Bill Clinton being awarded an honorary doctorate by DCU President Brian MacCraith wrong place at the wrong time on that road it could injure you. It’s gorover a thousand people. taken in the Oval Office by President credits his success to his family ethos geous to look at, but in high winds “It is no exaggeration to say that Bill Clinton. of honesty, morality, decency and we’re likely to close the Ballymun the success of the Northern Ire“There was no electoral gain for integrity. road,” said Raftery. land peace process is in very many him taking it. If anything his initial Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy was awardRaftery said he had been tracking ways due to the fact that President forays into the Northern Ireland ed the honorary doctorate for her the storm since last Wednesday to be Clinton took the view that it was a peace process were greeted with longstanding work with the homeless properly prepared for a shut-down. conflict that could be resolved by scepticism by both republicans and and marginalised. She is the founder A team of 30 maintenance workers his personal input and by the power unionists in Northern Ireland and of Focus Ireland, which is now the was on standby, as well as extra waand influence of the United States of by downright distrust and suspicion largest voluntary organisation in ter pumps and plywood in case there America,” said Gary Murphy, from in the corridors of power in LonIreland, and has written many books were windows smashed or broken. the School of Law and Governdon. But Bill Clinton persevered, on mindfulness and the importance He worked with the president of ment in the president’s introductory and thanks to that perseverance we of spirituality. DCU to address the situation. citation. have peace in Ireland today.”Also “As president I am often asked “Myself and Brian (MacCraith) “There can be little doubt that the celebrated at the ceremony was Dr. why DCU awards honorary doctalked and we triggered the team to conflict in Northern Ireland was ulMartin Naughton, KBE, founder of torates, but Ireland has no national come in at seven thirty in the morntimately resolved because that great Glen Electric and one of Ireland’s honours system, so it’s important that ing because the winds were only beacon of liberty, the United States most successful entrepreneurs and we recognise and honour outstandpicking up from lunchtime in the of America, decided that it could business leaders. From humble roots ing achievements and role model Dublin area. We were in here all day, use its influence to make a vital in Newry, Co. Down he became the individuals,” said MacCraith. from seven until seven.” difference. That fateful decision was global leader in electric heating, and
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