Hi everyone!! Ed here!

The film this weekend will be Waking Ned Devine. It’s an Irish comedy about a man from a small Irish village who dies when he discovers that he has won the lottery, and his friends try to collect the lottery winnings for the village … The film will start at 7:30PM in Theatre 1 in the Arts Block, this Sunday evening.

And just so everyone knows, we still have places available for the weekend trip to Cork! The cost is 60 EUR per person, and the trip is from Friday Feb 13 to Sunday, Feb 15. You can sign-up for the trip this Sunday before the film, or con tact me directly by text/ringing me at 087 6761959.

That’s all for now! Hope to see you all out tonight at the Roost to meet the new Internationals, and then at the film on Sunday!

All the best,

Ed

Hi everyone!! Ed here!!

As I mentioned last week, there will be a film this weekend! We will show the film Transsiberian, starring Ben Kingsley, Woody Harellson, and Emily Mortimer. As usual, the film will be in Theatre 1 in the Arts Block, starting at 7:30 PM, this Sunday evening.

And, as many of you know, our first trip of the semester will be to Cork! We have all the arrangements made, and we will begin sign-ups this Sunday evening before the film. We will be in Theatre 1 from 7 pm on for you to come by and sign-up! The trip will be from Friday to Sunday, 13–15 February. We will announce departure times closer to the day of the trip. The cost of the trip is 60 EUR in total, and this covers 2 nights in the hostel with breakfast, as well as the return trip in our bus(es). And just to mention it, depending on how many people sign-up, we might have some people go there by train, so keep this in mind in case you would be willing to volunteer to go there by train. We will let you know then if we need some volunteers for this!

Here are some links tralking about what there is to do and see in and around Cork (1, 2, 3, 4). I definitely recommend that everyone go to Blarney Castle, as it is only 20 minutes by bus from the city, and you can get the bus to go there from right in front of the hostel! Also, the small town of Kinsale on the south coast is very nice, and you can get the bus to there from the city bus station, just 10 minutes walk from the hostel.

That’s all for now! Hope you’re all doing well and hope to see you this weekend for the film and trip sign-up!!

Ed

Hi, everyone! Ed here!

Welcome back to Maynooth, my friends, and what will (hopefully) be another great semester for the International Society! I trust everyone had a great holiday and got to go home and enjoy them with friends and family.

I’ve heard from a few people that I’ve run into on campus that they were going crazy without getting their weekly email from the International Society! It was only 3 weeks — did you miss us that much? And a few others have been asking when will we begin showing films again; we don’t technically have the room booked for showing films during the semester break, but enough people were asking that I went to the Conference Centre yesterday to see if I could get the room booked, and they agreed to let us have the room on Sunday, Jan 25, but not this weekend, because they use all the class halls in the Arts Block for people to study. But since exams end before Sunday the 25th, we can have the room then. So, this means: There will be no film this weekend (Sunday, Jan 18), but there will be a film on the following Sunday, Jan. 25. We will make an announcement next week to let you know what film we will show.

Also, we wanted to tell you all that our first trip of the second semester is provisionally booked! We will be going on a weekend trip to Cork! The trip will be from Friday to Sunday 13–15 February. We don’t have the final prices for the trip worked out yet, but we will let you know soon!

That’s all for now; I hope everyone is doing well, and we’ll be in touch again soon! All the best!

Ed