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SUITS BY CLUB 4H PARIS adam manshop DUKE LANE off Gr’~on Street Thursday, 29th January, 1970 DUBLIN UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Price 6d. T.C.D. STUDENTS TERRORISED IN RANELAGH BY A "TRINITY NEWS" REPORTER Students attending a party in Ranelagh early last Sunday morning =~ were attacked, terrorised and beaten up by hooligans. After an hour of fighting and bottle-throwing, the students, including some from Trinity, were rescued by the arrival of Garda Detective-Sergeant "Lugs" Brannigan and his special "smash squad." Two students were i knocked unconscious and two others had to receive hospital attention. Early on the previous morning three students were beaten-up by hooligans just outside the Front Gate of College. The Simon Community was about to sell their hearse for only £40, but instead had it exchanged for a van-- The party, attended by students It is understood that charges are from Trinity, U.C.D. and Bokon being made in connection with the much more serviceable and less morbid. Margaret Hickey and Merrily Harpur (in background) are here Street, was interrupted as about incident and the students may pictured with their unusual service vehicle, which had been donated to Simon by a sympathetic admirer five youths tried to forcibly gain have to vacate the house. Despite of their work with the down-and-outs in Dublin. The Community, however, found it too expensive to tax entrance. A girl was hit and soon the seriousness with which the and run, but when they asked their benefactor if he minded it being sold, he took it back and gave them a after the attack was repulsed a students present viewed the fight- van instead. U.C.D. architectural student was ing, Sergeant Brannigan, t h e found unconscious and bleeding almost legendary, many-scarred, on the ground near the house. In veteran of gang warefare in fighting off another attack the Dublin, later said at the hospital students came under fire from that he thought it had been a quiet NON-EVENT AT PHIL MEETING bottles and other missiles. Two night. windows in the house were broken. In the other incident, three "Spy Drama at Trinity" so ran the "Irish Press" headline on Friday morning after the fiasco at the Phll By this stage the students had Trinity stuctents were beaten-up the previous evening. Bourke and Cookridge arrived, but the much-awaited confrontation between Bourke begun to lose control of the situ- between the railings and the Front and Greville Wynne, which had attracted a large crowd into the G.M.B., did not materialise. Wynne, having ation and, mindful of the threat Gate during the early hours of last arrived at the front gates of College, then refused to appear on the same platform as a man who was wanted to the female guests at the party, Saturday morning. The students the Gardai were sent for. Before were returning from a dance when by the British police in connection with the " springing of Blake." they arrived, however, four they were attacked by about six This non-event delighted the arrived in Dublin with £9,000 students were set upon by youths youths. national press and most of them worth of their produce. They armed with frying pans, belts and One of the students was beaten carried it as one of their main claimed that they had not metal bars. One Trinity student to the ground but, although a large stories on the front page. However, previously been informed that PROGRAMME was hit on the head and kicked crowd gathered to watch nobody in- while the papers were rubbing Sean Bourke would also be by middle-aged, shouting women formed the nearby Pearse Street their hands with glee, the large appearing and that had they while he lay on the ground dazed. Gardai. One of the attackers hit attendance of students were being known earlier they would not FOR THE HIST Coming to assist, two other another over the head with a bottle treated to an evening of anti- have come at all. They stayed the students sustained facial and hand and they left carrying him away climax. night at the Gresham, kept busy The Hist’s bicentennial celebra- injuries from karate chops and a from the scene. The porter on duty Mr. Wynne and Mr. Lee Tracy, answering the phone calls from the tion will open on Tuesday, 3rd metal bar. arrived too late to call assistance his associate in a business which newspapers, a n d returned to March, with the formal opening The fighting continued even for the students. manufactures bugging devices, had London the next day. at which Senator Edward Kennedy will give an address. after the arrival of the Gardai in The meeting itself was rather two squad cars, but eventually the dull in comparison to events taking On the Wednesday, there will attackers disappeared into the place outside College. Miss Susan be a debate in which Prof. Andreas nearby Mount Pleasant Buildings, Tech. Students angry McManus read a lengthy and ex- Papandreou, Mr. Quintin Hogg, a Corporation housing area popu- M.P., Tory spokesman of Home ceptionally well thought out paper Affairs, Michael Foot, left-wing larly known as "The Hill." It is The general dissatisfaction with the college facilities expressed by on espionage in which she traced notorious for gang violence and students in Kevin Street College of Technology has spread to Bolton the history of spying from the Labour M.P., and James Dillon was immortalised by author Lee Street. Trojan horse right up to the and others will discuss the topic Dunne in his controversial novel The Kevin Street students felt The students are receiving the present day. "That the Only Liberty is a " Goodbye to The Hill." that the Vocational Education full support of U.S.I. in their Liberty Connected with Order." The house, which is owned by Committee w e r e mismanaging demands. This is seen as a dimen- Bourke in speaking to the paper On Thursday, Prof. R. B. students, had never been attacked technical education in Dublin, be- sion of the general policy of did not refer to it but, as had been McDowell will give an address before. After the fighting it was cause they had treated this branch U.S.I. to do away with the binary expected, spent over an hour talk- entitled "Personalities in the evacuated, valuables such as radios, of third level education as if it system of education and to put all ing about himself and his relations College Historical Society." projectors and a tape-recorder were a small country technical third level education on an equal with George Blake. He discussed There will be an Irish history were removed, and the occupants school. There was a shortage of footing. ¯ the period spent in Russia, but debate on Friday entitled "That stayed with friends for the night. teachers and the general air of dis- said that he would never join the Emmet’s Epitaph can now be illusion was hampering the recruit- Communist Party. In an election Written," in which An Tanaiste ment of more. ISOLATED here he would vote Labour be- and Minister for Health, Mr. Many students expressed a wish cause a Labour T.D. had stood Childers; Mr. Roy Bradford, bail for him. Bourke described in M.P. and Minister for Commerce to see technical education run BIAFRANS detail the more exciting side of DARLING! directly by the Departmeent of in the Northern Government; Mr. Education. There have been 13 Biafran the espionage game, with Russian John Hume, M.P.; Mr. Michael HOUSE PARTIES ARE On Monday last, the students students in Trinity since the begin- machine-guns glinting in the O’Kennedy, Fianna Frill T.D.; SUCH A BORE. of Bolton Street decided unani- ning of the Nigerian War. With moonlight, the dealings of the Mr. Michael O’Leary, Labour LET’S HAVE THE mously at a mass meeting to set the collapse of their country they K.G.B. and flying visits by T.D., and Mr. Vincent Brown will are now completely cut off from members of Scotland Yard to speak. MOBILE up an Action Committee to in- vestigate the structure of the their families and are even afraid Limerick. The celebrations will close with DISCOTHEQUE Vocational Education Committee, to give their names in case their E. K. Cookridge, who had been a dance on the Saturday night, THEY ARE SO and in this way to expose it as families might be victimised. They March 7. Admission to any of have no means of support and a British agent during the war and EXCITING !!! incompetent. who had been a close personal the events will be by ticket only. It was also unanimously agreed consequently the banks will not friend of Kim Philby, said that the The list is not as yet finally to keep the library open at night give them any more credit. paper had revealed a great deal closed and the Bicentennial Com- : DISQUES in spite of the vocational teachers’ Joe Revington, the President of of research. He considered that mittee are continuing to send in- strike. Because of this, the college the S.R.C., is very concerned the secret services of the large vitations to famous people. Among had decided to close the libraries, about their welfare and is attempt- nations were still very much in those reported to have been in- :ET LUMIERE . but the students were emphatic ing, in conjunction with the staff, evidence, being used to further vited are Mrs.

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