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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1715. He fully support the re-introduction of fees.
16. He has a vitriolic hatred of the Campaign for Free Eduation.
17. None of the full-time SU officers have the guts to stand up against him
18. He's a bully
19. He has a view of women that comes from the 1950s
20. He wants UCD to disaffiliate from USI because he will never get a career out of USI, because every student activist in the country hates him.
- 10. He wants to go for a 3rd term
I thought the UCD constitution only allowed you to serve as a sabbatical officer for two years? (Though I also thought that you couldn't serve two terms in the same post... its been a while...)
If that man Aonghus Hourihane ever runs for public office I will personally go to his constituency and rip down all his posters.
Aonghus if you're reading this, if you're thinking of running for Ofally Co Council in 2004, I will be there ripping down your posters.
How can an SU president support fees??
Well if the feeling in UCD is strong against him do something about it! Stand up to him and get someone into the position instead of him.
Name calling here achieves nothing, get of your ass and do something about it!
Is minic bean an ghréasaí ag caitheamh droch bhróg.
It is often the shoemaker's wife that wears the worst shoes
and on the historical note what
was the 1950´s view of women?
is that on a UCD seminar course or something?
If your gonna go rip down his posters you may as well go the whole hog and rip off his head...
lads (and i presume this be by a lad) this is really stupid.the guys an ass,anyone who has any sense knows that.the union are asses , we know that too."calling on him to resign" etc is pure bullshit.he wont do it,he dosent give a fuck.
can we concentrate on the cfe, and not wanking on the newswire?
lads (and i presume this be by a lad) this is really stupid.the guys an ass,anyone who has any sense knows that.the union are asses , we know that too."calling on him to resign" etc is pure bullshit.he wont do it,he dosent give a fuck.
can we concentrate on the cfe, and not wanking on the newswire?
:-)
well it depends on the way the head is removed.
ripping it off would almost certainly have fatal results.
however if the head was removed in a hospital it might be possible to link it up to a life support system.
the head could then be forced to watch consciousness raising videos as produced by WERC.
If people dislike him so much, why don't either get a petition against
him to resign, reogranise the rules of the SU along more democratic lines,
making such positions recalleable, whenever they step outside their
mandate.
He only has power, because the rest are quite happy to be led. Just take
action yourseleves. The more action ordinary students take, the less relevant
he will become, and he will thereby lose power and influence.
occupy the college > call a EGM meeting > pass a motion of support for the occupation > If SU then don't support it > chuck em out for breaking a SU mandate.
simple really
I feel obliged to say that we are against
cyrogenic freezing of either bodies or heads.
but Reclaim the Freezer!
didn´t have the slogan ring to it.
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wasnt there something i heard from a little dickybird about whorihane and an 'alleged' sex scandal in ucd? i don't think i dreamt this one. hmmm. but i have never actually met, spoken to or even seen a picture of this 'man', but i hate him intensely, and i dint even go to uni in this country.
and he's from fucking offaly. is he brian cowans bastard son or anything? is there a resemblence at all. could someone post a pic or direct me to a link where i can see this whorihane fella?
but i am serious about the 'allegations' i think i heard something a while back. does anyone have any further info on this matter? are they brave enough to post it? surely all the scandal gets round the SU building? come on lads and ladies, get the tabloid machine going!
Then we can decapitate the pigfucker.
It's alleged that he tried in on with a union employee. It came out last year before the elections, unfortunaly the college papers couldn't (and still cant) print the story because of possible legal action.
It's believed by some that the reason for his dispute with the SU Counnsellor is because he tried it on with her too, and she was having none of it, so he sacked her.
careerist students.