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Fusion Issue 2 _final layout.indd 1 14/04/2010 17:17:23 Fusion Issue 2 _final layout.indd 2 14/04/2010 17:17:32 contents Editor Brendan Kildea interview Gerry Ryan Interview 4 cover story No Season for Resignation 6 Design & Layout irish society & politics Passport of Infamy? 8 Colm McDermott Invisible Lives - Neglect of the Disabled 10 Griffith College & the Civil War 12 Chief Writers Sex, Slavery & Black Magic 15 John Dorney Nicola Byrne Irish Pride? 17 David Claxton Sean Gildea Tomas MacGiolla & the Workers Party 18 Andrew Batare. Joseph Morgan business Slow Boat to Nationalisation 20 Lidia Okorokova Debt Tsunami Threatens Unemployed 21 international The Boko Haram ‘Madness’ in Nigeria 23 Writers Power Sharing According to Robert Mugabe 24 Shane Quinn Kevin McClay Oh, It’s Not the Pirates Life for Me 25 Brendan Kildea Colm Gorey Sri Lanka’s Silenced Minority 26 David Murphy James Ward Mexico at War 28 Tatianna Valle Jonathan Keane The Price Of Free Speech 30 Darren Cleary David Keohane President Palin? 32 Patrick Savage Oran Fitzpatrick Bringing Down the Walls 34 Hugh Hick Ian Donegan Saving Greece 35 Laura Delaney Oscar Long Where is Iran’s Dissenting Voice? 36 Maria Brundin Mathew McMahon Death of a Football Fan 38 Oscar Finn Boy Soldiers 40 climate This is what Democracy Looks Like 42 Sub-editors Engulfing the Irish Coast 44 Oran Fitzpatrick Shane Quinn science & technology The Concern for CERN 45 David Claxton Nicola Byrne Does the iPad touch all the right buttons? 46 Oisin Collins Jenny McShane travel A Backpacker’s Guide to Columbia 48 Lidia Okorokova Brendan Kildea entertainment The Man Behind Avatar 50 It Might Get Loud 52 Photography Machine Head / High on Fire Reviews 53 Elaine Yorke Colm McDermott Oxegen 2010 Preview 54 Colin O Hanlon ...now They Play Mafia Wars 57 Fintin Clarke ( Fingal independent ) Are You a Musicals Kinda Guy? 58 Maria Brundin Annette B. Søreide Tubridy’s Time? 60 Online Dating - Strong Compatibility = Deep Love 62 Thanks to contributors An Octave Above the Rest 63 Nicola Fitzpatrick Colin Foley sport JT & Tiger - Legends of the Fall 64 Charlotte Clarke Karl English Away With the Faroes 65 Gina Karoline Dalen Helen McEntee Conor Mcarthy Abe Neihum Hope you enjoy this special double issue for March. We had so Gareth Hughes Rachel Brady many stories, ideas and new themes running through February we decided we wouldn’t compromise with 1 small issue, rather Roseland Griffin Siobhan Worley we’d like to bring you a whopping 70 page Goliath of brilliant Thomas Sporsheim Wayne Doyle feature’s, breaking stories , and fresh opinions to kick-off our 2010 stream. Thanks to Lecturers: I think this issue is a testament to the skill and hard labour Anne Daly Barry Finnegan Alan Gill of a few willing journalism students, who met the challenge Ryan Brennan Sinead Murphy of writing the same quantity and quality journalism normally requiring the work of triple their staff. Printers : Speciality Print Ltd. I ask students again to pick up their pen and paper, their Fusion is Proudly Printed By laptop or ipad (so help me God) and become active journalists now, not later. I hope the magazine has become a new forum for international voices, and a niche entertainment source for sports, political, and entertainment fanatics alike. Special thanks to Anne Daly and her Griff Fm crew for adding allot of new voices and original themes to the mag. The Griff FM crew having come so far in the last year, bringing us original stories as they break for print and broadcast. I hope we’ve pushed some nerves, entertained, and engaged new and existing readers with a mix-up of style, content and controversial issues. Enjoy the double whammy issue and get writing for issue 3 and 4, time is short!!! Keep reading. BK Magazine & Print Professionals Fusion is produced by the students of the Journalism & Media Faculty of Griffith College Dublin. Contact: [email protected] Fusion Magazine 3 Fusion Issue 2 _final layout.indd 3 14/04/2010 17:17:35 interview Sex, politics and rock & roll. Gerry Ryan talks about the early years. By Nicola Byrne & Brendan Kildea Photography by Elaine Yorke What kind of mad stuff did you get up to in How do you think student activism has your college days? changed these days? Well, I was a legal science student in Trinity I think the most significant is that students and was studying for solicitors in Blackhall Place. are by virtue of student loans and shrinking job So these were not internationally renowned for market. Sure I was in college in the 70s - it wasn’t japery or wild activities. But what was good when exactly the boom years - we didn’t have a bad econ- I was in college, was that students protested at the omy, we had no economy. But now, I think there is drop of a hat. One of the most significant parts of a much greater emphasis on material wealth and the annual student calendar was the library occu- getting a good job. What was strong in my mind, pation. I used to wonder how you decide to occupy was having a good time. I think a lot of the craic the library or not, I remember the students union has gone out of being a student. saying well you know, we have one every year; we always find a reason. That’s what was great about What do you think of the supposed ‘grade the 70s, you were always out protesting. Everyday inflation’ in education at the moment? there was some sort of political activism going It was a story waiting to happen. The reason on, it was really good craic and of course, a great people nowadays get straight As is because exam- opportunity to meet girls. iners have decided for some mad machiavellian reason, or because they’re on acid, to sort of upgrade them, and our first class honour degrees are given as some communist plot to undermine the economy; I think it’s bullshit! How did you make your first step into radio? Back in my student days, the students union in Trinity persuaded RTE to give us a community radio license during freshers’ week. This guy came in and basically gave us all a transmitter, the facili- ties and all the equipment and money to run the radio station. After that, I got involved in pirate radio, the only reason was for free records. You could basically go to the record warehouses once a week and fill a trolley full of albums. Unfor- tunately, I sold them all when I got married, we hadn’t enough to pay for the mortgage and they didn’t prove very useful. I’m really sorry I did that. People always call you the shock jock of radio. You’re outspoken, it’s a given. My ambition was to present a type of pro- gramme where normal language was used and where everything you would normally discuss over a pint was also discussed. We used normal language and talked about sexuality and a lot of things including, women’s issues; I mean nobody talked about gynaecological issues in a normal open way on the radio. It was only something Marian Finucane would discuss on women’s hour. We discussed a lot of issues surrounding sexual politics and health, and because this was happen- ing in late 80s early 90s when Ireland was still very much a repressed society, I think that this did shock people and was considered ‘cutting edge’. 4 Fusion Magazine Fusion Issue 2 _final layout.indd 4 14/04/2010 17:17:43 interview If you said ‘fuck’ on the radio it was like as if the heavens were gonna fall. They didn’t. Obviously you’ve had tons of guests over the years. Who was the biggest arsehole? The biggest ejit was Gilbert O’Sullivan. He was the most bitter and dire individual. There’s always people more difficult to deal with than others, but normally by the time they sit at the microphone they’ve adopted an attitude that’s self-promot- ing and when you’re promoting yourself - unless you’re psychotic - you’re generally going to behave yourself. Who was the most interesting? One of the most astonishing experiences I’ve ever had was two days after 9/11 in New York, we’d gone over to present radio programmes from ground zero. Manhattan had been evacuated, it Speaking of George Lee, what’s your opinion was quite an extraordinary place. Alice O’Sullivan on his resignation? was working as a junior producer she rang me to I think that George Lee was naïve. You go in as ask if I could go around to Opia. She said that a back bencher, and as a back bencher in opposi- Hillary Clinton is here and wants to talk to you. tion, you are literally without testicles. That’s just It was quite incredible, Hillary said maybe you a fact of life. Even in Government, back bench- might want to wait until the secret service bring ers are the work horses of a regime and only with my husband in. It was the first time on European time, patience and hopefully skill, you will even- radio that the two of them had been interviewed tually get anywhere. George should have waited together. It was at the time when George Bush had around. I mean did he think that he was going to just become President and Bush’s people were des- be brought up to cabinet? That’s not the way it perately trying to get Clinton out of Manhattan works.