tomorrow’s IntSoc film will be the classic “Apocalypse Now Redux”. Because the film is loooooong IT WILL START AT 7PM, NOT 7.30!! But don’t worry, there will be an intermission to get coffee and take it easy in the middle of the film.

Maybe see you there!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qnfbekbSa0

Film: The film for this weekend will be the Irish film The Wind That Shakes The Barley, about Ireland during the War of Independence and Civil War era, 1919–1924. The film will begin at 7:30 PM, this Sunday evening in Theatre 1 in the Arts Block.

Belfast: I’m glad to announce the second semester trip to Belfast! The trip will be held Friday March 6 to March Sunday March 8. This is one week later than we had originally planned it, but this next week is better for the hostel, and will give a bit more time to handle sign-ups and all the arrangements. Also, the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge on the Giant’s Causeway tour should be open again! The cost for the trip is 55 EUR per person, and sign-ups will begin this Sunday evening at 7PM in Theatre 1 in the Arts Block! But please, have the money with you when you sign-up! Or if you can’t make it there to sign-up, you can give the money to a friend and have them pay and put your name on the list. Also, here are some useful links that tell can you all about what there is to see and do in Belfast (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Football/Soccer: Some of our members have set up a time for playing football here on campus! They have booked one of the pitches this Sunday at 12 noon! All are welcome to come out and play, and they ask that you show up a bit early to help get everything set up for playing!!

That’s all for now! Hope to see you at the film this weekend!

All the best,

Ed

First, I want to say welcome to all our new members, and thank you deciding to join the International Society! We hope to have a great semester, and we hope that you can be a part of it!

Our film this weekend will be the Christopher Nola thriller Memento, starring Guy Pierce, Carrie Ann Moss, and Joe Pantoliano. The film will be at 7:30 PM, this Sunday evening in Theatre 1 in the Arts Block. Hope you can be there!

And to let everyone know, we still have some places available for the trip to Cork. The trip is From Friday Feb 13 to Sunday Feb 15. We will leave from Maynooth in the afternoon (time to be announced next week), and leave from Cork back to Maynooth around 5PM, arriving back around 8PM. The cost is 60 Euro per- person, and this covers the round trip and 2 nights accomodation, breakfast included. Here are some of the information websites for our new members to look at so they can have an idea about what there is to see and do in Cork (1, 2, 3, 4).

We are still not sure yet about whether we will have enough people to justify getting 2 buses for the trip or not. We will see how many people we get for the trip as of this weekend, and let you all know. But just to be safe, I will ask for people to volunteer to go to Cork by train! Remember, only if you have the Student Travel Card can you go by train for the trip! If we do have some people go by train, we will need around 20 volunteers, so talk to your friends and see what they want to do. We will see how this weekend goes and let you all know! If you’re interested in coming on the trip, please come to the film this Sunday to sign-up! We will be there from 7:00 PM!

An finally, we still have International Society T-shirts available in all sizes and in Black and Green — here is what they look like. Please contact us if you’re interested in buying one!

That’s all for now! Hope to see you all soon,

Ed

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

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

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

I saw an announcement for the Dublin Christmas Market, which is starting on Dec 12, so I thought I’d pass on the information about it on to all of you! It will be going on right at the IFSC (Irish Financial Services Centre) in Dublin, and is just a 5 minute walk from Connolly Station! Here is a link to their map and here is some information about what they will have there. It sounds like it will be pretty good, or at least as good as the one in Belfast! I hope to go and find out for myself!

As many of you know, we have decided on our final design for our T-Shirts, and we thank you all for voting! The final winner on the contest was the Globe/Bus/Pint design. We are happy to say that the order for the shirts has been put in, and we’re hoping to get the shirts here as soon as we can. We were told they will be ready perhaps as soon as this Friday, and no later than next Wednesday. We will let you all know as soon as the shirts are here, and we will do our best to give everyone the chance to buy one, particularly those of you that won’t be back after Christmas. We have ordered what we hope is a good mix of sizes, and we have got have of them in black and in ‘Kelly Green’, so there will be some choice for you too! We’re still not sure of what the final price will be, as we haven’t gotten the bill for the t-shirt company yet, but as I mentioned before, they will cost either 8 or 10 Euro each. We will let you know when the shirts arrive.

The film this weekend is the Irish Christmas film Evelyn, starring Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, and Stephen Rea. It’s based on the true story of the first case ever to reach the Irish Supreme Court, and is about a man who has to fight regain custody of his children after his wife abandons the family. It’s a great holiday film, the perfect film to show right before Christmas time in Ireland! We will shot it as usual in theatre 1 in the Arts Block, this Sunday evening, starting at 7:30 PM.

That’s all for now; I hope everyone is working hard to get all their essays and assignments finished in time! All the best and hope to see you all soon.

Ed

Quite a few things to talk about in this email

Belfast

First, we just wanted to say thanks to everyone that went on the trip to Belfast!  It was the largest weekend trip that we’ve ever done, and we hope that everyone had a good time there.  Also, we wanted to say sorry to the people who were in the two rooms with the broken heating; I’ll get you some drinks to make up for it!  Also, with regards to the Giants Causeway day tour — we did call the hostel in advance to tell them that (the majority of the people in) our group was interested in doing that tour on Saturday and that they should let the bus company know about this. I rang the hostel about this more than a week before we arrived, but either the hostel did not forward our request or the tour company ignored it.

We are now considering writing a formal complaint to the owner of the hostel about both problems.  As we’ve never had any problems with them before (we’ve been staying at the same hostel for several years now) we were very surprised to encounter these issues.  Hopefully everyone that wanted to see Giant’s Causeway got to go, even if it was on the express tour on Sunday.

Newgrange

Just as a reminder, the details for the two trips to Newgrange are as follows:

Saturday-group

Our booking is for 11:00am.  We will leave from Maynooth at 9:45am.  The tour lasts about 2 hours, so we will return to Maynooth at about 2:30 in the afternoon.

Sunday-group

Our booking is for 10:00am.  We will leave from Maynooth at 8:45am.    The tours is 2 hours, so we’ll be back to Maynooth at about 1:30 in the afternoon.

We still have spaces available for both days, so if you’re interested in signing-up, you can e-mail us, or text me at 087 6761959.  Also, we will hold a second chance to sign-up this Thursday evening in the Arts Block.  I will be in the corridor by the computers between 6 and 7 PM for anyone that still wants to go!

Film

Our film this weekend, due to ‘popular demand’, will be the film In Bruges, starring Colin Farrel. The film will be, as usual, in Theatre 1 in the Arts Block, this Sunday evening, starting at 7:30 pm.

That’s all for now; hope to see you all soon!

Ed

Just a quick announcement for the film this weekend. It will be ‘Intolerable Cruelty’, Starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Here’s a link about the film.

As usual, the film will be at 7:30 PM in the Arts Block, Theatre 1, this Sunday evening.

For those of you going on the trip to Belfast, we will send an e-mail early next week giving all the information you’ll need to know for the trip.

All the best,

Ed

Hey guys, I’m Conor Flynn from Deukuma (The German Soc).

I just wanted to tell you guys about our first event of the year. We’re having a welcome session next Wednesday 15th October and we invite all your members, but in particular your German members to attend. We’ll be meeting in one of the lecture theatres in JH (which one is yet to be confirmed but we’ll let u know when we know) at 7.30 and then we’ll be moving on to Caulfields for our 1st Stammtisch of the year. It’d be great if any of you guys came along and we’d be delighted to see ye.

We’re really trying to get Deukuma revived this year and we hope that this event is the first of many this year. Maybe later on in the semester or in the year our two societies could organise something together!

Anyway, hope to see some of you guys next week!

Conor

So, if anyone is interested, just show-up to JHT8 (some room in the John Hume building) at 7:30 on Wednesday!

All the best, and hope to see you all soon!

Ed

Well, as you can see, we’ve got everything up and running, and so we are finally able to get down to the fun stuff!  As many of you know, we will begin the sign-ups for our first two trips of the semester this Sunday evening at 7:00 PM in the Arts Block, Theatre 1. The trips will be Glendalough and Galway. Please be advised that you must pay for each trip at sign-up! Please try to have the exact amount of money with you.

We will also be showing a film, but we haven’t had time to decide what we will show yet.  Sorry about that!  It’s been a really busy week for us.  We will let you know on Sunday evening. Surprise, surprise

All the best to everyone,  and we look forward to getting another great year for the International Society underway!

Ed

We’re still finalising the details for the Pub Crawl, but here’s the tentative schedule for Friday the 3rd of October:

17:00

SU Bar

18:00

O’Neills

19:00

Caulfields

20:00

Bradys

21:00

Clockhouse

22:00

Glenroyal

23:00

Roooooost

We should also have a greasy burger at some stage, just to be on the safe side

Feel free to join in at any stage, but your coolness will obviously be maximised if you start at 5…

Just to let you all know, the AGM Meeting will be in Theatre 1 in the Arts Block at 7:30 pm this Sunday evening! Please attend this meeting for us to say goodbye and to hold our election for the committee for next year! Plus, we’ll be giving out the vouchers for the free drink at the AGM, so please remember to be there (on time) so you can get yours!

We’ll then get ourselves down to Caulfield’s around 8:00pm, for free pub food and a few drinks! We’re really looking forward to seeing you all, for one last chance to hang out and to say goodbye! Hope to see you all there!

And to those of you who have already gone home: thank you so much for such a great year, and it’s ashamed that you had yto go already– but I wish you all the best back home and in all your future endeavors. I trust you’ve already begun to reflect on your time in Maynooth, and I know it’s an experience that none of you will soon forget.

All the best,

Ed

We’re planning an AGM (that’s Annual General Meeting) for next Sunday, June 1st, 7:30 PM at a location that will be announced in the next few days. Because of the exams and the normal class halls being used for studying, we will have to make arrangements for somewhere else. I will take care of this early in the week and let you all know. The purpose of this meeting is for us to have a bit of a ‘goodbye’ session, and we hope to have an ‘election’ for the committee for next year. We would also like to get some of you to let us know what you thought of the events and trips that the society held this year, and maybe even get some of you to write a brief ‘testimonial’ about your experiences with us that we can post on our website!

After this short meeting, we’ve got a party scheduled in Caulfield’s Pub at 8:00! There will be free ‘Bar Munchies’, and 1 FREE DRINK for everyone who comes along! Our way of saying thanks to all of you for such a great year!

And on more thing: If any of you are willing donate your pillows and duvets, since most of you won’t be able to take them home at the end, we can keep them in storage over the summer and give them to new Internationals next year when they arrive! The Residence Office has arranged for extra storage space this summer for us, so I’d like to get as many as we can! I’ve done this in past years, and I’m hoping to do it again this year with your help. Also, if there is anything else of value that you can give, such a clothes and other items, I can arrange to give them to a local charity! So please, don’t just throw everything away at the end! Contact me and we can make arrangements to put all of this stuff to good use!

That’s all for now; see you all at the AGM and party!

Ed

The film this weekend will be The Closet, or Le Placard in the original French. The film will be shown as usual in The Arts Block, Theatre 2, at 8:00 PM!

We still have two missing jackets at my apartment (Avoca 7) left from the Dutch party, and Lars still has not been contacted about his missing jacket. The pocket has his student I.D. in it, so I hope someone realizes that they have the wrong jacket by now! Please contact me if you know who has it, or if you know anything about it; there were a few Irish people at the party when I arrived home, and I suspect one of them masy have taken it by accident, and they wouldn’t be on our e-mail list, so please ask if you know any of the Irish guys that were here if they have Lars’ jacket!

Thanks and see you all soon,

Ed

The film this weekend will be Road Trip, the American comedy about a group of university students who travel half way across the country to keep a video tape from getting to one of the guy’s girlfriends! Here’s a link to read about the film. The film will be at 8:00pm, Theatre 2 in the Arts Block, this Sunday evening!

And to answer all the questions about the trip to the botanic gardens, YES, we still have places! You can come to the film this weekend to sign-up! Or, if that’s not a good time for you, you can e-mail or text me at 087 6761959 to meet sometime to sign-up!

That’s all for now! See you at the film!

Ed

The film for this weekend will be The Last King of Scotland. Have a look &mbdash; it’s a really good film! It will begin as usual at 8:00 in Theatre 1 (or 2) in the Arts Block, this Sunday!

And, we’d like to announce some tentative dates for a day trip to the botanic gardens at Powerscourt in Enniskerry in Co. Wicklow! In addition to having some of the nicest gardens and park areas in all of Ireland, there is also access to Ireland’s highest waterfall! We are planning a trip there for either May 3 or 4 (Saturday or Sunday), and we will let you all know when we’ve set a definate date! Here’s some sites to look at to see what’s there (1, 2). Click around on these links to see what they have there– it’ll be great time for our last trip of the year! The price will be 10 EUR per person for round trip transportation from Maynooth to there and back. There are different price options for entry at the Gardens, as you can pay to see just the gardens, or the gardens and the waterfall! We’ll let you decide what you want to pay for once we arrive!

That’s all for now! Hope to see you all at the film this Sunday! And there’s still a few places for the Belfast and Galway trips, so please come by to sign-up or pay for them if you’re planning on going!

All the best,

Ed

Four things in this post: Film announcement, St. Patricks Day, Belfast Trip, Galway Trip.

First off, the film for this weekend will be Superbad. It’s a hilarious American comedy, well worth watching! Bit of a change from last week… The film will begin, as usual, at 8:00 PM, this Sunday evening in the Arts Block, Theatre 1 (or 2, depending on wether the projector plug works).

Next: St. Patrick’s Day! As every year, we arrange a meeting time to get the train into Dublin so you can all get good spots for the parade! It is important to be in town early to get good spots for the parade! The timetable says there is a train 10:30 AM from Maynooth train station going to Connolly Station, and this is the best time to go in! I’ll be working my security job all day starting at 12:00, but please come by to say hi! I’ll be at The Bailey, just off of Grafton Street! I’d love to see you there! But dress nice, otherwise I can’t let you in! Haha! Here’s a little map to help you locate the place (link).

As for the trips: we will begin sign-ups for both the Belfast and Galway trips this Sunday evening! We will be there in Theatre 1 from 7:30 pm for sign-ups!

The Belfast trip will be from 4—6 April (Fri. to Sun.), and costs 55 EUR per person. Links: 1, 2, 3

The Galway trip will be from 18—20 April (again Fri. to Sun.) and costs 60 EUR per person. Links: 1, 2, 3.

I would like to mention that each of the hostels has trips on offer that you can sign-up for right at the reception desks! The hostel in Belfast offers the Giant’s Causeway and Black Taxi Tours (Floz’ photos from last year), and the hostel in Galway offers the Connemara, Aran Islands (more photos), and Burren / Cliffs of Moher Tours! So, if you are interested in doing any of these great day trips while visiting Belfast or Galway, you can sign-up and pay for them right at the reception desks of the hostels when we arrive there!

That’s all for now! Hope to see you all this Sunday for the film and sign-ups, and also out in Dublin on St Patrick’s Day!

Ed

The film for this weekend is The Wind that Shakes the Barley, the Irish film about the struggle for Irish independence in the 1920’s. This is a very serious film, and we have to advise everyone that it has some very graphic and violent scenes in it, so just know this if you decide to come to the film on Sunday. We will begin as usual at 8:00 pm in Theatre 1 in the Arts Block.

And, we’re glad to announce that we’ve already made provisional bookings at the hostels for both of the upcoming weekend trips!

1. We will be running a trip to Belfast on the first weekend of April, from Friday April 4th to Sunday April 6th! Here’s some information about what there is to do in Belfast (1, 2).
2. Also, we will hold a trip to Galway from Friday April 18th to Sunday April 20th! This will give at least 3 weeks before the end of the semester, so that you will all have time to finish up your essays and assignments! So we hope to get good numbers turn out for both trips! Here’s some information on what there is to do in Galway (1, 2).

We will begin sign-ups for both trips very soon, once we get final prices for everything sorted out; the costs will most likely be around 60 Euro per person for each trip, and that will include round-trip transportation and 2 nights accomodation on each trip. We will let you all know very soon!

That’s all for now! See you all this Sunday at the film!

Ed

The film for this weekend will be ‘Waking Ned’, or as it was called in the U.S., ‘Waking Ned Devine’. It’s a very good Irish comedy about a man who wins the lottery, and then dies, and his friends try to collect his lottery winnings for the village he lived in! We will start as usual at 8:00 PM, Theatre 1 in the Arts Block, this Sunday evening! Here’s a link to see a better description on what the movie is about.

Also, I’ve been asked by the History Society to tell you all about a trip they are running, and they’ve offered to let International Students sign-up as well! It’s a trip to Kilmainham Jail in Dublin! This is one of the most famous prisons in Ireland, as many of the people who fought for Irish independence were held there. The history Society is running a trip there, and they’ve told me that the price will only be 4 Euro per-person! That includes the bus from here to the jail, addmission, and then back to Maynooth! The trip will be held next Saturday, March 8th. The bus will pick up from in front on the Student’s Union at 2 in the afternoon, and return around 6. They will hold sign-ups in the Arts Building this Tueday and Wednesday; I will send out more details about it when I know them! In the meantime, here’s link that talks about the jail.

Tha’s all for now! Hope to see you all at the film!

Ed

I hope everyone has been having a nice week! We’re just letting you know about a few events going on in the next week!

Next Wednesday (Feb. 20) there will be a charity 70’s fancy dress night in aid of the Marie Keating Foundation. The NUIM Snooker Club, the Maynooth Gospel Choir, the Paintball Club and NUIM Geography Society are presenting and organising it. The evening in the SU will be featuring (from what I’m told) a very good Elvis impersonator (he won Elvis Idol 2007 in Las Vegas!), as well as a Tina Turner Impersonator! And, our own Gospel Choir will be joining them for the show! We have a few of our own in the Choir, including Floz!

It’s sure to be a great night, so go on and get yourself some tickets for it! And the best part is, if you live on campus, the tickets only costs 2 EUR! You can buy your tickets at Maeve’s office (that’s the Student’s Reception office right at the River Apartments)! Get them quick! They’re selling fast! All proceeds from the show will be going to charity!

And, in honour of this event, our next film night (this Sunday 17 Feb.) we’ll be showing the recent musical Hairspray! The film will begin at 8:00 in the evening this Sunday, Theatre 1 in the Arts Block. Hope to see you all there!

Just so you know, we will send out final details about the Ring of Kerry trip (exact departure and return times) early next week.

All the best,

Ed

I want to start by saying thanks to all who signed-up for the Ring of Kerry trip, and sorry to those who didn’t get on the list; we’re limited because of the fact that we have our driver and bus booked for the entire weekend, something we don’t do for the other trips. But we can assure you that there are (generally) no limits on how many people can go on the other trips we will hold later this semester! For example, we had nearly 80 people go on each of our trips to Cork and Belfast last semester, and we’ll be able to do the same for the trips we do later in this semester as well.

The film this weekend, in honour of the recent tragic death of actor Heath Ledger, will be the film for which he will be best remembered, Brokeback Mountain. The film will begin as usual at 8:00 PM, this Sunday in the Arts Block, Theatre 1. You can always check what’s on over at the activities page.

And someone wanted me to mention it to our new members: A big number of our members are on Facebook, and networking through this has helped the process of meeting and connecting a little easier. So look out for others out there, join our group there or register yourself to help meet some of the cool people that are here in Maynooth! I of course am not cool, as I don’t have a Facebook page! Haha!

Anyway, hope to see you all soon, and I hope all the new people have enjoyed their first week of the semester!

All the best,

Ed

I hope all of you have had a nice time at home during the holidays! I also never had the opportunity to say thank you all for making it such a great semester! It was one of the best we’ve ever had, and I’m so glad that everything went so well and that so many people participated in Society events. Thank you all for making it such a great success and an excellent semester; without your participation, the Society wouldn’t have been the great success that it has been. It has made all the work worth it, and I thank you all for making it so great.

As for this semester, we’ve got the first trip planned and booked! We’re just waiting to hear back from the Bus company so we can announce the final prices! The trip is the Ring of Kerry Tour, and the dates are Feb 22-24! We will leave in the early afternoon of Friday 22 and return in the late evening on Sunday 24. Here are some websites that will show you what there is to see and do down there (1, 2, 3).

What our trip will include is this: 2 nights in a very good hostel in Killarney, free breakfast and wireless internet included! Our bus driver will also be staying with us to take us on the actual Ring of Kerry Tour on Saturday! The Ring tour lasts all day Saturday, and is one of the best and most breathtaking places in all of Ireland, and is probably the best bus tour in the country. We will then have most of the day in Killarney on Sunday, and start to make our way back to Maynooth in the late afternoon.

The tentative price for the trip is 75 Euro per person for everything! This includes the return bus trip there and back, as well as the actual Ring of Kerry tour on Saturday, and the 2 nights in the hostel with breakfast! A pretty good deal if you ask me! Take a look at Florian’s photos from the trip last year!

We will know the final price very soon, and we will begin sign-ups very soon! And also, for those of you who are here for the full year, I will be giving you the first opportunity to sign-up for the trip! Remember that we can only have a maximum of 54 on the trip, as we will only have 1 bus going on the trip!

That’s all for now, we’ll be in touch again very soon! Thanks again to all that participated in the Society last semester and made it such a great success. And to those who are not coming back for the second semester, thank you for letting us be a part of your experience of Ireland, and it was a pleasure to meet you all; our hope is that we’ve been able to make your time here more memorable, and hopefully your memories of the trips and the friends you’ve made will be some of your best that you have from your time here. Remember us, remember me, and always remember what I hope you will all come to think of as one of the best experiences of your life. Thanks…

Ed

Sorry it took until today (Saturday) to announce the film for this week; this is a hectic time of year for everyone! Anyway, for the last film of the semester, and since we didn’t do it yet, we decided to show something Irish! We will be showing the Irish comedy Intermission, starring Colin Farrell.

I hope to see you all there! Be sure to bring some drinks and something to eat! The film begins at 8:00, Theatre 1 in the Arts Block.

All the best,

Ed

How is it going? Tired of studying / writing the 137th essay . . . ? Looking for some diversion ?

There is a concert (actually 3 concerts in 1) in the Aula Maxima tonight (Thursday 13 Dec). The Choral Society, Somebody Else (?) and the Gospel Choir are performing their end-of-year gigs. There are a number of international students performing too, so all the more reason to check it out and get a nice change from all the uni work. There are not too many cultural events happening here in Maynooth, so you shouldn’t miss this one!

Sorry for the late notice, but doors open (tonight!) at 7:00, the concerts start at 7:30 (I think), and goes for about 2 hours (maximum). Not sure how much it costs to get in, but it shouldn’t be too much, especially not for students.

For those who don’t know the Aula Maxima, it’s the free standing building on your left as you walk onto the South Campus coming from the footbridge, and across the small bridge over that little river. (That’s Building 3 on this map).

Hope to see you all there, good luck with the exams and essays,

best regards,

Floz

I just want to tell you all that there will be only one bus to Newgrange on Saturday. We filled the first booking, but we only go 5 people for the second. So there will be 54 of us going to Newgrange. Everyone that signed up before Sunday can still go on the trip, but there will only be the one bus, so we all must go at the same time. I’ll contact everyone that signed up for the seond booking individually to explain what will happen.

As for the trip itself, we will be getting the bus at 8:30am from in front of the Student’s Union building this Saturday morning. Don’t be late!! We will be leaving at 8:30am exactly! Our booking begins at 10:00, so we have to be there on time! Let me know if there are any questions then!

As for the film this Sunday evening, we are still open to suggestions! We’re hoping to show a comedy, so let us know what you’d like to see (or if you have the DVD), and we’ll see what we can do!

That’s it for now! All the best!

Ed

Just to let you all know, we still have some spaces left for the trip to Newgrange next Saturday 8 Dec! If you’d still like to sign-up, you can come over to the film this Sunday to put your name down, or you can contact me at 087 6761959 to arrange to meet sometime if you can’t make it to the film then! Remember, the 15 EUR covers the round trip on the bus as well as admission to Newgrange.

As for the film this Sunday, we will be showing “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. Here is a link to tell you what the film is about if you’ve never seen it.

I hope to see you all there! Be sure to come out to the film on Sunday to sign-up for the Newgrange trip! The film will start as usual at 8:00 pm in Theatre 1 in the Arts Block!

That’s all for now; see you there!

Ed

As mentioned in the last email, please come and support the NUI Maynooth Volleyball Club — it’s run by Matthieu, Simone and myself, and consists pretty much only of international students!

We will be playing two games tomorrow (Wednesday 28 Nov), in the main sports hall. First game starts at 11:00, the other at 12:30.

Please help us win these League games, I’m sure it’ll be fun to watch!

Thanks a million, and see you tomorrow hopefully,

Florian

UPDATE: Thank you all so much for coming, we had a great time and some cheering ladies really make a difference! Here are some photos from the event.

As you all (may or may not) know, Ed is away right now, but he’ll be back by Friday. He says hi and misses you all very much. Sorry you have to put up with me in the meantime

First of all, thank you very much for coming along to Cork and making it such a smooth and fun trip! Nobody got hurt [hang-overs not included], or missing, or in trouble, that’s awesome I just finished uploading the pictures I took – as usual you can find them on my flickr account. If you want to download some of the pictures, please make sure you follow these instructions.

Regarding the Belfast trip sign-ups — no, it is not to late yet. The last opportunity for signing up as well as paying (if you haven’t payed yet!) will be …

… The next movie night is going to be this coming Sunday, 18 November, and we will show “Hotel Rwanda”. That’s a bit of a more serious film this time, but absolutely worthwhile watching. Thank you all for your suggestions for movies, keep those coming!

All right, that’s it for now, enjoy the rest of the week and talk to you soon about some more activities that we are planning right now!

As for Cork, thank you very much to everyone that has signed up for the trip! We have 75 people booked for the trip right now! If you are still interested in going to Cork but have not signed-up yet, please contact me as soon as possible! We need to give the hostel the final numbers for our booking very soon, so please don’t wait to contact us! We will have to cut-off the sign-ups Sunday evening!

And also, because there are so many people going on the trip to Cork, we will have to get some of our people to go there by train (advantages: you can leave later than 1 pm. If you are willing to volunteer to go to Cork by train, please contact us about this. We ask that only people that already have a Student Travel Card volunteer for this, as it’s too expensive without it. We will sort out all the details about travel times and prices individually with each person who volunteers to go by train. More details on Sunday at the movie.

Thanks everyone! We’ll see you this weekend!

PS: If you have any photos from the Glendalough trip publicly accessible, please send us the link so we can add it to the Photos page. Thanks!

Concerning the trip to Cork, the final price has been set at 60 EUR per person. As mentioned before, the dates are Nov. 9 to Nov. 11. We will post when sign-ups will begin and all the details about the trip here in the next couple of days. Please be sure to check back to this awesome web page We would like to use it as the main way to get information out to you.

 
Last, we will be showing the film L’Auberge Espagnole as our first film of the semester. It will be in Theatre 1 in the Arts Block, 8:00 PM start-time on Sunday evening, after the trip. All film related announcements will be posted here on the Activities page.

Thanks to everyone who has signed up for the trip to Glendalough! It should be a really good time! Pray for good weather! See you all there!