Dear all, For this year, this is the last issue of MU Times. It has been another year for our student publication as we have been able to produce MU Times for a full college year. Last year, due to the lack of a consistent student publication in Maynooth, a group of us from LitNDeb
After week of a break, MUT is back with plenty of vibrant content. We want you to make the best out of your return to college; there are plenty of positives about coming back to college. Trying to enjoying the last few weeks of intellectual stimulation and seeing your friends at least could be one
Dear all, Last Tuesday it was the Clubs and Socs ball held in the Glenroyal. It was a great opportunity for everyone who is a part of any club or society to gain their recognition for all the hard work they done in the last few months. Well done to everyone who won. It was
Dear all, We have reached this part of the semester that everyone is absolutely bogged down with assignments. This is something that we are all a subject of – so many, many deadlines – hence MUT is here to distract you in a manner of productive procrastination. It is also good to take a break
Dear all, Last weekend, Maynooth was the host of a massive debating competition which was the Maynooth Open. Debating teams from all colleges in Ireland arrived in Maynooth. For two whole days heated topics were debated, leaving everyone involved exhausted but intellectually satisfied. MUT would like to congratulate everyone who was involved in the running
Dear all, We are no longer resigned to eating our food cold or walking around with rumbling tummies because we can’t heat up our food! Those days are long gone because the microwaves have returned to the common room! Do I hear a cheer from everyone?! These are opened from 12-3pm each day and there
Dear all, Supposedly Spring has arrived, but outside it’s terribly gloomy outside. Are we ever going to get some sunshine? Does not look like it! Make sure to take your Vitamin D supplements and drink your milk because it looks like rain is all that we are going to rain. Sunrays are not in sight!
Dear all, Once again it’s that lovey dovey time of the year. Yes, it is Valentine’s Day. Ugh. I know! The thought of that day makes me throw up! Pink or red cards like a plague populate every supermarket and bookshop. It’s the time of the year when you don’t have a special someone you
Dear all, Ass I was reading over the articles for the next edition, there is one theme that jumped up to me and that is ‘optimism’. Perhaps, many of us do not feel optimistic when Donald Trump is the president of America and Orwell’s 1984 is currently featured on the charts of best-selling books. Things
Dear all, I hope your exams went well and you are all enjoying being back. I know, I know. Being back in college can only mean one thing: doing work. I realize that the thought of doing work does not sound appealing to many. However, I personally think that work can be enjoyable and can
Dear all, This week is the last week of term. No, I do not believe it either! Time can fly impeccably quickly and before we will know it, the time will come for us to sit our exams. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves and take things one day at a time. Being mindful
Dear all, The exam time-table is accessible online that not only means the end of the semester but that the exams are quickly approaching. However, let’s not get too despondent. There is something exciting awaiting us on the horizon and it is Christmas. I certainly am! During our time in college, there is not that
Dear all, Last week began in a bleak fashion. We all have heard about Kym Owens’s assault which happened on the Moyglare Abbey estate. Kym has suffered serious head and facial injuries and is currently hospitalized. Many of us consider Maynooth to be a student town, and in general we feel safe here. This is
Dear all, This week is the diversity week. It is the time to celebrate all the wonderfully different things about us. Because it should not come as a surprise that we as people are all different and we all have our differences. In Maynooth, no two people are the same. I know, this sounds corny
Last Wednesday I went to see the college play 12 Angry Jurors. The play was directed by Robert Brown and is his debut. It has been produced by Maynooth’s very own society: MU Drama. Due to the on-going-on-campus graduations the play was not held the usual echo-y spot of Aula Maxima but instead was held
Dear all, Last week has been the week of American Presidential elections. It is safe to assume that I am not the only person who is more than a little taken back with America’s choice of president. For the moment it is difficult to concentrate anything else other than what is going on in America.
Dear all, Welcome back from the mid-term! How was your mid-term? Did you have a good one? Hopefully you got some study done, took some time off and enjoyed Halloween. We are never old enough to be treat or tricking. Mu Times is back! And we are back with a packed, fast-packed issue. However, before
Dear all, One more week and we are almost free to enjoy our mid-term break and Halloween. Well, we are as free as we are going to be. After all, we are big boys and girls now and that means that having a week off does not always exactly means that it is a week
Dear all, It’s the fifth week of college and we are slowly readying for coming Mid-Term break – but we still have two weeks to go. There is still some work needed to be done before we can take a break. Important notice that is happening on campus this week is the Blood Clinic here
Dear all, We are in the middle of our fourth week of college. We are getting closer and closer to the mid-term and possibly many of us are getting a little overwhelmed with things. You might start fretting about it all to the point where you might want to kill your housemate. Ok, please don’t
