I hope everyone's enjoying RAG week!

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Because I seriously doubt we'll have it next year! College road is already completely insane, I was walking up about five thirty this afternoon and it was like something from 28 days later. Some bunch of eejits had dragged their dining room furniture out on to the front lawn and set it on fire, people were already messily drunk, and the place was a tip-bins overturned etc. I've heard two sirens going by in the past while which I assume are student related, and apparently there's guys going around slipping into house parties and robbing rooms. The state of the place by Thursday is going to be ridiculous.

People:SAVE YOUR DEBAUCHERY FOR THE B-TOWN! Get their **** cancelled, not ours!I dread to think what town's like atm.

Papa_Lazarou

Town was actualy kinda quiet last night as in there wasnt much trouble.Well around 2.20 anyway.Have seen town a lot lot worse.

Alan Smith

:eek: Just walked past there, didn't seem TOO destroyed. I suppose it's early in the week still, though.

deRanged

most of the life rings on the western road are gone. that's helpful. other than that I didn't see much evidence, but it's early days.

quincyk

From what I believe, Rag-week campus events have been canceled after last night's tragedy.

mobius42

Does anyone know what actually happened? I just heard someone was killed.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0210/1233867929444.html

Apparently someone ran themselves over.

Seraphicblue

ahhh
no so good
and thats everything cancelled for the week yes?

Alan Smith

I heard that it has all been cancelled too but there are still tickets been sold for events.

ReacherCreature

Darius Famous Surname wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0210/1233867929444.html

Apparently someone ran themselves over.

:eek:

Burklert

I can confirm, Rag Week is entirely canceled.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

How? Campus stuff might be cancelled, but tbh I seriously doubt the clubs give enough of a **** to cancel anything that's planned. Gorby's and Fast Eddie's are hardly going to give people refunds out of respect for the guy.

quincyk

Darius Famous Surname wrote: »

How? Campus stuff might be cancelled, but tbh I seriously doubt the clubs give enough of a **** to cancel anything that's planned. Gorby's and Fast Eddie's are hardly going to give people refunds out of respect for the guy.

Afaik, it's just campus events.

razorblunt

I think its important to distinguish this tragedy from drunk students. Not fair on the lad or his family.

Alan Smith

Out of campus events will be still on, as far as I know. I can hardly see the bands who were scheduled to play being too happy as well as people who had bought tickets for events, so I'd imagine things like the Corona's gig etc will be still on.

It's very quiet around college now, at the minute.

razorblunt

Alan Smith wrote: »

Out of campus events will be still on, as far as I know. I can hardly see the bands who were scheduled to play being too happy as well as people who had bought tickets for events, so I'd imagine things like the Corona's gig etc will be still on.

It's very quiet around college now, at the minute.

It is actually as I've just said over on the PROC, theres a weird atmosphere on campus. Had to be cancelled out of respect in fairness.

See FEddies and Gorbys people still handing out fliers so looks like town will be busy, I'd say the clubs will be very strict tonight.

Alan Smith

It's quite sad but I hope people don't come to conclusion's about stereotypical piss head student etc.

deRanged

razorblunt wrote: »

, theres a weird atmosphere on campus.

there really is. never seen the place like that.

thebigcheese22

Argh my first Rag week and might be the last

My heart goes out to the guys family in Limerick tho.

Your right, the atmosphere is really weird, people are going to lectures and stuff when they never planned to so people aren't in the best mood.

Apparantly he was friends with the SU lads so its kinda understandable that things were cancelled....still sucks tho

deRanged

gavinok

Crustyjuggler, you are a horrible human being!
Have you no respect for his family and friends? You clearly don't for yourself you idiotic pill head. I doubt you have enough brain cells left to even read, let alone be in college

The Gardai have called his death a "freak accident" so i doubt drink was involved. My deepest sympathy goes out to all of his family and friends

Fabio

No drink involved, could have happened at any time but it's a sad conincidence that it happened on the same night as the other messy stuff.

Condolensces to the guys family and his friends for this must be a very hard time for them.

A tragedy to die so young on a week we are supposedly meant to be enjoying ourselves.

Eerry feeling about the place today.

titan18

gavinok wrote: »

Crustyjuggler, you are a horrible human being!
Have you no respect for his family and friends? You clearly don't for yourself you idiotic pill head. I doubt you have enough brain cells left to even read, let alone be in college

The Gardai have called his death a "freak accident" so i doubt drink was involved. My deepest sympathy goes out to all of his family and friends

My deepest sympathies to his family and friends too, but I dont doubt that the SU's decision was influenced by the idiots who lit their furniture on fire.I also imagine that their was some drink involved in the death, even though it was a "freak accident".

fredmc

crustyjuggler wrote: »

I heard about the burning furniture last night alright .

I live a few doors down from them, AFAIK they're getting evicted. The landlord seems to like them which is why they've gotten away with so much ****e this year.

My sympathies to the guy's family. Any official word from college 'bout it? I've only got an e-mail from the Chaplaincy about the mass today, would've thought the SU would have e-mailed too

crustyjuggler

gavinok wrote: »

Crustyjuggler, you are a horrible human being!
Have you no respect for his family and friends? You clearly don't for yourself you idiotic pill head. I doubt you have enough brain cells left to even read, let alone be in college

The Gardai have called his death a "freak accident" so i doubt drink was involved. My deepest sympathy goes out to all of his family and friends

I am not a pill head and I do have deepest sympathy for the family . I presumed the death was linked with the drunken morons burning the furniture . My mistake .

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

To clear up any confusion:this thread was started as a general rant against the carry on along college road, and I posted it before the news of the death broke. As far as anyone knows the lad who died was stone cold sober, to assume otherwise is unfair to him and his family. A debate about the benefits of E versus alcohol really isn't relevant

Alan Smith

fredmc wrote: »

I live a few doors down from them, AFAIK they're getting evicted. The landlord seems to like them which is why they've gotten away with so much ****e this year.

From what I've heard from neighbours of their's they are going to be evicted.

Also, I've heard a couple of times that RAG week will go ahead tomorrow. Not heard anything official but the SU ticket office is only refunding today's events- there's a sign outside the office.

fredmc

Alan Smith wrote: »

From what I've heard from neighbours of their's they are going to be evicted.

Also, I've heard a couple of times that RAG week will go ahead tomorrow. Not heard anything official but the SU ticket office is only refunding today's events- there's a sign outside the office.

The SU President-dude called to all the houses on College road. He said that only today's events are cancelled, the rest of the week is still on. I'm looking forward to abseiling off the Kane on Thursday:D

Heisenberg.

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Blarney92

Apparently the lads aren't getting evicted- it was just someone lighting something in the house and they dropped it on the ground and the curtains went on fire. It spread to some furniture and instead of calling the fire brigade they got the bright idea of taking it outside and pouring buckets of water on it.

The new bar are back serving alcohol tomorrow and afaik all on campus events are cancelled for the week. Not sure if this is true but the echo has a front page story on it.

As for the lad killed- complete accident, non alcohol related and just a coincidence it happened during RAG week

nesf

crustyjuggler wrote: »

I am not a pill head and I do have deepest sympathy for the family . I presumed the death was linked with the drunken morons burning the furniture . My mistake .

I deleted your original post since it's pissing people off so much.

Alan Smith

Blarney92 wrote: »

The new bar are back serving alcohol tomorrow and afaik all on campus events are cancelled for the week. Not sure if this is true but the echo has a front page story on it.

Events will continue but alcohol will not be serve until after 6pm.

The Echo would have been gone to press before any decision like this would have been made.

Orizio

Threat closed lest people continue to link alcoholism with the young man's death.

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