February. What a wonderful month.
The world is plummeting evermore into eternal darkness and unbridled chaos, but fear not, for we have good news. The world, as we know it, may never exist again... but you may have a shot at a career in the media. Is that not heartwarming?
Yes, you heard it here last! The University Observer, our good pals at the always-technologically-operational Belfield FM, and our favourite farty frenemies at the College Tribune are co-hosting our second annual UCD Media Day on March 4th. You can get tickets now at the link in our Instagram bio, and they don’t even cost money, it’s just for something called ‘crowd control’ - which we anticipate being a major concern.
We are going to have at least seven separate panels on the day, with big names from the industry that you may not know right now, but you’ll never forget them once you learn them. You can come and you can go as you please on the day, but please do come. Think ‘Joe Duffy’, think ‘Tommy Bowe’, think ‘Doireann Garrihy’, think ‘Ryan Turbridy’, yes, that’s right, we won’t have any of these guests, but I don’t want to immortalise the panel list here in case they cancel on us last minute and we cause immeasurable confusion for an innocent archivist-historian in the future.
In other news, about 20 people in UCD earn a lot of money, Trump is going to end us all (no, really), and to top it all off, there’s been a 68% increase in gonorrhoea. Brilliant. Now, as our Comment Editor Andrea Beyer Fraile so eloquently put it on page 8, go ‘Pee in the Damn Cup’.
Yours in kindness,
Lucy and Oisín