Ógra Gears up for Elections

13^th February 2007

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome you all back for the new semester and the next meeting will be on Monday in the Students union, where details for the Ard-Fheis will be discussed…Any members interested in attending can put their name down at the meeting. Costs should be no more than €40

Last Monday the 12^th of February saw candidates for the Ógra Fianna Fáil National Youth Committee descend on UL in rapturous fashion. At a well attended Hustings; candidates for the positions of Leas-Cathaoirleach, 3^rd Level Ardchomhairle, Munster Ardchomhairle and one of the Munster 3^rd Level candidates give a broad overview of their plan for Ógra over the next 18 months. Unfortunately, our own candidate for Munster 3^rd Level missed the train from Dublin and was unable to attend as a result. We heard great noises from all candidates; some different, some the same, but all candidates with their hearts in the right place. We were treated to the delights of Steven Dixon’s fondness for the chocolate €uros used for recruitment and Eoin O’Niallan’s troubles with understanding accounting conversations…. “We do need more people from courses other than Law and Business…I’m lost when people start to talk shop at meetings…there’s rarely someone for me to talk about steel and concrete with”. The cumann and our guests then took a customary trip to a local night-time establishment, all enjoying it immensely; with the uptake in thoses participating in “rock the boat” bringing a fiendish enjoyment to the night, ensuring that these guests will be back again for more in the not so distant future. The Con Colbert Cumann will hold a 3^rd Level weekend at UL on the 9^th and 10^th of March and we expect to see all the same faces and some new ones too. But between now and then; elections will have taken place at the National Youth Conference on Saturday the 17^th of February, and congratulations to all successful candidates.

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