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Written by Seamus Ryan   
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Students’ Union resignation
Education Officer Shane O’Callaghan unexpectedly resigned last week from his post as Students’ Union Education officer, citing health reasons. It comes as the second resignation by a full-time Students’ Union officer in less than a year, Judith Lynch having resigned as Welfare Officer last spring.
Eamonn Gardiner, the losing candidate in the Education race last March, told the Limerick Independent that he was “definitely putting [his] name forward” for the post in the upcoming by-election. Mr Gardiner lost a tight race against Shane O’Callaghan by a mere 88 votes.
“We, as a Union, face challenges arising from Shane not being able to continue in the position, but it's nothing we can't handle and we have already plans in place as to how we will be operating over the coming weeks”, according to Students’ Union President Pa O’Brien.
Nominations opened yesterday evening for the by-election, which is expected to take place on Friday of next week.

Restaurant criticism
Campus restaurants were heavily criticised by UL staff last week in a strongly worded discussion on the staff opinions email list, with particular condemnation of their prices and food quality.
The main restaurants, all run by the same operator, have fallen out of favour with students in recent times according to Claire Fitzpatrick, 2nd year Education in Modern Languages, who said that the Red Raisins canteen is too expensive and the main restaurant is viewed by most students as a “place for teachers to eat”. Her view was echoed by Midwifery student Mary Halton, who said that the main campus restaurant was never on the list of places where her class would consider eating.
Second year business student Eamon Quinlan was less critical of food pricing on campus, citing food outlets in UCC as dramatically overpriced compared to UL.
John Vaughan of campus restaurant operators Campbell Catering said “We continue to work hard to deliver a value for money service with an emphasis on both product choice and price choice across our campus locations.”

UL Clubs in action
Two student softball teams and an alumni team represented UL at the first leg of the Irish softball intervarsities in Waterford last weekend. The UL 55s, last year’s intervarsity champions, took a valuable win against runners-up from last season UCD before heavy rain stopped the intervarsity at the end of the first day of competition. Last year’s champions will travel to UCD after Christmas before defending their title at the final leg of the intervarsity league at UL.
The ladies senior Gaelic footballers lined out against the Underdogs, TG4’s reality TV team last Sunday, losing by 3-7 to 0-7 in torrential rain. The show, which has been described as a cross between America’s Next Top Model and The Sunday Game, is shown on TG4 each Thursday at 9:30pm. The UL-Underdogs match will be shown as next week’s episode
Players from around Europe took part in the fifth Irish international student badminton tournament at UL last Saturday and Sunday. Divided into four leagues from national competitive standard to recreational level, UL students and graduates managed to take away some of the major prizes at the tournament, including current student Donal O’Keeffe winning the mixed doubles at the top A level and graduate Gillian Holmes coming runner-up in the ladies doubles in the top division.
 
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