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We take a look at everything going on at the Oc-cupy Dame Street demonstrations.

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We give you all you need to know on Irish film censorship and banned films.

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Contents

3 - DUT

4 & 5 Occupied

6 & 7Film Censorship

8 The Sketch

9 Reviews

10/11 Movember

12A Load Of Bollard

13Radio Society

14 ITT Football

15 ITT GAA

16 ITT Sport

Letter from the EditorsHello, and welcome to the second edition of the People’s Press! We are pleased to be back after the resounding success of the first issue. Once again we bring you a newspaper jam packed with news, sport and moustaches! If you would like to contribute to the next issue, please contact ittpeoplespress@gmail.com. Please feel free to submit any comments or suggestions. If you have a knowledge of photography or design then we want to hear-from you, so please contact our email address!A big thank you to all our contributors who have worked very hard in bringing you this issue and we look forward to talking to you in December. Gary Sheridan, Liam Kelly and Eoghan O’Brien

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Gemini Aquarius

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Horoscopes by Mystic JeroJN

Don’t listen to any rap this month, especially Tony Yayo. Obviously don’t listen to any rap sub-genre’s either, and avoid Giggs at all costs.

Capricorn - corn being the most important part of that word this month. Eat loads of it, you will reap seious benefits, despite leav-ing golden jewels in the toilet.

Shouldn’t you be studying right now? you said you would, but yet you are just reading a horoscope. This horoscope won’t help you achieve anything.

Medicine Thursdays eh? It’s not called Medicine so you can go and get sick every week, and no Georgia Salpa will not go out with you.

Have you had a chance to get to know the Student’s Union members? No? Go over and ask them loads of questions, if i know them at all(which i don’t) they’ll love that.

This month will make you feel like Balotelli questioning ‘why always me’ and unfortu-nately it doesn’t get better for the whole month.

You might think one of the canteen staff has just flipped you off, however you need to take any negatives and use them to come up with a good comeback.

You need to stand on your own two feet, irrespective of what other people try to say or imply about you; haters gonna hate. You will experience Déjà vu a lot.

Betting on the lotto will result in no wins, however bet-ting on Leo Messi will result in big wins. In fact betting on any-one with the name Leo will.

You will likely learn some-thing new in the next sentance. Did you know if you look at the Cancer symbol sideways it ap-pears to be 69? I just predicted the future by the way.

as you can tell by the picture to the left, you will have to either come over mountains, swim through a sharp sea or take a polygraph test. Most likely all 3.

BYOB in the Leisurplex, nothing better. Check it out this month when you get the chance, just concentrate when bowling while under the influence, it could go very wrong.

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IT Tallaght, Blanchardstown IT, IADT and Dublin IT to become educational superpower Technological University of Dublin!

There are proposals in the works for the three IT campuses in Dublin, plus IADT to join forces to become a new ‘Techno-logical University”.

According to the head of the New Dublin Alliance this will “provide a clear opportunity to en-rich the quality of teaching and learning, research and discovery and civic and corporate engagement”. So what exactly does any of that mean?

Well for one thing, it will mean that the-fourcolleges together will now become one happy family and we’ll be re-ferred to as the Technolog-

ical University of Dublin, or TU Dublin for short.

Basically the four colleges will be combin-ing their resources and standard practices, which will boost the standard of degrees coming out of them. The reason for this is that TU Dublin will have a global connectiv-ity in a way that we, at IT Tallaght, are currently lacking. This global con-nectivity should bring much wider opportunities for students to travel and interact with global peers and more importantly the degrees would now reach a wider international stan-dard. Therefore enhancing employment opportunities for students as their de-grees will be more globally recognised.

So we’ll all have better job opportunities! i.e. we might actually get a job after college.

As well as this, the mix of disciplines from the four colleges will be combined, so we’ll have all the best parts of the four colleges together. We’ll have Blanchardstown’s resources in Comput-ing, DIT’s standards in

Engineering and Science, Dun Laoighre’s fantastic art and media courses and of course IT Tallaght’s Heavy Duty Stapler from the repo-graphics room, tasty food from Quiznos, and fantastic lecturers and even better students.

This may also lead to development in new courses spanning domains like IT and Biology, Arts and Technology and Arts and Business etc.

The three colleges hope to have the applica-tion submitted and pub-lished later this year or in the spring of next year, to have TU Dublin created.

That’s right I’m afraid after all my big talk about how much better things are going to be, the likely outcome is that we won’t become TU Dublin for another five years. But it’s still good news for people with any younger brothers and sisters.

Or we could all just defer and come back to TU Dublin in five years time so we can have better degrees. They might even have parking spaces by then!

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Gimme Shelter

‘Finally’ many people will say when they read this or see the actu-ally beauty in the metal and plastic. A bus shelter will be built at the bus stop just outside of college.

Dublin bus have announced that they have applied for planning per-mission with South Dublin County Council for the bus shelter on the main street outside our college.

The bus shelter will be coming mostly from the hard work IT-Tallaght La-bour did. They had a year and a half long campaign where they took a peti-tion of 1,100 signatures. Secured the support of ITT SU, Secured the sup-port of the local council

(who passed a motion in support of the shelter) and also got support from Tallaght’s two Labour TDs. The group also set up a Facebook campaign group of 324 members: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116190168400088

The shelter is a vic-tory for anyone who uses that particular bus stop. It means no more waiting for so long for that bus into town after a few scoops in the Metro and means we can all sit and chat while waiting for that 27 to arrive. More importantly this way in this climate we can stay in under it and get

shelter from the storm.

ByJ. Clancy

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A movement that has swept throughout the world has crept up onto the shores of Ireland and has transformed into a new and flashy culture that belongs to a new breed of Irish person. Throughout Dame Street we don’t hear the usual hustle and bustle of premiership soccer or the local weather or about

how a particular son is doing in school. In fact, people are rejoicing about the scholars they have read, reacting to the news about the current events and holding public meet-ings to teach others about what is going on around them, something that was never tried before.

This is a New Ireland that is evident in the occupation of Dame Street, we see through this movement that it is about the platform for change not simply through the ballot box or even through political parties, the move-ment that has taken over the minds of people across the world.

Its call on the populace to lay down their

intellectual tools and to embrace what they see as the future of politics.

The new move-ment has even reached the doors of IT Tallaght. Students and teachers have become embroiled in the debate over the issues at hand, were they discuss the worthiness of such a movement. However it hasn’t become utopia just yet, they still struggle to get the aspect of what is happening.

In this day and age it is unheard to see this throwback to the sixties were the so called hippies of the generation would take to the streets to make sure liberal and social justice was at the heart of whatever way our forefa-

thers from that era lived their lives.

To see it today in full swing is truly a great spectacle enhanced and grown through the me-dium of social networking, with the protest at your fingertips this movement you will never miss a moment and will feel in solidarity with your people around the world.

The Occupy move-ment originally started in the biggest city of them all; a protest on Wall Street began to get attention hence getting a name for itself as an occupation of not only a street but people’s minds. A peace-ful protest of course, but still brand spanking new ideas that could revolu-

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tionize the world. Through YouTube, people began to see their brethren in pro-test with them. The 99% as they call themselves signifies the battle that we feel from day in day out, the 99% that don’t get a fair deal.

The movement that started off in a bid to bring up the issues of what is going on has gone from strength to strength and now is seen as a worldwide phenomenon to change how we live, how we com-municate and how we fight for our lives.

The movement has been attracting a lot of poor attention as well. The tension around the camp-sites that have been set up is creating a sense of us

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against them. Some people sense curiosity but they automatically sense worry as well, especially with the origin of the protests.

The term Arab Spring probably does not mean an awful lot to me or you, but it arose in the Arab world and resulted in hundreds of thousands rising up in revolution against their tyrannical leaders. In Tunisia, Egypt and Libya everyone is aware of the impact of the new revolution.

Often times we sit and look at a situation and

say “in this day and age...” but this was the motiva-tion behind what we see, especially in the Arab Spring, that has created a mindset among many different people of all sorts of political persuasion to develop a new mindset to be able to deal with the challenges that come our way.

To imagine a west-ern world with this new state of mind throughout Ireland, you first have to look at the people who will be most affected by what’s happened. You look at the

younger people and how they can get involved, for you reading this follow the lead of one Martin Kennedy, an IT Tallaght student. Start to construc-tively think about politics

and the kind of Ireland you need or want.

The old saying of your doomed to repeat history if you don’t learn from it is so true and evident with this new

sensation that people have embraced. Just one quick simple message they will you tell you; Remember to leave your political party

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With the massive popularity of gruesome, horror films like the Saw franchise and remakes of previously banned films like The Last House on the Left, I Spit on your Grave and The Hills have Eyes it would seem that the desensitized, mainstream audiences have developed a serious appetite for extreme horror.

With these grue-some horrors becoming so standard it’s true to say that it’s left very few ways for filmmakers to truly shock today’s audience. Actually that’s not true at all. They have found a lot of ways and it’s a resulted in films that are so messed up they’re getting banned

BBFC, British Board of Film Classification, by watching the controversial movie. Resulting in the film’s cult status, despite, or perhaps because of it being banned. People further promoted it then by word of mouth by going on about “that mad film were your man…” or by

everywhere, which is subsequently making them more notorious and there-fore more popular.

Take a Serbian Film for example. A film so shocking it got pulled from London’s Frightfest Festi-val, which largely consists of an audience who quite like their torture and graphic violence. The film revolves around a porn star forced to commit re-peated acts of very graphic murder, rape, necrophilia and pedophilia. Not one to watch with the whole fam-ily so. While some of you might read that summary and think the film sounds horrible, there are going to be people who are quite curious about it. Who want to see what all the fuss is about?

So just like when Dougal went behind Father Ted’s better judg-ment, by staying up late and watching the “scary film were the robber breaks into people’s houses and kills them”, many people went against the IFCO, Irish Film Censorship Office, and

Careful Now

complaining about how sick it was and how the director should be locked away etc.

So it would seem logical that in order to prevent the promotion of these films the IFCO and BBFC should probably just ignore them. As we speak the IFCO are contemplat-

ing whether or not to allow the Human Centipede Part 2. If you haven’t seen or heard of its notorious predecessor, the original Human Centipede was based around three people who found themselves in the socially uncomfortable situation of being captured by a mad scientist, sewn together to resemble a centipede and then spend the rest of the film pooing in each others mouths. Audiences found the premise so intellectually appealing that the film did moderately well at the box office and remarkably well in DVD sales. All because of word of mouth about “that mad film were your man...” While the Human Centipede did provide plenty of gruesome and icky moments our censor-ship board felt it was okay for us to watch.

But then writer/director Tom Six decided he would push his creative imagination further by making the same film again but this time with more people sewn together, about 12 I think,

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and a lot more gruesome scenes, including one were the mad scientist self satisfies himself with a roll of sandpaper. This

has so far helped the sequel to

treble the box office gross of the original over in the States. But the BBFC had a canary because sewing people together is one thing but rubbing yourself with sandpaper is quite another… apparently.

The very same thing happened in the 80s when they banned a heap of films termed ‘video nasties’ thus making them all the more popular through VHS bootlegging. Ironically most of those films seem tame now in comparison and would have no problem getting a release anywhere. But rather than ignoring the films the censorship board are doing the same thing now to a Serbian Film and The Human Centipede part deux.

In fact the BBFC showed genuine concern for what effect The Human Centipede 2 would have on the public, stating that it may breach the Obscene Publications Act, therefore “posing a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers”. What risk it would cause isn’t indicated in their statement but it probably draws from that long, over blown debate over what influence films have on us all. Horror films in particular have had a long reputation of being banned, sued or blamed for violent attacks,

including some murders that were in fact directly inspired by films such as Scream, Childsplay, A Clockwork Orange… The list goes on.

So perhaps our Censorship Office has a legitimate, parental responsibility to insure we don’t watch these films or else we might all go mad and start killing each other. Or maybe they’re just movies.

Either way if the IFCO pass the film this weekend it should be com-ing to a cinema near you over the next few weeks. Just in time for Oscar season! And you can all dare yourselves to go see “that mad film were your man… bla bla bla”. And if it doesn’t you can just watch it on the internet or order it on Amazon, which kind of makes the whole banning thing a bit point-less really.

Thing is at the rate we’re going ten years from now we’ll all be complain-ing about how mundane and tame The Human Centipede part 6 (in 3D) is and it will result in film makers having to come up with new and disgust-ing ways to shock us all. Probably something with puppies and kittens been thrown into a pool of piranhas for two hours. How sick!

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Like most cities he sets his films in, you can tell Woody Allen has fallen in love with Paris. With an opening sequence that explores the nooks and crannies of Paris, like Manhattan did with Manhattan, you feel like you’re automatically back in the world of Woody. Top class Woody at that. This latest chapter (his 41st film) feels new and old at the same time. He creates more contempo-rary characters, which he did so well in Match

Point and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, while making a completely unfamiliar plot compared to his work over the last decade, the plot is only really reminiscent of Purple Rose of Cairo.

Owen Wilson plays Gil, an unfulfilled Hollywood writer on vacation with his fiancée Inez (Rachel MacAdams) and her pretentious parents as he attempts to write his first novel. Gil finds the romanticism of Paris inspiring until Inez’s friend Sean (Michael Sheen), an obnoxious “pseudo-intellectual”, shows up and begins to irritate him. Disheartened with his struggling novel and current surroundings, Gil wanders drunkenly through Paris backstreets until he ends up in the world of his literary heroes back in the 1920’s.

Owen Wilson pulls

off a fantastic performance as Gil. By embodying neu-rotic, Woody like, manner-isms at times he manages to pay homage to Allen without creating a carica-ture. The pseudo-intellec-tual Sean is a classic Allen character, one Woody has been rolling his eyes at for decades. Michael Sheen fits the bill a little too well, his comic timing and body language made me forget that he was the same guy who pulled off playing the drabbest of all characters, Tony Blair.

What makes this film so special is its approach towards time travel, a subject that one would not associate with Allen. He tackles this by simply avoiding the com-plications, Gil is picked up by a car at the same place every midnight and arrives in the 1920’s, that’s all we need and want to know.

The characters that popu-late Woody’s past Paris all seem to have Allen’s glint in their eye. Cole Porter, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzger-ald, Ernest Hemingway, Picasso, Salvador Dali, T.S Eliot and Luis Bunuel all drop by for a chat with Gil. Woody uses his obvious vast literary knowledge to milk every comedic mo-ment as he plays with their cliques and mysteries.

People may trip up on their history a little when watching this film. If you’re not familiar with Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald you’ll probably notice all those jokes going over your head, but the film does act as a bit of an education and that’s never a bad thing. Is it? All in all Woody has managed to get story, character and cast-ing just right and has come away with a real heartfelt story about embracing the

We’re at a period in music when even rap artists are using bands and performing every-thing live. Yet Coldplay seemed to have taken a step back and left the work for the 5th member of the band Mr. Backing Track. Mylo Xyloto follows on nicely from the work of its predecessor Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, depending on your view on life. A synth heavy album that has Brian Eno’s name stamped all over it, so much so it’s as though he wants to be the 6th member of the band, alongside Mr. Backing Track. Not to in anyway dismiss the efforts of this album for it is actually one of their most accomplished to date. The tracks flow nicely into each other and there are some classic Coldplay belters thrown in to please everyone. After U2 gave up the throne of world’s best band when they released Get On Your Boots, Coldplay have well and truly put on their boots and delivered another great album. Just don’t pay too much attention to their Rihanna col-laboration!

Tracks to skip to: Charlie Brown, Major Minus

Midnight In Paris

Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto

past but living in the pres-ent. Hopefully this decade will turn out to be Allen’s long awaited new leaf as he finally seems to have fully embraced his own past but is fully composed for the future.

In their first album Lungs, the band auditioned several different musical styles for their frontwoman Florence Welch to apply her powerhouse, anthemic vocals to. It was experimentation at its very best. She dabbled with rock, bubbly pop, vintage pop but by the end of the album you got the overall feel that the tribal anthems like Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) was when she really fell into her comfort zone. For their second album Ceremonials, the band have decided to run with the latter style but giving the songs darker emotion through the reverbed piano and pounding drums that are so omnipresent in the albums 12 tracks. The melodies correlate so well with the vocals that you realise that The Machine play as big a role as Florence Welch in the band. Ms. Welch’s voice only seems to have gotten better and she demonstrates her X Factor conquering, vocal best on the track Shake It Out. As a whole, the album feels like an album should. A distinctive style sewn with great melodies and fresh, innovative producing to retain that Florence style. There just seems to be that exciting, first album spark missing.

Tracks to skip to: Shake It Out, Breaking Down

Florence And The Machine - Ceremonials

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Entertainment Reviews

By D. Lee

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Just when you thought you escaped the clutches of ‘Rocktober’ you have been thrown into the Hawaiian shirt-wearing month of Movember. A month now synonymous with guys walking around with upper lip hair thread-ing the fine line between a cop on the beaches of Miami, and a dodgy guy called tony who hangs round schoolyards after school. Somewhere over the years, a moustache went out of flavour. Why? I just don’t understand. Doesn’t every girl enjoy a little tickle now and again?

When it comes to the King of the Ronnie there can only be one man - Mr. Tom Selleck. Before the days of that horrible show Blue Bloods, and of him getting nasty with Monica on Friends, Tom had it all. We’re talking about moustache prowess.

That bushy, work of art on display above his upper lip. It has powers of its own, the ability to make women swoon at a mere glimpse. Men the world over, have tried to mimic the greatness of the Tom Selleck moustache in an effort to experience some

its magic. The moustache is now a symbol that for one month men of the world can take it back, and the best thing about it is you can look 20% more smug in the knowledge that you are doing it for charity.

The event Movem-

Mr. Movemberber started from a group of men for Adelaide with these principles in Australia in 1999, they decided that they would grow their moustaches for charity for one month. The Movember founda-tion made its way over to Ireland in 2008 and has been growing ever since.

The word Movem-ber comes from the word ‘Mo’ which is slang for a moustache in Australia, and November - but you knew that part. In its first year in Ireland, over 1,700 Mo Bros took part around the country, with the help of the Mo Sistas, and raised a phenomenal €370,000. In its first year of Mo-growing, Ireland surpassed all other coun-tries with donations per capita, with the average individual donation total-ing €213.Last year over 12,700 Irish Mo Bros and Mo Sistas got on board, raising €1.6 mil-lion. The money raised goes towards the Action Prostate Cancer and the Irish Cancer Society. This is hugely important when you consider Irish men have a one-in-eight

chance of developing prostate cancer. Prostate cancer rates in Ireland are the highest in Europe and amongst the highest in the world.

There are a few rules when it comes to growing your mo. Firstly you have to shave at the start of the month. The second is for the entire duration of Movember no hair shall be allowed to grow in the goatee zone. And finally, there’s no joining your Ronnie with the sideburns.

There has been growing support from athletes and celebrities joining the cause with many members of the Leinster rugby team do-ing it and even the love-able Joey Barton too.

The team at the ITT people’s press will be getting involved in Movember this month . If you want to get involved or make a donation in aid of Irish cancer society please donate to the ITT peoples press team go to:

http://mobro.co/ITTPeoplesPress

ByD. O’Connor

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Foods to approach with caution

when sporting a Moustache

- Cappuccino

- Glass of milk - GuinNess

- Milkshake

- Candy floss

- Toffee Apples

- Spaghetti Carbonara

- Meat Pie (when eaten with your hand)

- Tacos

Top 3 Moustache Styles

The Walrus The Toothbrush The Horseshoe

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It started last semester when Graham suggested we do a show for Rag Week on ITTFM. We heard about it from other people in the college and decided to give it a go. Now, I don’t want to sound unprofessional (because I am VERY professional) but we started off just re-cording us rambling about anything we could think of. We soon realised that we had to structure our show better if we wanted to improve our content. When the week rolled around, we were given a three-show slot for the week. One of these being an hour-long show as part of the 33-hour continuous broadcast in aid of Temple Street Children’s Univer-sity Hospital. This was the most rewarding part of the experience for me, getting to help out while doing something we love and ITTFM raised 653 euro for the charity.

When we started back in September we were given four half-hour shows during Fresher’s Week. During this we also won Most Improved Radio Show. So, past-wise… It’s been going smoothly!

Hi I’m Jayme and I accidentally became a host on ‘A Load of Bollard’. The team consists of Graham Bollard, Niall O’ Flynn and myself, Jayme Sejean. The main host: Bollard, who is the voice of the show, is always steering the metaphorical boat in the right direction at all times. Then there’s Niall, who we call Fabio. Fabio’s our Latino looking facts-guy who manages a lot of the technicalities and always has an eye for detail. Finally there’s me, Jayme. I’m the whacky stories and dare-to-do guy. Together we make the ultimate team and even shift roles slightly when the moment needs it.

A few weeks back

we finished our daily shows for fresher’s week so at this current moment we have been practicing

Hello I’m Graham and I’m the “host”, as it were, of A Load of Bollard. Now first things first, the shows name wasn’t my idea. That accolade goes to Mitchel Murray (former desk-op for ‘Burn Baby Byrne’) who suggested it to Niall and I, way back when the show was formed, the show could have easily been called ‘Frolicking with Fabio’...

The future for A Load of Bollard is looking hopeful, I hope. That’s the thing with the Future, you don’t really know. We cur-rently recorded a podcast, which is soon to be edited for our Facebook page and the ITT FM website. Un-fortunately for everybody in ITT FM the college can only broadcast twice a year (Fresher’s week and Rag week), so from now until Rag week Niall, Jayme and

by doing podcasts when we can. This always serves as a massive advantage to us as we get to see what works and what doesn’t for our future live shows. We are also working on some new fun games that we can introduce and integrate into our show since the Jayme VS. Niall contest was such a big hit.

You can check out some of our earlier podcasts and behind the scenes pictures at the A Load of Bollard Facebook fan-page. Likes are ap-preciated!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Load-of-Bol-lard/179030788786922

Overall we are very pleased with our present positions within the ITT FM station and could not be more excited for what the future brings.

A Load of Bollard have been presenting a half hour comedy chat show on ITTFM for the past year. In this article they look back at when they first started, how they’re doing now and

The Past (Niall O’ Flynn)The Present (Jayme Sejean)

what plans they have for the future of the show.

You can find them on Facebook to find extra content from the show, some (lovely) photos and information on upcoming competitions.

myself will be planning more podcasts and ar-ranging new (much better) material for the Rag week broadcast.

Next year some of ITT FM’s best shows will be disappearing as students leave the college, while we mourn these losses ‘A Load of Bollard’ hopes to help and give advice to any new, up and coming shows looking to take part in broadcasts. As well as helping new shows we look forward to being more involved in the run-ning of the Radio Society in the form of special events and the committee itself. But in all honesty A Load of Bollard’s main objective is to have a load of fun, because if we can’t have fun then how can we expect the listener to?

The Future (Graham Bollard)

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By Robert Muuray

Now just shy of its 6th active year, ITT Dublin’s Radio Society has gone from strength to strength. Fresh from this year’s first Radio Week – broadcast from 19th to 23rd of September to coincide with Freshers’ Week – the society is now looking to branch out and appeal to all students of ITT Dublin to participate in their weekly podcasts. Under the leadership of Karl Mullen as Chairper-son, Robert Murray as Station Manager and Dan Maguire as Assistant Sta-tion Manager (taking over from Grace Mulvey – who decided to focus her efforts elsewhere in the society), we are hoping to diversify this year – rebranding ourselves as an open outlet for all, rather than a group exclusive to the college’s Creative Digital Media (CDM) course.

The podcasts are an effort to reach out to

everyone in ITT

Dublin, while simultane-ously remaining active as a year-round society. Up to this point, the Radio Soc has very much focused on the production of two indi-vidual Radio Weeks during September and February – largely lying dormant between each. This year, we recognise that in order to grow as a society, we have to function as a society – providing our members with opportuni-ties to participate in activi-ties throughout the entire academic year.

We understand that it may be a bit intimidat-ing for students outside the CDM course to get involved as they may be unsure of the studio equipment. We’d still love anyone interested to come along though. We’ll take care of the technical end and show you how to use gear like the sound mix-ing desk. As long as you have an idea, we’d love to hear it. With this in mind,

however, our main goal is to use this time to build towards February’s Radio Week event. September’s event is often seen as a ‘settling in’ period, allow-ing new members to get to grips with the Radio Week format and giving exist-ing members a chance to refresh their skills, while RAG Week is the point at which the society hopes to exceed all expectations and produce a week of high-standard broadcast-

ing.With this in mind,

our chairperson – Karl Mullen – had this to say:

“Radio Week this semester was brilliant! I was so impressed by the effort and hard work put in by everyone in the so-ciety over the week. Being perfectionists, however, we know that there is still room for improvement, so we’ll be looking to make Radio Week in February the most professional, enjoyable and most widely listened to Radio Week that ITTfm has seen so far. As always, we would love people from all years and courses to get involved. The wider the variety of talent we have to work with, the more enjoyable and professional we can make our station for the listeners”.

In the months between now and then, however, the society has big things in store. Further to the continuing podcasts, we hope to boost our standing as an actual col-lege society by organising guest speakers to attend the college and give talks relevant to the interests of

All we hear is

our members, while also organising a trip or two.

As always, the soci-ety would like to extend a very special thanks to ITT Dublin’s Head Lecturer in Audio Production – Brian Hanna – who was hon-oured during this year’s Radio Week Wrap Party with a lifetime achieve-ment award for his con-tinuing efforts to assist in the society’s endeavours.

If you’re inter-ested in getting involved with ITT Dublin’s Radio Society – or have an idea for a podcast you’d like to record – be sure to get in touch with us at ittfm@itnet.ie.

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By Dayo Morakinyo

Following on from last year’s success from the college’s Senior and Inter-varsity teams, ITT went

into the new soccer season with plenty of optimism.

The Seniors reached the CUFL Premier Division final, and were unlucky to be beaten by IT Carlow in the National

final. The Inters won the Bob Eustace Cup after coming out on top of D.I.T.

As a whole, the aim was to keep everything consistent and possibly take it a step further in the case of the Senior team.

All hasn’t started out in such a fairytale fashion though, each of Tallaght’s teams have lost their opening games. The Senior team to a 91st Minute goal by Colaiste Ide’s Darren McDonald to deny them a share of the spoils, while the Freshers and Inter teams also lost first time out.

Tallaght were to pick up their first victory as the Inter team beat

Griffith College 1-0 in the CFAI League Cup. Things were now starting to look up, although the following week they were edged out by Inchicore College in a 4-3 goal blitz.

The following week the goal blitz was to continue as Tallaght Inters were 5-4 winners against Griffith College to givethem a chance of qualification in their final league match.

ITT’s Freshers’ team has not shared the same amount of luck as their counterparts, suf-fering consecutive defeats against Bray, NCI and Sallynoggin College. The team’s focus is now on the cup, which will kick on in the New Year.

Tallaght’s Senior team kicked off their cam-paign after a hard fought victory, away against Trin-ity College. A wonder goal from Dayo Morakinyo was enough to give Tallaght all three points and a victory over DCU, with Michael Isichei scoring twice, was to follow which now puts Tallaght in contention to qualify.

Yannick Van Zut-phen scored in each of the winning games while Colin May added ITT’s only goal against UCD earlier in the competition. Victory over DIT in their final group game should be enough to see Pat Scully’s senior team through to the knockout stages.

ITT Freshers Team

ITT Inters Team

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The Men’s Senior Gaelic Football team started off the week with a great win over NCI on Tuesday. The ITT boys dispatched those from the National College of Ireland with relative ease, running away to a 10 point winning margin. The final score between the two sides was ITT Dublin 3-10 : NCI 0-9.

The Ladies Football

team followed suit, beating the ladies of Blanchard-stown IT 2-16 to 0-9. It was a great all round team performance and hopefully they can push on from this and gather some serious momentum going into the Championship later in the year.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the Fresher Footballers

who were eventually edged out by 3 points at home to DIT. It was a close encoun-ter in which the ITT men showed great fight, but the saying, “goals win games” was very evident on this occasion. Final score, ITT 1-12 : DIT 4-6.

Congratulations must be given to both Gary Maguire and Liam Rushe who were included in the

10. Liverpool - I am a Liverpool supporter but I’m doing this as a neutral. Sections of Liverpool fans that called for Benitez’s head and wanted Roy Hodgson instead. Good call. Fans that request “You’ll Never Walk Alone” in nightclubs, it’s a great song but it doesn’t belong in the Plaza.

9. MK Dons - Any team that leaves the place where they originated from and then change their name along with it need to take a long hard look at themselves. It’s like if your Ma got married again and you had to move from your house into a new house and she forced you to take your step Da’s last name as well.

8. Arsenal - Wenger reminds me of an old man looking after the pennies, always saving and when he finally goes to the supermarket he comes back with the non-brand. Who needs Coco Pops (Gary Cahill) when you can have Choco Rice (Mertesacker)

7. Millwall - Every football hooligan film has Millwall in it and in these films they have a fight somewhere away from the stadium? So these fans that are willing to put their bodies on the line for a club don’t even bother to watch the match? Here’s an idea; if you must fight, go watch the match first, at least that way if your team lose you will have a reason to kick off.

6. Everton - As a Liverpool fan I was brought up hating Everton, but it’s not hate it’s more like sibling rivalry. Everton is the younger brother and if they beat us we have to hear about it all year. If we beat them it’s like who cares? We’re the older brother, we’re supposed to win.

5. Rangers - I hate Rangers fans because they are hypocrites. They play Celtic, they sing “God Save the Queen” but when the national team play England they boo the same anthem

4. Chelsea - Basically bought the Premier League title. I hate the way Abramovich sacks managers if they don’t win the Champions League. Also their captain banged his mate’s girlfriend, this shouldn’t be happening. John, this is the Premier League not Dream Team, you’re playing for Chelsea not Harchester.

3. Man Utd - I’m being nice putting them at 3. They hate us we hate them but if I had to pick three reasons they would be 1. Giggs was never player of the year in 08/09, it was Steven Gerrard anybody with eyes could see that 2. Fergie’s crap celebration every time they score. 3. Gary Neville.

2. Man City - A lot of Man City fans over here now aren’t there? Arsenal, Liverpool, and Man United are teams that have earned their success. Somebody asked Mick McCarthy was he happy to see his old team beat Man United 6-1 to which Mick replied “That’s not my team…two different teams…They’re a different team than what I played in at Maine Road”.

1. Leeds United - There have been more sightings of Big Foot than Leeds fans in this country. They only come out on special occasions. Like when they get Man United, Liverpool, Arsenal or Chelsea in any domestic competition. They come out a day or two before the tie wearing Leeds jerseys (with Viduka on the back) and scarves. Then if they win, the jerseys and scarves stay out for one full week. But if they lose, they disappear as if they never existed. Like when they got United in the Carling Cup, we saw loads of Leeds fans, then they lost and now they’re back in hibernation awaiting the next glamorous cup tie when they can emerge from their caves.

Top Ten:Most Hated Teams By C. Burke

2011 GAA GPA All-Star Hurling Team. Dublin’s great hurling season is ac-knowledged by having two players in the selection for the first time since the inception of the scheme in 1971.

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A New SeasonHurling – The

Senior team play in division 2 of the Col-leges League, which starts in October and in the Ryan Cup in the second semester.

The Club have many Intercounty players at all levels and this year hope to field a Fresher Team.

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