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Above, three cheersjiJr the long-su./ftring cotmters who withst!JOd the ravages ofbeer, hot drug andf"e sex inftvour ofdmrocrIKJ. Ross and Siobhdn hug seconds before the final result which TheTownhot.re pronounced Ross 0 'Daty nextyear 's Overall President. 47/48 Lwr Gardiner Street, Dublin 1. Bottom lift: Cathal Brugha St Pan ofGlobetrotters Tourist Hotels Pmidmt elect, Kenny Vaughan's elation is apparent as he is congratulatetJ byfrimJs and This beautifully restored 19th supporters. Bottom right: Deputy Century residence offers you the Presidmt anti Welfa" Officer elect, character and style long Miche/le McCauley, CIln't ho/J btult forgotten in many hotels and the tears upon hearing the muit guesthouses today. This which gave her uiaory by a margin combined with all the modern ofseven IIOtes, the smaJ/est of tliffirmces in the ~let:titI1IS. comfons; En-suite, Satellite TV (Free Sky Spons and Movie Channels), Lift, Tea/Coffee maker, Direct telephones and Night Potter. The Townhouse also has a private in-house car park.

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. 7Jlrs.....MyhrtJ.pmJmt1tlitJ. ~ RIlIlml Georgian Townhouoe...A Wanm clF.lcpldy DoaxaIaI Roomo...in kaping wiIh lhe period sayIr...and ulhis pia,aSlIlII... BtJd-FttIbish Btw/tjtIt (V~ t1J1Iittn 1lllllilttJM) Please phone Lisa or Patricia on our reservations Hotline: (01) 878 8808 and 874 0592. Fax: (01) 878 8787. 3 previous interviews and statements then I am obviously a groupie, but I was Ciara Murphy. under the impression that a groupie was Saga des someone who shagged band members PS The reason I went to and their roadies. Silly me, eh? (Would Belfast was because my Charlatans I have been referred to as a groupie if I favourite band were was a lad??) [Fair point, but, assuming playing again in the same Dear Editor, we're referring to heterosexuals here, country and it was free, so how many all-girl bands do you know why not?! I am writing to you again in response that have groupies? Sure, the Tori to Michael McCormack's reply to my Amoses and the Toni Braxtons have letter re. the Charlatans. their fawning male groupies but it is A Chiara, It was not intended as a personal still largely a female phenomenon. The attack [you called him a 'prick', Ciara Spice Girls and All Saints are among the Let bygones be bygones. - Ed] but as a response to a review few exceptions to this.] Enough ofthis for all ofus. which in turn, did contain some factual The reason I even mentioned the Would you be interested in~-D:::'IT~S.~'tutkn"""7"'-I1-of-:=-'lth:-~-;:}'j~~a-r-ra-:'u-~~th"'~-cu-rp-w-;h"':lik:-,':""·n-~""""'cJuO:--,",-.-'"1 errors. In retrospect it did seem like an point that, as you put it ('Tony told me reviewing any gigs for theL- P_i_c:~J,_'m_m_it_R_o_b_im_o_n...... I attack and for this reason I do this...we, the fans, etc.. .') was to Examiner? Give me a call, apologise; I should have worded my emphasise the fact that I had obtained 4024636. letter better. my information from the people When you referred to me as a involved. Le gach dea-mhein, JanUAry 98 Crossword winners: 'groupie', I was slightly confused; if that So I am not an 'anal groupie' or word means someone who has been a anything of the sort, but I am a huge Cearbhall 0 S{ochain, 1. Robert Rooney, FT401, Cathal Brugha St. genuine fan ofa band for seven or eight fan of music and happen to have met Editor. 2. Paul Weber, DBS 4, Aungier St. years, and jumps at a chance to meet, my favourite bands owr a couple of 3. Stephm Holohan, WMT2, Kevin St. spend time with, and talk about years, luckily enough.

Aine Ni Chonaill-- Droch-bholscaireacht don Ghaeilge? Mairtin Breathnach

" Blonn adharca fada ar na ba thar lear" gcabhr6dh se Ieis a bholscaireacht go meascan de bhaill tiortha eagsula e Is iomai uair a chaitheadh an r6-mhaith. Don te nach bhfuil eolas an ghrupa. Fear as an tZaire, fear eite seanfhocail sin amach againn agus acu ar chulra an bhean uasal, is as an t-Iordain, Seapaineach, muid faoi bhru 6 bhagairt an muinteoir Gaeilge 's Stair L Is lodaileach agus roinnt Eireannaigh. Ardteist. Ach is e an ceann sin agus mionsonra e i gcomhtheacs Aidhm an ghrupa? Comhra agus cupIa ceann eile a sheasann amach ar diospoireacht na dldeanaigh ach is trachtas tri mheain na Gaeilge. Ta na mallaibh. Le tamalI anuas anois ta udar imnl e do chumas an teanga faoi failte roimh chach, cibe dath do fadhb leochailleach na dldeanaigh hithair na huaire. chraiceann. Cupla dorai suas 6 teach faoi chaibidil agus gan reiteach I ndairlre pire an feidir eisteacht le O'Neills, seasann an fhoirgnimh ina teagartha f6s taghta ar. dream ar bith a adhmalonn gur rugadh an Phiarsach. Ta dainseir an lor chabhraigh bunadh an maitheas an tlr ata i gceist acu nuair go dtreascr6far ef6s. Immigration Control Platform OCP) ag an am ceanna ta droch fh6gra ~i I deacair cuimhncamh ar tlr ar bith de chuid Aine i Chonaill ar chor a dhcanamh acu don ghneilh is cile ina tharl6dh na heachtral bith Icis an cibhar conspoideach seo, tabhacht de aitheantai na tIre. ior6ineacha seo. agu gan dabht nlor chuaigh mf­ Mas muineadh Gaeilge e sH bheatha Ait brcithe aislingeach an theanga iompar agu glafamach an Anti- azi Inion I Chonaill. car chaill SI faoi bhagairt le hais sliocht allurach a Leagu (A L) ag eoladh an phairtl fealsunacht a sinseara a tugadh di tei fhoghlaim sin a mharaigh e. Is ait an go r6- nhaith lei ach oiread. teachtairl na 'heanfhocail? Nuair ata mac an 'aoI. Riamh anall, dineadh an Ghaeilge gach muinteoir cile ag dlriu aird a Is feidir le Aine NI Chonaill agus a mar gheall ar chungacht intinne a gcuid daltal ar impleachtal na dream roinnt beag ciall a th6gail 6 lucht labhartha agus a ndearcadh seanfhocail do abhar aiste san shcanfhocail gur cheart duinn uile sean-fhaiseanta. Seo hiad na cuisithe Ardteist, cad a bhcidh faoi bhun ag machnamh a dheanamh air...... is ar ceanna ata curtha i leith an ICP. Is maistreas Ni Chonaill? scafh a chiile a mhaireann daoine. deacair a ra cen tionchar a bheidh ar Tagann grupa beag le cMile i dteach Is leor nod don colach. Ar~ W~ to get uStd to ;magts lik~ this? an teanga i dtaobh baint Aine NI tabhairne O'Neills ar Shraid an Chonaill leis, maidir le ra nach Phiarsiagh gach Ceadaoin. Is 4 Ireland ofthe Welcomes Sarah Marriott

lr:-::i'"------~~~:::----, A lmost ten years ago the British , M u It i - cui t u r a .ncomedian Lenny Henry appeared Ireland - myth or on the Late Late Show and commented reality?' a workshop on how white Ireland was: 'Ifyou see a hosted by the VSI black man in O'Connell Street (Voluntary Service tomorrow, it's me.' International) He couldn't say that today. It's not preaching to the unusual to see Mricans, Asians, Iraqis, converted. Sarah and Bosnians queuing in McDonalds Marriott reports. with you. And some of them even have ~hen the broad Dublin accents. accountancy student But what has shocked many people is from Tanzania first got the speed with which this has happened on a Dublin bus, he thought everyone hated~~~~==~~~~~~~~~~~::::~= - it's no longer just a few exchange 17year oM Sarajevan. ZlAta Fi/ipovic. now living in IrelAnd. students at the College of Surgeons, him because it was SOL------~--~_;__-__:r""";'-.:...-":"""':'----J who'll go home soon. It's whole families quiet - in his country everyone talks on Many of the workshop participants and communities who are looking for the buses, with strangers exchanging life called for action. The researcher for the jobs, buying houses, getting the dole, stories between stops. And he felt recent documentary on Jews and anti­ and whose kids are going to school. In strange, exposed - he'd never been in a Semitism in Ireland suggested that fact, they're living like us. And they crowd ofwhite people before. people contact the Department of want to follow the example of the Irish The'video extract, from the 1995 TV Justice to ask why the 1996 Refugee Act who went to America - they want to documentary 'A Place of Refuge', has not yet been fully implemented. work hard and make a better life for attempted to put us into the shoes of a This act would speed up the decision­ their children. black man in Dublin _ literally, as he making process for asylum seekers walked the streets trying (which can often take years) and would ---"'to get accommodation. It provide provision for legal is important not to be representation and appeals. Others influenced by media suggested that a more pro-active role stories of a refugee should be taken - perhaps following influx, but to retain the the example of the animal rights human dimension _ these activists who run a stall at College are real people we are Green every Saturday, to educate and to talking about, not lOcrease support. statistics. And one refugee pointed out that Micheal Mac Greil, these workshops were a good idea, but author of 'Prejudice and that they weren't enough. Everyone Intolerance in Ireland', attending was already converted to a r=~;;;;;;;;;~::::::;::::::::;::===:::::;;:::;:::::;:;:=:;:::;=====:d' . d h multi-cultural society - it was the people 22yearo/JGalina Loper. Clime to lrelArulftom Cuba in September Ismlsse t e. cur,rent 1994. and is now stru/yingfOr a B.&. in DCU. Herfamily's newspaper stones: The out there, who perhaps believed the '...political opinions'fOrced them to leave Havana. current scare stories are schoolteacher from Cork, who needed grossly inaccurate and an to be reached. For more information, In the space of a few years, we have exaggeration.' He argued that many contact the Anti Racism Campaign, 10 been forced to become a multi-cultural parts of the country are underpopulated Upr Camden St, Dublin 2. society. And we're only just starting to and that families are getting smaller: realise it. The media has focused upon '~e should welcome these people this change and in many ways is because they are badly needed.' fanning the flames of fear of foreigners The current situation is that fewer by the use of words such as 'influx' and than 1% of the Irish population are 'swamped'. When hundreds of immigrants. However, as Mac Greil thousands of Rwandans poured into pointed out, we have always had an Zaire in fear oftheir lives two years ago, easily identifiable sub-culture which had that was an influx. What we have here is suffered from systematic racism: the a trickle. Most of the world's refugees travelling community. Now, that racism live in terrible conditions in camps in is being extended to other groups who third world countries, only a few make look different from the white settled it to the West (where in many cases they community. are treated with hostility and accused of Gary Quinn, of the Cities Anti­ scrounging, lying and not 'really' being Racism Group, expressed concern about a refugee.) the growing problem ofcompetition for But it's not too late - we can decide limited resources, particularly within that we are not going to tolerate racism, the inner city areas. Housing, for Vietnamm Dr Lou Jin Shang, now living in that our country will be a haven for example, is a sensitive issue, as there is a Ireland, has bunpractising Western and Chinese persecuted peoples, and that Ireland of perception by some that refugees are medicineftr almost 40years. He is content here. the next millennium will continue to be 'queue jumping'. He was also concerned 'Ireland ofthe Welcomes'. about the promotion ofstereotypes and racism by the media. and hopes that the Photographs by permission, from ~ Part of Multi-cultural Ireland - myth or planned NUJ conference on the issue IrelAnd Now ~ National Co-ordinating reality? will have a positive effect. Committee. European Year Against Racism. 5 photography special

The 71Ulin studio in the School ofPhotography's nnu building in Temple Bar. Dark rooms andstorage space lie beside andabove this cmtral space.

''Eh, amigo. tmch jUego. porfavor?" Photo by Paul Notan Miralles, first year photography, DITKevin St.

DIT School of Photography and Digital Imaging Centre recently moved into their new home in Temple Bar's Meeting Photo by Brian 0 'SuUivall. first year House Square. The studios, darkrooms and various processing labs photography, Kevin St. are situated above the Photography Archive. Third year students are currently deep in project work, which will go towards their final assessment. First year students have the added benefit 0 beginning their studies with the new facilities on hand.

without it seeming like she explained that he photographs really badly. Eve Arnold - one a trite cliche from the Although she spent weeks in and out of 70s. Viewing the world Number 10 and he couldn't have been nicer, ofthe greatest through the eyes of a she couldn't take a good picture of him. When social commentator, she asked if she was sympathetic to Margaret photographers of researches places Thatcher, she replied "in a reverse way." • before going to Eve Arnold didn't seem to enjoy our tIme photograph them. photographing Marilyn Monroe. She said that Sarah Marrion Before fmally getting Marilyn, who totally controlled all their permission to go to sessions, always wanted Eve to be the mother . It's not often that you feel you are in the China she had studied and for her to be little girl lost. "I didn't want presence of a 'great lady', but when Eve Arnold poke at the IFe in January you the country for 20 to be mommy," laughed Eve, "and 1 didn't could feel the electricity in the audience. years. And she does not want her to be lost." Her career began in the early 50s forget the people she Eve Arn~ld was the first photographer to do and she is now a little white-haired ~~~~~===:=:::=:::;:~==::::; shot: her most recent many things: to go behind the scenes in grandmother - but she is still taking . assignment was to go Hollywood, to go into Arab harem , and to pictures and still making her PlaUrt courtesy ofMllpUm PhotfJl. back to the family of photograph Soviet psychiatric hospitals. She is uncompromising personality and political poverty-stricken Cubans she first spent three prob~bly one ofthe only photographers opinions felt. With humour and a quick-wit weeks photographing in the 60s. They working today who would not use pictures of that would put many younger people to shame, remembered her too, but the previous 20 years a nak~ Hollywood star, because they were too Eve Arnold seemed to enjoy the Q & A ofprosperity had been wiped out. Arnold said: revealing. But.that's exactly what she did with session which followed the showing of a new "And now all they can do is to fmd food - they some photos ofJoan Crawford. film of her life. are being treated abominably with the United It's a shame there aren't more photographers Very much an individual, Eve Arnold can States embargo." like Eve Arnold out there... make statements like "Everything is political" She said that she always tries to be sympathetic to her subjects. OfJohn Major, 6 images everything Tanya Kiang, Director ofthe Gallery ofPhotography, talks to The DITExaminer about her work, some ofthe Gallery sfeatured artists, and whatsin store for the coming months.

Vou get the sense that Tanya Kiang's images in one way or another. Now, it would be photographer would recognise, and you had "At the moment, we have Michael Durand, and I natural work pace is methodically quite acceptable, and certainly, as regards just arrived to the Gallery when her In Michad's work here, I think is outstanding for a photography, very glamorous and sexy, although Retrospect exhibition took place. Did that go young Irish photographer. Its got a kind of slow, that very little would panic her, I think any practising photographer would well for you? energy to it, its broad-minded, very European. It and that her calm, quiet disposition probably say "Yes, she made doesn't bother with the usual kind of baggage would suit an artist more than a different. me look really that you could say does mar a lot of emerging magazine editor or a gallery director, Photography, in great, it was photographers; an over-reliance on theoretical whose stereotype runs around particular, has thi onderfu1! It was texts, for aample. Michad just goes ahead and sexy image which an enormous takes very strong images - yes there are ideas screaming about deadlines or reports. isn't exactly correct, uccess, and behind them, but you don't have to have read As such, her manner sits very but there still i maybe I twenty million books in order to understand comfortably with the peaceful something attraetiv houldn't say what he's saying." ambience of the Gallery of about it and that i this, but I was Photography in Temple Bar. Despite why its so popular. surprised at the Its comforting to the uninitiated to know that And good on it... ofit. In one there are such artists out there. That exhibition this seemingly unperturbable state she me Eve Arnold runs until March 21, and is then followed on gets a phenomenal amoUDt of work The DIT School 0 is not a very well- March 26 by a show by another Irish done, while still maintaining an artist's Photography ha known name, photographer, Karl Grimes [see Source love and appreciation for her subject just m~ in she's kind of a Magazine, Spring 1998J. Karl Grimes' matter. the ..uare from you, egend, but if photographs were taken mainly in Milan and in giving the studen ou stop New York. She describes the images, which Tanya Kianl' you come to the Gallery of acce.. to muc mebody on the involve portraits ofnatal malfortnations from the Pbotoppby from editing Circa An MIpZine. needed equipmen ueet and ask turn of the century as " very, very challenging "Yes, I come from, in one sense, a broader and facilities. Wha them to name a and sober.. " and more, that they are -heart­ background into something more specific - just kind of advic ouple of rendingly sad, but there is also something photography, but in another, then, an awful lot would you giv hotographers. peaceful about them, and for me, there is this ofthe very interesting work done in the broader them a [Heari] Carrier- easy connection between photography and visual arts was generally done using photographic photographers-to- B res son death, some sense of deathliness and stillness. I or video or digital media anyway, so its not that be, in term. 0 M a gnu m think people wiU find some of Karl's images much ofa change at all... trying to .el Photos co- horrific:. although they are done with sensitivity t:hemaeha? founder) might and a tenderness. What I'm hoping for is that So how much of a departure is it from your "A really good sta be there, maybe the Gallery space will be contemplative, so I'm previous poSition? is to get published, Robert Doisneau very much looking forward to that." "Bricks and mortar, sort of! The core ofthe work and there are a lot 0 or people like here, as in programming pIlery lIplICC, organising options there. that but I Later this year the Gallery will play host to a wolbholN. education counea, that kind of .ome of T/II!IJII XiIIIIf IIIJ't19S - tI/MidNteJ DrmmJ's IIIt»'It whim 0 u Id' v e show of c:ontelDpOlaly Spanish photography, a PhtJ~ thing, is very similar. To some extent you're still newspapers have wiIJ!le 1nl tIispIy in tIN GIIIJny t1f rmIiJ M4nIJ 21. ondered t show of Tory Island project work by Martine dealing with images and words or ideas, and how good photographers Eve Arnold. I Franck (incidentally married to Henn Cartier­ you can best present those, and how you can working for them, sometimes they should be mean, for a woman of 86 she's really quite Bresson), which will be cross-referenced with a make them meaningful and relevant to people; jibbied along a little bit to use photographs in a something - and her In c.nlJn'Slltion that we show in the Royal Hibernian Academy, and an the problem being that there is very little rime more exciting way, and they can't be expected to ran in the Irish Film Centre in January was over­ international print show curated by Cork's Brian for that kind of work when you're running do that unless there are hordes of people going subscribed many rimes and we could've done Kennedy. around dcaIing with fire regulations and lifts and 'Hang on! I've got this picture story." or 'I like more with her. It probably was the mOst popular -Towards the end of the year we will have a things - aauaIIy running a building." to work with this jouraalist, we want to cover show we've ever had here; on Saturdays and show by Gareth McConnell and 'Plltrick McCoy, this stOry••:. Or there is a magazine: like Source Sundays [there were] throngs here, you could two young photographers from Northern Do,.. ,...... B.*... ~ lime than magazine, which the Gallery c:o-publiahes with hardly sce the pictures! " Irdand. That partiaIIar show _ scheduled for you would libwith ~wodU Photoworks North inr--- February this year, and really sadly. Patrick "No I actually quite like it, and I think its Belfast - its Ireland' e Gallery space is not McCoy died over Christmas. 10 this is also going important that you don't just talk to the only photographic review limitless, and it is to be a, sort of, comemmorative show for him. a converted all the time. What's been very Source magazine and th ntirely feasible that any very talented artist." Pattick McCoy's work she interesting for me has been talking [0 people in Gallery run portfoli unusual demand on any describes as "very textual, overlaid, intriguing business, because normally I'd be going 'Oh, review sessions, wher ne exhibition would images." God, more suits...they're not visually John, the Editor of th risk over-erowding. but aware...they don't really care about it..' but magazine, and myself g can understand how Before I leave, in en attempt to get a shot ofthe actually I've been really surprised, nicely through people' visitor numbers Director in her natural environment. we pop surprised. People are very interested and they do portfolios. John would ight well have upstairs to where Michael Durand's work is want to find a way in, and I would lee it as part looking to see what h bscured many of the hanging. It is clear that she delights in divussing of an arts administrator's job to mediate those might publish, I' orks when Eve whatever is on show. Unfortunately, I stand things and open it up for them. I mean. I'm not looking to see what kin old's exhibition was there dumbly unable to commaaic:alc much of running a factory that cans beans. So even the of work people ar n town. Tanya what his imap mean to me. CftIl though they adminilUllrivc work is not the aamc kind of making, so that over th ntinues, "Her book, are quite impressm:. all the DIOR III because of administrative work, ifyou like. ..you'd get in a next year, two years, I'n w AmtHJ I"~ their limplicity. It felt kind of fimDy taking a canning factory." (No year's free .upply of able to put together . required reading for phocopph 0( the Director of The Gallery of c:aaocd beans there. Tanya.) group ShOWl, and sec ar someone who is Photopaphy in The Gallery of PhOlOJlaPby, ~ themes emerging. A.1ItItINr'.fM"Drmw/'s i""'fII~ .ntereated ia becoming lurrounded by all these imapa, but not ~ She dearly enio1s die IDOI'C pcnoMI of if you wanted to pursue jiIIIIi/iIIr 1IItnItIIiths tIIiIIJ tIN IImIIIl n independent uncomfortable. It was almost surreal. like I her job in the Gallery. comiDs &ce ID face with ~hall we call i~ ~tf'tlNflHJrlJ's"""'cilUsltlp'~ hoto~apher or ould imagine ..imming with dolphins or Cftr7daF people who CIlIDe"Uro ~ showias !".ct: wIeN All.twifiuJs lIlT ill.-. fOUOWIDI in that IOIIIethia&- Forgive me. I &o.t mr-If.-b a her dICit hoIicIay phoCOI and IiaIpIy iateraaiag pmaace. ~ have-IQ •Ddepc dent photo- mOmcot. in perIOD IDOR than she would have cIoDe • a c:memely hard: and people autlie pnpred to jouraa8IiIIic saam. She Ihoutdie'" up mlp'li.... editor. -J- today we bad a pboac call calk about their aad he happy about it! ofMtpuna, and ..., •• about from a mother of a fOurteen ,ear old boy who Once you are good in • viIuaI eense it dea not the impact of telcviaioa and deflates all the The Gallery ofPhotopplaywiD be give you a passport to just button-up. You still panoia that -oh. ph8eopaphy is dead because 1aIra pietWa of... and ochcr wildlife - all hosting the Bat PordDJio ·ew human life coma throup here, 10 that is have to use language and use wo." there's telmaion..:- she's much more Ievd­ intcratiaa-" headed about the whole thing. It would be SaDDD OD ..April. One person who is an ~tremely effective required reading fOr editors. actually! Editon are Prospec:tift candidates are .m.ed communicator is Magnum PhotoS phoropapher .pretty much the bad guys in her e,a. but [she la yaur aperieace do ,.... W people are to phone and mab aD more ..... to ~ _ ill ha dift'enat Eve Amold. As anyo.... who saw Bccbon Kidrin'. explains] how, as a maker of an ~ you can 6Im on her could tmify to, she is fully able to appoinancat, oaly a now, that mcy caD Huer relate to it thaa maintain control over it when it does ID through pre¥iouaIyf express what she &:It when taking each shot. and 10 many bands." certain amount ofpeople can be "Well, yea, ifyou take it right bIck to the fifties how she related to the subject, be it a person or a [Information duly noted and filed away for catered for. when it would have been absolutely unheard of scene, mange or familiar. future reference.J for IOmeone's IOn or daughter to become an artist. to consider making a living from making Eve Arnold's is a name even a non- WbataowtordleGderyoEPbocapapby? 7 rag week Aungier St I Kevin St Rag Ball RedboxChocolateBarPoD G~!~TY By Ilpm the queues began 1 for a good while. to flow smoothly into the 16 • 21 March Fatboy Slim's DIRECT Everybody FROM THE Needs a WEST END 303 got an airing too, but it "A relentlessly good obviously romp" THE GUARDIAN doesn't The Reduced wash with Shakespeare Company GI i c will arrive In Dublin on the 16th March, Glynn, clutching camels, who is crucifixes and • few 01 the content to commandments use a CD ready to answer the questions: r------, player on Did Ad,m and Ev, Boogi(, boogi(, shimmy, shak(. How much (bm that DJ make? SUC h binn,r,'s? Old Ill.., ,.,'Iy IDDIr Redbox as the pubs were occasions. What I can't like CUtIfuH,slon? closing. (Compact) Disc figure out is what the Jockey Mick 'Glic' Glynn difference is between 'DJ' Mon - Sat at Bpm: was throwing down the big Mick Glynn and the guy £8. £10.50, £12.50, £14.50 beats courtesy of some round your house party Sat Matinee 3pm: £7, £8.50, £9.50, £11 SolidState compilation CD who changes the CDs on and a few others. your stereo.

Club-speed versions of Guinness products were £2 a go all night, and the reps were out in numbers, and John Potter, Dave Dickey royal arse-ache for the asked to stay put. and Phelim 0' eH were bouncers concerned - who armed with cameras to ~-_ can't be faulted - But apart from the general capture the the crowds mosh and squash to get atmosphere. were slowly down to the PoD and allowed to People were descend enjoying to the themselves and getting teadily

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1....-- s_e_a_c_h_ta_i_D_D_a_D_g_i_o_b_a_I l 8 USI calls for training of third-level lecturers Sarah Marriott looks at staff-training in DIT, and what to do ifyou have a problem with your lecturer.

"There are of course many been run over the last two years approach the staff member "One of the greatest excellent teachers who have never include 'Lecturing to large classes directly in the first instance. achievements in education is taken such courses and probably - an interactive approach', If this proves unsatisfactolJ}', then that teachers are now fitted for do not need to do so. There is 'Tutorials, their purpose and the issue can be discussed with their duties by being taught the little to be gained by making such design' , and 'Seminar on the appropriate Head of art of teaching", wrote Mary courses compulsory." supervising undergraduate School/Department and Somerville, the Scottish research'. Courses scheduled for eventually the Faculty Director." astronomer and geographer, in Siobhan Weekes, Aungier St SU early 1998 are 'So you want to However, Dr Gillingham believes 1848. President, believes: "There are teach?', 'Getting the info in! there is a need for flexibility when some excellent lecturers, but there Getting the into out!', 'Dancin' to judging lecturers: "Some are also some who can't get their someone else's tune! (Customer distinction has to be made point across. They know their satisfaction)' and 'How can you between effectiveness and style. stuff but it' not much good to us tell? (Measuring outcomes)'. Some teachers are very effective Time for Change sitting thi side of the desk if they There is a strong emphasis placed at creating student learning using can't communicate it." She feels on training lecturers in new different styles." In one aspect at least, our that all new technology, education sy tem has not changed lecturers particularly the use since the 19th century. While should take a of email, computer primary and second-level teachers teacher­ conferencing, and mu t undertake training, third­ training the role of the Student Feedback level lecturers are not required to course, and Internet in teaching take any courses in "the art of that more and learning. A Siobhan Weekes feels that with teaching." established recent course the probable change to university lecturers covering these skills status there is now a need for a The USI believes that it is time should was attended by more formal written system of for change and has begun a receive staff from feedback. However, she is also a campaign for the compulsory compulsory departments as supporter of the present system of training of third-level lecturers. refresher diverse as music, verbal feedback: "It's very According to the education courses. "It communications, informal, that's what m3.k:es it so officer, Malcolm Byrne, would do no tourism, catering good, because it has an off-the "Somebody could be an expert in harm," she and distance record quality about it." When a particular area, but when they says, "then learning. students go to her with complaints '..-,1... start lecturing, it could be the first there's no However, there is about individual courses or time they have spoken in public." danger 0 also great support lecturers, she advises them to go He argues that just as school­ letting thosel Th( previous yard-stick fOr m(asuring qUlllity. for lecturers to and talk to the course director, or teachers need to undergo training, who don't improve their own to the head of faculty, and so too should new third-level know how to teach slip through academic qualifications and skills. believes that most problems are lecturers. USI want to see formal the net." Subjects offered range from Gas solved in this way. training in the areas of public Shielded Arc Welding to a Student representation on key speaking, lecturing, multimedia primary degree for lecturers who committees guarantees an input presentations and 'getting the may be experts in their fields but from the student body in the message across'. have never acquired a Bachelors running of the colleges. "The StaffTraining degree. new faculty structures to be However, there is little support for implemented fully in the near compulsory training within DIT. However, DIT is anxious to point future," said Dr Gillingham, Or David Gillingham, Director of out that there is an extensive "provide for increased student Academic Affairs, stated: "I voluntary training programme. In Student representation on all key DIT would not be in favour of September 1997. ,Phil McKenna committees." compulsory training but I am in was appointed as the Staff Complaints At present, committ~es with favour of encouraging all staff to Training and Development student members include the engage in continuing professional Officer to, among other things, . Given that only a minority of the Quality Assurance Panel, which development, including teaching "manage and implement lecturers in DIT have experienced covers issues such as the student skills where appropriate. comprehensive training policies" more than a short teacher-training survey questionnaire, and The DIT already provides short throughout DIT. course (as in all third-level Examinations and Awards, which courses for staff and is developing She is responsible for the institutions), what recourse is deals with issues such as a Postgraduate Certificate in quarterly 'Staff Development there for dissatisfied students? ~' improvements in the method of Education. It is our policy that all News' which publicises the According to Dr Gillingham: exam result notification. academic staff should have the courses and grants available to "Students who have concerRS opportunity to take such courses. staff (both academic and non­ about the teaching of individual academic). Courses w ich have staff members are encouraged to 9 I?oet 's corner THE LENTEN PILGRIM

centre Stage or reil rhe lcurh. Lent '98 is upon us. The challenge faces each of us to give up "something Unbeeding ofrhubarbing exrcas lhal wail al for Lent". Pictures rhe back. No reason ro blush. Like the Budget, will it be the usual reliables - cigarettes, drink, sweets and Maolsheachlainn 6 BUI leave !hal show be, and zoom inlO rhe No hisrory bidden in rhe packers greal chasing pack. ofrhose who pass. biscuits and really ifthe truth be known, in making an effort with these, Ceallaigh There is more 10 be seen in rhal unphologenic Their unf.uniliariry soorhes motives are usually multifaceted. I want to save money, or I am damaging mish-mash. the over-inspecred and posl-moltemed hean. my health, or I am getting too fat or maybe even something more sinisrer. Life does nol begin wim a bang, or a snap, or a For a dream or a song or a word can develop an Let's get back to basics here. Lent is ultimately about preparing for Easter, flash. age Refreshingly strangered. II does nOI begin wirh a bang or a snap or a so maybe we should begin ar the other end and ask some questions about It begins wim a delicale deliniation oflighl Holy Week and the ceremonies because if these are not pan ofthe agenda And darkness, a coming ofsomeming unseen flash. 10 me sighl then the preparation time and lead up has not much chance for success. The world mlers onlo me silm ofrhe mind by How do you remember last Holy Week? What did you do for the first week degrees ofthe Easrer holidays last year? What did you find helpful about Lent '97? When rhe embryo eye, jusI a shulter oflid and Swimming Pool Try and cut your cloth to measure! oflash Unfolds on eterniry's face which need nevel say Maolsheachlainn 6 Lent begins with Ash Wednesday and the distribution ofthe ashes as a cheese. Ceallaigh reminder to us that this world is JUSt a passing phase in the sequence of In Shallow Bunkers time. Then for the next six weeks or so we focus on things spiritual in our Life need never say why il poses for pictures, or GillianSmith own personal lives so that we allow God to speak to us through experiences bow. Lighl strains 10 enligh!en rhis cavernous room to It keeps us all snapping away wirh sensations il And rhe echoing voices hang heavy in air and other people. This Lent, for you it could be do with the studenr saves The swimmers' pool wombs in a communal Lie down elections, or views that you hold about the homeless or foreigners in our To keep up our wonder - as when a boy womb and lace rhe bonIS ofrhe ready lrampers. country. It could be something around being Irish when it is Sr. Patrick's suolling rhrough caves Secure from rhe winds rhal blow coldly Undress weekend. It mighr be a discovery in a special friendship that has developed Should come upon daubings ofancienl men's elsewhere. and invile bullers ro add paranoia. since you starred College, or JUSt an awareness in the beaury ofNature this wishes and fears; So row, row your boal down rhis genrlesl of R"d, disarm, fire. The mystical mirror ofnarure, forged firsl in screams Rich rhe ripper skinning me. Spring time. God speaks to us in "the birs and pieces" oflife. This Lent is l.ascaux, As rhe sonest OflighlS gleams upon rhe tiled Already facing rhe burning inlerior not about doing anything heroic or fantastic, it is just about listening ro Holed up unrevealed in rhe darkness for walls. on rhe edge oferuption. God speaking to you, maybe telling you that He loves you and that you are rhousands ofyears; And ir gleams on rhe chlorine-ranged spray, Add 10 my deficir for fuel. the mosr wonderful person in the whole world, a real treasure. and il gleams BUI... And rhose aeons ago, whol awe musl have On rhe pallid-fleshed swimmers ofpaddles and I'm a carabolic one. Let us not ignore the essentials that are pan ofeveryday life but somehow welcomed ilS birrh! crawls. let the Lord in on the 'ordinary things' a little more so that we can see his Men mUSl have slood speechless, lransfixed by relevance and significance in the often mundane. Herein lies the challenge this singular smnt - ~ards And as rhey and swim rhrough ofLent '98, to be oneself knowing that each is gifted differently for the Transposed on rhe SlOne, bUI srilled in me rheir lanes The Swallow lorchlighl, rhe huOl They sense !har a kinship is being renewed. Gillian Smith good ofsociery and those around us, at home and abroad. In all ofilS splendour and !error-life's flesh The swimming-pool calls 10 rhe blood in rheir and life's blood veins Finbarr A. Neylon (Kevin St.) R,,-F.ashioned by firelight wirh fingers smeared, As liquid ro liquid and fluid 10 fluid. God-like, wirh earrh They wallow in wetness, embracing rhe flow The srarue among life-sudrers Unaware ofrhis monument And so feel we srill when we Sland where mose As a momer's young children will ding 10 her hunlers had stood; skilt 10 explosive sPllness. A standing sweetness And flOOI 10 rhal place rhey len lOO long ago where peraIs ofrainbows THE DIT Kevin St. Chaplaincy . When we srand in rheir place, be il rhere in When rhe darks ofrhe ocean broughl life 10 blind rhe sighl ofsolirude. !hal cellar or nOI. rhe earrh. Like delirious sperm rhey For rhe reel ofrhe cenruries CUlS 10 unending Finbar Neylon full-time Catholic hurry to live, Room 249 new scenes phone: 4024568 home phone: 6777480 New marvels awail in rhe wings; as 10 whal il wresrling wirh seconds. all means So, salry lears The audience whisper below, one eye fIXed on seep rusliIy inlo descrediled reminders. Margaret Buckley full-time Catholic Room 249 rhe play. See rhe silence. In me dark-room ofreason rhe artist develops Alien Nations Relish rhe Wte. phone: 4024568 home phone: 6777480 each shor Gillian Smith And nourish on i.. vaccuum. To maIre sense ofrhe rangle and calch il in Ken Lindsay part-time Methodist black, whire and grey. 32 South Hill, Dublin 6 home phone: 4974103 Listen to their notions The charrer ofmorning commurers, a pholo­ abouI rhe price of monrage cornflakes Willi Stewart part-time Church ofIreland ofa million perspecrives and angles. A massive and rhe price of 96 Lower Drumcondra Road, Dublin 9 home phone: 8300935 archive love. Offoorage is kepr inside every and each man Jingling wailers and empry vodka bonJes. alive. Keith McCrory part-time Presbyterian And rhough ofrecordings unhappy and dark Wonder whal drug powered rhem we would cleanse when buying rhose pink and yellow lracksuilS. 214 Beech Park, Lucan Co. Dublin Our mes, mey escape us. A copy is ever ar Or ro marry him. mobile phone: 087-481041 home phone: 4974103 large. The SENSATION! EXCLUSIVE! of Friends on roiler walls somebody's mischievous lens. 'luv4 FR'. No rime ro wrire full words Paparazzi swarm around every figure !hal wins i sta ationsexhibitionseventsshowsperfor...... ncest eatre Where were you when the Storyrellers Theatre Company ofher origins. Yet she is also angry with Wall came down? presented a new play: When the Wall her birth mother, this stranger who left Came Down. Written by German-born her to go ro a new life in the West. The Reduced Irish/German resident, Renate Ahrens­ Torn between her two lives, playing her Shakespeare Company, By Sarah Marriott Kramer, it deals with the question of violin louder and louder, as if to block whose abridged version national and personal identiry. out her own thoughts, the girl wishes ofthe Bible can be There Is a woman squashed inside a In May 1990, in East Berlin, files were that the Wall had never come down. viewed in The Gaeiry suitcase in Temple Bar. And there Is a discovered showing the details of the True to the ethos of the Arthouse, the Theatre from 16-21 load of black and white picrures of forced adoprions of the children of play was a mulrimedia presentation. March. See ad page 3. some people building a wall and some escapees. Ar last, parents from the West The atmosphere was creared by footage other people trying to get over it, under could rrace their children who had from old post-war movies. Behind it and through it. And some happier, 1====;;; ======spent their lives in the East. some of the initial scenes of the play Dream Sweet Dreams The gist ofit involves a ruthless more recent, piCrures of people When the Wall Came Down tells the ran images of the poverty and Big Idea Theatre bastard ofa money-lending scumbag celebrating in 1989 when thar wall, the story of one East German family, two deprivation of a post-war sociery: kids Directed by Mark Lynch called Slicer - not that obvious, he Berlin wall, was finally torn down. parenrs living happily with their 17­ climbing on the rubble of bombed-out couldn't kick a baIl properly when he Arrhouse, the multimedia centre in year-old daughrer, whose lives are houses, gaunt men waiting outside Big Idea's second outing in recent was young - who holds a victim Temple Bar, has recently presenred months is also Mark Lynch's second disrupted by a visit from a woman from soup kitchens, and kids who had got and his pal hostage through the Checkpoint Charlie, a photo exhibirion play, and is described as a comedy course ofa night. Very strong the West - the girlfs natural mother. separated from their parents giving to commemorate and remind us of the thriller with a cutting edge. The performances were put in by all four The truth, which slowly emerges, their name and age in the hope of hisrory of rhe Wall. The ingenuiry of main worry about anything actors, Paul Burke as the house­ begins to destroy the family. Their someone recognising them. the escapees was stunning - the tiny car described as a comedy thriller since owner, Antoinette Guiney, his whole family life had been based on a Storytellers Theatre Company, which in which many hid (at different times) Pulp Fiction is that it invariably isn't girlfriend, Diarmuid McShortall the lie, because the father had always usually performs plays from the funny, or isn't thrilling, or is neither. om~ when crossing the wall, is parked near money-borrowing victim and T known that his 'daughter' was taken Leaving Cert syllabus, s fully Based around four characters, three Suilleabh~in videos of escapees talking about rheir 6 as the pretty from an escapee. The girl is angry with fused music, film and drama to create a ofwhom are lads who knew each experiences. convincing Slicer giro Run in the her adoptive mother - unsure about moving and thought-provoking piece other when they w re growing up, New Theatre in Temple Bar it made Downstairs, in a space designed. to whether the woman was rruly ignorant of modem theatre. the fourth being the central for a rivetting watch. recreate the claustrophobia of the Wall, character's girlfriend. 10 A supplement to the DIT Examiner March 98 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• EIIIII.Irllllllllll MarIa DaIy ponders death and destruction and asks whether we are living in biblical end times

T HAS been said that humans think dead. As we know this never happened. ing in our society. As the end ofthe mil­ and could cause general mayhem on a in herds; it may weD be said that The pages ofhistory are loaded with lennium approaches, an increase in the huge scale. Nuclear missiles could con­ I they also go mad in herds and only false prophets and crazed fanatics who number ofdestructive cults is expected. ceivably go offby themselves!! Midnight recover their senses slowly one by one. appeared at various times ofpestilence and In the year 1806 the people of Leeds has been set as the due date by which the Death, the last judgement, the end of hardship. Invariably they found a follow­ became convinced that the end ofcivilisa­ problem must be resolved. As one com­ the world, immortality. Christian prophesy ing amongst the gullible. As we sit poised tion was drawing close. A hen in one of mentator has put it "When the clock moves us has always included within its ambit the at the turn of,the next millennium we can the nearby villages began laying eggs with into the beginning ofthe next centUIy, all c0m­ scenario ofdoomsday whereby the just see that Doomsday cults are not confined the words" Christ is Coming" inscribed puterpograrm will uodergo the IDJSt stringent will be rewarded and the evil will meet a upon them. Those who came to view the and lhreattuing test oftbeirlife". The poblem is grisly end, involving hellfrre and eternal eggs were gripped with fear and wonder more ofa management one than a technical damnation. End ofcentury doom and until fmally it was ascertained beyond .one. Everyone must ensure that their sys­ gloom has seized humanity on several doubt that the eggs had been inscribed tems are updated as most computer sys- occasions throughout history. with some corrosive ink and cruelly forced The most remarkable widespread terror up again into the bird's body by the that the end ofthe world was nigh was that owner.Unusual natural phenomena have Nuclear missiles which occurred in the middle ofthe tenth often been intetpreted as omens of God's century. Fanatics 'and prophets ofdoom displeasure to manipulate credulous peo­ appeared in France, Germany and Italy all ple. could go offby preaching to terrified crowds that the thou­ As we face into the next millennium the sand years prophesied in the Apocalypse most plausible doomsday catastrophe is as the term ofthe worlds duration was one ofour own creation. We are now three themselves! !. about to expire and that the scene ofth years from midnight. Midnight is last judgement would be at Jerusalem. In December 31 1999. The Y2K or the year the year 999, the number ofpilgrims pro­ JtlJHUlese doo-.sd4y clllt IetUler, two thousand problem could well result in terns are interconnected. Humans unlike ceeding Eastwards was apparently so great SltoluJ Astlltara disaster. The problem was born in the their computer counterparts are notoriously that in some accounts it has been described design of computer systems in the 1960's. unreliable and it is almost certain that as' as a desserting army. An ingrained sense to the past. In events like Waco, the Order By representing dates with six numeric the year 2000 approaches several bugs will of impending doom accompanied them ofthe Solar Temple killings, the flooding positions YYMMDD, calculations that remain in the system. Something will throughout their journey. Every roll of ofthe Tokyo underground with lethal sarin have dates in two different centuries will almost certainly go wrong. Computer pro­ thunder filled them with fear. Thunder was gas in 1995 by the followers of the Aum not work properly. Time span calculations grammers will advise you not to be on a associated with God's voice heralding the Shinri Kyo (supreme truth) cult and the such as interest payments and listings.of plane when midnight strikes. Heed their end of the world and people took to their more recent Heaven's Gate mass suicides, numbers will all go awry if the problem is warning or you might well find your­ knees in prayer expecting that at any sec­ we have more than ample evidence that not solved. As a result computers all over self engulfed in fire and spiralling ond the earth would open and yield up its millenarian ideas are still extant and thriv- the world will fail to function correctly uncontrollably towards the ground. Killing to show that killing is wrong

BY KE\IIN O'BRADY killing ofa human being while Texas executed 37 men, the gr­ Despite these figures, the num­ sentences in the hope that many 3rd February, about condoning the very same action eatest number in its legal history. ber ofexecutions carried out in will not be carried out because, four houn before mod­ against the offender.. the United States each year i for example, they will be reduced O ern legai history was The leader ofDemocratic Left, much lower than the number of on appeal to life without parole. made in Texu through the exe­ Proinsias De Rossa, said that death sentences in force. This is However, there must be very cution of Karla Tucker in the according to available figures, partly due to the delay between good reason for the original sen­ "death chamber" in Huntsville execution makes no difference to sentence and execution (on aver­ tence to be set aside. A higher - the flnt woman to be e ecut­ recidivism rates for murder in the age, prisoners are on Death Row court will usually take the view ed in Te a ince the American United States or elsewhere. for about nine years) but also that the original reason for the Civil War - about 40 people Although the case pf Karla because ifexecutions were to death sentence remains valid. held a protest vigil outside the Tucker, and that ofAlan keep pace with the number of US emba y. Bannister last year, each became death sentences, several prisoners o qualify as murder or Amongst those pre ent was an international cause celebre, the would have to be put to death manslaughter, the Mary Lawlor, director ofIrish vast majority do not. Executions every day for several years. Tkilling ofa human being Amnesty International. She said in the United States are not a rari­ It is thought that in states must be unlawful. While that may that it was illogical for society to ty. The State ofTexas has execut­ which have the death penalty, seem obvious, it is important. condemn the cold- blooded ed the most prisoners. In 1997, Karla Tucker: ctUlse celebre judges are willing to pass death (Continued on page 4) round the world Dancing with black tongue and the Garifunas in Honduras

BYSARAH MARRIOJT English. Her second language is Spanish ...... and her first is Garifuna. Norma looks West Indian, but he's LACK tongue got me in Garifuna, descended from ex-British slaves Honduras. A black fur started at who intermarried with the local Carib B the tip of my tongue, and dIsap­ Indians, after being shipwrecked 300 years peared down my throat. I couldn't get ago. rid ofit. The Garifuna people and their Punta Panicking, 1 queued for three hours in music are Trujillo's main attraction. the emergency section ofthe local hospital In the barrio on the beach outside town, - a warehouse echoing with crying babies. the Garifunas try to maintain their tradi­ The medical advice: "Gargle with bicar­ tional way oflife, in the face ofencroach­ bonate ofsoda", was better than the help 1 ing influence from 'El Norte', the US. got from the private doctor 1 consulted the Fundamental u> their culture is musK: and next day: "You're allergic to Honduras." dance, influenced by Africa, Jamaica and :!-...~~!..'!::!:.~ ..~?~i:!.~::.'!!:!!i.!.~~~ ..??..!!!!..~ ~..~~~~~ __ I'd just arrived in Trujillo, a mellow the Indians. 1 am looking forward to their then leave. Some are shy and hardly move, foreign women to dance. not minding our town on the Caribbean coast, famous for four-day weekend, and ignoring my black laughing with embarrassment and quickly stiffness and awkwardness. tongue (and the Germans who move away running back to their friends, while others "Comprame una cerveza" ask the druID"' every time 1 open my mouth) 1 head down are more extrovert, loving the attention. mcrs. 1 buy them all weak beec for about to the beach. One guy grinds his hips, sexually inviting, 2Sp each. By 3 o'clock in the morning In a shack, grandly called the Black and grabs his genitals. A girl grabs a man everyone's tired, and guys are moving to and White Club, a big middle-aged woman and dances with him, until her aggressive the cafe next door. For more beer? "No," with very small feet sways her pelvis style forces him back to the sidelines. A says Paulo, "I drank that bottle ofbeer yOU rhythmically to the beat ofthe bass drum, ten-year-old boy jumps in, dancing in a bought me. It's too much. 1 feel ill." He's pun-ta pun-la.. She is in conversation with not the only one - most ofthe other beer- the drummer, swaying backwards, moving One guy grinds his drinkers are looking sorry for themselves forwards, at one with the beat. Then she and knocking back Alka Seltzer. I join in, moves back, into the surrounding crowd hips, sexually inviting, gargling with my bicarb ofsoda. Without missing a beat, a young man takes The 'black tongue' is gradually fading. over - a different style, a different conver- and grabs his genitals The panic is over, but for the next two sation, more aggressive, more controlling, months I check it in the mirror every he changes the rhythm, he wants 19 force style obviously influenced by MTV and morning. the drummers to follow his feet, his pelvis, breakdancing. When I return to the States, I buy some his rhythm. He wins. But another dancer Some of the women sing wailing songs Pepto-Bismol and read the back ofthe appears. She wants his space, it's a battle ofsadness, love and joy. The musicians packet: "These tablets can cause blacknesS of wills, she takes the rhythm and changes change frequently. Usually men, but some- ofthe tongue." Garifuna children in their isolated village: it, she persuades the drummer to follow times women, take over one ofthe three Garifunas live along the Caribbean Limon, on the Mosquito coast her. He steps back, defeated. drums, or some of the percussion: six tor- coast ofBelize, Guatemala. and Honduras· ...... I am mesmerized. I feel as though I can toiseshells, played like vibes, a conch The Garifuna population ofHonduras is the grave ofAmerican adventurer, William see the lives, the relationships, the person- shell, a gourd shaker. approx 98,000. More information. and Walker. In my hotel, the chambermaid's T- alities behind the dancing. In the breaks between dromming, reg- links. on their culture. heritage and music shirt reads, "I'm too busy to give you a People keep coming, from the bar, from gae music comes over the loudspeakers. can befound at: ht(p:llwww'rad.{ima- blow-job." But Norma does not speak outside. They perform 'their' dance and Gradually, the Garifuna men ask the few worldcom/. • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• room. all the delicious breads, cakes, vegetables, meats A simply delicious autumn at Ballymaloe etc., including the burnt offerings are presented for tast­ ing. and September sees the beginning ofthe three-month This is the best time ofday, when teachers and stu­ BY JUNE EDWARDS •courses at this cookery school. dents, and any visitors wandering about, sit down and Darina and Tiro, along with their family are resident in relax, enjoying their mornings work. OR mOSE ofyou who want to get away from it the large 19th century, rambling farmhouse at the centre of While learning to cook, one also visits cheese-farms all, but are not brave enough to face treking the school and gardens. The farmyard has been beautifully ..~.~~~~!~ ..~:..~~.~.~~ ..~.~~.~~ ..!.~.~~:. .... F though the Himalayas alone, why not try a three restored and now acts as accommodation for the forty-five day or even better a three-month stay in the lu h coun­ students who come to Ballymaloe at anyone time. Students rise ot long after tryside of BaUymaloe Cookery SchooL At Ballymaloe, food in its most natural state is widely Situated in the quiet, idyllic village ofShannagarry, promoted, and students rise each morning not long after dawn to pi the fruit East Cork, Ballymaloe Cookery School is run by well­ dawn (ifthey wish to) to pick the fruit and vegetables to ...... known cook Darina Alien, along with her husband Tim. be used on that day. Each afternoon. Darina gives a three­ ence. Fruits, veg, meat, eggs all come from the farm at Made famous by the many cookery books and TV pro­ hour demonStration. revealing her techniques and the Ballymaloe, and possess a very different taste than those grammes in the 'Simply Delicious' series, there is now a tricks ofthe trade, after which the fruits ofher feast are products which have remained for two weeks on the shelf waiting list for those who wish to spend some time there, sampled by the students. The following morning each stu­ ofthe local Spar shop. taking one ofthe many courses available. dent tries to repeat the dishes from the demonstration. By Ifthree mooths seems a little too long a stay, there are To have the privilege to spend three whole months at noon, there is an array ofdelicious smells and the variety also short courses available during the summer, such as Ballymaloe is a treat indeed, and probably a great deal ofdishes all begin to emerge from the three kitchens. Laid the excellent bread workshop which runs for only five more restful than tripping around the world. Each January out on a large circular table in the centre ofthe dining- days. All in all, Ballymaloe is a holiday with a difference. arts 98 pace 3 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

ANDRE.W LlNCII enthuses over a new biography of the Today, sadly, he is reviled both east and towering literary figure ofAlexander Solzehintsyn west. The Russians have become increas­ ingly alienated by his preachiness and the s DM. Thomas makes dear in Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel west has never forgiven his accusations his magisterial new blograpby, Prize for Literature in 1970 "for the ethical that they were responsIble for the creation Athe Ufe ofSolzbenltsyn can be force with which he has pursued the indis­ ofcommunism. In any case he has always seen as a metapbor for 20th centnry pensable traditions ofRussian literature". favoured a fonn ofbenevolent authoritari­ Rnsslan blstory. He was born in 1918, a He then went on to write his great work anism rather than outright democracy and year after the BoIsbevik revolatlon and The Gulag Archipelago, a ruthless expose freedom. after studying maths and pbysla at ani­ ofthe Stalinist camp system. After his This biography is almost 600 pages long venlty entered the Red Army. He served expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974 but it is far from being overwhelmingly elgbt yan in a prison camp for writing he settled in Vermont for twenty years scholarly. In fact Thomas's skills as a nov­ a letter wIIldl was crltkal of StaUn and before returning to his native land after the elist have served him in good stead as the his experleaces there were the nw fall ofcommunism. book is lively and readable, at times read­ material for his dassk novella One Dq Solzhenitsyn has been justly glorified ing like a great historical novel. ill tM Llfe DJ/NIl Dertistwkle p.bUsbed all over the world not only for his literary Informative and entertaining in equal mea­ la 1961. It let tile pattern fOl' all ... skills but for his courageous criticism of sures, it will stand as one ofthe great liter­ boob; alOlltary man placed la eItrelDe the Soviet system from within. On a per­ ary biographies ofone ofthe most impor­ drealllltucel faced with a basic monI sonallevel, however, he has always been a tant figures ofthe century. dlIeIDma. It caused a world-wide seua­ difficult man. Thomas records many exam­ dOll od la owa coutry It made Iabn ples ofhis arrogance and selfishness and AIeJuDuIer S6deellitsyll: A CaIary ill an latenud eDle, denied oflldal p blka­ makes it clear that the man has been c0n­ that such a great man who has devoted hi life His Llfe by D.M. Thomas ispublished by tIon of blJ work. sistently ungrateful towards his would-be to uphold the principles in which he believes Linle, Brown helpers. But Thomas sees it as inevitable cannot also be a sociable companion.

participant. Bearing in mind the his narrator all the more credible. Grace Quinn is an BngIish fate ofCyril ParIdnson, book crit­ AB the plot twists, EIspetb woman who has spent most of ic, whose vicious review of Hunter, a.La Libby Hatch, her life married to a cruel and t Dying in Style costs him his life, becomes more and more danger­ violent husband in rural Ireland. this critic gives Carson an ous while the complexity of her When he dies after a mysterious emphatic thumbs up. character is slowly revealed. accident she goes to visit her FM estranged son Martin, a young ANINIEW LnICII and fIONA MC CANN examine gay man who lives a nervous life the latest offerin s from the literary world Angel ofDarkness in Dublin. CALEBCARR AB the book unfolds we learn publicity. Little BrowII more about their tortured rela­ Arthur Whitworth is a washed tionship, Martin's insecurities up author, whose latest novel, Set in New York at the turn of and what really happened to his Dying in Style, is panned by vitri­ this century, Cateb Carr's sequel father. olic critics , resulting in poor to his highly acclaimed debut The book works well on a sales and a book reading attended novel, The Alienist, centres number oflevels, not least for its only by bookstore staffand around the mysterious disappear­ depiction ofthe Dublin gay Whitworth's ageing aunts. When ance ofAna Linares, the young CaIebCarr scene. The relationship between his book is remaindered, and child ofa high-ranking Spanish Martin and his partner Henry , by turns up in bargain bookshops diplomat. The child's mother Carr's superb crafmanship keeps turns jealous and loving, is before even making it to paper­ goes to the Howard agency for the reader suspended through depicted skillfuUy and sensitive­ back, Whitworth's boat is found help. Sara Howard immediately each chapter, in a state half way ly. The novel also explores the upturned in Morecomb bay and enlists the help ofher friends, between excitement and terror nature ofIrishness through Dying in Style the author nowehere to be found which include the eminent that only abates as the final page Grace's dilemma ofbeing an out­ MICHAEL CARSO His death is only the first in a a1ienist - or psychiatrist - Or is tumod. sider in her adopted country. Poolbeg series, as one by one, the charac­ Laszlo Kreizler. Their combined Fans ofThe Alienist won't be The book is set during the ters in his novel, stolen from real investigations eventually lead to disappointed, while those as yet abortion X case in 1992 but In these days ofbig advances life, are murdered in exactly the a nurse EIspeth Hunter, whom unitiated into the world ofOr this is not a plot hook in from English publishing houses same manner as that described in they discover has been responsi­ K.reizler are strongly recommend­ itself. Rather it is used a for Irish writers, Michael Carson the book. Detective Inspector ble for the deaths ofseveral ed to take this opportunity to backdrop to a story which may seem a somewhat ofan Dyer, battling with a nicotine young children in her care. make the renowned a1ienist's challenges the traditional pre­ anomaly. Having published sev­ addiction and a crush on his sec­ Told through the eyes of acquaintance. conceptions about mother­ eral novels on the British· ond in command, Constable Steve Taggert, a young man who FM hood Ridgway's great Transworld label, he left them for Desmond K.eeley, leads the inves­ was rescued from the slums of strength is his beautifully the Irish Poolbeg publishers. tiption into a case that seems to New York by K.reizler, the story The Long F"g clear prose which brilliantly Eight novels into his career, one reinforce the maxim, that there is that unfolds calls into question all KEITH RIDGWAY captures the profundity of would assume he knows what no such thing as bad publicity. the assumptions about what is FtIber Md FIIber everyday speech and actions. he's doing. Michael Canon's world of natural and unnatural that resided This is a bleak novel which His latest, Dying in Style, takes critics and agents and publicity­ at the core ofthe American The Long Falling, Keith captivates not only through a a well-deserved dig at the boo~ crazed publishers is an entertain­ dream offamily. Carr leads us Ridgway's debut novel is a fasci­ strong suspen eful plot but industry, where critics and agents ing read, ifonly for his sardonic through the streets ofNew York nating story ofcontemporary also its fine writing which become the victims ofa series of perspective on the literary world with an attention to detail and Ireland which marks him out as enhances rather than obstructs murders, for the sake ofpure in which he himself is a reluctant historical accuracy that renders an exceptional new talent. the storyline. AL 011 the ~all page 4

The information age is a natural progression of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, but as EoIn HMn.... discovered, there comes a time when things seem to go just a bit too far

once and for all. As I become world order. No longer will puter software manufacturing engrossed in my new toy, it being a military superpower be facilities might suddenly have appeared like my life was being enough - you will need a com­ the whole US Fifth Fleet breed­ taken over by beings from mercial wing to run the place ing down their neCk unless they other planets who all answer to properly. Why go to the allow Microsoft inspectors into the name of Bill. Their two expense of a military invasion their sites. .personal representatives on And what will have become Earth also aanswer to the name "My life was being of me? On one hand I might OME friends of mine Now don't get me wrong, I of Bill (handily disguised as a taken over by beings have given into my addiction are worried that my life have always believed in computer magnate and a politi- from other planets" (presently I'm fighting a losing Sis being taken over by Darwin, yet the more I think of cian). One is a sex starved battle) and gone completely the information age. They it, it seems natural that the megalomaniac and the other over the edge. On the other may be right. But the more I cave man should evolve from lives in a big white house. when all they have to do is hand I may return to the realm embrace IT (I'm actually a clubbing somebody over the Together their duty is to get send in McDonalds and of dodgy Chinese restaurants more recent recruit than peo- head with part of a tree to nuk- non-conformists to toe the line. Microsoft? and late (very late) nights on pie might believe), the more I ing non-conformists. Anyone not conforming will Where does it all end? the beer trail as a leading mem­ am embraced by Charles When I bought my computer feel their wrath. In a few years time any third ber of an underground revolu­ Darwin's Theory of last year, a close friend feared Imagine a situation 10 years world country that doesn't own tionary freedom movement. Evolution. that I had been lost to the lads from now where we have a new up to building their own com- ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• use ofcapital punishment West Virginia, which has no he and Bentley were put to death, after his refusal generally rely mainly for its death penalty, are the same surrounded by other to grant her a 30-day stay of Killing to justification on the biblical as those in East Virginia, police. Bentley and execution when she had imperative ( in Exodus, Old which does. This suggests Craig insisted that exhausted all other legal show that Testament) of"life for life". that the prospect ofexecu- the words were options. When Magda Finnegan, tion is irrelevant to prospec- never spoken. In On 20th April, Erica ofthe organisation Friends tive offenders in states 1993, the British Sheppard is the next woman killing is for Life, was collecting sig- which have the death penal- Home Secretary due to be executed in Texas. natures for a petition to ty. granted a "partial She has already instructed protest about the execution Amnesty International pardon", upholding her lawyers not to pursue wrong ofKarla Tucker, one woman also argues that statistics in the original convic- any further appeals on her (Cont. from page 1) asked her ifKarla Tucker every country in which 'In the Name of the Father' brought tion but stating that behalf. had killed anybody; when appropriate research has another case of a miscarriage ofjustice the hanging was It may be that Erica The murders by Karla told that she had, the woman been carried out show that to the attention of the world wrong. A full par- Sheppard is prepared to meet Tucker in 1983, and her own commented that an execu- recidivism rates for homi- don, confinning that her Maker, as Karla Tucker execution, both involved the don was appropriate. cide are relatively low. the conviction was appeared to have been. It Those against According to Mary Law~or, innocent person, either wrong, is still a possibility at would be interesting to know the death penalty this is because while many through mistaken identity or a later date. how many ofthose who are argue that the ofthe original offences are because no crime has been After the release in most ardent in their support Bible should not committed under the influ- committed. Britain ofthe Birmingham ofcapital punishment are be interpreted lit- ence ofdrugs or alcohol, In the United States, it is Six and the Guildford Four - similarly prepared. erally and they these factors are often elimi- claimed that all fonns of some or all ofwhom would can point, alter- nated during the period of execution - lethal injection, have been given the death natively, to imprisonment. electrocution, lethal gas, sentence if this had been Matthew's While the prospect ofret- hanging and firing squad - available - a prospective injunction (in the ribution may seem appealing are either quick or painless, Conservative parliamentary New Testament) in certain cases, it is a funda- or both. In fact, there have candidate was asked during Editorial/layout that "ifanyone mental principle ofimpris- been cases where it has his constituency selection team: strikes you on the onment that apart from being taken prisoners in the elec- process whether or not he right cheek, turn punished, the offender be tric chair several minutes to agreed with capital punish- June Edwards to him the other rehabilitated so that upon die, and convulsions caused ment in principle. He Carme1 Killoran also" to show release he or she will no by the electric current are answered that, with the bene- that the Bible longer be a danger to soci- fit of hindsight, it would have Andrew Lynch does not demand ety. There is also a contra- it has taken been "political suicide" to Fiona McCann Photo used by Antly Warhol for retribution. diction in allowing a prison- prisoners in the have used the death penalty. Sarah Marrlott his electric cha;r prints Aside from er to be educated before Although that is not a biblical consid- being executed, particularly electric chair proper answer,it explains at Caterina O'SulIivan act ofkilling. But they differ erations, there are three main after a lengthy delay. Karla I. t least one reason for many ·fi'om·eacli..ollier·1)ecaWiir....·...... ·arguments·ln favour ofthe Tucker had been on Death severa mlnu es jurisdictions not having capi- while one is sanctioned by death penalty: firstly, it is an Row for fourteen-and-a-half to die tal punishment. Britain has Thanks toJohn legal process, the other is effective deterrent against years, and during that period debated its Testoration more Kenny a: Cearbhall not. In other words, although (re)offending; secondly, it she had apparently made commonplace. than once since it was ahol- 6SioclWn Karla Tucker committed a ensures that the offender substantial personal In Britain, Derek Bentley ished, but political expedien- crime, the State ofTexllS did cannot reoffend; and, thirdly, improvements. was hanged in 1953 for an cy on each occasion has - not, but only because the law it is an appropriate fonn of Aside, again, from any alleged murder during an been more persuasive than Letters, comments says so. retribution, for example theological considerations, attempted.b.urgIaI}t•.His.cnn::... conservative ideology. and abuse can be This is a contradiction: where the offender shows no there are two main argu- viction was largely on the In Texas, conversely, the the same physical act can be remorse for the crime com- ments against the death basis ofpolice claims that he future political career of sent to: lawful in one context but not mitted. penalty: firstly, that it shouted "let him have it, State Governor, Qeorge nX-98@hotmaiLcom in another. Why should this According to Mary amounts to torture; and, sec- Chris" to his accomplice, Bush, Jr. appears to have or to the nIT be so? Lawlor, statistics show that ondly ( in certain cases), that Chris Craig, who then shot been the ultimate reason for Those who advocate the recidivism for homicide in is the possible to execute an dead a police constable when Karla Tucker having been Examiner The World According to Larry Baker Glen Dirnplex An Interview with Fiona McCann Awards at IMMA Critics have referred to his work as parents and children. I had started to Larry Baker's. "I am fascinated by my "reminiscent of the best of John write a book about the drive-in theatre own lack offaith, much as I go through The Glen Dimplex Anists Award, sponsored by Irving". His first novel has garnered business but I couldn't write it, and the motions." the Irish-based company Glen Dimplex was him rave revues in his native America when I realised what I was really The themes of faith and fate are designed to encourage developmental innovation interested in ,I took that setting and interlinked in Flamingo in an ultimately in the visual arts. The award, now in its fifth and has just been published in Ireland. year, is open to Irish artists who have exhibited Fiona Mc Cann talks to Larry Baker made the story in that setting. " uplifting way. "It is the ultimate in Ireland or elsewhere during the year. It is also about faith, fate and flamingos. The book links the notion of contradiction in religion. Whatever open to non-Irish artists who have exhibited I arrived to meet Larry Baker for a will be will be, but you choose it to be during the same period. About 25% of entries thirty minute interview. An hour and a that way. God gives you free will but this year were from abroad. The five shortlisted half of mesmerising storytelling later I God knows exactly what you're going to artists will show work in an exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art which opens on emerged, promising to print my parting do, so how can it be free will.? I can't April 9th. At this stage all five will be paid sentence to him, that it was the best resolve it." As the book brings us £1,000 and the £15,000 will be presented to the interview I'd ever done. I wasn't lying. towards it's powerful Fourth of July winning artist in June. For the first time this As he put it himself, "I am cynical and climax, we sense the inevitability of the year an additional non-monetary award will be ironic and confused and agnostic and a future unfolding. "Abe sees into the made for a sustained contribution by an artist to the visual arts in Ireland. The winners will be lot of things. And I tell stories... I've future. Keep in mind that Abe is telling chosen by the international jury which includes been telling stories all my life." you this story and he knows what's some prestigious names like Thomas Flamingo Rising, his first novel, going to happen. He's controlling Sokolowski, the director of the Andy Warhol contains all these elements woven everything. Abe is his own version of Museum and Dominique Trucot, one of the together in a compelling story , and is God as a storyteller." forces behind Imaginaire Irlandaise. Abraham is very much a storyteller, This year there are two artists working together. already earning him comparisons to So there are really five artists but six individuals John Irving and Garrison Keiller. weaving his tale in a personal and direct involved. Two artists are from overseas - Hans The concept may be familiar: a story voice. Baker was careful to ensure that Peter Kuhn from Germany and Mc Dermott of a young man coming of age in the sense of a story was evident and America in the fifties, but Baker makes throughout the novel. "It's always been Mc Gough, the American multimedia artist. a sense of this guy talking to you. You're There are three Irish born artists - Siobhan it both original and personal. The Hapaska's, Philip Napier and Janet Mullarney. protagonist Abraham Isaac Lee, Korean­ not reading the story, you're listening...! Siobahn Hapaska has a very technically fine type tried to remove any reference to reading born, is taken to America by his ''!'Vt bun ttHing storitS aH my lift. "!Any Balttr of sculpture. She keeps herself one removed idealistic father, who brings his children txplains tht background to his littrary carttr. as opposed to listening." from her work. She likes to think of her works up in the Flamingo, the largest ~rive-in This technique works to bring the as having a life oftheir own. They often have to parenthood with a sense of personal Flamingo's characters to life, with do with intangible things like movement and movie theatre in the world. He falls in place whereas the work of the other sculpture love with the daughter of Turner West, identity. As Pete, the black caretaker of Abraham, as narrator, the most real. shortlisted - his father's greatest enemy and rival for the Flamingo sagely puts it "You are Baker contests that in many ways, this ]anet MuIlarney is much more distinctive. his mother's heart, and learns, in his who you are." Baker elaborates. "It's character grew to more than a creation "Anyone working in the visual arts would struggle to grow, the wonder of being accepting who you are and recognising of the author's imagination. "It's a recognise a what made you that way. That's what writing cliche that characters take over ]anet Mullarney work straight off", says young. Philomena Byrne from IMMA. MuIlarney's Some of the incidents which take the book's about." their own story if they're good work has to do with the human condition, place in this wonderland setting came The interweaving of these themes of characters. But Abe was starting to tell particularly the condition of women,the way directly from Baker's own experience identity and parenthood lead Abraham his own story and I was just ~getting it they ofren have to sacrifice themselves to look while managing drive-in movie theatres through his childhood years up to his down. And I realised that this was an after others. sixteenth birthday, when the delights incredibly sad voice. He's telling a funny Philip Napier is the one artist with work of a in the past, but he hastens to point out distinctly Irish nature. He is very much bound that it is not an autobiographical novel. and responsibilties of the adult world story but he himself is infinitely sad. up with the situation in Northern Ireland. The "A lot of my experiences are in the are revealed to him. Behind his loss of Why?" That question is answered in work for which he was shortlisted was for a work book, but I'm not in the book." innocence lies the question of whether the tragic events that shape Flamingo called Gauge which was built around Bloody I am then shown photos of Larry faith is also an inevitable loss in the Rising's climactic final chapters, events Sunday and the search for an apology and what Baker's two children, and the images of maturing process. For Baker, the that Baker had never intended in his constitutes an apology. What constitutes an concept offaith is integral to the novel. apology from one party may not be seen as an Abraham and his sister Louise, around original drafts of the story. "I rewrote apology from another. The work was actually whom Flamingo Rising is based, are "It's essential." Baker says simply. "This the ending of the book to account for taken out to Glenfada Park, Derry where most smiling up at me. "These are the is a real simple book in a lot of ways. the voice that came out. " of the fatalities of Bloody Sunday took place. physical models of the children here. You've got three adults: the atheist The moving close ofFlamingo Rising He has tried to quantify the apology ifyou like. The characters are not these children neighbour, th~ agnostic father, the only serves to confirm the promising Some of the other works are of a more general devout Christian mother, that's sort of reviews that Baker's first novel has nature. Mc Dermott and Mc Gough go to the but when I write, even if I don't other extreme of Napier. They operate as one describe a character in the book, I know the range or scale of religious faith.... earned him. One reviewer remarked:"If person and travel back in time. In their What they look like. I have to know and Abe is going to fit in sooner or later you take John Irving, Herman Melville, photographs and painti~ they go back as far as what they look like to write about in one of those worlds." As Abraham American Graffiti (the movie), the Day The French Revolution but they tend to work them." comes of age, we watch him grappling of the Locusts (the book), and toss more creating and maintaining the later years of with these worlds, as events overtake them all together, what you've got is the last century and the early years of this His paternal pride is evident, as century. So whilst the award has a rather goes on to explain how parenthood is him and force him into making a choice The Flamingo Rising." Baker smiles. "I international flavour about it, the criteria is an integral aspect of Flamingo Rising. between them. Having been a Baptist can live with that." really a measurable step forward in the practice preacher as a teenager, the notion of ofan artist during this period. "The book's not about the drive-in (Flamingo Rising upublished by Link Brown. It u theatre business. It's really about faith is an eternal preoccupation of awibbIe in Hardbad< EditioD £or .£14.99) Carmel KiUoran

SINEAD O'CONNOR: FROM VILLAIN TO VIRGIN which a lot ofIrish children are growing up....Ireland being the the World". She was described as having "soft, searching eye;" and country which has the highest statistic in Europe ofchild abuse". "a buttermilk complexion". Neil Jordan apparendyagrees. For anyone who has any interest in the subjea. inead 0' She also said that" the cause ofmy own abuse was the Church's By any commercial standards, Sinead O'Connor has enjoyed Connor's appearance as the Virgin Mary in her film role - in effect on this country". considerable artistic success, d pire - or maybe even with the help Neil Jordan's Tht Butchtr Boy - has renewed the debate about her Against that background. it is somewhat surprising that she should of- her actions and pronouncements. Whatever the conaoversy of relationship with the Church and religion. appear ( in more ways than one) as the Virgin Mary to provide her part in The Butcher Boy, the film has attracted favourable As is well known, in October 1992 Sinead O'Connor appeared spiritual guidance to Earnonn Owen's character Francie Brady in reviews and her version ofthe tide song, which has been released, on the . ion show ~ Night Livt in the United StateS. Neil Jordan's film. The stated reason for Sinead O'Connor having islikdylDdo After pcdOrming a song ar, she tore up a photograph of been chosen - aside from the possibility that .•...:ndlId If ~veJ the road to Damascus through her the Pope> aborted f:V to "fight the real enemy" and walked provoke controversy - is her striking, even angelic, 100 Her paIldJiiltGl~:VilaWnMary, her nen great public off . In May 1993. during an interview .th ITV in success in 1990 with her version ofthe Prince song Nothing sc:atemeot , off-screen, may be mo~ Brit;Un, when asked about the incident on SirtNrJay Night Livt, Comparts 2 U was at least in part due to the many compliments construcrm - ifless dramatic - than her Saturday Night Live . she said: "T hold (he Church entirely responsible for the about her close-up looks in· the video. In 1991, she was chosen by appearance. circumstances of my childhood and for the circumstances under' People Weekly Extra as one ofthe 50 "Most Beautiful People in KEVIN O'BRADY 11 Dealing with Depression

of things, and it's hard to concentrate. big and you're feeling low for too long, you You get irritated often. Little things make you are not alone. there's help out there and you TOO YOUNG TO lose your temper; you over-react. can ask for help. Your sleep pattern changes; you start sleeping And if you know someone in your class whom BE DEPRESSED a lot more or you have trouble falling asleep at you think is depressed, you can help: listen night. Or you wake up really early most and encourage your friend to seek help Everybody feels sad or blue now and then. But mornings and can't get back to sleep. through the Counselling Service or their if you're sad most of the time, and it's giving Your eating pattern changes; you've lost your Medical Centre. Ifyour friend doesn't ask for you problems with your grades, your appetite or you eat a lot more. help soon, talk to someone you trust and relationships with your family and friends, You feel restless and tired most of the time. respect - especially if your friend· mentions alcohol, drugs, or sex or if its controlling your You think about death, or feel like you're suicide. behaviour in other ways the problem may be dying, or have thoughts about committing depression. suicide Depression is a serious illness that can affect What You Need To anybody, including students, regardless of age, background, or economic status. It describes When You're Manic: Know About Suicide... everything from the mood swings we all encounter, to the disabling and life threatening You feel high as a kite... Like you're "on top Mo t people who are depressed do not take pain of a major depressive episode. It is of the world". their own lives. But depression increase the estimated that lout of 10 young people get You get unreal ideas about the great things you risk of suicide or suicide attempts. It is not seriou ly depressed each year in Ireland. The can do - things that you really can't do. true that people who talk about suicide do not good news is that you can get treatment and Thoughts go racing through your head; you attempt it. Suicidal thoughts, remarks, or feel better soon. jump from one subject to another, and you talk attempts are always senous. It any of these Depression can affect your thoughts, feelings, a lot. happen to you or a friend, you must tell a behaviour, and overall health. Mo t people You're a non-stop party, constantly running responsible adult immediately ....it' better to with depression can be helped with treatment. around. be safe than sorry... Having depression doesn't meant that a person You do too many wild or risky things: with is weak, or a failure, or isn't really trying... it driving, with spending money, with sex, etc. means they need treatment. But a majority of You're so "up" that you don't need much depressed people never get the help they need. sleep. John Broderick, Student Co or In fact 50% of cases among young people in You're rebellious or irritable and can't get Ireland go unrecognised and untr~ated. And, along at home or college, or with your friends. when depression isn't treated, it can get worse, last longer, and prevent you from getting the most out of this important time in your life. Why Do People Get There are two kinds ofdepressive illness: the sad kind, called major depre sion, and manic­ Depressed? depression or bipolar illness, when feeling TOO YOUNG TO down and depressed alternates with being Sometimes people get seriously depressed speeded-up and sometimes reckless. after something like a separation or divorce in the family, major fmancial problems, someone BE DEPRESSED You should seek professional help from you love dying, a messed up home life, or your Student Counsellor and/or Medical breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend. Centre ifyou've had five or more ofthe Other times - like with other illnesses ­ AWARE, in association with the following symptoms for more than two depression just happens. Often young people DIT Student Union and the DIT weeks or ifany ofthese symptoms cause react to the pain ofdepression by getting into Counselling Service, is hosting such a big change that you can't keep up trouble: trouble with alcohol, drugs, or sex; the last of a series ofroadshows your usual routine. trouble with college or bad grades; problems on Depression in the Gleeson with family or friends. This is another reason Hall, DIT Kevin Street on When You're Depressed: why it's important to get treatment for Tuesday, March 24th at 7.3Opm. depression before it leads to other trouble. The programme, led by lan You feel sad or cry a lot and it doesn't go Most people with depression can be helped away. with counselling, medicine, or both together. Dempsey ofRadio 2FM, will You feel guilty for no real reason; you feel like Counselling, or psychotherapy, means talking include a panel of special guest you're no good; you've lost your confidence. about feelings with a trained professional who speakers, a video, and will Life seems meaningless or like nothing good is can help you change the relationships, conelude with a question and ever going to happen again. thoughts, or behaviours that contribute to answer session. Come early to You have a negative attitude a lot ofthe time, depression. Medicine is used to treat avoid disappointment. . or it seems like you have no feelings. depression that is severe or You don't feel like doing a lot ofthe things disabling. Antidepressant medications are not you used to like- like music, sports, being "uppers" and are not addictive. Sometimes, with friends, going out - and you want to be several types may have to be tried before you left alone most of the time. and your doctor fmd the one that works best. It's hard to make up your mind. You forget lots So remember, when your problems seem too 12 ofIreland. needs ofthe individual." Based on the Harvard MBA model, In the are of specialist management UCD first introduced postgraduate programmes, the school has a number business degree programmes in 1964 of options, most prominent among with its MBA, The Graduate School of these is a master of business studies Business was formally ~stablished in (MBS) programme that has proved to 1990 and moved to its Blackrock be a popular option with many Campus in 1991. business/commerce graduates and 11 Since then, the school has grown possible streams to specialise in. steadily - as has its contingent of The MBS programme, which OPEN DAY international students - and now it currently has around 350 participants WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 1998 has over 1,000 students and 7,500 and runs for 12 months from 2.00pm - 5.30pm alumni. Courses offered at the school September every year, specialises in the are in the areas of general management primary management functions. These Pre entations on the following programmes: programmes (MBA), specialist include areas like finance, human GRADUATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMMES management programmes (MBS, Macc resource management, international Diploma in Business Studies (DBS) higher diploma in marketing practice, business, management and marketing. and master of management science), According to the school, successful Diploma in Business Studies (Information Technology) and graduate diploma programmes graduates of the MBS programme can Diploma in Entrepreneurial Studies (DES) (DBS, DBS (information technology), expect a "wide variety of career SPECIALIST MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES and a graduate diploma in opportunities" with last year's graduates Master ofBusiness Studies (MBS) entrepeneurial studies). "working in organisations like the Irish Master ofAccounting (MAce) A recent addition has been a careers Trade Board, Kerry Group, Goldman Higher Diploma in Marketing Practice (HDMP) resource centre (supported by a Sachs and Schering Plough." dedicated library), where the likes of For those interested in learning how to apply Master of Management Science (MMS) . Unilever, Proctor and Gamble, mathematical skills and computer ~ aptitudes to problem solving in t, the Higher Diploma in Social & Vocational Rehabilitation (DSVR) Anderson Consulting and Price Master ofScience (Disability Management) school offers a IDUcer of sc:ience Waterhouse have recruited. The school's programme. Thae are about 20 pcticipants on GENERAL MANAGEMENT,PROGRAMMES .... library and business information centre this progrmune at the moment and, according Master of Business Administration (MBA) are central to all teaching and research to the school, it suited to honours graduates in activity. Writing in the school's the areas of business studies, engineering, Refreshments provided throughout the day computer science and maths. Also in the an:a of brochure, Michael Smurfit notes: "This specialist management programmes. school is a school that is driven by the premise University offers a one-year coune leading of College that the essential difference between Accounting (MAce) and a hiBhcr diploma in For further information contact: Dublin those companies that win and those marketing practice. Degree holders ofcbe Master that don't is the calibre of people of Accounting (MAce) receive sub tantial Tel: (01) 706 8934 exemptions from the Institute of Chartered involved. 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Under the supervision of programme managers For those interested in finding out Graduate School of Business of Europe and North America. it draws and with the advice of tu and mentors, more about the Michael Smurfit UCD students on this graduate diploma course act as on traditions of business education and Graduate School of Business, an Open marketing advisors to small and medium The Michael murfit Graduate research from both continents. Our Day will be held on April 15 starting companies. According to th school: "By School of Business aims to be a leader mission is to be a leading international allowing graduates to work on real problems from 12pm. For more information, in Europe in business education by business school in Europe and the links with a number of companies acro different email [email protected] or try providing a quality learning and we have have established reflect the industry sectors, they gain significant experience web site in exactly the sam ay if th Y w re in a research environment directed at international dimension of the current http://www.ucd.ie/gsb/events/openday. marketing consultancy house. Graduates from students and the business community. business environment." htnl or phone (01) 7068934. the class of 1997 were recruited as marketing Situated in 20 acres of parkland at A Quick tour of the campus will executives and brand managers by such There is a number of prestigious Blackrock, Co. Dublin, and including provide ample confirmation of the links companies as EXPO Marketing, Mucll, Irish masters and graduate diploma many fine period buildings, UCD's between it and the world of business. Life and Wyeth Laboratories." programmes available at UCD's UCD Graduate School of also Graduate School of Business is one of Many of the teaching facilities and au...... Graduate School of Bus' from . invol Ioma the t respected business schools in student re ources are sponsored by rGpa.mmes. l~. __.--. Blackrock campus i la~ in a place where academia banks and other prominent companies. stud' W of . interf.ace Since ar nd 1990, the school ha D b1in. Many 0 d£7.5~inp· become synon''''~!;''l!J~.,

__·a...~Qti.. I ari Iotmcjled on premise that "a strong Don od on, chief executive of partner hip between business and Cement Roadstone Holdings plc, academia is the best way to providt a Lochlann Quinn, chairman of AIB world-class education. As a bridge Group, and Dennis Hanrahan, head of between the experti e and opportunities group corporate development at Bank 13 Tony Kinsella to a single point. Unfortunately the reply was a point the deficit to a single point. WIT answered with a DIT UNDER 21 'S by Erin's Isle to restore their lead. Mark Murphy point from play. PJ Coady then converted a forty clawed that lead back to the smallest margin but, metre free at the end ofthe first quarter. WIT scored a BEATEN IN SEMI­ again, Erin's Isle restored their two point advantage. A two points and a penalty goal before Coady replied thirty metre free deep into injury time by Gilligan was with a brace ofpoints. A WIT goal from play was the FINAL cleared by the packed defence. last score by the home side in the first halE Three DIT points in succession, the first from play by Darragh ER/N'S ISLE 0 - 8 DIT 0 - 6 The DIT team was Quinn and two converted frees by Coady, saw DIT go Corcoran, C. Walsh, D. Clohessy, C. Magee, B. With four days to go to the crunch quarter final Devereaux, E. Hoey (0-1), A. Larkin, P.Blake, A. game against WIT the DIT under 21 team had to face Coote, P. Casey, G. Mclntyre, C. Buggy, R Hickey Erin's Isle on their home ground for the long delayed (0-1), C. Byrne (0-1), C. Curran (0-1) semi-final of the Dublin Under 21 Championship. It Substitutions N. Gilligan for R Hicker, P. Finnerty was a game in which defences dominated and a strong (0-1) for C. Walsh, M. Murphy (0-1) for P. Casey. diagonal cross field wide made scoring from the placed ball very difficult for both sides. DARNIT!WIT DEFEAT DIT AGAIN , "AnJ ifytnuMm 't Iih it, ytnull1I- .. WttuJ" 't Cllteh the TtSt ofit. ] Wlltn'fimJ IlUtihIte ofTec""oltJD 2 - 14 Drlllli" IlUIitrIU of Tec""oioD 0 - 8 into the dressing room with a four point deficit. A WIT point thirty five seconds after the The quarter final game of the 1998 Fitzgibbon resumption put immense pressure on the visitors who Cup, which saw OIT and WIT meet at Walsh Park, were unable to cope with the strength of the WIT in Waterford, was a~~~~"'D-'" the middle of the field of play. Mark repeat of the urphy scorched the woodwork with DITcllptai" ETIIia Hoey lit th~ start ofth~ Eri" SIskgllme. corresponding attempt which was barely wide. DIT 1997 game. The ressure was not converted into scores Rary Hicker raised the white flag for DIT with a midweek match d a rocket from Gilligan was blocked converted free while points from Colm Byrne and drew a very large man. WIT steadily Ciaran Curran gave OIT a one point lead at the end crowd 0 dded t6 thetr pOints a of the first quarter of play. A penalty to the home supporters for t DIT defence and ran out clear team resulted in a point and a let offfor on: Captain both sides adding Enda Hoer sc:nt over the last DIT score of the first atmosphere to halfwhen he converted a free from inside'his own half what has become The DIT team lineout was with six minutes remaining. Two further points from almost an old, bAMaguire, D. Caulfield, N. Erin's Isle left DIT adrift by that margin at halftime. firm game. '--The DITU21 hur/i"l...... ;,.______teIl11I, /nn1Ji"g the DITs hurli"Urojik. cC affrey, S. Hic key, D. Spain, T. Niall Gilligan who collected a lob from Peter Casey, WIT went into a three point lead before Trevor McGrath, P. Fmnerty, M. Fimimons, S. Duignan, J. kicked the ball inches wide shortly after he was MacGrath put the ball through to Mark Murphy who Cullen, PJ Coady (0-5), M. Murphy (0-1), D. Quinn brought on. His next shot at goal was, again, bardy rounded his marker and scored the first DIT point of (0-1), N. Gilligan (0-1), M. Corcoran wide. The Erin's Isle attempts at converting frees were the half on the tenth minute. Two minutes later Niall Substitutions E. Hoer fOr S. Hickey, C. Curran for frustrated by the gusting wind. Paul Finnerty put over Gilligan collected and scored under pl'CSSUl'C to reduce J. CuIlen, P. BIake for D. Spain a superb point on twenty minutes to narrow the gap

and younger, and weeks beforehand. 1 was out for a long time and O'Connell. More wieldy known hurlcn then, Niall Gilligan, from -. there's a great buzz during the summertime, drinking and carousing maybe John Leahy. Jamcsie O'Connor and all Sixmilebri4ge in County Clare is on the day when didn't help!" tbose lads.. Brim Loban.· there's a crowd at So you started getting back into shape around You play ofcourse for the DUas well. ,trulyingAuctioneering in DIT the match." the end ofthe IUIJUDer of'%? "Yeah we had a good run this year, we P to the Bolton ·St. Attbe.ge lIftwmty­ Despite being #ted "Yeah the collarbone was alright, and I was quarter finals ofthe FilJlibbon Cup, bur on the one, be is in his thirdye.r of. at a very early age, called into the Senior hurling panel as a result of day thil18S dida't go ripn. Bur DU has made five or six 1QI'S old, the Under 21 with muounty.- parauidea in the lur few. yean. When I I1aIted course wbicb 'HUIJ, ifpresent Niall amazingly Was hurling the only sport that grabbed ,our off in fim JQI' it was jUlt _ the 1CIIioa. you trenJs "re .""bi"g III ,. by, played DO hurliJig in attention? know. 1 can remember ping to BclEar on a -I pIa,at some soca:r, Under 14 uctU prtwitU " fIeT1 rew.rtln., MtwT ICcondary school. WodnmIay and haYinI ClOIDputa' eam OD die fin' In. hi tbe"""re. He is He explains; -I was meant to be fairly good We (friends and himIelf frona his Ioc:II Frid8y IDOfIIiDs and ;u..-.blIdc iD tiaDc fOr WIll Kilmurray) fOrmed a IOCXIeI' club in 1987, I WIll rbc computer cam! But daiap haft c:haJcd htnDnn-, ",ore j.rtIN wbeD I JOUDIt and then I &ot bad, and then p",tJIU I came t.dt apin. I fteVU pIayecI c:ouatr minor oeIy IS 01' 16, ID I played in..... c-puubc now. alii iD DD'DOW.· 1YfIIIIJ't6 ,.pifu." tlH nrling or I never pIa,at Harty Cup with my ICbooI or quancr-fiDal of dac main competidoo in Clue W. DaaUe 11. )'Our maaaser, anything.. teamS !"u, ,lIIyi_g, tU be tIo~ ,.,.AlI­ .-eop diviaioa after about three or inwIlwed fiam...... IP fOur JaIL. DO. C bd Dt lokca I,.".Senior Did you SO ICIaigIlc iDeo SeDior hurIiJIF - o. a.,.UJ. -Well. in 1996 we won tire AlI-IreIan4 aut» The drM and me penevaance is dearly amuad... be me ' '1 a... & '"'0 MI""tIN Final, I came on char clay aDd goc three poias with him whCIl it COlD" co porting being ftty kiacI to rboIc 'di8mm bJoaI'. bur I exeeptUnMJly ""'''g DITnrli"g and made the county UDder Z1 paueI and then adUc¥ClDalll, but thcR is ob9iauIIy norhing that could bc wroDJ. -Damien hu made great nJe. the Senior PaIlcl. ~ it turned out I playecl equals his passion for the game CIi Cbulainn c:banp to the hurIiaa dub. He' bmuabt them Senior Inter-County Championship before 1 made famoul. Wu it from his immediate on a hundml pen:cnc, fair play to him fOr dIar.. played Senior Oub ~.... my ancestorIand n:IaDves he goc that paaioa? Waterford defeared 70U iD the FitzPbcm this Hu the buzz of'playing for your county side fiDt Senior Oub Championahip poe was only "No. rbcre's DO hilrorydlatWllY, BO. Oh tbeyare time around. and they appeared to be thc worn offyet? last September.· very intereared in hurling. they IICYU played that tCORpIt team in che Cup - do you drink -Not rallY, no. Hurling in Care is c:ray at the NiaIl agrees that this seems a little bit unusual, much, you know, but they'd go to all the you're in with • neltt year. moment [as if it ever wasn't - Eel), Iinc:e Clare though matches.· "I think we'd have a pat chance, yeah. I think Itarted winning, more and more people are "I wasn't playing in the 6m game in 1996 for What hurlers would you look up to? DIT have been very unfonunate in the lut getting involvecl in hurling and the aowds going the dub, and then the second game, I was meant -I'd look up to a neighbour of mine. he hurled couple ofyean that we've sot very hard draws.· to matches now are much biger and younger to start and 1 broke my collarbone a couple of for Clare for a good few couple of years. John

I 14 DIT Mountaineering Club Surely Climbing Intervarsities 1998, Galway Some This year's climbing intervarsities female qualifiers. Nea1 Cromien, Bolton were held in the glorious surroundings St, placed third in the beginners section. ofUCG sports hall. A fine collection of ::::::::;;_IIIWell done climbers were gathered from all DIT Nea1! Mistake colleges and luxuriously transported to The plan n the RTE studio at Lansdowne Galway on Friday night. Saturday was to go I Road, about 10 minutes before kick­ dawned to encouraging rallying calls, OUt on the off, presenter Bill O'Herlihy and guest shortly followed by a fine healthy Irish town and Jim Glennon were somewhat amused. breakfast. e n joy Maybe even bemused. Certainly, they Galway's fine were unconvinced. Jim Glennon more merry­ so, judging from his ironic grin of making disbelief. facilities, Maybe RaIph Keyes, the former Irish rugby although international, genuinely believed that he knew certain something about the Irish rugby team to play Scotland that the rest of us did not. Perhaps he people had some good reason to believe that this team wouldn't Long, er ving rest pea y in would be different - really different - from that wait, and the gents' toilet at the hostel, came sixth which finished in last place in last year's Five wobbled out in the women's final. The DIT team Nations Championship and that, as pan of a of the hostel placed 2nd overall. truly uninspiring bupd-up to this year's Five Nations Championship, had unconvincingly on unsteady In the end, the bus arrived somewhat beaten Canada and lost to Italy. feet and late, due to a wee misunderstanding, In response to Bill O'Hedihy's request for a bleary eyes. but made up for it by bring us all back prediCtion as to who would win - Ireland or Although some people were the Sunday morning arrived and knocked safe and sound. Scotland - RaIph Kqa, in the studio aIoopide unfortunate sufferers of Supermacs cautiously and quietly at our hostel Thanks to all who participated and Jim Glennon, had said: -Ireland, by 8-10 points". His optimism was admirable, perhaps; foodSTUFF, performances were not doott. Breakfast revitalised us all, and made this trip possible. but itwas entirdy misplaced. shortcoming. Eoin O'Sullivan, Kevin onwards we trudged to watch the final. Anyone who has followed Irish international Street, qualified for the fiDal by coming Eoin O'Sullivan put forward a great Richard Eibrand, rugby over the last few yeat$ or more has seen second in the male qualifiers, and Susan display ofhis'climbing skills and took Kevin 5t Mountainering Oub. Irish teams play well, or reasonably, for maybe Long, Bolton St, came fourth in the 3rd place in the men's final. Susan an hour, or possibly 70 minutes, before losing games that they coutd or should have won. Against Scodand, they did not play at aD. The traditional CSICUIC Cor the poor perfoJ'DllUlCe mrPr teamI the lack ofaood pIa,.en Kevin Street C 6th- &om the small numbers who play rugby in this riday at 5:30 we met, loaded the barman decided he wanted to go to always, despite the excellent weather it country, compared, for eumple, with England, where the numbers are much greater. It is bed; you just can't get the staff these got bener as we were leaving!). This was Fbus and off we popped. The bus argued, too, that rugby here has few financial stopped in Ballinasloe for food and days!! S done without much difficulty. I think resources, that it is therefore difficult for the BADLY NEEDED smokes! Then the we wen this was because of the amazingly low game to devdop in such a way as for Ireland to house in the Burren came out of the back t concentration of hangovers. We got compete effectively at international level, and blackness at about 11. e quickly the ho away before the bus driver got too that we should consequently be grateful that we are able to compece at aD. Ewn ifdub rugby in the trailer and it was off to to des1tro)': impatient. unhitched this country is lesser devdoped than in BriIain, the Pub for "a few". s 0 m that is franIdy beside the point. m 0 r We arrived in Gleeson's, best Many, or even most, of the present first choice Saturday morning violendy made its' drink. I Guinness on Wexford Street, at about 9 Irish internationals are based in England, presence felt at about 9. Breakfast was was ther and finished offa great weekend with a playing in the Allied Dunbar premier league which, becau e of the amounu of money had and we all got into our lovely that th couple ofgreat pints! Finally, thanb to cavin involved • 01: rhaps in spite of them • is rubber suits, and headed for a hole in Guinness for supplying free T Shirts for arguably the most chaUenging in the world, and the ground! Caving for me was a bit of challeng everyone on the trip. certainly on these-isJands. a stroll with some nice interesting bits, w e r The team that played Scodand included 12 and a few really cool waterfalls (the issued John Kavanagh. player$ who are currendy with Premier league ultimate power shower!). There was one Ch air clubs. Ireland's lack of success at international rugby is not due to the SIaII: of the AD Ireland other group who went into a more and coa Lcque h re; it is traulating players' club difficult cave. more of a stoop with hanger performances to international games. some very cool formations. "The w e r ~ That said, there must be criticism • as often Promised Land" being one of the more squeezedl "You lost whtIt? y"",. Cf»IIIIa!..oh sbi,.. "I ext trip: - before - of the team seleaion apiDst Soodaod, memorable! and cursed through. That done, can Pen dw five of pia: who awted the walking started. sanae are n hi 0 have not 15thM--'" eojofed 1111 success. After the cave we ere met by the Can walking, for the uninitiated, is A COIIpIc of,an .,1 at ~"DC bus, co plete wiI:h..soup and sambos! It the art of keeping your feet behind a for an • temational when IreIaDd to a d line of some sort, walking out as far as Durmi a . t in fro t of here I ... much needed food. Once we had had you can with your hands on two cans ...... speaatDr near me ...... to the ...... ~. ~ Who withia hcarins QDF that out fill and got ready for a night on the (full cans help, unless you don't like p they were better bdOR &bey _ being jJ8l to tear, it time for the pUb. your bands!), placing one can as far as play. possible from the line and getting back h·++.....·II'aJUltnar·.IT~ Pr the- SCUt of Jut year' Fiwe ...... _ .... We arrived to find' the ba man to a standing po ition on your one attaIded the interDldoa8ll could no ..,..• needed ome work to do, but. well. remaining can (without touching the ~QlII what can }'Ou do? We all got pissed on floor). t:el tI tOQ -.., P9llliw.1t tic - to -watch COIl dy poor Iri h pat G. exccept for a few lost perforJlWlces. I intend to watch Ireland's oul drin i g ome excuse for On Sunday morning, we faced the intern cion" pillet on telC'Yi ion for the Rep' ThanIdWly, nobody tried to task ofcleaning the house, packing the Cor III Ye fiatwe. ueeze through any barstoo, 0 gear and tearina ourselv from the reseu were called. At about 1 the most beautiful place Oft planet (As 15 .•

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