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Templars Hall ..Getting out of Hand..

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    In fairness..journalism these days is just rehashing stuff you see on twitter/Facebook/boards...he at least got off his arse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭iphonehead


    In fairness..journalism these days is just rehashing stuff you see on twitter/Facebook/boards...he at least got off his arse

    Its my point exactly - at least he tried and went out there. I'm not being pro-WLR, or lauding any production values (although I did think this report was particularly well 'mixed' if thats the word), I'm simply saying that at least this guy went out there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Tragamin2k2


    rabble rabble rabble some buzz everyone callin students this n that but if ya even spell travellers wrong ya get a boards baitin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭letsbet


    merlante wrote: »
    CAO points for degree courses for this year are available here. These are absolute minimum points, not averages or highs:



    In most cases, the weakest students in the year are around the 300 mark. That might put the average at 350. In some cases, such as Architecture, Psychology and Nursing the minimum is 380-400, meaning the average might be 400-450.

    So to say that very few would have gotten above 350 is ridiculous. 350 is more like the average, or below the average, for degree programmes.

    No it isn't. The poster is spot on in what they say about these low achievers. Take that from someone who has attended or lectured in three third-level institutes in Ireland. What the average points are is not the issue anyway - it's the quantity of students with very low points - and that's increasing every year. Don't forget that you don't have to get the minimum points anyway to get into the course. There are loads of students in WIT that don't belong in third-level education. They should be doing a trade or something else. They have no interest in being there, and often become angry and disillusioned with nothing other to do than cause trouble. Before someone says that I'm generalising - I'm not, I'm talking about a significant minority of students - most of them are decent and don't go out causing trouble or wasting taxpayers money. That's not being snobbish btw it's an observation from the majority of the staff out there that I've talked to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,691 ✭✭✭michellie


    rabble rabble rabble some buzz everyone callin students this n that but if ya even spell travellers wrong ya get a boards baitin

    People are calling these students this and that because they are "this and that". This particular bunch are nothin but little scumbags who are ruining the lives of people who put every penny they own into their houses to have to put up with sh!t from little fucxers who think they can do what they want.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭MikeyReilly


    Just listened to the special report on WLR's website. Felt myself getting more angry as the report went on. The barefaced cheek of the students that he interviewed. Would they're replys be so smartarsed if he was a Guard? Or if they're own parents were listening? Don't think so.

    I used to be a resident of Templars Hall. Bought a house there June 2004 and had sold it again by January 2005! It was exactly as it is now seven years later. Rang the Gardai on many occasions and to be fair they can only call and tell them to turn the music off and keep the noise down. If we hadn't got out when we did god knows what I would have done. There was a couple of nights when my wife had to physically stop me from going out to them with a hurley.

    The W.I.T. and the Students Union really need to sort this problem out not just in Templars Hall but all the estates around the town that have a high number of students renting houses. They need to get tougher with these little ****s causing all this aggro. Throw them out of college if they keep doing it. I also think the Gardai could adopt a zero tolerance approach to the anti-social behaviour. If your drinking cans on the street you get arrested. Simple as that.

    I don't live in the city anymore but I really sympathise with the residents of Templars Hall. If nothing is done about this problem I feel something bad will eventually happen. You can only push people so far before they snap.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭samsham




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭letsbet


    Was it the wan who is doing a psychology degree the same wan that was babbling on about being forced to go out. She never even heard of the phrase peer pressure! Those poor people living there - your heart would go out to them having to deal with that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Absolute gob****es. I bet even when sober they think they're doing nothing wrong and that the residents are a pain in the hole. I come across spastics like this a lot, they can't accept they're doing anything wrong ever and substitute their own realities thinking that what they're doing is okay.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭letsbet


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    Absolute gob****es. I bet even when sober they think they're doing nothing wrong and that the residents are a pain in the hole. I come across spastics like this a lot, they can't accept they're doing anything wrong ever and substitute their own realities thinking that what they're doing is okay.

    Try telling them to stop talking or texting in class only for them to tell you that they weren't even though you saw them. They'll swear blindly to you that they didn't. Sometimes they'll then admit to it and almost give out to you for daring to tell (or ask) them to stop. They'll then shrug their shoulders, sigh and do everything in their power not to say "am I bovered". Probably the same fella who gave out to the interviewer from WLR for saying mmm instead of "yes or no" would be the one who wouldn't even answer you in class when you ask them what they're doing. Complete wasters.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    letsbet wrote: »
    Try telling them to stop talking or texting in class only for them to tell you that they weren't even though you saw them. They'll swear blindly to you that they didn't. Sometimes they'll then admit to it and almost give out to you for daring to tell (or ask) them to stop. They'll then shrug their shoulders, sigh and do everything in their power not to say "am I bovered". Probably the same fella who gave out to the interviewer from WLR for saying mmm instead of "yes or no" would be the one who wouldn't even answer you in class when you ask them what they're doing. Complete wasters.

    Yes, they will defend their innocence to the last and make a big fuss over it even though they obviously are at fault. Its like some mental disease people have, Im not sure what you would call it. They shouldn't even be in college and really don't deserve it. Thousands of college places are wasted every year by these dopes.
    It seems its becoming more prevalent amongst people these days and makes me worried about the state the general public will be in in the future if they wont ever learn to accept their wrongs.

    I could rant on all night about this but I think its time for me to sleep. At least Ill be getting a good one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    At least Ill be getting a good one.
    Show off :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭savic04


    Its so near the college that its always going to get students live there, Lismore Pk was the same for years..... I find it hard to even think about that happening regularly around me where im living and them getting away with it. There are a few houses around here with students in them, but none are half as bad as that...

    I woudlnt be able for 1 smart remark from a fella in the cold light of day, let alone at 12midnight from a smart little ****er while my kids try to sleep, I would def be in prison at this stage...

    Something more should be done, WLR has raised the issue and fair play to em, but something further needs to be done, to prevent this happening in private estates.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭samsham


    There is three blocks of apartments on the college grounds, you can't get any closer to WIT than that. There is never any trouble there, why? because there would be consequences to any anti-social behavior. The Garda allowed this to fester. Cautions were the response to these thugs and there behavior in the past. Who's afraid of a lame caution.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 billabong24


    I'm a student in WIT and also I live in Templars. While I feel awful for what the residents have had to put up with for the past number of years, I cannot condone what I witnessed outside my own house last night. First of all, a house party was commencing next door last night, the only way I knew about this was when I opened my front door to see if there was any commotion happening outside. The landlords and students union of WIT were on board and had dealt with the issue very quickly. For those of you who think there is not a sufficient amount of time being put into solving the problem in Templars, you are wrong. From the hours of approx 10-4 every Monday and Wednesday night without fail, the students union are out patrolling the streets and breaking up house parties which are getting out of hand. Last night, I would not have known there was any form of house party going on next door if I hadn't gone outside. I heard nothing and I was sitting in my front sitting room. I too have woken up in the early hours to hear people coming back from nightclubs, but I've come immune to it at this stage, it's the way of life in Waterford, especially for college.

    As for what I witnessed last night, I am still extremely upset and angered by this. At half 11 last night approximately 30 residents arrived at my front door surrounding 1 student; they were screaming and shouting at him and this student was obviously extremely distressed as he knocked on my front door trying to get inside and away from them. Next thing was the residents banging down my front door shouting that we were having a house party inside and for us all to get out. My house mate and I were the only ones in the house at the time and as two girls on our own in a house with a large number of angry people outside we were terrified! So much for my quite night in watching tv...The residents are targeting the wrong students in Templars Hall, before last night I felt genuinely sorry for them, but now, that feeling has somewhat changed quite a bit!! Something has to be done before someone gets hurt.. I'm sensing flames and pitchforks appearing next week in Templars.. help!!!

    On an end note, for the person who said that most students in WIT are not high achievers, go take a long walk off a short plank.. Some of the most respected and well known characters in Ireland today have come out of WIT, and I hope to be among that proud list in years to come.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    That doesn't sound fun billabong. If there was 30 there last night I can only imagine it won't be long till it kicks off out there.
    It's people like yourself and the locals that suffer with this carry on.

    Regarding the low acheivers comment. Don't mind that shyte.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭samsham


    billabong24 Quote "My house mate and I were the only ones in the house at the time and as two girls on our own in a house with a large number of angry people outside we were terrified"

    You just described what it must be like for parents alone with small kids as thugs outside shout and roar breaking beer bottles, even killing each other. The residents your describing were with local councilors, Come on now, why would anyone fear their local Councillor. But we believe you..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭letsbet


    On an end note, for the person who said that most students in WIT are not high achievers, go take a long walk off a short plank.. Some of the most respected and well known characters in Ireland today have come out of WIT, and I hope to be among that proud list in years to come.

    Are people incapable of logical thought or can people just not read. The person said that most students in WIT are not high achievers. Just because some great people have come from WIT doesn't contradict that in the slightest. The percentage of wasters out there is on the increase. If you find a post where someone said that every single student out there is a waster then fine - otherwise your argument makes no sense. WIT is in some respects a great college with some great courses, students, lecturers. However, the steadily growing minority are ruining it for everyone unfortunately these are the people that the citizens of Waterford come in contact with. Understandably, WLR aren't going to go into the library and report on all the good students diligently studying or go to the homes of people who are in bed before midnight because they actually go to classes the next morning. All students shoudn't be judged by the standards of a good few dickheads but saying that some great people have come out of WIT doesn't alter the fact that a huge number of students have no place in third level education and are wasting their own time, their lecturers' time, taxpayers money and often ruining the lives of people who are unfortunate enough to live near them (and to some degree the people in their class who suffer from disruption due to their poor behaviour on the rare ocassions that they deign to turn up for class).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    samsham wrote: »
    billabong24 Quote "My house mate and I were the only ones in the house at the time and as two girls on our own in a house with a large number of angry people outside we were terrified"

    You just described what it must be like for parents alone with small kids as thugs outside shout and roar breaking beer bottles, even killing each other. The residents your describing were with local councilors, Come on now, why would anyone fear their local Councillor. But we believe you..
    how is she supposed to know who the councillors are? I'm living in waterford all me life and could only name 2 councillors, I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Nypd


    Saw a post on Facebook today, a local man is calling for a group to go out to Templars on Monday night to show support for residents out there.
    Gatherings like that have the potential to go seriously wrong.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭chelloveks


    seanybiker wrote: »
    how is she supposed to know who the councillors are? I'm living in waterford all me life and could only name 2 councillors, I think.

    The councillor was the coxuker with his hand out asking for donations and votes to get reelected next term. Probably the loudest mouth too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭deisedave


    Why is everyone making such a fuss about Templar's Hall when Manor street is 1000x times worse every night, I am trying to sleep now and I can hear every beat from Harvey's night club and I have to be up early. Are night clubs allowed have there music so loud is there any steps I could take?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭samsham


    seanybiker wrote: »
    how is she supposed to know who the councillors are? I'm living in waterford all me life and could only name 2 councillors, I think.

    What I am suggesting is there were two councilors there most of the nights this week. I don't expect her to know them, my point is I don't think local councilors are going to side with a mob badger baiting a wee lone student fleeing an angry croud. I am sure the wee student that was fleeing the Mob who incidentally they did not answer the door to, yet knew he did nothing is fine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭wobbles


    letsbet wrote: »
    Are people incapable of logical thought or can people just not read. The person said that most students in WIT are not high achievers. Just because some great people have come from WIT doesn't contradict that in the slightest. The percentage of wasters out there is on the increase. If you find a post where someone said that every single student out there is a waster then fine - otherwise your argument makes no sense. WIT is in some respects a great college with some great courses, students, lecturers. However, the steadily growing minority are ruining it for everyone unfortunately these are the people that the citizens of Waterford come in contact with. Understandably, WLR aren't going to go into the library and report on all the good students diligently studying or go to the homes of people who are in bed before midnight because they actually go to classes the next morning. All students shoudn't be judged by the standards of a good few dickheads but saying that some great people have come out of WIT doesn't alter the fact that a huge number of students have no place in third level education and are wasting their own time, their lecturers' time, taxpayers money and often ruining the lives of people who are unfortunate enough to live near them (and to some degree the people in their class who suffer from disruption due to their poor behaviour on the rare ocassions that they deign to turn up for class).

    Its true that there are a load of wasters in WIT who, a couple of years ago would have left school early to do a trade or something. But this is not just the case in WIT. This is the case all over the country encompassing universities and institutes alike. With little unskilled jobs available compared to a few years ago, these people end up going to college. They bring down the level of of students and have no place in college


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Nypd wrote: »
    Saw a post on Facebook today, a local man is calling for a group to go out to Templars on Monday night to show support for residents out there.
    Gatherings like that have the potential to go seriously wrong.

    Ha yeah I got the invite meself. he's sound out the organiser of that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 455 ✭✭Elbows22


    seanybiker wrote: »
    Ha yeah I got the invite meself. he's sound out the organiser of that.

    We should all stop off at Madigans and get a bag of cans and show them we can party more :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Nypd


    seanybiker wrote: »
    Nypd wrote: »
    Saw a post on Facebook today, a local man is calling for a group to go out to Templars on Monday night to show support for residents out there.
    Gatherings like that have the potential to go seriously wrong.

    Ha yeah I got the invite meself. he's sound out the organiser of that.

    What's your thoughts on it, it's good to show support, but I feel something like this just adds to the mob mentality that seems to be brewing out there.
    I feel it could lead to normal decent folk lowering themselves to the level of the trouble makers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 cataclysm


    We're going to have a riot :D and Its the students and WIT that will end up getting hurt

    Billabong that sounds terrible!
    I was driving past last night and I saw a dozen or so local residents standing at the entrance to Templars.

    I wouldnt like to be anyone near Templars right now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    There's an element of "idiot abroad" to the whole thing. (and I don't mean the Karl pilkington version). You can be sure that if any of these students were to have a party back in Wexford or wherever they're from, they'd have a bit more respect for their neighbours. Maybe if the residents met the students at the start, introduced themselves...then it might lead to some kind of mutual respect.

    Probably not though.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Nypd wrote: »
    What's your thoughts on it, it's good to show support, but I feel something like this just adds to the mob mentality that seems to be brewing out there.
    I feel it could lead to normal decent folk lowering themselves to the level of the trouble makers.
    I be the same. It's great that people are supporting the locals and the genuine grand students but as you said, it could easily turn crazy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭samsham


    Your all getting a bit excited here, this is Ireland, you know the country that is crippled with bank debt, taking pay cuts and tax hikes. Unlike Greece, we don't do Mob rule. Most likely outcome will be the Garda start doing their Job.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    samsham wrote: »
    Your all getting a bit excited here, this is Ireland, you know the country that is crippled with bank debt, taking pay cuts and tax hikes. Unlike Greece, we don't do Mob rule. Most likely outcome will be the Garda start doing their Job.
    why does everything always have to come back to the recession. We all know the country is knackered , we don't need to bring the recession into people acting the eegit in a housing estate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭6600


    letsbet wrote: »
    No it isn't. The poster is spot on in what they say about these low achievers. Take that from someone who has attended or lectured in three third-level institutes in Ireland. What the average points are is not the issue anyway - it's the quantity of students with very low points - and that's increasing every year. Don't forget that you don't have to get the minimum points anyway to get into the course. There are loads of students in WIT that don't belong in third-level education. They should be doing a trade or something else. They have no interest in being there, and often become angry and disillusioned with nothing other to do than cause trouble. Before someone says that I'm generalising - I'm not, I'm talking about a significant minority of students - most of them are decent and don't go out causing trouble or wasting taxpayers money. That's not being snobbish btw it's an observation from the majority of the staff out there that I've talked to.

    On reading back my post I realise there were a lot of generalizations but the above poster has made the point better than I could. There are a lot of people in college who are just wasting theirs and everyone elses time. Sometimes this leads to disillusionment and antisocial behaviour, that's all I'm saying. It seems to be an unspoken truth in Waterford that this is the case, due to the money these students spend locally.

    By the way I work in Waterford and have actually lived in Templar's Hall with friends who were WIT students so my comments were based on my experiences. Sorry if I offended anyone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,691 ✭✭✭✭KevIRL


    WWN on the ball as usual

    http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/?p=1413

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    FAMILIES evicted from the Dale Farm Travellers’ site in Essex are said to be outraged at both the UK and Irish governments bid to send them to the student run housing estate of Templars Hall in Waterford City, a spokesman for the group said today.

    John Anthony Reilly said there was no way in the world that the 86 families would agree to move to such an ‘abominable‘ location, and that the suggestion was both ‘ludicrous‘ and ‘degrading’ to the of the travelling people of the British Isles.

    “Are you Kidding me boss? Templars ****ing Hall? I’d rather grate me eyeballs and wash them with lime.”

    Mr. Reilly also stated that by even suggesting such a move goes to show the ‘unsympathetic nature of the settled people living in the two nations’.

    His comments came as WWN learned that the government has blocked attempts by the UN to help negotiate a deal between Travellers at the Dale Farm site and Basildon council, which is set to send the traveller clan back to Ireland.

    An 11th-hour meeting, which tried to pitch the move to Templars Hall, was shortly cancelled after residents realised of the governments intentions.

    A spokesman for the Basildon council said: “Well it was worth a shot. They obviously know the estate somehow and got wind of the situation there with the students.

    “We thought it was a safe bet as its only a newly formed estate.”

    “They’re cute hoors all the same. I’ll give them that.” he added

    Police said they had received intelligence that protesters inside Dale Farm are willing to douse themselves in petrol and light it, rather than move to the troubled student based estate. Sources say the travellers are also even thinking of re-negotiating the terms with the council after news of the relocation plan.

    An insider told WWN today: “Families are worried now for their own safety. We all know about that ****hole in Waterford. No one wants to go there. Some of the families have already made their way back home to their own housing estates in Limerick.

    “It is terribly sad and I am disappointed. I thought we might get one of them brand new Ghost estates in Leitrim or something.

    “As for Templars Hall! YOU CAN GO **** YOURSELF BOSS! Not even we are that ****ing crazy!” she added.

    At the site several travellers had chained themselves to Police in a bold bid to get arrested so they wouldn’t have to leave the country. Some residents have already pleaded to ‘let them go in peace‘ and openly begged them not to relocate their kind to Waterford.

    Mark Johnson, chairman for the Basildon council, said he fully supported his decision to threaten the traveller group with the move to Templars Hall.

    “It was a last resort and I hope these people get the message.

    “We mean business, and if that incorporates threats such as this, then so be it.”


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Wwn are great for the news.


    Did Ye see the video report released on Monday by them.

    The Russian fella in it is the coolest person I ever seen in my life. I really wish I was him. :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,621 ✭✭✭Ferris_Bueller


    This is going to get really nasty, really quick. No doubt that in the next week or two there will be violence, what are the gangs or residents hoping for by walking around threatening students?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 areyahwell


    To be fair, its a minority of students that cause trouble.

    I only moved down a few weeks ago, and a friend was over to have a look at the house at about 7 or 8 in the evening... The resident from across the road came out and keyd his car.

    Explain that? Now i wanto go and party and drive that house mad.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    areyahwell wrote: »
    To be fair, its a minority of students that cause trouble.

    I only moved down a few weeks ago, and a friend was over to have a look at the house at about 7 or 8 in the evening... The resident from across the road came out and keyd his car.

    Explain that? Now i wanto go and party and drive that house mad.

    Iv heard similar accusations before but tbh if your so sure - report it to the guards.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 areyahwell


    Unfortunately the Guards would just laugh at me. :s

    I am very sure because the resident came out of the house and gave my friend alot of verbal abuse as he drove away.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 744 ✭✭✭angry_fox


    areyahwell wrote: »
    Unfortunately the Guards would just laugh at me. :s

    I am very sure because the resident came out of the house and gave my friend alot of verbal abuse as he drove away.

    why would they laugh at you?

    was there any trouble out there last night


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Nypd


    areyahwell wrote: »
    To be fair, its a minority of students that cause trouble.

    I only moved down a few weeks ago, and a friend was over to have a look at the house at about 7 or 8 in the evening... The resident from across the road came out and keyd his car.

    Explain that? Now i wanto go and party and drive that house mad.

    And that's a fair point, it's this kind of tit for tat that will esculate things further,

    It would be wise to report incidents like that, regardless of what you think the Garda would do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭samsham


    Its strange how the Student complex closest to WIT has no such problems. College fields Located on WIT grounds has no such reputation, in fact never heard as much as a whisper from there. Perhaps because those who live on it know there would be consequence to bad behavior from the college authorities, who own it. Unlike in Templars hall where bad behavior has been ignored for far too long. There is no excusing anyone's bad behavior, but you cant keep people up until 4am listening to a drunken mob and not expect consequences.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Did the landlords do anything to try and stop this or was it just a little "ah lads stop it" thing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭south


    Friday, 30 September 2011
    Templars Hall
    I’d like to thank everyone who commented on yesterday’s report on WLR from Templar’s Hall in Waterford. Of course it was nice to have so much positive feedback, and those who expressed reservations about the piece have given me food for thought in the coming days. I have to admit, the confrontations with drunken revelers were kinda fun (and what you heard was pretty much what happened, I don’t believe in stitching people up in the editing room), but the thought of anyone trying to bring up their family in this environment was profoundly upsetting. I went to Templar’s Hall on Monday night to see just how bad the anti-social behaviour engaged in by some of the students in rented houses there is. Context is everything. This is a demographic mis-match. If there were no families living in Templars Hall I suppose the behaviour would fall under youthful joie de vivre and they’d left to their own devices. Although students who go to college primarily to study (they do exist) might still have cause to complain. However the fact is that families do live in Templar’s Hall. Many moved out as it became apparent just quite how many houses had been sold to landlords intent on renting to students. Often those moving out sold to landlords thereby intensifying the problem. With the property market in Ireland now moribund, those left behind no longer have the option to sell out. Besides, their children are going to local schools, many of them work locally so why should they? The main problem I witnessed on Monday wasn’t so much individual behaviour (although some of that was pretty bad) but it was the scale of the problem. One or two parties in a residential estate are hardly anything to worry about, but loud 4/4 beats coming from every third or fourth house two or three nights a week? There’s nothing worth commenting on in a group of boisterous twenty year olds walking the street, but when these groups traipse up and down an estate or 50, 20 or even 10 yard intervals all night, filling the air with incoherent laughter and clinking bags, it’s not surprising a family might feel trapped. In that case there is no cruel intention but the effect remains upsetting. A bottle might be broken on any street, but every corner, every green space, every nook and cranny of an estate where a child might be expected to play out their childhood? Then there’s the simple fact that these are young people, not perhaps best adept at keeping their properties clean, an inadequacy that will extend to the garden, and then the street. Having scant regard for the properties they live in, this lack of respect is, I think, extended to the estate as a whole, and to the people trying to make a life there. Because the rationale of the partying renters in Templar’s Hall tends to put the blame back on the families living there – “What do they expect?” “Students are going to party, they shouldn’t have moved here”. Even if this reasoning were sound - which it isn’t - it doesn’t actually absolve them of responsibility for their behaviour. I know he never went to trial, but if he did, I don’t even think Fred West would have argued in court that his victims had it coming “I am Fred West after all”. It seems to me perfectly true that families and students are not ideal neighbours, but that’s not the fault of the residents, and it doesn’t absolve people from their responsibilities to one another. There may also be a seperate issue with young men. While girls were prepared to at least attempt to explain themselves to me, the response of the drunken young men I came across was either “no comment” (a statement which many seemed to believe carried legally binding powers) or “**** off” (which again was a request I had no legal obligation to comply with). Drinking in their own groups, the men were loud and raucous, but I couldn’t help thinking that these young men, brought up in the internet age, walked into this estate sober and without the social skills to engage with their neighbours in a way that might create some understanding and report. This is a highly contentious and subjective statement, but here goes: I think there are many young men whose social skills operate on two settings: morbid shyness and drunken exuberance. Add to that the inevitable herd mentality and primacy of the peer group, and there is a sense in which these men don’t perhaps believe that society exists. Mrs. Thatcher is often misquoted on this issue of society. She wasn’t advocating naked individualism (which isn’t to say that’s not what her policies created) but her argument was that “society” came down to the good will, or not, of individuals. There are perhaps too many individuals surrendering their innate decency to a headless, rudderless herd intent on having a “good time” at all costs.

    http://markpower-thatsnewstome.blogspot.com/2011/09/templars-hall.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭jimbojazz


    areyahwell wrote: »
    To be fair, its a minority of students that cause trouble.

    I only moved down a few weeks ago, and a friend was over to have a look at the house at about 7 or 8 in the evening... The resident from across the road came out and keyd his car.

    Explain that? Now i wanto go and party and drive that house mad.

    That's criminal damage and is an offence but no doubt the attitude you'll get from the cops is that you dont have an independent witness so they'll do nothing - which is common practice for them down here as I know too well.

    If the residents are resorting to this type of behaviour then they are no better than those causing the disruption even if they've been driven to it dosent make it excusable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭clashburke


    im a student and live in Templars and dont find it half as bad as people say...

    yes theres noise but i can sleep all night. glass is a problem but theres no bins in there entire estate!! :confused:

    the residents dont help themselves by harrasing people. Fair enough they have right and are pissed off but let the guards deal with it!!:rolleyes:

    and finally i got well over the so called "avarage of 350 points" and am not a waster so stick your average and groupeing all the students together!!:mad::mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭echosound


    clashburke wrote: »
    glass is a problem but theres no bins in there entire estate!! :confused:

    There's usually never any bins in any residential estate, the reasoning is that most normal people keep their rubbish in their own houses in their own bins ready to bring to the recycling depot at their leisure.

    Most students I know would adhere to this norm also, whether in their own house or at a house party, rather than smashing bottles outside on the ground :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    clashburke wrote: »
    im a student and live in Templars and dont find it half as bad as people say...

    yes theres noise but i can sleep all night. glass is a problem but theres no bins in there entire estate!! :confused:

    the residents dont help themselves by harrasing people. Fair enough they have right and are pissed off but let the guards deal with it!!:rolleyes:

    and finally i got well over the so called "avarage of 350 points" and am not a waster so stick your average and groupeing all the students together!!:mad::mad:

    How do people not have a fecking wheelie bin outside their house?


    Don't mind about the points. Jaysis I probably would have gotten shag all if I even bothered to do the leaving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,751 ✭✭✭ec18


    this thread is just going to go in circles with students coming on and defending themselves and residents and older people taking the opposite view backed up by the local media who don't know the meaning of the term objective reporting. Thread would be better off closed until there some real developments on it from the Garda or students union.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    The students are the root of the problem and its obviously driving what are probably normal decent people over the edge and causing them to be hostile and aggressive to them. I think most students are at nothing trying to defend them selfs in here.


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