Work Work - CIT Students Union
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Work Work - CIT Students Union
CIT Students’ Union Magazine Volume Thirteen, Issue 8 Start of SUMMER In this issue Over €7,500 donated to charity er Look after yourself this summ End of term sports roundup Charity Auction for ‘Live at the Mar quee’ Sports Awards 2012 Work & Live Abroad The Stability Treaty Explained J1 USA visas 1 Year Australian * Internship * USA Working Visa 12 Month Professional 1 Year New Zealand * Career * Training USA Working Visa Year Canadian EFL Worldwide * Working * TT each Visa English in Thailand * Sayit Travel, 76 Grand Parade. Cork. Tel: 021 4279 188 www.sayit.ie 20 Contents CIT Students’ Union, Student Centre, Bishopstown, Cork. Telephone: 021 433 5274 Email: [email protected] Web: www.explicit.ie expliCIT Production Design & Advertising - Keith Brown CIT Students’ Union President - Chris Scanlon ([email protected]) Vice President Education - Killian Hughes ([email protected]) Vice President Welfare - Niamh Hayes ([email protected]) Projects Officer - David Humphreys ([email protected]) Communications Officer - Sandra Hayes ([email protected]) Entertainments Officer - Cathal O’Mullane ([email protected]) Entertainments Manager Mick O’Mahony ([email protected]) Advertising Opportunities CIT has almost 17,000 full and part-time students with over 1,500 staff. Why not use expliCIT to promote your business to this large audience? Copy deadlines, advertising rates and technical specifications are available from our website www.expliCIT.ie or upon request from the Publications Office. expliCIT magazine is published monthly by CIT Students’ Union. The views expressed in the magazine are those of their authors and are not necessarily those of CIT Students’ Union. All articles and pictures are the property of their respective owners and should not be reproduced without their permission. 5 Kick Stress Away! 6 Officers’ address 8 WTF! The Stability Treaty explained 9 Rag Week Charities - final figures are in 10 Look after yourself this summer 12 SU Picture Gallery 14 CIT Societies Volunteers Program recipients announced 16 Problem page 17 CIT SU “Live at the Marquee” Ticket Auction details 18 CIT Sports Awards Winners 19 M unster Rugby 20 Sports end of term roundup 22 Games & competitions Students’ Union Office Shop SEE HERE FoR tHE CHEAPESt PRiCES on Cit CAmPUS! A4 Pad A3 Envelope Wallet A4 Envelope Wallet Acetate Calculator CDR CDRW Correction Fluid DVD + RW Dividers - 10 part Goggles - Protective Glue Stick Graph Pad Hard Cover Copy Lab Coat Leaverarch File €0.75 €0.80 €0.40 €0.20 €11.00 €0.30 €0.60 €0.50 €0.80 €0.30 €3.00 €0.60 €1.40 €1.30 €10.00 €1.40 Pen Pencil Poly Pocket - Single Poly Pockets - 100 Box Pocket Display Book Presentation Folder Project Book Ream of Paper Reinforcement Ring Binder Ruler Science Book Spiral Pad 160pg Spiral Pad 320 pg USB Key - 4Gb USB Key - 8Gb €0.20 €0.30 €0.05 €2.00 €1.90 €0.50 €3.00 €4.00 €0.90 €0.80 €0.30 €1.90 €1.20 €2.20 €8.00 €12.00 BUS tiCKEtS Student commuter and provincial bus tickets CALL CREDit mobile & international Call Credit available PHotoCoPyinG SERViCE Copy Cards €1.00 open 8.55am to 5.15pm, monday to Friday during term Winners of our competitions from Issue 7: Bishopstown Credit Union €50 Mastercard stephanie Murphy, SIB Crossword, sponsored by Societies Office Claire Healy, S1A Get tickets to one of the great concerts in CIT SU’s Live at the Marquee Charity ticket Auction All proceeds to be donated to ‘Suicide Aware’. See page 17 3 CIT SU & Chaplaincy Tuesday 8th May: De-Stress Week 8th-10th May Wednesday 9th May: Thursday 10th May: * in the Main Corridor - 10am -2.30pm Open from 12pm to 5am 7 days a week Kick that Y ou may find that your stress levels are beginning to get higher and higher due to exams being around the corner. Although a little bit of stress can be good to keep you focused and motivated, too much is simply a pain that no one should ignore. Learn to deal with your stress in a positive way. Channelling that stress into something productive is a fantastic way to deal with it. If you do find that things are getting on top of you, there are a lot of things you can do to keep calm and get perspective. Keep a routine and take regular breaks: Make out a study plan and stick to it but ensure you include plenty of breaks. It is extremely important to make time for regular study breaks and make time for relaxation and exercise. Going for a walk, run or to the gym is a great way to clear your head and will keep you focused in the long-term. Limit your caffeine intake: by Niamh Hayes Stress Away Remember: There is always light at the end of the tunnel. It may feel like you are stuck at the moment but believe me they will be over before you know it. Once you hand in that exam paper there is nothing you can do about it, so don’t panic. Forget about it for now and enjoy a well-deserved relaxation period. Coffee, coke, caffeine tablets, etc. give you a short lift before making you crash and burn. You will then begin to feel sick and it will interfere with your sleep, hence making it harder for you to concentrate. You will actually study better by drinking water, eating healthy fresh food, taking regular breaks and getting lots of sleep. Manage expectations: Both external and internal pressures around exams can be huge. It can be hard to deal with lecturers or parents expecting results which you know yourself you cannot achieve. You need to tell these people to back off (in a nice way of course!), and assure them that you will do the best you can. ALL ROOMS EN-SUITE What can be worse, however, are your own internal expectations. I know you all will want to do well in your exams but don’t put any unnecessary pressures on yourself. Set realistic goals for yourself and remember that if you don’t get exactly what you want, it is not the end of the world. There are plenty of options out there. Ask for and accept support: If you do feel that it is all beginning to get on top of you, don’t be ashamed to ask for help. There are plenty of people here in CIT who are more than happy to help. Call up to me in the Students’ Union Welfare Office where you can talk to me about what you’re going through and I can give you tips on dealing with that stress or email [email protected] Make an appointment with the Careers and Counselling Service in CIT by calling 4335772. Speak with your classmates. You may be surprised to find out that most of them are going through the same thing. Meet your lecturers, the majority are very approachable and will be happy to help. Your own Luxury en-suite bedroom in a courtyard setting, just a short walk to CIT Bishopstown, Cork University Hospital, Wilton Shopping Centre, Dunnes Stores, and Bishopstown Bar.. For further information please contact us on 021 481 9500 or e. [email protected] Visit us on Facebook Deanshall Student Accommodation We are an intimate complex with only 189 rooms. Other student accommodation locations provide an average of 600 rooms or more! Contact us today for Academic Year 2012/2013 details! 5 Officers’ Address T he final explicit of the year. . . and my final expliCIT of all time and it is with a genuinely heavy heart that I write this one. I would like to thank everybody who has helped in anyway shape or form both this year and last. It has been a pleasure serving you guys. I would like to take this chance to wish Danny, Niamh and Killian all the best next year. I hope you will deliver everything you promise and more. Chris Scanlon For everyone doing exams, please don’t over burden yourselves with stress, worry and anxiousness. The exams themselves, although daunting and scary, aren’t that bad. Others have gone through them before you and have survived and gone on to lead happy, healthy lives. Exams are just that, exams. Nothing more, nothing less. There is a small problem with the processing of exam appeals this year, which you can read about in this issue, so just familiarise yourself with the situation and keep yourself covered. We’d like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all of you who supported the Union during the year. Without your help we wouldn’t have been able to present such a comprehensive programme of events including Freshers, Week Rag Week, Class Rep Training, Union Council Awards, The Fees Campaign, SU Elections, regular issues of expliCIT and weekly night time events, to name but a few. No matter what you did, be it shaking a bucket for RAG week or handing out flyers for Eclipse, your help was invaluable and we here in the SU cannot say thank you enough. We would also particularly like to thank everyone for their support with all our Welfare Projects throughout the year. We hope that everyone enjoyed and benefited from the Welfare Campaigns. Throughout S.H.A.G. Week, Positive Mind & Body Week and Safety Week we gave out over 2500 condoms; over 140 students and staff were given first aid and defibrillator training; students and staff received self-defence and safeTALK suicide first aid training; we placed over 2000 students in the roll-over simulator so that they could experience what it was like to be in a car crash; and launched e-PUB the online alcohol intervention programme but to name a few things. We look forward to organising even bigger and better welfare campaigns next year. Our final Welfare Project is De-Stress Week which takes place this week. Look out for us and the Chaplaincy in the main corridor where we will be giving away treats and massages to all of you, among other things. Good luck with your exams, have a great summer and remember to enjoy yourselves! Chris, Niamh and Killian Schedule of Deadlines (June 2012 – June 2013) The Academic Administration and Student Affairs Office have released the following dates for your information. You are asked to retain these important dates for future reference. Please pay particular attention to deadlines. Wednesday 20th June Monday 2nd July 2012 @ 5.00pm Release of Examination Results for Semester 2 Closing date for Autumn 2012 Examination entry and online payment (Flat fee of €50). Late payment after this deadline, for Autumn 2012 examination entry is €150. Friday 27th July 2012 @ 5.00pm Closing date for late Autumn 2012 examination entry and online payment (Late fee €150). Note that after this date, examination entries will not be accepted, online or otherwise, and the online registration system will be disabled]. Students who have not registered by this date will not be eligible to sit the Autumn Repeat Examinations. Friday 5th October 2012 @ 5.00pm Cut-off date for conferring numbers (Note that potential graduands with outstanding summer or autumn exam appeals, outstanding module grade amendment forms/broadsheet amendment issues, or outstanding fees issues will be excluded at this point). These students may be facilitated during the Institute’s Spring Conferring. Friday 5th October 2012 @ 5.00pm tudents to have enrolled for all modules taken. This can be done Online for (FullS Time) and Forms (for Part-Time, Repeats, Examination Only, ACCS). Penalty for late enrolment is €30. Friday 19th October 2012 @5.00pm Increase in Late enrolment Fee for students who have failed to enrol for all modules taken. The penalty for students who enrol, after this date, for all modules taken is €80 Friday 2nd November 2012 @5.00pm No further enrolment for modules will be permitted. If students are not enrolled they will have to wait until the Autumn Repeat Examination in August 2013. This will also apply to modules not assessed by examination. Week of January 28th 2013 Release of Examination Results for Semester 1. Friday 8th February 2013 @ 5.00pm Students to have enrolled for all modules taken. This can be done Online for (FullTime) and Forms (for Part-Time, Repeats, Examination Only, ACCS). Penalty for late enrolment is €30. Friday 22nd February 2013 @ 5.00pm Increase in Late enrolment Fee for students who have failed to enrol for all modules taken. The penalty for students who enrol, after this date, for all modules taken is €80 Friday 8th March 2013 @5.00pmNo further enrolment for modules will be permitted. If students are not enrolled they will have to wait until the Autumn Repeat Examination in August 2013. This will also apply to modules not assessed by examination. Week of June 17th 2013 Release of Examination Results for Semester 2. 6 Summer Programme 2012 at The Learning Support Centre A highly successful Summer Programme is delivered every summer for the benefit of students taking autumn repeat examinations. Subject sessions are held daily throughout July and August over four consecutive weeks in the run up to the autumn examinations. Students will be notified about the Summer Programme sessions by email, following the students’ summer exam results. This year’s summer programme is expected to run in the weeks leading up to the Autumn repeat examinations, from 16th July to 10th August. Autumn exams begin on 13th August 2012. ON / OFF NO PHONES ▲ IPODS ▲ IPHONES ▲ COMMUNICATION DEVICES ▲ NOTES IN THE EXAM HALL IF YOU’RE CAUGHT, IT’S CURTAINS! Course Transfer Process Thinking of transferring back to first year of a new course? Contact the Careers & Counselling Service for further information. The Course Transfer form will be available from Tuesday, 8th May 2012. (Please do not contact the Careers & Counselling Service before this date!) The deadline for applications is Friday, 29th June 2012. Important Note: Early application deadlines apply to specific courses. This process is not available to all courses in CIT. Phone the Careers & Counselling Service on 021 4335772 or call up to the office (2nd Floor, Student Centre). Please see the expected Summer Programme Timetable below, which will run for four consecutive weeks. Students who wish to register for the Summer Programme 2012 may do so at the Learning Support Centre office. Keep in touch with the Learning Support Centre for further information. If you do not get the time to call to the office prior to the commencement of the Summer Programme 2012, just turn up for the subject sessions that suit you. Subject sessions are free of charge. Note: Please be aware of the change in timetable for week 4 due to the Bank Holiday Monday 6th August. There will be no sessions running on Monday 6th August. Monday morning sessions will run on Friday morning and Monday evening Maths will run on Tuesday evening. Week 1 Day & time Mon 16th July Tues 17th July Weds 18th July 10am-11am Programming Maths Programming 11am-12noon Programming Maths Programming 12noon-1pm Electronics Physics Electronics Electronics Physics Electronics 1pm-2pm 6pm-7pm Maths Maths 7pm-8pm Week 2 Day & time Mon 23rd July 10am-11am Programming 11am-12noon Programming 12noon-1pm Electronics 1pm-2pm Electronics 6pm-7pm Maths 7pm-8pm Maths Week 3 Mon 30th July Day & time 10am-11am Programming 11am-12noon Programming 12noon-1pm Electronics 1pm-2pm Electronics 6pm-7pm Maths 7pm-8pm Maths Week 4 Tues 7th Aug Day & time 10am-11am Maths 11am-12noon Maths 12noon-1pm Physics 1pm-2pm Physics 6pm-7pm Maths 7pm-8pm Maths Thurs 19th July Maths Maths Physics Physics Tues 24th July Maths Maths Physics Physics Weds 25th July Programming Programming Electronics Electronics Thurs 26th July Maths Maths Physics Physics Tues 31st July Maths Maths Physics Physics Weds 1st Aug Programming Programming Electronics Electronics Thurs 2nd Aug Maths Maths Physics Physics Weds 8th Aug Programming Programming Electronics Electronics Thurs 9th Aug Maths Maths Physics Physics Fri 10th Aug Programming Programming Electronics Electronics 7 I WTF? The Stability Treaty f like most of us you are confused as to what the Fiscal Treaty actually means, June O’Reilly, a CIT lecturer, has succinctly produced an unbiased summary of the main points of the treaty in a fashion that is meant to be eliminate ambiguity. Over the next while we will all be assailed with information, most likely presented in a rather ominous manner i.e., it will be detrimental if we vote in the affirmative or detrimental if vote against the treaty, depending on what the politicians’ agendas are. There appears to be some evidence that the politicians who are campaigning on the Treaty should read June’s summary and perhaps they could put forward an erudite argument as to why we should are should not accept the treaty. Read on below if you as a citizen, who is educated to a third level standard, want to be in a position to make a more informed decision or simply debate the issues in a knowledgeable manner. Summary of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (June O’Reilly, Professional Studies, February 2012) The treaty is structured as follows: there is a 4-page preamble which sets the scene for this treaty by recalling previously made agreements that support this treaty, referring to other agreements that will be made, and outlining its main provisions. This is followed by the Treaty itself, which amounts to 7 A4 pages in length. There are 6 Titles and 16 Articles spread across those 6 titles. The Fiscal Compact is Title Three. The treaty begins with a reminder that the individual economic policies of contracting parties (members of the euro area whose currency is the euro, as well as other parties specified in Article 14) impact on the euro area overall. As they do not stand alone, each country’s policies are thus ‘a matter of common concern’. As can be seen from the title, the overall aim of the treaty is to develop ever-closer linking of economic policies and to safeguard the stability of euro area. In order to achieve this, the treaty proposes that (1) a balanced budget rule be introduced and (2) an automatic mechanism for corrective action be put in place. What this means is that the contracting parties sign up to a new set of rules relating to government budgets and debts as well as a specific procedure for penalising those contracting parties who do not keep their side of the agreement, year on year. The general gist of these new rules is outlined in the Preamble (Paragraph 4) and the detail spelt out in Article 3(1) b. (1) The Balanced Budget Rule specifies that (a) Government deficit must not exceed 3% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Preamble) (b) Government debt must not exceed 60% (or else be on the way down, heading towards being no more than 60% of GDP) This must be declining at an average rate of one twentieth per year. (Preamble) 8 (c) The nitty-gritty of the rule clarifies that budgets will be seen as balanced (and the rule thus respected) if the Annual Structural Balance of the government is keeping to its country-specific medium term objectives as laid out in the revised Stability and Growth Pact (earlier agreement made) with a ‘lower limit of a structural deficit of 0.5% of GDP at market prices’. (Article 3 (1) b) (2)The Automatic Corrective Mechanism (Preamble, Paragraph 4; Article 7 and 8) spells out the way that contracting partners who stray from the rule will be brought into line: (a)Surveillance: the implementation of the programme (and the yearly government budgetary plans that go with it) will be monitored. The contracting parties will agree to whatever recommendations are made by the European Commission on countries who are in breach of the agreement. (b) If a contracting party does not act on these recommendations, the issue will be brought to the European Court of Justice who will make a judgement as to what should happen next. (c) If any of the contracting parties feels that the errant country is not acting on the Court of Justice’s judgement, the matter will go back to the Court of Justice who then will impose penalty payments or a lump-sum payment. Fines will go into the coffers of the ESM (European Stability Mechanism) or the general budget of the EU. Permanent Nature of Treaty The treaty commits contracting parties to this agreement which is a permanent and binding one. {Title 3, Fiscal Compact, Article 3 (2)} As such, the treaty states that each country/contracting party should ideally, but not necessarily, test it against their constitution. In any event, if a state signs this treaty, it will have to guarantee that it will be ‘fully respected and adhered to throughout the national budgetary processes’ in future. Impact of Treaty on Already Existing Financial Assistance If any state (Ireland, for example) does not sign this treaty, there will be no change for the worse to existing financial assistance already given by EU/IMF. If the treaty is signed up to, there will equally be no change for the better in the terms of what we already agreed to under the bailout we have already received. (Preamble, Paragraph 20) Impact of Treaty on Future Financial Assistance from ESM Any future financial assistance (funding/drawdown of funds from the ESM) will be conditional on states signing up to this treaty. If the treaty is not signed, it will mean that there will be no access to future funding, if we need it. (Preamble, Paragraph 25) Deadline Only 12 States have to sign in order that the treaty can come into force on 1st January 2013. Other states can follow later, if they wish. (Article 14) Openness (glasnost) The treaty emphasises that there will be openness and transparency in the implementation of the rules; that it will be an inclusive process respecting the views of the social partners, and that its purpose is to benefit all countries in the Euro area. The treaty will be reviewed after five years with the view to making it a permanent feature of the European Union. (Article 16) Exceptions No deviation from what was agreed by the treaty will be allowed, unless it is defined as an exceptional circumstance. These are defined in Title 3, Fiscal Compact, Article 3(3) where it states that a situation can only be regarded as exceptional if it does not endanger fiscal stability in the medium term. RAG WEEK CIT 13-16 Feb, 2012 This year fifteen worthy causes benefitted from your efforts to raise funds during Rag Week. The Cork Life Centre was designated the main beneficiary and €4,000 was donated to the Centre at the Union Council Awards. The other beneficiaries and what they do are outlined below: Donated €250 to Cork Simon Community Cork Simon Community has been working with people who find themselves homeless in Cork since 1971. They provide accommodation for 118 people every night and other supports for many more. Their services include: a Youth Homeless Drugs Prevention Programme, a 24 hour Emergency Shelter, a nightly Soup Run and a Rough Sleeper Service. Donated €250 to Threshold Threshold is the National Housing Charity whose aim is to secure a right to housing, particularly for households experiencing the problems of poverty and exclusion. Threshold has a long history of providing support to students who experience housing problems such as illegal evictions, deposit retention, standards and maintenance issues and rent arrears. Donated €250 to Cork Spina Bifida & Hydroceptalus Cork Spina Bifida & Hydroceptalus is a support group for people with spina bifida and hydrocephalous and for their families in Cork. They provide advice, support and financial aid to their members. They receive no financial assistance from the State and all of their funds are gathered through charitable donations. Donations are used to provide secure mobile aids, educational aids and reduce the cost of making a home accessible to a person with a disability. Donated €250 to Aislinn Aislinn Centre offers skilled and extensive drug counselling and treatments to young people (15-21), whose lives have been affected by alcohol, drugs and gambling. Donated €250 to Barretstown Barretstown is a Kildare based charity that offers a residential programme of therapeutic recreation to children and families who have been affected by cancer and other serious illness. They aim to restore the confidence and self-esteem of children who have been through the trauma of serious illness at a young age. Donated €250 to ALONE ALONE works with vulnerable older people, providing long term housing, a befriending service and supports in the community. Many of those who have used ALONE accommodation have been homeless or at risk of being homeless. Donated €250 to The Cork City Hospitals Children Club The Cork City Hospitals Children’s Club volunteers fundraise all year round to bring 40 sick children on a trip of a lifetime to Euro Disney. Donated €250 to Haiti Orphanage Project Espwa The Haiti Orphanage Project Espwa (HOPE) is a registered Irish charity run on a voluntary basis (no salaries/no expense accounts) to support orphanages across Haiti including construction/facility work; administration; Codes of Practice; training; and education. Donated €250 to Irish Children’s College Haiti The aim of this charity is to build a school campus in Haiti. The school will be a monument to the generosity of Irish students and will give life-chances to hundreds of Haitian children. Donated €250 to Goal GOAL is an international humanitarian agency dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the poorest of the poor. They are a non-denominational, non-governmental and nonpolitical organisation who deliver on a range of humanitarian programmes across the globe. Donated €352.72 to Irish Cancer Society The Irish Cancer Society is Ireland’s national cancer charity. They listen, they support, they provide care, they create awareness, they provide information, they fund research and they influence decisions about cancer. Donated €190.98 to Avon Breast Cancer Crusade – Arc House The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade was launched in Ireland in association with ARC Cancer Support. Money raised goes primarily to support two specialist Avon breast cancer nurse counsellors. The nurses provide practical advice and emotional support to women from diagnosis through treatment, recovery and aftercare. Donated €250 to School of the Divine Child The School of the Divine Child supports students with physical and multiple disabilities. The aim of the school is to enable individuals to achieve their potential in order that they can participate as fully as possible within their local communities and society in general. The Rag Week funding donated will go towards the purchase of swimming togs and hats for their students who benefit from hydrotherapy and swimming on a weekly basis. Donated €250 to Sergio O’Connor Sergio O’Connor was born with an incomplete oesophagus which prevents him from eating, drinking and swallowing which means he is constantly wired up to tubes and life saving apparatus. His family are hoping that a ground breaking procedure abroad at the Oesophageal Advanced Centre in Boston will allow Sergio’s oesophagus to be repaired rather than replaced. Sergio is scheduled to undergo surgery at time of going to print. 9 by Niamh Hayes Look after yourself during the summer expense of your trip and can cause you significant delay. I n a few weeks’ time, many of you will jet off to greener pastures on your J1s to experience foreign shores. I have put together a list of points which you should find helpful. I encourage you to please keep in mind your safety when embarking on this exciting summer adventure. While I’m sure most of you will have most of the big planning completed, it is essential that if you are planning to work and live in another country, that everything is planned to a tee before you go. This will help ensure that you have a rewarding and successful trip. Keep your passport secure: Lost or stolen passports are a regular problem for people going travelling every year. If you do find yourself without your passport, go to the nearest Irish Embassy as soon as you as you can. Re-placement travel documentation can be obtained at the Embassy but it does add to the Take enough money: Make sure you have enough money to get yourself set up. It may take several weeks before you’ll find a job or obtain your Social Security Number and because of these delays it is important to bring enough money to cover all eventualities. Take a mixture of cash, credit cards and traveller’s cheques, and don’t keep all your money in one place. It is more likely to get lost or stolen if you keep it all together. If you are renting accommodation, you will more than likely be required to pay a deposit and some rent in advance so ensure you have enough money to tie you over. Get to know the local laws: In many countries, public disorder offences, such as public drunkenness, are treated more severely than in Ireland. If you are arrested and subsequently convicted, this may affect your ability to re-enter that country again and if you do have a conviction it will affect your entry into some countries in the future. Be alert: Take the same precautions as you would at home. Be aware of what is going on around you and keep away from situations that make you feel uncomfortable. Do not accept lifts from strangers; do not walk alone after dark; try and travel in groups if possible; and be aware of drugs. Be careful with alcohol: When consuming alcohol know your limit. You are more likely to have an accident if you are drunk and probably won’t be covered by insurance. This also applies to drug abuse. Keep in touch: Keep your family and friends informed as to your whereabouts and your travel plans. Bring a mobile phone that works in the country so that you can be reached in case of emergency. Use your email account as a means of staying in touch with those at home by not keeping in touch will cause your loved ones un-necessary worry and anxiety. g in is ra t n e v e ’ k ic K h lt a e ‘H d 300 people atten n o ti ia c o ss A y e n id K h is Ir r fo 5 €33 Kick event in aid of the Irish Kidney Thanks to everyone who supported the Health m & Hospitality students. Touris Association which was hosted by 4th year their Three hundred students, staff and lecturers made sonway to the Health Kick event (despite the unsea us al hot weather) where they enjoyed tasting delicio ptious scrum and juices ing boost y energ smoothies, with lunch snacks. Students tried the indoor cycling eawere many and ctor instru ed qualifi Cronin Deirde p. Cham Linda ctor instru yoga with ger to hold a pose smoking Others checked their lung capacity on the quit l on stand while many learnt about the effects of alcoho . donar a the body, CPR and becoming h t l a He Kick 10 through €335 was raised for the Irish Kidney Association event. A donations and a raffle during this lunchtime prizes: sincere thanks to the following for donating raffle m& Touris Cuts, Class , Union Gala, McCarthys, Students of Ireland Bank , Bistro The urant, Resta g Trainin tality Hospi and CIT Societies offices. who volunteered A special thank you to our two qualified instructors r Cycling Instructor their free time to this event:– Deirdre Cronin, Indoo Instructor. (Recreation & Leisure) and Linda Champ, Yoga School Of Graduate Studies Winner of the 2012 CIT APP-rentice competition Katie O’Sullivan from Killarney who won the 1st prize in the competition for her APP i spoted. Also pictured are Colm Barry-Murphy, Senior Lecturer in CIT, Colette Murphy, Lecturer, CIT, Gerard O’Donovan Head of Scholl of Business CIT and Catherine Murphy, Lecturer, CIT. Picture: Pascal Ungerer APPlause for CIT student APP As part of Innovation week which recently took place CIT, students took part in the inaugural APPrentice competition. The aim of the competition was to get the creative juices flowing and to encourage the design of app ideas from students across all college faculties. Over 140 competition entries came from disciplines as diverse as mechanical engineering, horticulture, music and multi-media. Posters for top twenty APPs were created by business administration students and displayed in the college, drawing a large audience from among the student population. Judges from industry included Ken Corcoran, CFO of Product World, Russell Quigley CEO of Nixatel and designer of the recently launched Irish Fiddler app, Marion Roche. Gerard O’Donovan, Head of School of Business in CIT, presented the overall prize in the APPrentice competition to Katie O’Sullivan from Killarney, who is currently in her final year of a visual communications degree. Her app design, iSpoted, is a location based app targeted at creatives that will enable them to capture and share an image they like, be it a logo, piece of typography, mural or billboard. The APPrentice competition was organised by Catherine Murphy, Colm Barry-Murphy and Colette Murphy from the School of Business. Launches Annual Cit Postgraduate Fair T he growing significance of postgraduate activity for CIT was evidenced in the successful CIT Postgraduate Fair 2012 organised by the CIT School of Graduate Studies on Tuesday February 7th, 2012 in the Institute’s Student Centre. The Fair provided an excellent opportunity to further develop links between CIT students and staff and other institutes and universities within Ireland at postgraduate level. This year’s Fair was officially opened by Dr Barry O’Connor, Registrar and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dr Eamonn Cashell, Dean of Graduate Studies. The Fair was host to over thirty stands, including many Institutes of Technology and the majority of Ireland’s Universities. In addition to this, a number of CIT Academic Departments and Research Centres of Excellence participated, offering them the opportunity to showcase postgraduate course options and thus encourage postgraduate student recruitment. Students had the opportunity to speak directly to representatives of the various institutions and departments and thus find out more about employment opportunities after completing a Postgraduate Programme, application procedures and closing dates. The School of Graduate Studies offers continued support to anyone choosing to move towards 4th level education in CIT. See: www.cit.ie/prospectivestudents.postgraduates for postgraduate course information. Grand Prize Winner at NCBI! CIT’s Kieran O’Callaghan has been presented with the NCBI Grand Prize and a cash award of €3,000 for his Enablement Products, AquaEye and VisionRE, by Minister Pat Rabbitte TD, Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources at the NCBI Inclusive Technology Showcase - Wood Quay, Dublin. Nine designers of inclusive technologies battled against each other in an exhibition-style showcase. The Mission is to promote digital inclusion in Ireland, with a specific focus on vision and vision loss. Design entries comprised technologies which were designed in an inclusive way and those which specifically address the needs of users who are blind or have a vision impairment. 11 11 SU Picture Gallery Start of SUMMER Beach Party @ 12 SU Picture Gallery Farranlea Hall The Spires Reduced rates at Farranlea Hall & The Spires for the coming academic year • Free 100MB Wifi in all Apartments • Free Sky Sports TV Channels at Farranlea Hall • P urpose built student accommodation with dedicated receptions • All bedrooms en-suite • Gated complexes with CCTV and nightly / weekend security • Free student parking in secure basement car parks • Flexible payments option available • Book online today and guarantee your room! VICTORIA CROSS, CORK Phone: 021-4817900 Fax: 021-4817996 Email: [email protected] 13 By: Aoife Kelliher, Societies Office CIT Societies Volunteer Abroad program A n experience of a lifetime awaits nine CIT students this summer as they are on the countdown to participating in volunteer projects abroad. Through the CIT Volunteer Abroad Programme, these students will receive a scholarship to cover the cost of their volunteer program and flights allowing them to participate in a volunteer program that they may not have been in a position to fundraise for. Scholarship Recipients: (left to right) Linda Hodgkinson, Ruth Hogger, Jorge Ruiz, Theresia Gevers and Eoin Keane Neasa Peters Social Care 1st Year Youth Volunteer Camp, Himachal India June, 4 weeks Jorge Ruiz Community Development 2nd Year Teaching, Mumbai India May & June, 9 weeks Elaine O Connor Social Care 2nd Maria Carey Social Care 2nd Year year. Youth Volunteer Camp, Himachal India June, 4 weeks Linda Hodgkinson Early Years Education 2nd Year, Youth Education, Ghana June, 4 weeks Ruth Hogger Fine Art 3rd Year Youth Volunteer Camp, Himachal India & Orphanage work and childcare, Kathmandu Nepal June & July, 8 weeks Welfare programme, Ho Chi Minh Vietnam June & July, 6 weeks Theresia Gevers Fine Art 3rd Year Conservation, Guatemala August, 3 weeks Eoin Keane Horticulture 3rd Year Construction & Community, Chennai India June, 3 weeks Mairead Allen Social Care 4th Year Arts Programme, Chang Mai Thailand June, 4 weeks The Volunteer Abroad Program was open for application from any full time CIT student. Applications were shortlisted for interview based on their local volunteering experience with societies, clubs, students union and other voluntary organisations and groups. A further six students were awarded Volunteer Abroad Bursaries to the value of €500 each. These bursaries provide financial assistance for students who are fundraising to participate in a volunteer program and in many cases are the difference between them achieving their target amount. The program is funded through the profits from the Societies Ball events at which over 3,000 students attended during the year and also from the CIT student finance committee. 14 Bursory Recipients: (left to right) Dominic Spillane, Elsa Weissbrich, Roy Evans, Derek Hilliard and Róisín Bohan CIT Success CIT student is Graduate Employee of the Year 2012 Congratulations to Connor Barry, winner of the Graduate Gradireland Employee of the Year 2012 who received his award recently at a gala dinner at the Mansion House Dublin. Connor graduated with a First Class Honours Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Cork Institute of Technology in 2010, thereafter securing a place on the highly selective Abbott Ireland DevelopProfessional ment Programme. Connor has completed three of his four rotations on this programme and is currently working on assignment as a global buyer in the Abbott Nutrition Supply Chain in Columbus, Ohio, the first Irish Professional Development Programme recruit to be offered such a global assignment. Connor’s previous rotations were as a process development engineer and a quality engineer in Abbott Vascular’s Irish operations. Conor conducted his 2010 final year project at Cork Institute of Technology on Contact Lens Detection in conjunction with Bausch and Lomb under the supervision of Dr. Michael J. O’Mahony. Sweet Success for CIT Marketing Students On Tuesday 24th April, chocolate took centre stage in CIT, with third year marketing students competing for the prestigious Marketing Institute Student Award. Each group, under the guidance of lecturer Colette Murphy, were challenged with designing a marketing campaign for Katie’s Real Chocolates, based in Bandon, with an emphasis on reinforcing the brand values of fun and creativity, while staying within a fictional budget of €1,000. The competition was kicked off in style by a team comprising of Alan McGee, Dima Keane, Colum Dinneen and Max Buckley putting on an impressive cocktail making display, unveiling a branded cocktail using melted chocolate to the strains of Wham’s ‘Careless Whisper’. An all-girl line up of Emilia Mantilla, Alison Lynch, Keira O’Brien, Susan Donovan, Jane Kelleher and Katazyna Gortat displayed their creativity by designing a guerrilla marketing campaign which included the design of innovative promotional material. The close-run competition was won by a team comprising of Brian O’Connor , Ciara Lee, Gaelle Quemener, Shauna Devlin, Lauren Arthurs and Ian Dennehy. Their new product suggestion of chocolate Oscars or ‘Choscars’ stole the show, when the team distributed a prototype of the product which they had made earlier. Local entrepreneur Katie Buckley from Katie’s Real Chocolates in Bandon was very impressed with the standard of presentation and was at pains to point out that picking a winner was a very difficult task. Katie was joined on the judging panel by Vincent Scanlon and Jenny O’Flynn from the Marketing Institute Southern branch and recently retired marketing lecturer, Michael Walsh. Head of the Department of Management and Marketing, Brian McGrath, was on hand to award the prizes, which included the Marketing Institute Cup. 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I have a constant lump in my throat and I am constantly breaking out in cold-sores because of how stressed I am getting. I really feel I need help as I am crying myself to sleep too often. Please will you give me advice? You may not like what I am about to say but I think that you need some time to yourself. You need to figure out your own life. This entails deep reflexion. Who you are? Where are you going? You will also need to learn to love yourself a little bit more. Once you begin to feel self-love, you will then be able to let someone in fully and if they truly love you, you will know. Remember this is only your first serious relationship. You are in college, you should be having fun. You do not need the stress of all this, especially as it’s coming up to exams. If you do choose to be in a relationship, it should be fun and stress-free. Relationships are about been with someone you like, and you probably like them because you get on and have a good time together. Anything that causes you stress should be avoided at all costs for the sake of your men- tal health. Therefore, I think you really need to take some time to figure your mind out. Are you addicted to your boyfriend or are you addicted to the thought and need of having one? This is a question only you can answer. Right you need to calm yourself and take a deep breath! First of all you need to stop worrying about him not loving you as much you love him. Has he ever given you any reason to think he doesn’t love you? If not, then calm down. If he didn’t love you he wouldn’t see you as much and he would be off form or always doing other things. The holidays are coming up. Yes he is going away for two weeks of it but absence makes the heart grow fonder and think of the sex when you see him next! It will be even better that you have been apart for two weeks. If you obsess too much you might scare him off and you don’t want that. You can text him when is on his holidays, not all the time but once or twice a day just to make sure he is okay or if you are that stuck download skype on both your phones and skype each other. Just calm down and stop worrying. Your past relations are in the past for a reason. Learn from them but do not live in the past! Good luck. Q The end of the year is coming and so are end of semester exams. I have been seeing my boyfriend for nearly five months, and it’s going great. The problem is my study is very important to me and his course is all practical based along with his exams, so he doesn’t have to do that much study. He is always on to me to hang out or go clubbing or go to the cinema but I can’t. It M Left to right: Eoin Devlin, Billy Cummings, Alex Musgrave and Irial Kennedy CIT Students launch space mission! 16 16 gets really annoying and I just give in and I end up going out. I am now worried that I am going to fail my exams! What can I do to get my boyfriend to understand that I need to study and to stop at me about going out? Life is all about trying to find a balance. And this situation is exactly the same. You need to find a balance that is going to make both of you happy. You need to chat with your boyfriend, tell him everything that is going on. Maybe it’s just a case of mis-communication. Explain to him that your course is very theory based and that these exams are extremely important. If he is any sort of good boyfriend, he will understand this. However, you do need to make time for him too. Set aside one or two evenings during the week where you can hang out. After all it is essential that you do take breaks from your study, so spending time with him might be just what you need. Do remember though, that boyfriends don’t always last forever and I’m not saying it won’t last but it is important to keep in mind that if he goes, you will be left with your study/career which is going to be based on your exams. What you need to do is tell him NO! Tell him that you need to study as your exams are important to you. If he goes on that studying isn’t important just tell him that your course isn’t practical based so you need to go over your course work and study it. If he gets stroppy about it, tell him that’s the way it is and if he doesn’t accept it; then it’s time to show him where the door is. If he doesn’t respect what is important to you then he doesn’t really care about you and is more interested in going out, then let him off. any weeks of careful planning came together and made the Ballymaloe space project not only a reality but a great success. The launch of the space rocket (a jar of Ballymaloe Relish) took place on Saturday the 24th of March 2012 just outside of Mallow. The team tracked its’ progress to an altitude of 5400 feet then lost contact. Two hours later, they received the first location two miles off the coast of Youghal. This seemed to be the end of the project as a water landing was the worst case scenario. Luck sided, however, and lower atmospheric winds carried the unit inland where it touched down in a stubble field. A maximum altitude of 96,500 feet was achieved at which point the jar and its contents were completely frozen as can be seen in the video. The low temperatures caused the camera equipment to fail upon its decent but luckily the GPS unit kept running and allowed continued tracking. The team was made up of the following: Alex Musgrave - Producer and cinematographer, Billy Cummings - Editor and motion graphics, Eoin Devlin - Animator, Irial Kennedy - Head of Design and Engineering, Aisling Ryan - Musician. This Project was only made possible with the input of each of these individuals and their dedication. It truly was a great achievement for all involved. See it now at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEyGEHETPog Grab tickets to some of the great shows in CIT SU’s Live at the Marquee Charity ticket Auction Check facebook.com/citsu every day from now until the end of May for full details and an opportunity to bag some great concert tickets! All proceeds to be donated to ‘Suicide Aware’ 17 Sports T CIT Sport Awards Winners 2012 he Cork Institute of Technology Sports Awards presentation function in association with Bank of Ireland, took place on Wednesday 2nd of May at the Tourism and Hospitality building in CIT. Popular Guest Speaker was former Munster and Ireland Rugby player Alan Quinlan. These CIT awards have been running since 1993 and it provides the ideal opportunity for the Institute to recognise students who have excelled in their chosen sport throughout the past academic year. The awards are based on outstanding achievements in their sport and/or the administration of clubs within the Institute. As well as recognising current sporting heroes, the sports awards afford the opportunity to also recognise our graduates. This year the Institute chose to award former Cork Senior and current Newtownshandrum hurler, Pat Mulcahy as the “Graduate Achievement Award” recipient. Pat joins the prestigious list of Graduate achievement award winners such as Graham Canty, Juliet Murphy, Denis Walsh, David Wallace, Eoin Liston, Conor Counihan, Dave Barry, Paul Wallace, Joe Kavanagh, Brian Carey, Brian Corcoran, Sarah Kelleher, Mags Finn, Wesley Bateman, John Cleary and Philly Larkin. Each award recipient is a shining example to their peers. On the day the following awards were presented: Eanna Farrell (Athletics) from: Kilmacthomas, Co. WaterfordCourse: BEng in Sustainable Energy. Home Club: West Waterford A.C. - Chairman of the CIT Club and lead by example throughout the year. - Led CIT’s cross country team to retain their County U23 county title & came sixth in the Novice. Eanna Farrell Michael Flavin (Rugby) from: Youghal, Co Cork Course: Bar Management 3 Home Club: Youghal - Led CIT to win the All-Ireland Division 2 in 2010/’11 - mAll-Ireland Division 1 semi-finalists with CIT this season Fresher of the Year Michael Flavin The 10 individual award winners ... Gavin McCarthy (Soccer) from: Fairhill, Cork Course: Recreation & Leisure 3. Home Club: CIT - CIT’s top scorer so far this year & won the Umbro Plate - 2011: won the Umbro (B) Cup and won “Junior Player of the Year”. Gavin McCarthy Amanda Boland (Ladies Rugby) from: Naas, Co Kildare Course: Social Care 3. Home Club: CIT - All-Ireland Divison 2 Champions 2011-12. - Secretary of the CIT Ladies Rugby Club, organised the majority of matches, training sessions and fundraising events. Denis Good (Sailing) from: Carrigaline, Co Cork land Amanda Bo Mary McDonnell Course: Business Studies 3 Home Club: Royal Cork Yacht - Chief organiser of all the CIT Sailing Club activities - Vital member of the CIT World Cup team that came 3rd in France Mary McDonnell (Ladies Soccer) from: Cobh, Co Cork. Course: Business Studies 4 Home Club: Cobh Ramblers - In each of her 5 years in CIT, she has been a member of the Ladies Soccer committee every year. - Only player on the squad to win promotion twice with CIT-this year and 2009. - Member of the Munster Colleges interprovincial squad 2008. Stephen White (Hurling) from: Carrigaline, Co Cork Course: Business Studies 4 Home Club: Ballygarvan - With CIT-Fitzgibbon Cup Finalists 2012 & “Man of the Match” award in the final. Freshers All-Ireland 2007. - Cork Senior Hurling Panel 2012. Munster medals at Minor, U21 & Intermediate levels. Stephen White Roseanne Phelan John Hickey Roseanne Phelan (Canoe) from: Ballingarry, Co Tipperary Course: Applied Biosciences 2. Home Club: CIT - Secretary & Equipment Officer of the CIT Canoe Club this year. - Intervarsities: 2nd in the individual Long Distance, on the CIT team that were 7th in the Whitewater & 8th in the Freestyle. Also a key player in the Polo competition. - At Gower 2012 in Limerick she won the Sports category for Freestyle (open to both men & women). John Hickey (Golf) from: Glanmire, Co Cork Course: Business Information Systems 1 Home Club: Cork Golf Club - Won every match for CIT Premier League team and helped them qualify for the League finals, finishing 3rd. - Qualified for the final round in the Intervarsities and finished tied for 8th individual. - Has been a member of Munster & Irish development panels Sinead McMahon (Ladies Football) From: South Douglas Road, Cork Course: Business Studies 4 Home Club: Nemo Rangers - Has held the positions of Equipment Officer and Chairperson of the CIT Ladies Football Club. - In first year were Runners-up in the All-Ireland Freshers blitz and in second year was a member of the All-Ireland winning Lynch team. - 2 county medals with Nemo Rangers & 2 All-Ireland medals with ahon Sinead McM Cork Senior B’s. 18 Emma Farmer Emma Farmer (Ladies Soccer) from: Midleton, Co Cork Course: Recreation & Leisure 1 Home Club: Cork Womens FC - Member of Irish U19 team 2010-2012 & Cork Senior womens team (also Cork Senior B Gaelic Footballer) - With CIT Ladies Soccer won promotion to the WSCAI premier league & received a First Division All-Star. - Recently selected on the “league team of the season” following her performances with Cork. “Graduate Achievement Award” Pat Mulcahy, former Cork Senior hurler and Newtownshandrum hurler. Pat has enjoyed huge success with the Newtownshandrum Club, winning a county intermediate title, county senior medals, Munster and All-Ireland Club medals. Pat first donned the Cork jersey in 1995, lining out at full-back for the U21s. In 1997 he won an All-Ireland medal with the Cork intermediate team and Pat Mulcahy made his senior debut in 2000. Pat won Munster medals and an All-Ireland medal with Cork Seniors and was also the recipient of an All Star award in 2005. Pat coached the CIT hurlers to the Fitzgibbon Final this year. “Team of the Year” Ladies Rugby - Winners of the Division 2 All-Ireland final-beating DCU. “Club of the Year” Mens Soccer - The CIT Munster Senior League team received the team of the month for February & are in a commanding position in the league & haven’t lost a league game since the 2nd of December. - The College B team triumphed in the CFAI B Cup with a wonderful 2-1 victory over red hot favourites Colaiste Ide to retain the cup which they were also victorious in last year. - The College A team won the CFAI Umbro Plate against a determined GMIT side. - Member playing on the Irish Colleges team. International Achievement Awards x 8 Awarded to the following members of the CIT Sailing World Cup Team who finished in a remarkable third at the Student Yachting World Cup in France in 2011- Denis Good, George Kenefick, Aidan Mc Laverty, Joseph Bruen, Maria Connolly, Kevin Goulding, Gemma Twohig, Judy O’Brien Achievement Awards x 3 Cliodhna Sargent (Hockey) Cliodhna Sargant Colin Fenelly Awarded to Masters student Cliodhna Sargent in recognition of winning her 100th international cap this academic year. Cliodhna lined out at centre-back for the Irish Senior team at the Irish Womens Hockey Olympic qualifiers in Belgium in March. The Irish team did extremely well, finishing in second place and were unlucky to lose out in the final to Belgium. Cliodhna has remarkably amassed more than 110 caps for her country. Colin Fennelly (Hurling) Awarded to fourth year Construction Management student Colin Fennelly from the Ballyhale Shamrocks Club in recognition of winning an All-Ireland Senior Hurling medal in 2011 with Kilkenny Seniors. Jenny Luddy (Ladies Football) Jenny Luddy Awarded to second year Recreation & Leisure student Jenny Luddy from the Mallow Club in recognition of her winning an All-Ireland Senior Ladies Football medal with Cork Seniors in 2011. Munster Rugby by Niamh Hayes On Friday 20th April, 2012 Leinster did Munster a favour with their 16-8 win over Ulster, leaving Ulster in 5th place in the RaboDirect PRO12 table. Munster went on and booked their spot in the play offs of the RaboDirect PRO12 following a 20-20 away draw to the Llanelli Scarlets on Saturday 21st April, 2012. Tries from Donnacha Ryan and Simon Zebo ensured Munster remained at third position in the competition and led them to the final round of the competition where they met Ulster this past weekend in Thomond Park.This article went to print before this match and so we are unaware of the result, however the result of this competition will determine whether Munster or Ulster will play Ospreys in the semi-final. There was more good news for the Munster side who won the British & Irish Cup Final in a convincing feat on 27th April against Cross Keys. The strength of our scrum pack and the team’s ability to withstand pressure were no match for the Welch side, ending in a score of 31-12.Just last week, Munster players Denis Leamy, Donnacha O’Callaghan, Christy Condon, Mick O’Driscoll and James Coughlan paid a visit to the annual Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering Exhibition here in CIT. They were particularly interested in a number of projects which were carried out in collaboration with Munster Rugby and CIT Mechanical Engineering students. The projects included the development of an advanced scrum machine and scrum simulator, a scrum shield and a lineout training aid. As the end of the season approaches, Munster will see many changes to their side in the near future. Rob Penney was, last week, confirmed as Munster’s new Head Coach. He is expected to arrive here in July when he will take over from Tony McGahan, who has been confirmed as the Qantas Wallabies Coaching Co-Ordinator. Penney has much experience under his belt, including being the Head Coach of Canterbury since 2006. A big loss to the side will come at the end of the season when Mick O’Driscoll calls it a day. O’Driscoll began his career in August 1998, making his Heineken Cup debut against Neath in September of that year. This season alone he has captained Munster in many of their games. Another great loss will be the departure of Denis Fogarty who is leaving the side after being offered a two year contract with the French Pro Division 2 side Aurillac. Fogarty admitted that it was not an easy decision to move to Aurillac, who are coached by former Ireland international Jeremy Davidson. He has gained much experience with the Munster side including winning two Heineken Cup medals and three Magners League titles, however he is not looking for a new challenge and hopes that the French side will provide this. The future, however, remains bright for the Munster Rugby team as they continue to go from strength to strength. As the squad continues to train here, there is no doubt that CIT has had some input into their success. 2011-2012 RaboDirect PRO12 to print) Position Team 1 Leinster Rugby 2Ospreys Munster Rugby 3 4 Glasgow Warriers 5 Scarlets 6 Ulster Rugby 7 Cardiff Blues 8 Connacht Rugby 9 Benetton Treviso League Table (at the time of going Played 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 Won Drew 17 1 151 13 1 12 4 112 12 0 10 0 7 1 7 0 Lost Points 3 77 5 67 7 62 5 61 8 57 9 56 11 50 13 37 14 36 21 5 15 10Newport Gw. 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It CIT Organising Committee - Night at the Dogs was the second National Success for the CIT Student GAA Club when the Camogie team recorded a comprehensive win over Athlone in the final of the Purcell Shield. Played as part of the Higher Education Camogie Championship Weekend in Waterford IT, CIT showed good maturity by putting in a polished performance to outclass Athlone on a score line of 4:11 to 0:2. Overall it had been another busy season for the CIT Student GAA Club. Since last September the Institute’s GAA Club has played 20 91 Higher Education Championship and League Games between all its various teams and 2012 Senior over 160 games all tolled when including tournaments and practice games. This year we fielded 6 football teams and 5 hurling teams. We also fielded a Camogie senior and fresher team and a senior Ladies Football team. This is CIT’s Eirn Corkery in action in the Purcel Shield Final on par with colleges who have three or four times our numbers of students and we are the largest Institute of Technology club in the country. Ladies football team would like to thank them sincerely for their continued generosity. While we are naturally disappointed not to have landed the Fitzgibbon or Sigerson despite coming so close again this year, we are immensely proud of the efforts that all our teams put in and the manner in which they fly the flag of Cork Institute of Technology throughout the country. Their pride in representing their college has to be seen to be believed and for those of us who experience this first hand on a daily basis, it is indeed a privilege. We are also privileged to have so many of the Institute’s staff and students who volunteer their time and help out with the various activities of the club. The Institute’s Student GAA Club is now busy preparing for their County Championship Programme, having won their first game in the senior football This is a huge logistical achievement and we would like to thank everybody involved for their efforts and the academic and administrative staff for all their support and assistance throughout the year. We would also like to thank all those who supported our fundraising ventures, includDamien Moynihan ing our charity drive this year for Parkinson’s Ireland, your support receiving the All Ireland is vital to maintain this tremen- Intermediate Cup dous volume of sporting activity. EMC Ireland have now been sponsorchampionships against Avondhu and ing the GAA Club since 2000 and we we also put Muskerry Hurlers to the sword with a comprehensive win in the 1st round of the Hurling Championship. Good luck to all with the examinations and thanks again for your support. CIT Abú 2012 Purcell Shield Winners Keith Ricken GAA Officer, CIT Sport In the 2011/2012 academic year, the Institute had a number of achievements including: Athletics: Cross country team retained their County U23 county title, the men’s team finished second & the women’s team were bronze medallists in the Irish Universities Mountain Running Championships, came 3rd in the Munster Road Relays & two silver medals from the IUAA indoors. A big congratulations to the CIT Men’s basketball team who achieved a double this year winning the Irish Colleges Basketball Intervarsity’s over Easter weekend to add to their league title! The team faced Carlow Institute of Technology in the finals on Easter Sunday who scored 7 three pointers in the first half! Despite Carlow efforts they were no match for CIT inside and trailed from the 3rd quarter to the final whistle with CIT claiming the cup on a score-line of 63-38! The ladies team lost out in the semi-finals to a strong Trinity side. Athletics CIT student athletes were in action recently in Athlone at the IUAA Track and Field Championships. The men’s team finished in an excellent 6th position in the division 1 championship keeping the might of TCD, UCC and QUB in their wake. The women’s team triumphed in the division 2 championship. Pride of place at the weekend went to our pentathlon athletes, David O’Brien, Martin O’Sullivan and Patricia Lange who won the coveted Combined Events Trophy and Thomas Houlihan who cleared 4.40m to win the men’s pole vault. Team photographer Jiri Thoma The squad - the ladies team plus coaches Roisin Mulcahy (DCE3), a picture of concentration at the beginning of the 4 by 400m relay final Cathal Owens (Mets 3) powering away from the blocks at the beginning of the men’s 4 by 400m relay final William Hughes (Business 4) taking the baton from Robert Bennett (ELX1) in the Men’s 4 by 400m final David O’ Brien (39) and Martin O’ Sullivan (44) (both ELX1) in action during the 1500m on their way to finishing 3rd and 4th respectively in the men’s pentathlon Martina Fialova (Erasmus) on her way to 5th spot in the women’s 3000m Thomas Houlihan (CE2) risking life and limb to claim bronze in the men’s 110mH Noreen Mackey (Grad, Biomed Science), cooling off during the women’s 3000mSC Eoin Murphy (Business 4) taking a break from the throwing events, anchors the men’s 4 by 100m relay team to 7th position John Collins (Accounting 3) and Michael Pat O’ Regan (DSE5) during the heats of the men’s 4 by 400m Basketball: The Mens team won both the All-Ireland Division 2 league and Intervarsities. The Ladies team won the All-Ireland Division 2 final also. Boxing: Five finalists at the Intervarsities with three winners. Camogie: Purcell Shield winners. Canoe: The Canoe Intervarsities hosted by CIT and UCC Canoeing Clubs in February 2011 has been awarded the title of CUSAI Intercollegiate Event of Year for 2011 (to be presented in May 2012). Football-Mens: Intermediate All-Ireland Champions. Golf: Finished 3rd overall in the Irish Colleges Golf League. Hockey: Men’s team won the Mauritius Plate at the Intervarsities & the mixed team won the Mixed Intervarsities for the second consecutive year. CIT’s Cliodhna Sargent lined out at centre-back for the Irish Senior team at the Irish Womens Hockey Olympic qualifiers in Belgium finishing in second place. Hurling: Cork Senior Hurling Championship & Fitzgibbon Cup finalists Karting: The “A” team finished 3rd in the CUSAI Intervarsity Championships. Kickboxing: 2 silver medallists at the Intervarsities Orienteering: individual 1st and 3rd at the Intervarsities. Powerlifting: IDFPA single lift nationals-4 gold & 3 bronze, the National DeadLift championships - 3 silver, 2 bronze & the female best lifter award, the IDFPA National Powerlifting Championships-5 gold & 2 silver medals. Rowing: The Freshers mens team won the team event at the National Indoor rowing champs & in the Intervarsities: 1st in the Mens Senior Double, 2nd in the individual Mens Senior Scull & 3rd in Female Senior Single. Ladies Rugby: Division 2 All-Ireland final winners. Sailing: 3rd at the 2011 Student Yachting World Cup in France. Soccer-Ladies: Won promotion to the Premier Division. Soccer-Mens: The College A team won the CFAI Umbro Plate, the College B team won the CFAI B Cup, the Munster Senior League team received the team of the month for February. Table Tennis: Silver medal in the team event and silver & bronze medals in the singles at the Intervarsities. Tae Kwon Do: Intervarsities- four Gold, two Silver & three Bronze. Tennis: Won the Mens Bowl at the Intervarsities for the first time in the history of CIT. Volleyball: The Ladies team had a fantastic Plate win at the Intervarsities in NUIG for the first time in the history of CIT. Weightlifting: Intervarsities-Individual 2nd in 85kg Netball makes a return to Cork Training takes place on Thursday nights at The Ursuline Secondary School in Blackrock between 7-8pm. So if you once played netball or would like to start playing again or are interested in learning to play to get fit and meet like-minded people, please email Liz: [email protected] for more details and training times. 21 Crossword zzle #11 by Dave Fisher (puzzles.about.com) sponsored by www.citsocieties.ie 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 19 22 24 25 26 32 35 39 38 46 40 43 47 48 58 59 60 61 54 Name:Tel: 8. 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