Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category
COMMENT: CAS decision spells uncertain future for Northern Ireland football team
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
This week The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) turned down a plea from the Irish FA to amend current laws stipulating player eligibility. Whilst this was not an unexpected outcome, the decision has cast a major cloud of uncertainty over the very future of the Northern Ireland international squad. Hard to believe, you might imagine, given the current on-field success of the Northern Ireland team, beating the Englands and Spains of this world in recent years.
BY RYAN SIMPSON
Tags: Gown, qub, queen's university, Ryan Simpson, student, students, The Gown
Posted in Opinion, Sport | 7 Comments »
COMMENT: Violence on the Twelfth – Treat the cause, not the symptoms
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
The Orange Order’s Twelfth parades have again been marred by violence. Rioting occurred on Belfast’s Ormeau Road on the twelfth itself and disturbances in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast continued days afterwards. This has rightly been condemned by the police, by Assembly members from both sides of the community, and has been attributed to “dissident republicans” by Sinn Fein. Duncan McCausland, Assistant Chief Constable of the PSNI, has promised that “significant arrests” will be made. Two men, aged sixteen and twenty, have already appeared in court over their involvement in the riots.
BY BEN FINCH
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Tags: Ben Finch, Gown, newspaper, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, su, The Gown, Twelfth
Posted in News, Opinion | 54 Comments »
COMMENT: The Public Assemblies Bill: The quiet drift into witless authoritarianism
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
The draft Public Assemblies Bill is, at best, an unforgivably clumsy piece of legislative drafting, implicating all public assemblies, no matter how innocuous, spontaneous or legitimate, in a constrictive and disproportionate new regime ostensibly aimed only at curing recurrent problems involving “contentious parades”. At worst, it is an inexplicably insidious intrusion into the fundamental right of free assembly.
BY LORCAN MULLEN
Tags: Gown, Lorcan Mullen, newspaper, Public assemblies, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | 7 Comments »
COMMENT: Why the Public Assemblies Bill is justified
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Abraham Lincoln once claimed that “A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations . . . is the only true sovereign of a free people.” As part of the Hillsborough Agreement, Northern Ireland’s two incumbent political parties agreed to undertake a review of public assemblies, parades and protests. Following months of consultation, 20th April 2010 saw the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister publish their consultation paper. This document included a Bill which they hope will become the new law governing such activities.
BY SEAMUS J. MULHOLLAND
Tags: Gown, News, newspaper, Public assemblies, qub, Queen's, queen's university, Seamus J Mulholland, student, students, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | 3 Comments »
COMMENT: The Saville Report – A victory for democracy…but it’s a shame not everyone can see that
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Tuesday 15th June 2010 was a wonderful day for the world. It wasn’t just a jubilant day for the families of the victims of Bloody Sunday, the people of Derry, and the whole of Northern Ireland. It was a day when justice and truth won out, when a government was exposed for wrongdoing and a Tory Prime Minister was forced to apologise, when democracy finally triumphed after 38 years of lies, fantasy and cover-up. However, unfortunately the Saville Report has not been met with unanimous jubilance. Although Peter Robinson has finally spoken out regarding the report, and said that he was in support of all the findings, other Unionists such as Reg Empey, Lord Maurice Morrow, Jim Allister, and most infamously, Gregory Campbell, have reacted to the report in a way that appears to be a case of trying to look self righteous and humanist, but ultimately failing and showing themselves to be bitter and unable to accept the disgusting truth of what happened on 30th January 1972.
BY CATHERINE WYLIE
Tags: Catherine Wylie, Gown, newspaper, qub, queen's university, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | 63 Comments »
THE HOOD: An angry offering this fine June day
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
I see all final year students have received brochures in the post about their graduation. I was shocked to read that the ‘Gown Team’ is to be involved in organising this year’s event. In the brochure about graduation gowns, students are advised to contact the ‘Gown Team’ if they have any problems. I have no doubt that the lads (sabbs: Is the usage of ‘lads’ sexist? You are the experts after all) from The Gown would be capable of running such an event, but I’m pretty sure that they’re more interested in resignations, sackings and QUB corruption these days.
BY THE HOOD
Posted in Features, News, Opinion | 9 Comments »
LETTER: QUB drops New Venture Creation MSc
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Dear Gown,
I wanted to bring to your attention the fact that the highly successful New Venture Creation (NVC) MSc run by the Management School has been cancelled for next academic year (2010-2011).
This is the same MSc New Venture Creation programme that won postgradireland’s Postgraduate course of the year in business just last Thursday. The same MSc which the Management School was ‘supposedly’ delighted to have won an award for, and which an independent panel of industry experts had judged to be outstanding in its class amongst the other high impact programmes.
Posted in Opinion | 4 Comments »
OPINION: Ulster Says No to Creationism
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Tags: Daniel Gillen, Gown, newspaper, QFT, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown
Posted in Features, Opinion | 50 Comments »
REVIEW: Iron Man 2
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
The second feature film installation based on the infamous Stan Lee’s original comic book Iron Man, isn’t very originally titled, and sadly the let-downs begin there. As a fan of the first adaptation, news of a sequel was music to my ears, especially as the charismatic Robert Downey Jr would this time be accompanied by Scarlet Johansson and Mickey Rourke. These big name inclusions have certainly helped attract audiences past the comic fans, but as far as blockbusters go, this just didn’t cut it. Not released during Easter holidays or saved for the summer, within a few minutes it becomes clear that it just wouldn’t have been worth the extra promotion to get it out in time. Of course we are flocking in our hordes to pay for our seats, but it’s not the Saturday night full ticket price film it should have been.
BY LAURA SHEARER
Tags: Gown, Laura shearer, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown
Posted in Arts + Entertainment, Opinion | 6 Comments »
OPINION: ConDem-ed
Saturday, May 15th, 2010
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat alliance has led to David Cameron clawing his way across the threshold of 10 Downing Street. The result is the worst possible for Northern Ireland and could lead to an increase in tensions between Stormont and Westminster.
BY BEN FINCH
Tags: Ben Finch, Gown, newspaper, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown
Posted in News, Opinion | 6 Comments »
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