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·. ,.' .-:' .," .• ":":>:'-:" ',' .. rn.thel'eQent UmonofS.tUdentsin IrelanddisaftilialiOilteferimdumift UCD, IJelf:teldItUdel'.ts>~Ot.~.· ii(Javour ofpWling()~ptJheiut~()l1&l mdOnbY.tOtalOfDine votelffion'fapoUofovet4,oop~Hardlywhalone ~1m•••~'n)~I~t~~~t~~.~feti~~~t· ...... tlalftft abeJutthc.intC:RstStUdents have intbe>~~~tiaQ"'Q1:kbfP... :oflhCir., . env.iroDJne$.ancI the wayln. whicb. campaigns &re (:()llCIoded.•. Thefact mnIUns..~that UCDtookon the naU()J1al umon Iftd woo. :Whethii they decidcto~l thill4ecision.orboldanothcr,~diation •. l#~. COBAcvAM1E SmQadhan togbch&n 8808 na feachtais 6tgsUla ag HomhainU. clostrltcht agus Wb de shaghasanna eile, at4 mar ciaeaml4iri an lac !DU aon ampla 6 an toghch4n UacbtaJUtachta ba dh6aiW. Is iad na cea<:htanna at4 le fogblaim 60 bhfiontair 100 le polaitfocht (mbic 16inn) n4 gut che8rt go mbeadh imeachtaf profaisi....Da n-oifigigh 10 16ir ar WIle scn1du as corpus na mic l&n an t-am at' fad; d4 bbtlsadh consp6idf suime (bfodh siad fior, triagach n6 amhlaioc:h) idir lme8chIa! peaoanta agus dualgaisf poibWplQfaisil1ma 80n oifigeach Iilitbe, is .Dlm is Si an cheist a ahoi1&i11 gan dabht ar bitb a fb4gtil. Sa taJf SC'.O, is feidil' Clarification Ieadin bbfdeacha. seaf6ideacba, ar n6s oa cion a loit re:ifrCann COBAC, a Ibeachaint satOdbchaC. In the November issue of the DIT&tzmmer the caption under Cearbball 6 Sfodwln the main photo stated that Mr. Ray Wills was accepting the degree seal along with Dr. Brendan Goldsmith. It was in fact Mr Eugene McCague, Chair, DIT Governing Body, who was pic tured, and not Mr. Wills as stated. Nollaig Fe Mhaise Do Uitheoiri Vile zorrOR CearbhaU 6 SlochMn BAOA1lTB6:m LAYOUT ChaOS LMaAR AlucB an DITExaminer wea.... Ripped y nesh by Frank Z.ppa Prblted by Datucope, BmdllCOrtby, Co... Wezford Shiny Happy Christmas to All THE EcUtor ...... ta the dodgr q tJ' oftile No...... Readers of the DITExaminer ... photo....., ..11Int8 nlade:n (; 3 ofyou) that effoN T to rectify the tua OD. 3 printed in the November issue of the University. Who paid my expense for DIT Examiner. You clearly have some that jaunt to Belfast? you might ask. Lettuce to the Editor major problems with how your Well, I did. All costs incurred on the day Students' Union is being run. As Site and the 5th of November ~re covered President of DITSU Aungier St., I am by my weekly £135. I did not charge obviously curious about the motivations this to the students ofDIT as I had vol _=~3l. of the questions you have asked and unteered my·help because I DO take would like to give true and accurate such campaigns seriously. I don't want answers to the same. 3rd level fees reintroduced in the With regards to -your union playing Republic any more than you do. ·\:::::W;-;.,=t~:;:::~M~:::~'\~~'fu'..~~1~:::-::-::1fu"\' A huge gathering of colleagues and friends gathered to pay tribute to Tom Aherne who was retiring on 9 December after 38 years service as the Bakery Technician in Kevin Street. His abiding interest in the arts was reRected in the atten dence, which included Dermot Lynsky - renowned Joye:ean artist; Tom Mac Sfom6in, who recited his own composition (13 verses, a baker's dozen), 'The Bird They Called Aherne'; Con Howard, retired Irish Diplomatic Service member; Peter Murphy, famous broadcaster and journalist; Bob Ryan of the Central Remedial Clinic, as well as an assortment of 'Wren Boys' from Sandymount and numer ous other thespians. Not one, but two directors paid tribute to Tom -- Frank Brennan (Engineering) and Matt Hussey (Science). A mem orable night was concluded by music provided by the Bag ofNails traditional group. Jimmy Robinson T.", uc"""..1IIiMMI (/eft) ",x-;" SIIW, SUPJwsiJm" T"", ChtIi. Novnnber 97Crossword Comp~tition Winners ~fie 1.Brul1I Hylllnd, 2yr R~tllil Mlttg., MO'l1Itjoy Sf. WordSfjop 2.Ruth D~lIlny, 3yr Comms., Aungier St. J.Pllul HMIt~tt, 2yr SEE, KnJi" St. DITStudents' Union rsp.«iIll thllnlts to Richi~ in Kn St shop /or drllwi"g win"ers) Secretarial Service Bureau Typing (laser printed) only 85p perpage. FIlX Service, Thesis Binding Exam Paper Servicefor Kevin St. F6""? EJJiI,ititl" -/'he ",.r", ofB",. K",,,~ D~k AnlJit«hIH c",m.p'" 9:30 - 5,,,, MII,,-m ""." I""eh . RLtlAnhil«t"w Cm"." 8 M".,.i." Sf..w, The ~rJ Shop, DITKevin Street, College ofTechnology D"/,u,, 2. Ph:6~61703 !).301lm-5pm Mont14y to FridAy 4 "Rock-a-bye-bab}'-.." KftIi" 0'Br"'" foreignjusrice is flawed and that British is not entirely clear, other than the fact Winfrey and Rikki Lake. If this argu The Je"J b"by'sp"rentsjust nationals cannot therefore be given that in this case the jury returned the ment is to be given any credence at all. w""teJrevenge. nen ifit proper or fair ._------_. 'wrong' verdict; and then the same must also hold true for me""t senm"g "" i""ocent trials abroad. Massachusetts law was Britain, which now has several similar you"g "i"etem ye"r DU to j"il An example of even criticised for programmes. for murJer. So thought thou- this was earlier allowing Louise's Amidst all the criticism, the Guardian S/l"Js i" Brit"i" ""Ji" lrelll"J this year when defence lawyers to have newspaper in Britain was almost alone two British opted to remove from in reminding people - albeit in an arti ofthe Louise Woodw"rJ cllSe. nurses were the jury the possibility cle, not an editorial - that a verdict "s emolions KD'lhe bmerof tried in Saudi of convicting for that was unpopular did not mean that it both siJes. Most people h"rJl, Arabia for the manslaughter. rather was poor justice. but this made no dif /mew h"lfIhe Slo,.,. bUI were alleged murder than murder only. a ference to the clamour for Louise co""i"ced ofIheir tnI1II ,,"met; of a colleague; choice which appears Woodward to be released. ,hMshe h""" ~ t/o"e it. the coverage of to have been made The conviction of Louise Woodward """,,ly. this by some of because the defence renewed the debate about the merits or When Louise Woodward was origi the press in or maybe Louise otherwise of the live broadcast of crimi nally put on trial in Cambridge. Britain effec Woodward herself nal trials. and the arguments for and Massachusetts. earlier this year for the tively refused was very confident of against are well documented. The point. alleged murder of Matthew Eappen. the to contemplate an acquittal on that though. is that verdicts are given - or in&nt in her care, it is highly likely that the possibility that they could be guilty basis. should be given - according to what her case, and Louise Woodward herself, and the &et that they were being tried It is surprising that the type of criti transpires in the courtroom. not on would have remained as anonymous as in Saudi Arabia supposedly gave them cism previously reserved for supposedly public opinion. The size of the audi the majority of the other cases that fill no chance ofan acquittal anyway. lesser developed countries should have ence. other than the jury, and whether the schedules of the criminal courts in In the case of Louise Woodward, this been aimed at the United States. or not this includes television viewers, is the United States but for the fact that attitude culminated immediately after aguably the most advanced of a1l. A therefore to some extent irrelevant since she is British. her conviction in a weD organised, and British lawyer. Stephen Jakobi. of the the judiciary is independent of the pub In the event, she has achiewd world very well publicised, campaign to free organisation Fair Trials Abroad. declared lic's view. as was demonstrated in this wide FAme a. a re.u1t of the exten.ive her. on Jhe premise that as a marter of to Sky News in the immediate aftermath case by Judge Hiller Zobel in declining news coverage ofher trial - particular 'fact' she is innocent. But this overlooks to give an immediate decision on the ly in Britain - her original conviction the fact that few. at best. of the cam Perhaps...the defence's initial appeal against comric for second degree murder. the substitut paigners heard all of the evidence and it non. ed conviction of manslaughter and the ignores the fact that Matthew Eappen is jury convicted The problem. however. with the cov proposed prosecution and defence dead and that someone - possibly erage provided by, for example. Sky tele appeal. apinst conYiction. Louile Woodward - i. IeIpCKl ibJe. It i. . Louise vision. is the tendency to stand up for There are few people on these islands also noteworthy that after the original one of their own, as with the tabloid who have heard all ofthe evidence given conviction was commuted to Woodward press. This means that the general tenet during the trial; the latter stages were manslaughter supporters of Louise of the coverage is that the defendant is broadcast live by Sky television, preswn Woodward who were asked about the not guilty and if the mass audience is ably because that is when the proceed fact that she is still guilty of homicide because they told this often enough, in the absence of ings were thought to have become suffi- answered simply by insisting on her any reat balance, they eventually believe innocence, with no consideration as to mistakenly it and no other possibility is considered. No-one here i the possibility that even the lesser con In one respect the US system has viction could be legitimate. believed her to already acted in Louise Woodward's properly qualified It is interesting that the British view favour by having allowed an immediate about Louise Woodward was adopted be uncaring... appeal against conviction in the court of to say for certain wholeheartedly by many in this country. the first instance in which she was tried, with vigils held outside the US Embassy of the conviction that he had never wit which is almost unprecedented. Normal and those involved being arguably more nessed such a ridiculous trial in any appeals procedures. to higher courts. can whether or not committed to securing her release than country. and he asserted on BBC's take as long as two years. unless there is anyone in Britain. This seems to say Newsnight programme on 4 November good reason to expedite the procedure. Louise much about the influence of the British that the jury's verdict would not have for example. where there is some consti media in this country given the amount be~n possible in any other civilised tutional point to be decided. More sig Woodward is that was said about the trial in the country. This is surely, by any measure. nificantly, however. the basis of Louise British tabloids and that Sky carried an extraordinary statement. and given Woodward's appeal was such that she guilty ofmurder. most ofthe television coverage here. Britain's own history of wrongful con was effectively given the opportunity to Following the original conviction. the victions. it is difficult to accept. ask for a second chance to ask the same ciently dramatic. or interesting for a critici m of the criminal judicial system On the edition of the BBC's court - albeit not the jury - to decide wider audience, but much ofthe techni in the United States was unpr~nted. Question Time which followed the on her guilt or otherwise. which is com cal and medical advice had been given from any Western country at least. reduced sentence. one of the questions pletely unprecedented in any jurisdic by then and the subsequent analysis of Criticism of US Jaw i not new, but from the audience asked whether the tion and would be beyond contempla this by Sky'. legal experts was somewhat before this case it was focused principal judge's decision to reduce the original tion in the British judicial system. akin to tabloid coverage. Consequently. lyon the conti!\ued use of the death conviction suggested that the jury sys Whatever happens next in this case no-one here is properly qualified to say penalty in particular states. for example tem in criminal trials should be abol - whether Louise Woodward is allowed for certain whether or not Loui.e when Alan Bannister was executed ished, although no viable alternative was to leave the United States within the Woodward is guilty of murder. What is recently in Missouri for murder. offered. next year. or at some later point after a apparent is that Matthew Eappen died The criticism of the system in Perhaps the most extraordinary sug further period in the State women's in circumstances the exact nature of Massachusetts. where Louise Woodward gestion, among all the opinions given. prison in Framington - the British which may never be known by anyone was convicted. ran much deeper; the was that the jury convicted Louise public and press would do well to other than Louise Woodward herself. judge was criticised for the way in which Woodward because they mistakenly remember that the system they have The reaction to Louise Woodward's he directed the jury when they sought believed her to be uncaring, due to the criticised with such haste is based on original conviction - and indeed to clarification of evidence during their calm. reasoned way she gave her testi their own (supposedly 'the fairest system some extent the fact that she was on deliberations; the prosecution was criti mony. and that this 'mistake' was a in the world') and that it is possible for trial at all - particularly among t the cised both for prosecuting on supposed result of the fact that people in the US British nationals to commit crimes in British public and in the British tabloid Iy inconclusive evidence and for alleged are used to dealing with controversy and other countries. press. was instructive ofBritish attitudes ly withholding vital medical evidence debate in the emotionally charged envi towards the judicial system of foreign from the defence; the jury system itself rons of the day-time television shows J{.";,, 0 'llrMy ;., • PtHlfrllJ.- ".", countries. specifically the notion that was criticised, although the basis of this such as those presented by Oprah ..,jo",.".Jin" ;" DIT.Allltp.- SI. 5 Preparing for Christmas DESIGN THE NEW When in Rome, Finb,," A. Neylon TEMPLATE AND LAvour Another Advent season is upon us potter's day and when the piece is to do as the Romans and the endless searching begins for your liking bake it in the kiln and FOR Christmas presents, many of which bring it home for posterity. Whatever the DITExaminer do, some say, but will be presented at the first available helps you to get in touch with the opportunity to be exchanged when the deepest recesses of your being should sales commence after Christmas or in be used and exercised. In a way you when in Portugal, the New Year. May I ask you to step could see it as a type of spring-clean How would 70U like to off the materialistic and secular sleigh, ing ofthe whole spiritual self. he oa the receiYlal ea. this is exactly headed up rei ndeer wi th antlers We also have the option of talking ofa cIleque for a alce. adorned with tinsel and reflect for a to someone. Some people feel it is a what notto do if while on what all this 'season of cheer great way to clean out the baggage that cool tea. or COIlaoladoa and goodwill' is really about and get we accumulate over time. It is not so prise of SO IalUal back to basics and develop some sense much shat we want answers, just some you're robbed, of priority as we prepare for the festive significant other as some kind of season. Advent is officially a time to sounding board, as if we are hearing ALL VOU HAVE TO DO IS advises Sarah recollect ourselves and get things ready ourselves speak and we know no-one SEND IN VOUR CAREFULLV for the holy season. It is a time of will interrupt the natural flow. Most waiting, a time of hope, a time for times we have all the answers inside DRAWN UP PROPOSAL FOR Marriott. developing a sense of priority as we and we just need a little time to reflect A NEW DESIGN & LAvour prepare for the birrh of the Infant on them before we allow them to crys Jesus. talize. At some time in the past you FOR VOUR STUDENTS' "You can shoot people in your own It is only in latter years that there may have done some of this work and UNION NEWSPAPER. was introduced any sense of celebra all you now want to do is to pick up country but don't come here and tio'n before the 25th. The four weeks again where you left offin the past. SUBMIT VOUR DESIGN ON threaten innocent boy.: the Portuguese military policeman told me prior to this date are a time for people Making space helps us check our APPLEMAc-COMPATIBLE of all religious denominations to take priorities because with time these can and my friends on the midnight train stock oflife. Spending some time apart become unbalanced because of pres DISC. THE NEWSPAPER IS from Lisbon. Our job-hunting expedi sure fom others. There may be an issue with oneself or in the company oflike CURRENTI.V LAID ON tion hadn't JOt offto a '\'ery good start. minded people helps us to recall the around our use of time itself or of our Barry. Fionnbarra and I we~ on our way north principles by which we try to live in creature comforts that is causing some QUARK ExPRESS to Porto. to look for jobs teaching English. After Iettling a1J our worldly pOllelSiona around us in harmony with nature and all of life's concern. In takir.g a short break from the empty compartment. I fdl asleep. When I creation. routine activities we have a cnance to 1STPRIZE: £100 woke up, the train was chugging through pitch It might help to go away for a few see these very situations and relation black countryside. and nat to me were tbree days, a change of environment could ships in an unbiased light. With sup RUNNER UP: £50 young PortugueJe gu)'l. They left hastily aI lOOn create the right atmosphere and tem port, space and time I can easily cor as my friends reappeared. aDd •• the perament for a little soul searching. rect any deficiency in personality, CLOSING DATE PO IlNDIIlS .Pal a.nr; • One could write a little to seek clarifi behaviour or social mores and so step 30JANUARY 1998. WINNERS WIll By this time the train was almost completely full of skinheaded teenagers doing military service, cation and healing around the trauma back into my unique world with a bet BE ANNOUNCED IN FEBRUARY 98 ofa bereavement or some other signifi ter vision for the wider horizon and on their way badt to barrades for another week ISSUE. of boredom. I was the only woman. But tbe cant loss in one's life. If you feel cre my place there. This helps as we try to thieves weren't IOldiers, so Barry and Fionnbarra ative or imaginitive you may feel like touch into the transcendent whom we reclwned they'd be able to find them fairly ealily drawing or sketching something if that believe is the alpha and omega of and. leaving me to guard the lug., went off is your ilk. You could work with some everything. up the train in punuit. On being oonfronred. the thieves denied taking a.nythins. 10 the Irish guys tried to make a deal. -Just 1_the pasapon in the toilets and you can Poet's Corner with Mllo1sheacWainn 6 Ceallaigh keep ~rytbing dse - wel1 be back in 5 min utes.• Meanwhile, the ticket inspector Wal trying to tbrow me off the train becau.e, in a vain When Mw Has Bma Said Keep from me the CWIe that abides in their eye attempt to enlist his suppon. I'd told bim my it Ipeab not ofpea« but a IWOM ticket bad been .tolen too. We soned that one The pious who gather when mall bas been said and when. oid and bitter. they finally die out and my protectors went ha to collecr my arc DeVa" aI pure aI tbey 1CICm; Deliver them unto their Load p.-pon from the loo. it's nOl that they wony the life they have led for thorns and nail. alWl)'l bapoke them a joy It waln't there. The Portuguese gu)'l now began that Heaven could never afford. digreaed from the beavenly Ucme; to get aggressive, and 80 Fionnbarra. who uted to they eat and they drink of the wine and the b~ad be in tbe Irish Army. decided to try tbreats: but they cannot believe they redeem. "We're Irisb and we're in the IRA. And I've got an uzi in my bag. If you don't gi~ us the stuff They greet one another politely and low we're going to kneecap you." Followed by a "You're looking remarkably wdl" grapbic description of kneecapping. In fact. and fall to dilcuaaing the people they know Thouabts orA Second Ycv £&omaniac dressed in long tweed overcoats, they did look who role in the world and who fell. "Pumu make better ItUdenta,- ..ya Emma, 20-year-old the piss. like other students.- The Body Shop. in conjunction with Buaine.. Studiea Itudent and mother of a toddler. Most other students have no problem with student parents, the Irish Section of Amnesty -BefOre I had EoJban, I did the bare minimum ofatudying. and Eoghan has been adopted by Emma's class as their mas International. last week launched a Now I'm more motivated - I know where I'm aoing and cot. ·It was different when I first got pregnant.- says Emma, Christmas card campaign to highlight what I'm doinJo I'm much clearer than other atudenta my ·1 was ~oing my Leaving. and it was all nudges and whispers the plight of refugees in Ireland. The ..about what I want. I'm in college fOr a fealOn. I want to and stanng at my stomach. Out of 120 girls. only 10 would cards come with a postcard attached pta aoocl career and provide a better life fOr my child in the speak to me, and none ofthe teachers.- addressed to John O'Donoghue. the Iongrun.- When Emma talks about Eoghan and what she wants to Minister for Justice. demanding fair All student parents need to be ~ry determined and single buy him for auisrmas. her face lights up, but she has some treatment for those seeking asylum in minded about their education. It is usual for students to suffer regrets. ·1 wish I'd waited and had him when I was older and this country. some financial hardship. but parents who are in college receive m~re .settled,- she says. ·But it doesn't matter what age your According to Peter Mac Donald. no extra hdp &om the swe. To survive on the Lone Parent child IS when you go to college. it's always hard. If somebody Managing Director of Body Shop Allowance of.£88 (with one child) is difficult for anyone. but really wants to go to coUege they should do it - or they could Ireland, the refugee issue is ·an incredi there is no acknowledgement that students are a special case. end up depressed and bitter.- And Eoghan's mother. looking bly misunderstood issue.- He contests "'We have extra expenses, like books, equipment and travel. forward to a bright future after college. is far from depressed that "we have a responsibility under the and there is no provision for that.- says Emma, ·It is also hard and bitter. Geneva Convention fo provide fast and to have a part-time job. unless you know someone who will &it procedures for asylum seekers.- He baby-sit for free.- For in!omuttion about mtitlnnmlS anJIlSSUtlma for strlllmt recaIls the minister's eloquence, when in r~. Maria, 25. with a 16-month-old son. became ill because she "'mllS, ctmtMtJil"r stutlmt tmitm or USL Ifthey CIlmIIJt help, opposition. about the plight of could not afford to ked herself adequatdy. With no suppott tINy U!i/J be alJII ID pMntJO'I in the riptJirmitm. but states that John O'Donoghue is at all from her family, or the father of her child, she had to ·not the epitome of action- since his work part-time in the evening. after a full day at college. After appointment to the cabinet. paying a childminder £50 a 1WIek, she simply could not afford At present. an asylum seeker in to buy enough food for hersel£ Despite becoming ill. and Ireland can expect an average wait of therefore unable to work over the summer to aa:umulate sav A y in the · e 0 a student two years before his application for asy ings. Maria has murned to college. where she is expected to lum is processed. Even then. there is no pad_te in the top of her)'al'. parent guarantee that asylum will be granted. Even mothers who are lucky enough to have the full sup Amnesty International has repeatedly port of their families don't have it easy. For women attending Stlr"h M"rriottfinJs o"t how one sttuknt expressed its concern over the situation. ,,,rmt and has recently stepped up the cam colleges some distance from their homes. it is not uncommon finJs time to st"J, for their child to be cared for during the week by the grand paign in order to put a halt to refugees mother and extended family. Some students manage to see 7.4S- being deported from Ireland. Recent their kids every weekend, but others cannot afford to travel IIum c:Iodt ..olfmd die nub..... GIea it tea, 80 luc:kiIy. he demonsnations outside Ivor Calfely's home more than once a month. Emma is one ofthe fortunate et... himHlf md hdp himHlf to cerral. clinic. and at Berse ford Place were 8.1Sam ones: *1 couldn't manage without my mother - Eoghan lives organised to highlight the message -No ~e ~use we he~ d.-h. out of the for the.ten minute walk to the bus stop. If deportation without a fair hearing." with during the week. Me and Eoghan's dad pick him up bIDe It ~t we don t hIVe to WIlt long for the but. but usually it's a ten every Friday and we spend the weekend playing and talking. I minula.Glen gc:o the bus on his own because wbea I took him I was oft Amnesty expressed concern that the never open a book when he is around - the weekend is his late for lec!lua. Of (x)u1Ie I wony about him, but dwe's aoocher moth Irish government wiU deport many peo rime to be with his marnmy. But it's very hard saying goodbye &om the Idlool who FoCI die lame bus, 80 Ibc keepa ID ~ on him. ple without knowing if they are in real .3Oun on Sunday night. especially now he's getting older and he danger. I .... ham home for a Ibowu aad bJakf.t: ClI'aIIF juice md a c:igarene. The Body Shop campaign echoes knows what's going on.- 'Thea a maaic: hunt for my boob md I nub to Ftto coli. f4 9.30. Some third level institutions. including the majority of 1.IOpaa these concerns. using an evocative IUCs. offer no childeare facilities or suppon at all. Some col The creche pick Glen up fmm ecbooI and be ItayI with them, doing his image of a woman and child on their homework md playins; und I ClOIIecr him. leges. such as Trinity. UCD. DCU, Maynooth and St cards and posters to enable people to 6pm ·connect with their responsiblilty", Patrick·s. have creches. while others. suCh as DIT. UCG. I haft to pick himup by 6pm (two minura lite and I haft to pay is). towards asylum seekers. especially in the NCAD and a couple of IUCs. have a childcare fund. This Luckiy, the creche is near coI.IcF, 10 I UIUIIIy 1IIaJIIIC to Ft ~ OD time. provides a means-tested allowance of £10 - £30 a week, to I J« 80me hdp with the COlt ofmidcare &om OIT cIwing tenD time, bu Christmas period. The caption ·No help with the costs ofa kindergarten, (which comes to around during the IWDIIIer and 0a1ltlDll boIidays, inonler tokap Ilia place open. room at the Inn-... chosen ·because I haw to Q)ntinue parm. it's something people understand. We £55 a M:ek in Dublin). 6.1.. ' Emma wouldn't like to leave Eoghan with strangers because This is our 'quality time' toptber. matting about his day It schoaI. are lacking in sympathy for people in she'd worry too much: ·Especially since the Louise Woodward having a .lIIdt. Luck.ily. I don't aeed to ClOClk muc:h. because I ell It col need. We don't appreciate what refugees case. But a college creche would be ideal. because I'd be able .. md my 80n h. a big dinner ar the aeche. Glen's JeCeDdy tabu gu through,- warming 1Va lot. md 10 we watm together for I couple ofhours. 1be idea behind the Body Shop cam to see him during the day. whenever I have a free class. I'd 8.3Opm know he was okay then" Theoretically, this is Glen's bedtime but it Ualally takes about haIf.an.hou paign is that people concemed are given This committed young mother would love to see more of to J« him scaled for the nipt. an opportunity to express it. by sending her twO-year-old: ·Ifthere was a creche at college. la be able 9pn the cards to mends and rdatives, in the to have him to live with me.- This is so important that her This. my time for studying, unlea I'm really tired or need a mlt. then I hope that they will send the attached 1V for 30 minuta. I 80mctUna IDID9 to matm an hour in the postcard to inister. The postcards choice of college for a po tglad degree will depend on their ~ .during the clay, but the weekendl are out for Ihldyina u I Ipeod childeare facilities. 1_.willl GIea. We UlUaIIy go to park or IWimming. can either be sent directly or dropped in 1be Union ofStudents of Ireland recognises the need for I'd be Ioc' Ill)! pbOGC. It's my Il'dine to the ouuide world and to the Body Shop branches throughout on-site creches. Women's Rights Officer. Nuala Toman says: I do IDCIIt of "" lOciaIisiJIs. I adIangc babysitting onece a week with the country. IDOCber 1DOIber, _I don't go out aauc:h. UnIe. tbeR·.1OIIlet1Ung special A quotation from John O'Oonoghue ·Childcare is an important issue. We feel that equality of OD, thOle ...... are raeiwd for fiIIIY wntl_. opportunity and ~s is vital. And &om the point ofview of MidDipt printed on the cards reminds us that the college. an on-site creche makes it more appealing and TUDe to J« Glen's c:IodleI out for tomonow. put hiI breUf_ daiDp 0 *the status of refugees is an issue which marketable, for both studen and staff.- the table. and orpnise his books and snack for school. Then to bed should snib a chord with every man, IDOCber dl)' lUClCaIfully juglcd. Only two-ancI·..haIf more ynn before I On a day-to-day level. it can be hard for student parents to woman and child here who has any find time for college work outside lectures. when the demands grasp ofIrish History. our history books ofa child cake up so much time and energy. Emma feels that being littered with the names and deeds most ofher lecturers are supportive: ·1 had to mi s an assess of those driven from our country out of ment when Eoghan was sick, and when I explained to the lec fear ofpersecution." turer. he just said 'I know. it's terrible when they have chest infections. My twO-year-old twins have just had one'. But it' important to be open about it and make sure you explain Silr,,1J M"rriott is " Postl""""te St"Jmt 0/ what's going on - there's no shame in having a child.- And lec jo"m"li"" in DITA"nKier St. turers will make allowances: ·But if you don't tell them why you're missing classes- says Emrna, "'they just asswne you're on 7 WORLD TOURISM AND TRADE FAIR Tourism cf Marketing II, Cathal Brugha St,.pillageJ Britain $ capital city last month in the name o/all things touristy. "Why aye, pet, willye ha""" horrel uv Nnukie Brown Ayel, like!" Day I We congregated at Dublin airport at 9am on Tuesday morning, an unearthly hour for this who had just Ita(lgered back home from the Back wte a few hoUJ'l pteVioudy. After checking-in everyone duly Insid~ made their way to the very heart of the airport that is Dublin Duty Free. Following the inevitable pur me Earlscourt Trade Fair chue of large quantities of duty free alcohol we encountered some EogIish IOCCer players. whose faces Nowcl&m" the" whole official . mcaJll nothing to IOme and cvayrhing to othen. The light of Steve Walsh and other Lei : =t~ould bave it, they had found their wzy to Picadi11y and were litting in a ncaJby Bwger King awaiting our arrival. Three boutl latet with a lighter pocket and a fdm of ridiculous photos ofvarious people embracing giant snOWJT1Cn in HaoIey's Tor Shop we headed back to The Generator. Showell all round. glad-rags donned. mDlUmption of duty free beer followed by measures of Harvcy WalIbangen and Sex on the Beach and then on to O'NciIJ's, a nearby Irish pub. Si~ing and dancing ensued, which involved a certain acasivc amount of alcohol, proczeded to attempt to trip the 1igbt fantastic. W.h a czrtain degJee of IUCCIeII, might I add. Day 2 Awoke at appral(Unatdy 9am, came to a-at appraximatdy lOam. Had inreodcd to be at EarIscourt - the location of the Tourilm aocI Trade Fair - by lOam, to avail ofall poaible time there. Arrived by tube ar EaMlourt dole to II o'dock GJeeDWich Mean Tame, proceeded to untie punc strinp and relint: oundvaof the twmtypouocls admittanCe fee, thea ft..ured in to EarIscourt to sa: the ..its of the tourilm industry in action. (See detailed report oppoIite.) Fm hours or 10 later, ~ with bags of mmbetlOme brochures aocI boob we left Earbclourt, squeezed onto the tube in ruab-hour traff'1C to return to The Genenror. FoIlowina mDalmptioo of codttaiIs in the boItd bar, _ withdrew from Ru..at Square and decided to grace the local O'NciIl's IriIb pub with our p_apin. The • just WIIIl't the same whep a certain lecturer who, unable to take tbe pacz, ~trcated to RuIIC1l Square, oaly to be awoken during the early hOWl of tbe ~ by ODe inebriated d ... member (leicater City ioocball fan), roar~ gratuitou, raIlIIb at some unfor tuDate taxi driftr. Day 3 Dcc:idcd to spend the last day sigbt-eceing.. Two out of the sixteen-strong cJa. deercd to viait Camdco Town and the homes of the infamous GaDaper brothers. They ,uc.«cdcd in fJDdiDs Noel', home and after a brief cotlftl'latioo Cllfer the intercom with his wife MCI' the raidcor security guard and Kare Moll, who happeocd to be viait~ MCI at the time (hoocsdy), they discovered Oasis were in Prasue. The ~mainder of the cl_ undcrrook to eagage io typical touristy activities for the day, visiting Bucki....am Palace, Warmimter Abbey, The T~r of Londoo. HanodJ, Big Ben, Trafalpr Square aDd its raidcor flying raIL Some found the whole czpt.rieace ju_ too DIllch and nodded olf 00 the tour bus. Who _ it said 'Whea you're tiftd of Londoo. you'~ tired oflife'? We landed in Dublin airport th. nialn mnvinad that there ~ no Loadoncn in LoacIoo but f:'Iery other JIOIIible race - SCOUICn, Geordies, New Yorken, BoItoniana. GWwepa.. Groeb, ~iaaJ, Veausiaas. little pen IDCD... A 1aJp propoltioo of the cJa. can wuch for this but should all ~e information be dildOled, they may Dt:'Iet show their faces in polite IOciety apin. A fabulous tame had by f:'Ieryonc, and thaab a million to thOle who organiJed aD, aamdy Or Jac Ruddy, Iectu~r, CaiUn Keaney, dass member. and Alex Gibocy. class tutor, who gracefully endured three days on tour with Tourism ac Marketing 11. Much appreciated!! J H oannc ayes 8 Fringe Notes By John Murray USIVUCD It was my mother's idea that I get in contact with Glen. Mam thought Glen FORMER ALLIES DO would help me settle into college life. In • the early days, in a damp little house in Limerick, Glen was peat. On frosty winte mornings she was there for me. In the BATTLE IN BELFIELD beginning. it wasn't easy and Glen cam dose to driving a walge between me and my flat mates. They always complained about the extra cost ofhaving her around, but Glen brought me comfort and she had to be there. I have known Glen for five years. Her surname is Dimplcx, she is Irish. a f.m 0 mine and has this ability to bring warmth to my life. It is pro"bly not that surpris ing considering he is a f.an heater. He primary fimction may be to provide heat, but she means much more to me. Glen is a she, because machines are always she'.. I discoftRlCl this vital piCCle 0 information from listening to my Dad, o always refer to trucks in the femi nine. -She has a fine engine, but I don' like the way her fuel distributor pump goes under lie bat ery.- Men believe tha machines have to be treated with the kind of chivalry that only a woman can com mallli. It i po sible to go too f.ar and I will never fora« the day my Dad' fri tin utteNd the immorcal oafs. Cl 1 tbat~a:.; .~~lltrodQad .. To"] Ki"sJ!4 opponents in a game which was not won until the final whistle had sounded securing two more DUBS DEFEAT DIT DIT HAVE TWO TO points for DIT. SPARE OVER The winning DIT team was Dubli" S"r P"",12 - 12 Maguire, N. Mac Caffrey, A. McKeogh, D. Dubli" I"shtut, 01 uch"ology S"r P"",13 - 6 ATHLONE Clohessy, D. Spain, T. MacGrjlth (0-1), P. Finnerty (0-1), P .Blake, S. Duignan (0-1), M. A pass from wing forward Rory Hick~ to High". EJuc"tio" lA"p', Dimio,! 1 r"j Murphy (1-0), C. Byme, G. Ennis (0-.1), M. half forward Michael Fitzsimons lead to the Corcoran, C. Curran (0-1), N. Gilligan (1-2). equalising point in an early morning challenge Alhlo", lUgio,,1lI Tech"ic,,1 Colkg, 0 - 7 Substitutions T. Holden for M. COICoran, M. game played on a soggy pitch at the TeD Sports Dubli" I"shtute 01 Technology 2 - 7 Galvin for C. Curran, J. Cullen for P. Blake. Complex, Santry. On the tenth minute a slick The journey· from Dublin was enlivened by a diversion DIT HAVE lWO HURLING through Maynooth BLUE STARS due to "Ostriches on the Motorway" or so Congratulations to Sean Duignan and Gerry the rumour which Ennis who were selected right full-back and swep.t through the reserve, respectively, on the 1997 Irish coach had it. In fact it Nationwide Building Society Blue Star Hurling was no more than a team. . residents protest - no exotic wildlife was to CONGRATULATIONS TO THE be seen. INTERMEDIATE TEAM ON THEIR 3 FOR It took DIT nine 3100% RECORD!!! minutes to open their "jo""h Who! I Ju""o mIlt"~ but h"v,you su" th, DITB"NN"!" movement which saw Joe Cullen pass to Colm scoring account when Buggy and receive the return pass to goal for Niall Gilligan converted DIT. Four points without reply put the Dublin - a free in front of goal. panel into a one point lead. Buggy collected a Another free, taken with high ball from Hickeyand found the net while aplomb, by centre field centre half back, Trevor McGrath, sent over a Sean Duignan was the free from 90 metres. The Dublin goal which equaliser. Gerry Ennis, ended the first half can be blamed on the low who was having his first blinding sun. outing with the Senior On the resumption full forward, Colm Byme, team, split the Athlone added another point to the DIT tally which was defence with a solo run followed by another Hicke){ point. Goalman and his pass to Gi1ligan~:::;~;:;;:;:=:::;;::;::::;:::======:::::.. Dennot Maguire brought off a superb save from ended in the back of the Th, DITs",ior Hurli"g Te"m who outsho",Athlo", /tut mo"th. point blank range. Hickey drew the backs out to net. Athlone showed their mettle with a sus his wing and his pass to Byme lead to the third tained siege of the DIT lines which resulted in DIT goal. Hickey completed his personal total two points and a superb defensive display by the Ladies GAA of three points with a converted free and Mick DIT backs. Alan MacKeogh and Dara Spain Things arc ItaJtia5 to look JOOd in tbe" field of Ladies' GM especially on the (oorbaII fiont. Ofren folJOtteD in fa'YOUr of the Galvin added the final point for DIT with five saved the DIT bacon in this phase of the match. men's foorbaII and hurlias ream., the women of DIT are starting minutes to go. A point blank goal and two Niall Gilligan sent over a furt her point and to turn heads with their onfield performances. Despite the points by the Dublin Panel saw offthe DIT chal passed to full forward, Ciaran Curran for anoth ~~tMoum~of~t~.d~~~ lenge in the closing minutes ofthe game. er. A superb catch and clearance by Spain es were played (arbar .u a ...mber ofpoItpOnemenrs). Unforrunate1y the camogie suffered as a resulr of several date It was nice to see Liam Walsh, who had relieved the pressure and a fine goal, which out changes. The game agaimr St. Pat's took place in St. Pat's ground played with the DIT Fitzgibbon Cup team last witted the Athlone keeper, by Mark Murphy saw in Drummndra on Wednesday 3 December in cold mnditious. year, lining out for the Dublin Panel in his frrst tht;: visitors lead by four points at halftime. Unfonunatdy. due to the game beiag rearraoged from a previous dare, DIT wue unable to flCld a full team 10 the points from the game after a lengthy layoff due to injury. While Athlone only added a single point in fmrure had to be forfeited. A challenge game took pIa« imrcad The DIT team was: D. Maguire, N. Mac the second half DIT had to withstand intense . with St. Par'slending a few playen to DIT for the game. The rault Caffrey, A. McKeogh, D. Clohessy, D. Spain, T. pressure which saw Trevor Macgratb put in a w. unimponant, however. the game did help to highlight arcas which needed improvement, fantastic display of catching and fielding. His MacGrath (0-1), P. Finnerty, On a brighter note, the~ is DO stopping the football team at pre P. Blake, A. Coate, J. Cullen (1-0), M. comrades in the defence added to their reputa sent. On Tuesday 25 November. the team took to the pitch in the Fitzsimons, M. GaIvin (0-1), R. Hickey (0-3), C. tions by their performances. The second half Pboenis: PaIk in wet and windy COndirioDS to face the women of Byme (1-1), C. Buggy (1-0) DIT scores were from Gerry Ennis who Inchimre. Having lost their previous league match to Maynooth, raised the Ladia' team emered this m:rwe with a d~ of t~pidation. Substitutions P. Howard for P. Blake, A. the white flag on the 14th Minute, a converted Howner, any fean they had. lOOn disappeared. despite mnceding Larkin for R. Hickey, S. CaIUnan for J. Cullen free by Trevor MacGrath and a point by his fel an early Inchico~ goal, and by half-time the ladies were 4-3 to 1-0 low half back Paul Finnerty. The last quarter of ahead. The IeCOnd half produced mo~ g~ar flowing football with the ball being paaed with ease: acrca the fJdd and into the danFr the game was played in semi-darkne s which ZODCI. More scores were added and, although Inchicore scored was not conducive to safe and fair hurling. It another soaJ in the dying semnds. the final S . DIT SAILING NEWS Kinsale (Booze) Cruise Thursday morning. 20 November find Tetris on it. and three car loads of eager sailors hit Another boozy night in Crosshaven the Cork road bound for Kinsale. with all having to be awoken the next Students. mainly from Bolton St Sail morning at seven. Weather forecast Oub were set for a good weekend. with wasn't good. with a gale to set in at two B 35s on charter from Sail Ireland. lunch. logic was go early and get to University of Limerick joined forces Kinsale before it. 7:30am departure with the club chanering a Sigma 38. from RCYC [for under-privileged read Early arrivals to Kinsale were found en. that's Royal Cork Yacht Oub] and already to be indulging in booze in the motoring out. Winds were high and local wa~rholes. and soon the question swell was moderate. Set a course for the was raised by a nameless dnmken crew Old Head ofKinsale. Both boau rolled member - ·Are we really sailing tomor out a co':'ple of feet of jib and began row?- beating into the wind and waves. Early rise by all on Friday, a very Constant tacking and progress was slow. hung ~r and pumpy aew and skipper Waves now building to twmty feet and got up at around seven. basically noerybody quite sick with water rushing because it was too bloody cold to stay in down the sidedecks as the boats heeled, bed. After ahearty breakfast. all three this must be the force nine. Finally after )'lIChts set sail for Cork. Ut showing w no real headway after two houn. a UHF some tricks with full sail and spinnaker. call to the second boat got a welcome while the joys of last night were having and a relieved ·OK. Roger. Over and bad reactions with the wave motion out.- Both boats now retiring back to onboard the OtT boats. Crosshaven but not before shredding No wind Saturday lead to antics the jib sail on one ofthe boats. around Cork harbour and a brisk motor Now, fully lashed to the marina, we to Ferrybank. This left time for the OIT left the boats and headed home. A really crew to discover how to use .the hand great weekend was had by all. lots of held GPS [Gravitational Plotting boozi g, lots of slagging, lots of craic. System? Gargantuan Potato School? some ·Iing. Hey...let's do itagain! What? - Ed] after giving up uying to 13 It's time Denis Irwin was recognised as one ofthe all-time great Irish soccer stars, KING DINNY argues Emmett Coff~ you your DameI trick Boavdt i. not OUl' mwucire petlOn at the -thfj player want on aide-, -one of the fUll on the the dying aecond.. team meet- and the one who wiI -DCftt let you down-. p:moment. To the uninformed, Mr Boavdt i. the HiI dub career hu been a IUCCCllion of higbl .incc he joined While AlCI FeJBUIOn hu dacribed him u the mOll con.iltent ManchClter United in 1990. He hu won more honoon (four Feyenoord player who lunged knee-high at Deni. Manchater United pla~r of the 90a and aeveral other maoagera PJWIIienhip, two FA Cup, aCup WlDDCrI Cup and u.ue Cup Irwin in the recent Champion. League match ha~ often cUd him u me man they would mOll lite to pwdllllC, medaIa) than any other curreot Irish international and may ~ry benvec:n the Dutch dUb and Manchester United. he hu yet to be cooaideJed u one ofthe great P." of me mod well add further domeatic and European hooou.. to thiI imprame 1rwiD, who h. Deftr fcipcd injwy or cagaged in me hiarionia 10 ern era. haul before the cod ofthillCUOn. beloved of many of hil contioeDl:aI peen, hit the deck after the While the did/depeodablelCODliltcot clacriptioDl do reveal much All of ~eae ach.ievanentl ~ to put Mick Mc:Carthy'. decilion to 80Ivat tadde lite a Idofmal - and Itayed there. about thil mao, !bey do DOt tell me whole Itory. Remember thil drop hUD from two recent World Cup quaIifierl (Lithuania at The coundell slow-mo replay. of the incident confirmed the player hu been an integral part of the molt 1Ua:aaful team in home and Icdand away) into context. Theae cIecisioDl are aufficieor ~Jalioo that Boavelt meant to do damage. Watching the match Britain for the bat part of the nioetia. He iI a p.rofcoDlider reaIOn to question hiI judgement u an internarional manager. In in a well-known Dublin hoerelry one was Itruck by the ahoci with able gifta, VClQtile in that he can perform equally well at left or both theae matcha playen auch • lan Harte and Jeff Kenna M:re which Irwin'. injwy _ greeted. United M:re coaItios when Irwin right back, a deadly c:roaer ofthe ball, a IIDOOth puaer and crucial choeen ahead ofthe great Codunao. .. _ felled but it took the good out ofCo!e'. hat-trick and. United'. ly, a big game player. He it, in mon, one ofthe great loo playen. Mc:Carthy hu coDlilteody ltated th. he waotl hit hilh team to c:omprehClllive victory. While the non-United cootiDgeot did DOl Ya, Denil Irwio'. gJeatat attribute iI hiI CODIiltency - he iI colJlit. play an ClpaDlM pmc based on fIWd paaios and axm:ment, yd mare me converted'. atiafaction at the viaory, !bey too M:re mak reorly very, ftry good for Manchater United and'dapite the p~ ~ me lame time d~a to cbop a player who ha eamJe.ly fttted co by wh.looked like a career-threatening injury. encc of two full-back. who are EDBIilh intemational. at Old 10 to the one EngIiah team th. can match aoythios ICrved up by Very few playen in the modern game evob IUch feeling among Tnfforcl (the Neville blOthen), he rema.i.DI the fUll choia ofA1CI many of Europe'. flllClt. AlolII wo hiI pranature retirement of IUpporten of all dub.. Obviously the faa the injwy ruled him out FCJBUIOn. Paul McGrath and hil iDlilteoce on playios a reaem: team full of me ICCOnd Irdand-Bclgium fmture acc:IOUored for much of thiI Lut aealOn he wu dropped flOm the United team for cnaciaI back in the pm>tal poaition ofceotre back, McCanhy'. diIgmcdW p1a~r mocX on me night, but DOt all No, moc IOClCer IUpporten. Rprd matche. (mo.t notably the Old Trafford leg of the Boruaia demotion of arzuabIy our bat (in the abeence of that other le. of dub affdiatioDl, ha~ a genuine affeaion for me C..orkmao Dortmund afWr) and the team auJrercd greatly, but Fagie appean iI aufficieot IaIOD to question hiI right to maDaF me th. lay, !bey don't feel for Roy Keaoe, Aody TOWIIICnd or Niall to have leamcd an import. leaon flOtD thia. While he it now 32 = Quina. In thil rapea he it a rare breed in me modern pme. HiI FCJBUIOn rata Irwm for Pranienhip marcha againat me likea of In bil more emotional and and lyrical momentl Eamonn Duophy ItIOIII performaDClCl for dub and country over many ,an and the Baroalcy and ShdFaeld Wednaday but pm him for the crucial h. oftco taken to aec:itios lilt. ofP." who ~ played iorema honourable way with which he alwaya conduct. himaelf on the O1ampioDl Leape farura. Furthermore, cnacial pdt for both tional footbaI for Irdaod. Theae IiItI are daiped to illUlUate the ~ fJdd ofplay are me primary reaIODI he iI held in IUch high rcpd. dub and country in RClCDl weelu to hammer home me point point thal: Ireland ha a long and proud IOCCICr tradition. Many of But thiI devoted fan feela that while he iI ftry wdl mpected by that hilldvanciag ,anhaw not d;m;nilhed hiI po1W:rI one whit. the pla~.. on theae arbitrary liItI plied their tnde 10lIl before the IUpporten and P." alike, he ha Deftr pined me true recogni Hit goal for Irdand a few weeb ago in 1.aoadowDe Road _ one modern era but Dwlphy briop them up to date by including IUch tion which hit talent and JeCOrcI ~. of me belt Irish goaIa in nx:ent yara. With me poaibIe c:saption nx:ent greatI u LaWl'CDlOll, McGrath. Stapleton and Whdao. ~tioDl which UIC tenDI auch u hoDClt, coDliateor, harclwodt of Uam Brady, he it the finat mm of a d..ad ball to have wom Let'. hope flOm now on when Duophy taka to compiling theIC ing and dependable are inwriably applied to Denil Irwin. He it me pen _in in the 1_ thirty yara. Remember, he aImoc WOD liIta he will IllId the name ofthe patDeoiIlrwin. me fint leg ..- Belgium with aoother MII taken free kick in ~-wear--s~han-~dc-u..,;l'-an...-o:dr-s~hi"":"· ne-s-a-to-rc""':hr--"o-u-t-o"ll'f~h-er-:-bedr-:--oo-m-W1-:-'n"""- dow. A woman who is taken away by two minders at the end ofthe book, "looking haggard and terrified-. I have never read a darker book by this author; the jokes are there but the CHESS CLUB humour is closer to the gallows than ever before. We had our first chess competition in Even money. the ~ ....d!Id,...w~"'.A~'" DIT for several years. It was in Kevin Man and other books, does not appear to be able to lllve 0 St. on Thursday 20-11-97. The compe the shadows that cling round Donleavy's latest book. "In th tition went ahead thanks to a lot ofpeo immediate vicinity ofScarsdale it seemed to be an inltdJeauaij desert and anyone who wasn't already a bond salesman down ple. Thanks to John Potter, the R",i,",eJ by Mllolsh,Mhlllinn 0 Celllllligh town was practising carrying a big black briefcase to become Guinness Rep, ~Guinness.Com I doubt that there is any writer in Irdand who could match one, and foaming at the mouth to get richer.- Where this for the free drinks that flowed after P Donleavy, but you might not be able to tell it from his lat writer's most famous character, Sebastian Dangerfield, would wards in Devins. Thanks to Ross and est novel, The Lady Who Liked aean Rest Rooms. read movie magazines and business journals in the midst 0 That isn't to say it's a bad book. Donleavy's trademark grim the bar staff in Devins for fantastic ser squalor to soak up the images of affluence, Jocelyn Jones humour shines through almost every sentence. "Her analyst vice and a huge thanks to the wonderful doesn't even seem to share this enthusiasm. Basic though it said everybody was blasting the shit out of their 1V sets all Sarah Gardiner (Clubs and Socs Officer, may seem to a Donleavy character. over New York and described her new lJehaviour of following Kevin St) for all her help. Finally, There an: less kiUer phrases in this novd than many of its trends as good news.- And Jocelyn Jones is a typical DonJeavy thanks to all who competed, in what predec:essors. The &mous single step between the sublime and protagonist; full to the brim with standards and principles was a fun and serious evening. the ridiculous is JP Donleavy's usual centre ofoperations, and whose only effects are to make her",fmore miserable. Congratulations to the winners, even here there are some passages that resonate with bathos; Donleavy's new american heroine cannot forget, in her "A lettuce, egg and tomato sandwich, a piece ofapple pie a la Michael, who won the rated league, and descent into the working class and below, that she was mode and a cup ofcoffee. Not cheap but nourishingly reason joint winners Tom, Rodney and brought up to be a lady. educated at an exclusive coUege called able at that price. And the nice man the other side of the Maurice (Aungier St). Bryn Mawr, and came from a f.unily once listed in the social counter would say a pleasant there you go. 0 god ifone could The rest 'of the competitors enjoyed the register. And a dead grandmother who told her to cherish her only concentrate, concentrate on the very simplest of things games and the celebrations afterwards. snobberies and visit only the c1eanest ofpublic lavatories hov there could be no end to the pleasures oflife.- Here comes the info bit. The DIT ers over the pages like a class-conscious guardian angel. But you will search these pages in vain for all the sweetl Kevin St Chess Club meet every Abandoned by her 1V executive husband in favour of a strange passages from books like De Alfonce Tenni. and The Thursday at 6pm in K154 in Kevin St. laugh-a-second gameshow, and despised by her grown-up Onion Eaten. Like the first book's depiction of an atistocra New members of either sex are always children, she sinks into the depths which Donleavy has visited in America: welcome. We cater for all standards, all in his books many times before. The Sadden Summer of "...when a cockroach sped along the edge of a table, S, Donleavy's tale of poverty and isolation in Vienna, levels, complete beginners to Grand Samuel Charles took a full bottle of Scotch whisky to smash the is virtually a male version ofthis novel. Is the author repeating Masters. Also we'll be attending compe offending insect into an alcoholic kingdom come. And then himself? titions both home and away. reminded everyone protestingly present; 'You bunch 0 Yes. But it hardly matters; none of Donleavy's books are ungrateful buggers, you swindled this island offourteen thou very different from one another anyway. All his characters sand acres from the Indians and now you've got bloody filth share obsessions With money, an estrangement from society, bugs all over the place:- Looking forward to seeing a few new and a stubborn clinging to strange ethical codes that nobody Passages of contorted sentiment like that. getting under and old members this Thursday. around them even notices. Add the author's 'cheerful pes your skin and impossible to remove like a twisted hook, are Michad Deans, simism' and you've got any book from The Ginger Man right less in evidence in The Lady Who Libel Qcan Rest Room•• Chess Society Treasurer. up to Who Liked Clean Rat Rooms. The Lady There is a plot. Jocelyn's liking for clean public lavatories Having said that, his latest work is different in many waY'. seems to go against her when she finds she has stumbled into all the wrong ways, unfortunately. that of a mourner's suite beside a cemetery. With the body Donleavy's other pictures of humanity swim with all man lying in state in the middle of the room and a still livin old ner of men and women, crazy and cruel, kind and generous. For ",or, i"jDr",lllio" eo"'M' man watching her. She saves face by signing the empty condo But The Who Rat Rooms has no charac Miehll,lor To", i" KJ54 Lady Libel Clean lence book of this man, who emerges to have been vastl ters like the warm-hearted undertaker Qarence Vine in A ThursJlly 61'",-8:301'''' or ,-",Ilil ~lthy. What this leads to is not hard to work out. Fairy Tale of York or the cheerful police d,erective aka New Look, I admit it. In 3 months I might think more of this "" III Alias in De Alfonce Tennis. Here there is just cruelty and cru DO~Ior_ book than just a poor relation to the author's best. Donlea Who@HoI",llil.eo",. elty. Even the heroine is not particularly likeable. specialises in novels that weave their speD on you on a third or The only other human being which Jocelyn identifies with founh reading. But I don't believe I will ever think that in the book's setting of New York is a mad neighbour who Lady Who.•. is absolute top-notch Don1eavy. '14 to the cup campaign. Irish Colleges Rugby DIT Team: Tom Stuart-Trainor (A); Dllle: 3 December 97 progre~ .fiP the knockout stages of the Union Ma1colm Vaughan (M); Brian 'r Dre compennon. O'Sullivan (M); Aiden O'Brien (M); Ven"e: I.n'nI"re 1.\1" DIT orleam: B·nan F"ItzgeraId (A) ; Ascent Cup Jamie O'Brien 00; Darragh Henry (M) Res"lt: 55 - 0 David Keane (M): Jamie O'Brien 00; Stephen Brady (M); Paul Hatron (M); Brian Q'Sullivan (M): Vinny Murphy After beating a highly fancied Athlo"e RTC " DIT Shane Kavanagh (B); Gareth Guilfoyle (M); Richie Ball (A); Aiden O'Brien Waterford team the previous week, DtUe: 22 OCI 97 (A); Rory Keane (M); Tommy Guy (M); (M); Gareth Ryan (B); Shane Kavanagh moral within the camp was very high. A Rob Colleran (B); Rory Keogh (A); (B); Paul O'Connor (M); Batry Enright Vm"e: B"CCII"HrS RFCAlhlo"e lighr training session was organised for Gary McGloughlin (c) (M). (B); Rory Keane (M) Rob Colleran (B); IlInJt: 17- 17 12 o'clock prior to the game under the Man of the Match: Shane Kavanagh Gary McGloughlin (c) (M); Tom - watchful eye of our coach Hendric A squad of 25 players were selected (Bolton St.) Clifford (B). Kruger. Players were beginning to hone Man of the Match: Shane Kavanagh for our opening fix~e in Irish Colleges in on the game and final preparations (Bolton St.) Ascent Cup, Division One. The players were run through with great efficiency. were selected from the trials held by A light lunch was prepared for the DIT" WIT RnnllininglMpeMlltchn: (J998). Hendric Kruger our Leinster Branch team after the training session were a Development Officer on Sports Day DtUe: 26No" 97 more relaxed mood was adopted by the 4 Feb UUJ" DITUowl4nstoum) during October. Venue,· Teren,," RFC players. Coleraine arrived at ten past 11 Feb DIT"DCU(Term,,"RFC) We departed on the morning of the Res"lt: 19 - 12 two and every player retreated to the match at 1lam. The squad included dressing room to focus on the game. two of our Irish Colleges DIT bounced back well from their It was a cold, frosty day, but fonu Representatives, namely, Paul Hatton bruising encounter with Athlone RTC nately the pitch had completely thawed and Tom Stuart-1iainor. Athlone IUC the previous month to register a fine out with what bit ofsunshine fell upon are the current All Ireland Colleges win against a highly fancied WIT. it. Straight from the kick-off DIT Ownpions, having won last ~. Waterford were a strong team, having opened the scoring through the power The conditions were excellent for won the O'Boyle Cup (Freshers) last ful Shane Kavanqh, after forcing his open running rugby and it was DIT year and with a lot ofthese players pro way over the line from close range. who used it well to their advantage. An gressing to their full team. However, Richie Ball duly convened and an easy early score by Sbane Kawnagh from the DIT scored the first try through the one seven points was amassed. Bolton St Bears was created from some and only Shane Kawnagh. The try was Coleraine came back again, but a great forward driving up the centre, converted by Richie Ball. The condi relapse in concentration allowed the where Shane darted through a gap and tions Were poor to say the least, where it alert scrum-half ofDn: Aiden O'Brien, ran forty yards to score under the posts. was obvious to see that this was going to to register his first score of th~ game, Se\oen nil. Who would have thought it? be a really forward battle. Waterford after a delightful pick and break from . After absorbing me intense presawc stuck to their game plan very well, with the Coleiaine scrum and neat finish in for twenty minutes with Athlone fired some power breaks up the middle, only the corner. Apin •• COllwrted. up, DIT scored again against the run of for the resolute defending of Brian 14 nil after only 5 minutes. From the play through Rob Colleran. Darrqh O'Sullivan and Neil Finnegan, they restart Coleraine attacked through their HenI)' slotted over the conversion, and would easily have scored three times backs, but some resolute defending from a strong lead of 14 points was estab over. Instead, contrary to the play of the Brian O'Sullivan, Jamie O'Brien and lished. There was a great forward con game, OIT again scored through Neil Vinny Murphy prevented Co1eraine test between both teams with some Finnegan, out wide, for well worked from making any progress towards the excellent defensive work from Gareth effort by all the team. DIT line. However, they were awarded a GuiICoyle and Rory Keane around the Waterford, with the more mobile penalty ten minutes later only for their fringes ofthe ruck. pack. battled back and got their reward outhalf to squander their first chance of Unfortunately, we lost the services of minutes before half-time to leave the scoring by kicking the penalty right and our dynamic number 8 Paul Hatton due score at 12-7. wide ofthe posts. to injury sustained to his shoulders. For With the pitch beginning to turn DIT, visibly disturbed by this chance, the remainder of the first half. we bat into a mud bath, after the torrential rain upped the tempo ofthe game with some tled bravely and were fortunate to finish in the previous days, both sides strug strong power driving and 'pop balls' the first halfwithout conceding a score. gled to maintain any fluidity in their from their captain Gary McGloughlin In the second half. Athlone, not to be play. The tackling and strong forward and Rob Colleran, representing out-done, responded in typical fashion. play. most notably Cathal Nicholl and Mountjoy Sq and Bolton St respectively. through their physical pack, they tire Gareth Ryan, helped DIT to extend whereupon Tom Oifford secured pos lessly worked their way up to the DIT their score, with a second try from Neil session and scored. The try was uncon line. After 20 minutes, they garnered a Finnegan of Aungier St in the second verted. penalty try, after some late tackling on half. It was obvious the floodgates were their out half. Almost immediately from With the score now at 19-12, beginning to open and further tries the restart, Athlone were again camped Waterford responded with almighty from Shane Kavanagh, twice, Aiden on the DIT line and were rewarded with revenge and for the final ren minutes O'Brien and a wonderful effort from a try five minutes later, when their sec and a few moments of heart-stopping Richie Ball, at outha1f. helped establish a ond row bundled his way ovn- the line. action, rhrough Rory Keane, OIT held ~ll deserved lead of43 points to nil at Both tries were converted to leave the on to rake a well deserved victory from a half time. score at 14-apiece. strong WIT team. . The second half resumed on the same DIT almost furnished the win DIT Team: Aiden Q'Brien (M); note as the first half wirh Richie Ball through Jamie O'Brien, but rhe referee Jamie O'Brien (K); Neil Finnegan (A); running in for his second try of the day. adjudged the ball to have been knocked Brian O'Sullivan (M); David Keane Unfortunately, from DIT's point of on earlier and he was called back for the (M); Richie Ball (A); Brendan Walsh view the game lost its edge in the second scrum. (1<); Gareth Ryan (B); Shane Kavanagh half, save for two glimpses of hope. With ten minutes remaining Athlone (B); Cathal Nicholl (K); Rory Keane Firsdy, a superb 40 yard break from the seemed to have secured victory with a (M); Oavid Gilmore (C): Rob Colleran DIT number 8, Gareth Ryan, helped set -tl struck penalty. But not to let sleep (B): Rory Keogh (A): Gavin up a try Cor Vinny Murphy ofMountjoy ing dogs lie, DIT earned themselves a McGloughlin (c) CM): Tom Clifford Square. Secondly, some excellent slick penalty also, with seconds on the clock. (B). handling in the backs coupled with Darragh Henry stood up, under Man of the Match: Rory Keane some well organised forward drives gave inunen e pressure and scored a match (Mountjoy Sq) Stepben Wal.h a debut try for DIT to Youa iD sport. equalling penalty, just after the referee have the final score at S5 points to nil. Bob Coghlan. blew his whistle for full time. A draw OIT are cwrendy top of their Group against the champions, not a bad tart in the Irish College Ascent Cup 15 The fust song and first ALBUMS releasl<, G" Rit!Nr, is a hav~ Bendf!'! Rhythm ~ bit lame, Dubliners; the dialect a harder BRA save for the tune! And 0 coune whadda night, with Dublin edge with plenty of 'mates' thrown in, s1ipdy-amusing and aEt-done ~-edit on Ronald a f.mtastic Jock and an c:xedlenr crowd. Thanks covemi up by a hoocIie. like the guys up on ParIopbone Records Just Reagan anti-drug speeches. So you've got good Darreo, hope to hear you play apin lOOn. It., this particular breed is an UDllSUal hybrid. ok Ronnie tell~ us th. himself and Nancy are Unbdievably unusumiog and enormously .. From the guy. who .lunk into the Cork hooked on heroin and other funny ltuff. StptuIty James Murphy tistical. The OIlCS we love achieve the riPt bal Guiooaa Jazz Festival allDOlt unnoticed, comes features a cheeky Htde rhyming couplet about ance. their swell oew recording, Bentley Rhythm Nz dinner being in the cellar (softy, can't print the Enter, Itage left, one Tim 'magniflClent mouth' BRA. Thi. electro jazz duo ream off a li.t of lecond half of the couplet, a bit rude Y'lee). Bwp, a man who has DOt met a beefy enough name. on their .leeve including Norman M.rIJ/n, no. 3, has agrealliogalo~ Na-Na-Nab, burger to flU the ClpaDaa of his Gob. Step aside (FatBoy) Slim, Jon Carter (Monkey Mafia), Na-Na-Nab bit, and a Blues Brothen type b.... MrJaaer and Mr Tyler, thil North Countl}' Charl.ana. N (Blur) CCllIoo, among The Charlatans and iF orb chorus. Boy has taken the maode. en. So they have 8ash IIIUIO mates to • with. D.ili Wa: • &tJi leana back towardl the fint Dl]mpi4 weJ26NOI1ember I don't know what I apected, but I know 1 So whar? uy you. Well, it'. an iDrerating listen Black Grape record, and even as far u some of hoped for a mixture cL their th~ finest albuDII, for its aperiments in and beat-moti percuaioo the stuff the Moodayt did. Robbing a line from 8:SOpm in a packed Olympia Theatre. Not too Some Friendly, The Charlatans, and Tellin' vatioDl, with pretty harmonious DOtatioo, and an MJ Ok M." ~ • D,,#1IU", thil one is another fashionably late sccioa u the doors opened at Sloria. While its John Squia'. pirar aat takes interesting contralt of a number of sounds , la Kirrlty AftD affair. R• .m.... is a loaded electric: 8pm, but I haw of1_ rea1iIed th. punctuality me back to nights ofatreme acas, Rob CoIIins' Apha Twin, Richard D. Jama. ditty catapulted in your ~ion by the G~ is becoming a part of gig-going in Ireland. Oh Hammond on their eponymous debut sparks off F/.,n OpeDl the record with, sur Ln 1'7Nr, & Spotlifln. the sixth track, 11 another full-souodmg those g1oriou, nights offalling into a venue at ten hazy memories of dancefloors with hardly any twid~ lilt~ prisiogly, 8ute-music aDd suooily gem of the calibre of Its G~:..abou~ love-mak o'clock; the inane cheen u everyone reali8es that, movement but a lot of iDreD8C p,usionare respect. to the accompaniment ahufBed druDII a of and ing, as Shaun would never call1l, ao4 It features a YCCCllll, as expected, DO( even the support band Souodllike a'bunch of tOllUl but ill a bunch of 303. Trivia fana can .pot the sample from the hippetty little organ hdping things alo~. had made an appearance yet. But DOt so nowa to.sers admiring something of great beauty, Poppies' TowlNtJ."IJ, R.".tfCkcMJ/Ji"" .ub. T,U M, &m"hi"f speaks word. like -You're daY" "What time are Bendey Rhythm Ace due something (ok that'l enough ofthat). (They'~ ethea merged here too. also on the same labd chopping down trees and you shout at your on It.?- IaY'I to a fellow punter. -Oh, is that Collin. iso't there anymore and the sound of u PWEl, Chapter 22.) Second up is MitilA""'" hands' which is probably ju. something SR does who they _re? They came and weot lib a - Martin Dd,. &om Ha'.lS-.s!!~~~. [Th," c." O"'J & 0",...1, a swinging organ before brekkie each moroiog. Hp 0& a Tuaoy - jUlt backpoucl 0 • a zaaiDder of how aood he was as DufFy adopts number that grooves with a cha.oge of pace that Mtn19 kit GIuI,.",.J. reminisceot of.n the mate.• Pily.lllte Bendey Rhythm k:&- his style. And fair play to the band, because out fits the tUDt: remarkably -n, though its hardly Herbie movie soundtracb. cloa little to .ir the My first meeting with the new breed of of adversity, to put it mildly, ~y 10ek the mOll onpnal piece of music ever coDCleiwd. emotions, and Lo",1y. a sort-of.Stones number, CharlataDl fan is unsurprising. It. no different IOUnd monger than ever, kickin' in with rousing Track five is the fifties-style bootie.jiggler named (possibly a cover, methioks) dredges up some from the same bunch who wigged out to their renditionl of Nonh CO"",,, BOJ. j"s, Wh,,, R,m 0" Th, Spot, with the esquisite '1-2-3 antique lyrics from the Mondays' tune Thinlt heroes in the early nineties. Mancunian YDIf'r, ThirJti"f Tm"fS 0." 0", To A1UJ,lNr, Quarter to Four' count in. Number Six is by far AA-t TN ht,,". Words finally lums up all that the tune of the disc. the rdeucd single Bnukyi Ryder is about; the fascination with puna, word Go"". Sort Yo" O",! One listen, forever play, semantic cleverality (ooh! you posh twat) whisdio', is the case with this one, which is also and thoughts on the human condition. 'The the most fundamentally jazz based track they CLUBBED TO A BLOODY PULP mind is weak. but the body's strong' is the ma I I haft here. sage given, draped in a colourful, sunny The forgettable R."opsltotilu.rrhils, is quickly WhereltsAt organ. Nice. Buy it, maybe, but followed by WhtJosh, which bleeds disco and don't expect towering moments like Its includes a memorable BBC-ilk brass-band Great...Yeah. I 1UlX breakdown. Whe p., TIJ, &m i" TIJ, &m &m DiJJ~ et Redboz (sic) B_ features a didgeridoo, cop ChaOS SireDl and SOtDC snoring 0 think), and sounds like a city. Then the~ is the tribute song to the orange rubber.alien-ball thing which thankfully Dec26 Mean Fiddler Tbursdays @ Kitcben failed to oudast the eighties, S/",uhoppw, and It Contributions to Sonic Bionic bounces along niedy amid the chattering chorus regarding anything musical.wekome. James Lavelle of a bunch of assorted skin.iDltrumem•. Thi. On disk or not at all please. Marcus (NY DJ) brings UI to the lut track, the thriftily tided Dee 18 Joo Carter RnlI,." ofTIJ, R~ j"",.k C.rlJDtJ~(hruHliseo JohnnyMoy RtNMlshow. Ju. rolla off the tongue. that one. (Monkey Mafia) OveraD a great listen, thougJ1 by no meanl clas JohnnyMoy sic, timdaa, or particularly out.tanding. The Aa Dec27 The End presents h~er. pair should be watched, MrC ChaOS Derrick Carter Dar~n Emenon ReJbox Fr; 31 Del It was a decidedly cold, wet and typical mukGrape Halloween Night when we arrived at the Redbox Stupid Stupid Stupid at 11 :OOpm. A monstrouI queue had formed Radioaaive Records from the enuanoe right back around to the enrraoce ofFindlater'. Wine Merchanu. They're back. Or rather he's back, the ~yder Outlide, you could fed the vibratioDl shake the Congratulations Influx!! organilOl. Resistance is futile,. all drugs :will be walls, u Matthew B was already warming up the aaimilatcd and used in producmg a new lifcform crowd, playing it trancey with lnippetl of hard which will go OD to write,some c:xe:ePtio~ music hitting ball drums sprinkled on top. The chef and fookin cosmic Iyncs. HavlDg said that, brought the crowd from a mere ~mmer to near Stupid (ll3) doesn't jump out at your ears in the boiling for Emuson to take the ~IDI. same way Its Great When You'~ Straigbt...Yeab He had the crowd ecstatic and btging for more, did. teasing and keeping those choonl real on the This time Shaun is aaisted by Kermir Leveridge wheels ol.ed, CODItandy leadiag us up the yd. and a third vocalist, Carl 'Psycho' McCarthy. low brick road to Oz. Out of nowhere he with Danny Saber doing.most of the musical dropped a bomb OD the crowd to which we arrangemeDl I programmi~, and a whole horde exploded and erupted with pleasure. There was of lessionistl, with additional talent added by no stopping this guy. MUlmade. You oould fed the pleaswe in the ~, and,penpl,e Roughly the.ame formula is tried he~, complete with smiles u wide as the Chahue Cat I, u It with lyrics that blow from the extremes of the came to end of the night, when a track was ingredients from the back of oondiment bottles played like no other. A choon which would, if to the three fathoms deep thoughts on society there were any left, gott those people .till .~ and culture that Ryder at his be. moments can at the bar on to the dance floor: the Cheouca1 phrase u well u m~ poets: philosophers and Brothen. I, D«mt M.nd.! other intdlectuals. Stop laughing. 16 aod a hOlt of other c1uIia under the tparlde of OuiltlDUlY ligbtL 1don't DJ Shadow think BUlJe.. opened that wide mouth frog gob of hi. to .ay one ReJbox SAt 22 No" word until the ~ lut encore, but it didn't matter. Two houn of music All praile ODCe again to loflux for yet kept this audience the happiest of another memorable gathering in campers. W~;,.J(J was thumpin. Harcourt Street. The gig they TnJi,,' SItmn, the latest .mp, is the brought to our shores this time w. most .suml rock of 97 and er" ~ DJ Shadow, ~invelltor and ~moul Gt0",t(IWfrom the album which der ofold, and pioneer of nar-millc pe them credibility again remiDded nium hip hop. The main support slot .. aD how mum we loved basgy aod was to be filled by Propellerheads how we need it not to fade into the who backed out at the deventh hour, insignific:anc:e that is Britpop. leaving Influx to lqgit for an alterna Top gig from a top baud. tive. How about Monkey Mafia, then, for a late replacement? Johnny Michael MacCormack Moy gave way to Jon Cuter cady in the Digbt • the place fiDed up ~ rantly, and people were all but Blur thumped out 11 the dock drew toward. the ooe 0' c:loc:k deadli.nc for Po;", Depot Fri 28 No" Shadow. Monkey Mafia lot good inteJac:tion going between artist and Blur are powiog up. We bow this crowd. ..and 8oor, but ~ want because this year'. Blur album w. ed to lee the maearo. allegedly cIadt, difFJCUlt, mdaoc:holic Then he lbuftJed on in his Fila robes aacI awfully JIOWD up. In the isola aDd ski-hat and launched straight tion of the studio they IIWIt have fdt into a cut-up of Larry M.'. S"".., quite pleased with this new maNray. ButNI, S"".., drum inrro. (You But then they come bIiakia& inro the bow, for the natives?) He played sualiPt to tour the album oaly to with it like putty, implyina that DO cIiscowr they haven't JIVWIl up at Ill. .ample, cut.away, edit, coocerto, The auwd are JOUDFI tbaa CWlIIIIl1 crac:endo or bIOI ever writtea is .it patiently through the more beyond his manipulative control. In filItJaDe demeaa of new Blur, JaCrV this rapea his an wen towatds the ..tbe raI ferwurre. Girls ..&,t. pafomwK:c side ofdiu.- P.rItIif' and, of COUJ'e,.tbe W..-H. He IpCDt about 45 minutes p1ayina MOment • saved for the very end. tneb from EndIrodac:iat. e.1y one Blur'. plan ~o retreat permanently of the beat albums of 1997, and into the studio .... Iaious ICIIIC • probably the most important of the The Poiar. Mta Ill, bow can a man flOal five yean of the millemum. ~ dIirty. who _ 1aimIelf. a YaIa. he playal-dIe Guinness met. luck 'n' roD Manin Amis be content 51",., but better .till he played Orp" to do a pocket .ize greatest hit. to DtnItW and he hit u. with a hOlt of • •• le? othen until arouod 2am or there Outside erw ere IS a parent ahou... he very modady told mak Wlitiag to pick up the kids. Its a us over the mike (a DJ speaki.. to tui rank with paren.. instad. The the aowd!!! Good HeawcaIIO due he kids appuendy pr picked up by tbe wu -ju.t lonoa DJ for a whUe-. fint parent. in the queue and go -Cool by us,- we told him, and what home with them. They may never foUowed .howed u. why he i. and find their own parent. again ual.. will be hailed 11 a pmu. for some they hlppen to arike it lucky at the time. 0..pareDl"raak. OtaOS Brendan O'Connor AD Saints member ShUDl)' Lcwis seems to be their chief songwriter, with the other AUSainu thRC girls gcttins writms c:ndits OD Londoa Reconlt at least ODe or two of the tracks. Their type ~ music is less poppy and WeB, they're and they'le spicy, sUI' IDOIe soulful than ODe might iJIuBiae, but t 're ccrtaialy not the Spice and very melodic to boot. cxemplirJcd Girls. Not abow: ....c1eavIplbotl iD tunes like Never Ever and Bootie and pouts, miDd you, but • least th. Call. outfit wun't .-mbled in a mix-n Ifthey ju_ have the.aood sense to do matm, creat&oa-band mode. So do AD what they do be t lod not try Saints tally 'know where its at'? to...em..AI1 Saint up r liwl and our Apparently they held off on rec:otd world, then I'm well be IeeiaB a ~omplny offen until they could lot more of them. DClotiate a deal which lave them muimum creative control. Group 105 17 Irish Museum of Modern Art THFATRE TEA FOR ONE d-A S17CKY BuN Written d-Dir«teJ b:1 MAr" Lynch 'Once is Too Much' BIGIDEA THEATRE COMPANY Bewley's Cafe Theatre P0slK"lUlflllleJounudiml stuJem i" DITAM"gier St., June EJwtirtls, rwmtly vUitNl"" exhibitio" i" the Irish Musnnn ofMOMrn ArtfonlSi"g 0" the topie ofviolmre"gllinst women. Big Idea's first production. penned and sucred by Mark Lynch. who pia" lad man. Jack Mac, mes to c:aptuR the dic:h.sd lCCDario of the oft- ~ Underneath the table is a time-bomb., a reminder of the pte<%.coffee-house 'character' in thia lunch-Ioug 'And they tell me lift is good""d they teO me to live potentially explosive nature of domestic violence. Over the Deborah (Oooagh McLaughlin) and Ambl'OlC itgently' (Ben Or"i) dining table hangs a chandelier with &miliar domestic objects (Torm. 0 SWUc:ablWo) aR two young strangers dangling precariously. A kitchen knife, a hammer, a spanner, at a table into whotc lives CDta' Jack with his full rcpcrroire oftaIa, yarDS and memories ofa full A poignant opening line to an exhibition which focuses on objects ofdomestic use, objects ofdomestic abuse. life. To begin with, the two~sten aRQ't violence against women. 'Once is Too MtK:h',.an exhibition 'Open Season' is a series ofvideo installations made possible rally imcrated in graodad's stories, but they aR ~1'CIed showing at the Irish Museum of Modern An, Kilnwnhain, is by filmmaker ]oe Lee and a group of women from the com- gradually and grodgiugIy to take an inta'- munity. Exploring the folk rhyme 'he loves me , he loves me est in the man's ofteo bizarre ppoflifi:. the result of art-making by a group of international artists not' is done effectively through video images of --..l being 1bc play is almost an encDlioo ofa IDOOologue working in conjunction with women from the Family Y"''''s in which Deborah and AmbI'OlC play accompa- Resource Centre, St. Michael's Estate, Inchicore. torn one by one from a red rose. Such simple yet strong o~iog roles which run through role playiog, In early 1991 a group ofIrish and visiting artists, facilil2ted imagery focuses on the sometimes destructive nature of love. IIWDC, dowoiug and general jig-acting. Oouagh by the Museum's EdtK:ation and Communiry Deptartment, Oscar Wilde's line from the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes to McLalJlhlin diaplaya a f.airly thorolJlb koowl- mind 'Yet each man kills the thing he loves... some do it with edge ofdance from Flamcoco to South.Pacific,. came together with women from the Family ResOurce Centre. a kiss'. trmal-graa-skirtiam. Aiming to raise consciousness on the issue ofgender violence Muk Lynch is quite cooviociug as the old man they set about producing art that would do just that. Through In the same darke.,ed room a video shows news footage of who, despite his failing ICDIeI, can sril sce the a series ofworkshops and discussions 'Once is Too Much' was the many violent deaths of women which have occurred realities oflifc; that he is growing old, that 1000 recently. The images are distorted because they are projected he woo't eYeo ha1le his rcminilCGl<:el, and that bom. onto a hospital screen surrounding the hospital bed. The the two lcids have other things 00 their minds Thirty white lilies line a wall, a single fragile bloom for each aput from his stories. ' of the thirty women who have died as a result of violence in screen protects but also hides, adding the weight of silence to Tom'- 0 SUillcablWo (played the omniscient the past [Wo years. The lily exhibit is simple but thought-pro an issue ofunspoken truths••See Nothing, Hear Nothing, ~y barman in punk lit The Last BUI Home) is par Nothing' is the last of the video installations. The faces of tlcUJarly clf'cctive al the ltereotypical 'mad. voking. Traditionally, flowers are presented to a woman by a ordinary men and women swe out of the screen accusingly. CoDDemara man' featured in ooe ofJac:lr.'s tales man as a gesture of love, but here they represent life cut shon , ofworking 00 the sites, hair akimbo and IW)' a from male violence. Love, hate, violence, silence all share one repeatedly covering their eyes, ears and mouths. We are grunt of EugIiah, he spcab body talk almost as fragile symbol. reminded of the silence in which we all collaborate. Linle wdl as Olivia Neutroo Bomb can. 'Beauty and the Beast' is the work ofDublin-based Sconish more can be said ofthis exhibit, so forceful is its message. The trouble with the clidtid situation drama is These are only some of the powerful im2-s on display at that it can two to mush all too cuily, but in thiI artist Rhona Henderson. Around a long, glass table are four ...,,- cue WI: arc spared ovedy lCotimcOtal and trite chairs. One chair sits at the head ofthe table, with [Wo smaller IMMA running from now until February lSth. SQ shocki.,.·,1I,~"~'_MCo~~ ... cud thus chairs and a baby-ehair placed at the far end. Glass, by its ftIY are they in their clarity that the viewer i. rendered .ilent, more 0 • guilty but aware. BIG IDEA's DCl[t productioo is "Dmam Sweet nature is cold, delicate and once broken can be fatally sharp. 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What starts off as a promising U1timatdy, the real Alien fans may be youths. movie about a -good small town cop Resurrection disappointed with this new instalment Moe TIlden ( Robert De Niro) is the finally getting his time to shine and as it seems to be more concerned with iJ:1temal affairs investigator who offers bring down the bad guys is ultimately so &."";"8: $i8O""'':1 ~."n; shocking the audience rather than scari Freddy a crack at some real police work drawn out that it is devoid of any ten WiIlOIItI R;yJn; BD" Perl"",,, fying, as the first two Alien movies by reporting on the very men he has sion. The audience knows too early on D"',etor: je.,,-Pierrejnl,," (Alien 3 received mixed reviews and was idolised for years. exactly what the Sheriff has to do and it con~ a failure in comparison to ill Harvey ~itel plays Ray DonJon- the seems it is jwt a case of filling in timt Oh the marvels of DNA cloning eh? predecessors ). Director Jeunet does a At the end ofAlien 3, FJlen Ripley had l00d job in that the look ofthe movie is A effectively saved the planet by throwing very much his own - bleak and murky, henelf and the only surviving alien - to with Labs inhabited with semi human whom she had given birth - to their freaks, failures previow to Ripley's rein- deaths. Two hundred years later. Ripley carnation. ' is back. a human/Alien hybrid, to kick For me, the &et that I was subjected some ass. to so mttch slime-meistering (Dan The story, directed by Jean-Pierre Hedaya gets to see the inside of his own ,~Jft:he'lr"fRll...c~·~.••£ CJilld.ren, head•••••literally) was in the end, immu Delicate••en) goes as follows: having nising. In previous Alien movi • the successfully cloned Ripley, the research creatures themselves were so terrifying" scientists on board the military ship, mainly becawe the audience saw them Auriega, also we the alien genes from so rarely, and once you clapped your the queen (to which Ripley was host eyes on them, the effect was heanstop before she died in Alien 3) to recreate ping. They used to lurk around the dark the species. Mercenaries visit the ship to corners of the ship menacingly, oozing do a deal with its captain, Dan Hedaya, acid and sheer terror and although you and stay the night. could hear their-victims suffering a hor Meanwhile back at the lab, the scien rendow death, it was not shown in such In/ bet10"five bwlu Pill"" HoUywooJ D"bli" ';""$ i" twJ"e ",o"th$rl tifically engineered aliens get a bit testy, detail and thus, was all the more terrify break loose and escape, in sea h of ing. ringleader of this merry band of bent until he arrives at that point. The sub whatever human flesh they can sniff out. This time around, the aliens are over cops, which includes Figgis -(played by plot of Freddy's childhood sweetheart ( With most ofthe crew from the Auriega exposed in such a way that by the end of Ray Liorra) and Joey Randone (Peter Annabella Sciorra) goes nowhere and dead, Ripley teams up with the merce the movie you're no longer clutching the Berg), most of whom have no respect Jeanne Garofalo as his deputy, ups and nary guests as they try to stop their own person next to you in a frenzied fit of for Freddy and treat him as their lackey. leaves without any valid explanation. hip, The Detty, from plummeting fear, rather, having had enough ofseeing As the st0!y unravt:ls, the Sheriff finds a However, writer and director James towards earth. exactly how the characters are brought history of crooked dealinSS in the fon::e Manlold ( who previously directed Because Ripley is now both human to their bloody deaths. connecrlol).s with the mob and previow Heavy) elicits understated perfonnances and alien, she obviously has a bit of a All that aside, Alien Resurrection cover ups on beh~jf of dirty cops. He from De Niro-( who is sadly.not on oft Spot for the double mouthed ones boasts great performances from its cast cannot decide whether to ilOore the evi- screen long enough ), Liotta (thankfully who terrorise and multiply with equal and is visually stunning. dence or work with internal afEairs. on form 'here after his ravinl lunatic abandon. Winona Ryder plays Call, The Followinl a decision to do he rilht turn in Turbulence), but most ofall. Beny's mechanic. who is more than sus thing, Freddy seeks the hdp ofTIlden in Syhester SWlone. piciow of where her loyalties lie. Ron the city who teDs him that the case is Stallone has stated in previou inter Perlman plays the dimwit member of closed due to his procrastinatinl' views that his role in Daylight was a The Betty who tries to beat Ripley at Copland Thoroulhly flummoxed at this s~le. conscious move away from the usual basketball and the movie also features Figgis is the only one to tell him to action &re he finds himselfin. He want Jeunet favourite, Dominique Pinon. St.rri"g: Sylvener SIIIlllI"e. stand up for himself ( Figgis having bro- ed to be offered the kinds of parts AI There are some truly breathtaking Rob"., De Ni,.. H."'9 Ke;tel. ken free ofthe cirde due to his partner Pacino and Roben De Niro seemed to ICenes in this film, none more than the RAy liD"". settinl killed in yet another double ha and indeed thi i a move in the underwater sequence, which took three Dir«tor:j"",,,M."8OIJ cross a couple of,ar 110) and tells him risht diNCtion. Tau_as beinl his fir t ks to shoot (a fact everyone seems to to ditch his moml :-••_being right isn • aainc gis in ,an. he could not know) and is highly effective. The out- The Local SheriffofGarrison, Freddy a bullet proof vest Frecldy•••-.He needs have picked better movi legends than ide cenes of the ship are stunninl, Helfin ( Sylve ter Stallone) deals with to he as wily as they are and to pre ernpt Keitel and De Niro. from whom to let a than to cinematographer Darius mundane offimc:es like residents arguinl their next move. The question i , can he few actine tips if not from them? khnodji, who at 0 contributes to the over pr'" and has raisned himsdfto do it? What are you c~ Paunchy and downtrodden he' ae:tuaII} pneral feelinS of c:laustrophobia on the fact the he will never J,ecome an It is unfonunate and inevitable that believable in the role ofthe heartbroken baud. The scripe, by Joa Whedon, has NYPD officer af1er IoIing the hearing in this movie wiU be c:ornpued in in b- and raJ '. Co tandy derided natches of black humour, which lifts one ear. This is a smaD town irated ject matter to LA Con~nlial, which i and patted on me by Ray hi arm phere. sometimes inappropri- acro the bridge from New York. popu far superior in _plot and tyle. Having cronies ("•••we ""'* your sorry as ..-). lated by cop and their &milia. thus aid that. this film could La been so he convincin&ly plays a -la Freddy'. liCe i. a Cl' one. al mm- . !'r the Which c:.....a whar he i '. city cop' who maIre' in his toWn imohed in up to 9·