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DkiTimes
Volume 5
EDITOR: ANGELA SHORT
ASSISTANT ED:
MARGARET CLARKE
Issue 9
HISTORICAL ED:
SEAMUS BELLEW
DkIT Freshers book their place in the All-Ireland league semi-final
Neither Hur ricane Thomas nor Jordanstown can stop DkIT
There was a calm before the storm in the
DkIT Fresher’s dressing room prior to their
final league match encounter with UUJ on
Thursday night last, November 11th. The
management team of Colin Cooney and
David Cranny quietly laid out the bare facts –
an All-Ireland semi-final place was up for
grabs, and only a win would suffice. A final
word of support from fellow team manager
Shane Lennon (in New York with his Louth
teammates) was relayed to the Freshers.
Calmness disturbed, DkIT took to the field
with a steely determination that they would
not be defeated on their home patch.
In keeping with the inclement weather
conditions, DkIT got off to a whirlwind start.
Full forward Rory Beggan (Scotstown,
Monaghan) mastered the blustery conditions,
slotting over the home side’s first score from
a free kick after Shane Rice (Scotstown,
Monaghan)
was
fouled.
Jordanstown
responded with a score from their corner
forward, also from a placed ball. Corner
forward Adam O’Connell (Ramor, Cavan)
opened his account, getting DkIT’s first point
from play in the sixth minute. This was to be
the start of a purple patch for the home side
as points from Beggan (three), wing forward
Conor Toal (Eire Og, Monaghan) and Sean
Sheridan (Aughnamullen, Monaghan) all
added to DkIT’s tally. Playing against a very
strong breeze, UUJ stemmed the flow of play
adding two points, either side of a fine score
from the home side’s corner forward Mark
Treanor
(Scotstown,
Monaghan).
Approaching the final ten minutes of the first
half, Treanor added two more scores from
play, the second from 50 metres, to extend
his team’s lead. Fellow clubman Beggan was
to get DkIT’s final score of the half on the
stroke of half time, slotting over his fifth score
of the opening half.
Half time: DkIT 0-11 UUJ 0-03
With a gale force wind behind them in the
second half, UUJ took to the field knowing
that the eight-point deficit was not
insurmountable. From the throw-in, UUJ
went on the attack and won a free kick that
their corner forward put over the black spot.
Cooney and Cranny activated their second
half plan and corner forward Mark Treanor
was deployed as a sweeper and took to his
task extremely well. Following a UUJ kick-out
Treanor broke forward from his new halfback position and played the ball inside for
club-mate Beggan to calmly slot the ball over
the bar for DkIT’s first score of the second
half. UUJ responded however, with a fine
score from play, from their attacking wingback. UUJ began to win more possession of
the ball but were wasteful in attack with
Treanor breaking up many of their attacks.
Midway through the second half, good work
from Sean Keogh (Donabate, Dublin) set up
Sheridan who coolly slotted the ball under
the on-rushing UUJ goalkeeper into the back
of the net. However, within sixty seconds
UUJ got a goal of their own, as their corner
forward squeezed the ball inside Sean
Connolly’s (O’Connells, Louth) near post.
Connolly was called into action again a
minute later, punching the ball to safety after
UUJ resorted to route one football. With ten
minutes left on the clock Beggan grabbed his
seventh and eighth scores of the contest to
settle DkIT nerves and this was further
cemented by wing-back Conor Gonnelly
(Naomh Malachi, Louth) who slotted over a
fine individual effort. UUJ were to add just one
more point in response before Brendan
Treanor (Truagh, Monaghan) got his name on
the score sheet. In injury time, Keogh got the
final score of the match after good work by
Kevin Leech (Oliver Plunketts, Louth).
Referee Brian Brady blew the final whistle and
DkIT booked their place in the All-Ireland
Division 2 League semi-final for the second
year in-a-row.
Full time: DkIT 1-17 UUJ 1-06
Best for DkIT were Fionn Kearney
(Sylvesters, Dublin) and Conor Gonnelly in
defence. Sean Sheridan (Aughnamullen,
Monaghan) and midfield partner Cian McEvoy
(Dreadnots, Louth) won their midfield battle.
Rory Beggan was sublime in attack, both with
the placed ball and from play, while Mark
Treanor caused UUJ problems in both
defence and attack.
Scorers: Rory Beggan (0-8), Sean Sheridan
(1-1), Mark Treanor (0-3), Adam O’Connell,
Conor Toal, Conor Gonnelly, Brendan Treanor
and Sean Keogh (0-1) each.
DkIT: Sean Connolly (O’Connells, Louth),
Ciaran Murray (Dundalk Young Irelands,
Louth),
David
Caulfield
(Scotstown,
Monaghan), Daniel McCarey (Scotstown,
Monaghan), Jamie Kelly (Naomh Malachi,
Louth), Fionn Kearney (Sylvesters, Dublin),
Conor Gonnelly (Naomh Malachi, Louth), Cian
McEvoy (Dreadnots, Louth), Sean Sheridan
(Aughnamullen, Monaghan), Shane Rice
(Scotstown,
Monaghan),
Sean
Keogh
(Donabate, Dublin), Conor Toal (Eire Og,
Monaghan),
Mark
Treanor
(Scotstown,
Monaghan),
Rory
Beggan
(Scotstown,
Monaghan), Adam O’Connell (Ramor, Cavan).
Subs: Brendan Treanor (Truagh, Monaghan),
Aaron Mulligan (Geraldines, Louth), Keith
McConnon (Drumconrath, Meath), Kevin
Leech (Oliver Plunkeets, Louth), Oran
Finnegan (Drumconrath, Meath), Cillian Duffy
(Maheracloone, Monaghan), Shane Barry
(Bective, Meath), Barry McGuirk (Drumhowan,
Monaghan), Luke Judge (Newtown Blues,
Louth), Hugh O’Connell (Ramor, Cavan).
Attention studentsImportant changes to the
AP Rule!
As you may be aware, up until this academic
year students who had failed one module ( 5
credits or less) and who were not in an award
year, were approved to progress (AP on your
transcript) and allowed the opportunity to pick
up the failed module in the August sitting or
their next year of study. This rule has now
been changed and only students who have
registered for and taken the resit exam in
August will be considered for AP. In other
words, those students whose overall result is
exemptions (passed some modules and failed
others) at the end of the academic year, must
register for and sit the repeat opportunity at
the resit session in the August of the same
year. Those who sit the exam but still fail, will
be allowed to avail of the AP rule, and carry a
maximum of one module or 5 credits into the
next year.
So students, if you fail any modules in the
Christmas or May exam sessions of this
2010/2011 year, you must register for and
take the repeat exam in August in order to be
considered for the next year of study. Of
course the secret is, try not to fail the first time
around!
Congratulations to Staff
members who will graduate with
an Honours Degree in Business
Studies through the IPA at an
award ceremony in Dublin Castle
on Tuesday 30th November.
They are;
Adele Nordon, International Office
Eileen Quinn, Lifelong Learning
Centre
Margaret Halpenny, Exams Office
Awaiting the Arrival of the Martlets!
Strolling up the corridor last week it was noted that
the martlets have not arrived yet. When I met Eddie
the other day who was sporting his tie as usual, the
martlets had not yet landed there either!. Of course
those martlets are one(s) of the new logo. A martlet
is a heraldic charge depicting a stylised bird (martlet
being the diminutive of martin) with short tufts of
feathers in the place of legs.
The history of the old college
logo has previously been given.
The new logo points us back to
the logo of Dundalk Urban Council, a variant that was used by the
college prior to the Act that designated it as an Institute of Technology.
The full explanation for the new logo is given on the college’s website:
http://ww2.dkit.ie/about_dkit/institute_news/dundalk_in
stitute_of_technology_s_new_identity
It is most likely that the martlets relate to the arms of
the Furnival family. An article by Raghnall Ó Floinn in
the Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and
Historical Society (Vol. 22, No. 4 (1992), pp. 387-394)
agrees that this ascertain is most likely correct. To
coincide with the conferring of the new arms on the
Urban Council, the late Dr Harold O’Sullivan provided
a detailed explanation of the arms in Tempest’s
Annual (1968). He notes that the arms were found on
a seal affixed to a legal document dated 1420. They
were also on a seal (matrix) (from the 16th or 17th
century) that was found in St Nicholas’s Church (the
‘Green’ Church) when work was being carried out on
the boiler in 1904.
The bend and six red martlets are derived from the De Furnival family one of whom Thomas
De Furnival obtained by right of marriage with Joan De Verdon daughter of Theobald De
Verdon a succession to a large part of the land and property of Dundalk and district about the
year 1319. The De Verdons were the original Anglo-Norman family to receive a grant in
North County Louth in the late twelfth century, as part of the Norman conquest, probably in
peaceful succession to O'Cearbhaill, the last of the Kings of Airghialla. The ermine boar
supporter is derived from the arms of the O'Hanlon family, Kings of Airthir (Orior), who,
following accession of the De Verdons, continued as tenants to them paying an annual rental
of £5 as and when the same could be collected. The origins of the foot soldier with his spear
and sword is not known, neither is the lion on the crest, although the latter may be from the
Mortimer family whose Roger held the Lordship of Louth in 1330 (O’Sullivan).
Thomas, the second Lord Furnivalle, inherited a large portion
of the de Verdon lands in England, Ireland and the Welsh
marches when they were partitioned between the four
daughters and co-heiresses of Theobald de Verdon after the
latter's death in 1316. The de Verdon property in Ireland
included extensive lands in what are now Counties Louth,
Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Longford and Leitrim. These
included the town of Dundalk and surrounding areas. Thomas
de Furnivalle was married in 1316 to the eldest daughter,
Joan, and her purparty was delivered to him on 16 July 1319.
The de Furnivalles seem to have been absentees and their
interest in the de Verdon lands in Ireland seems to have been
short lived. In 1366, John Dowdall was the agent for Thomas's
son, William, fourth Lord Furnivalle and the sale of his
purparty in Ireland was completed by August 1366 (Ó Floinn).
Three red martlets are also used by Dundalk F.C. Three
martlets were previously used by the Urban Council. The
Furnival arms can be seen on the rectory in Trim where they
impale the arms of Talbot. Sir John Talbot (Lord Furnival)
married in 1406, Maud Nevill, daughter and heir of Thomas
Nevill who married Joan de Furnival.
Dr Sean McDonagh Still contributing to Education
Dr Sean McDonagh still contributing to
Education, was photographed last
week at the Galway 2040 Symposium
at GMIT where he delivered 'The Vision
for Education'.
He retired ten years ago in March 2000
as Director of DKIT after serving in the
post for 30 years. His vision and
innovation in acknowledged. Prior to
1970 he lectured in Mathematics at
UCG where many of his graduates
contributed nationally to what is now
known as the 'well educated work force'. He has contributed to Irish education for
close on 45/50 years.
So here we are after another fantastic show,
brought to you as always by Iarla and Ros.
The lads were joined this week by Suzi
Byrne, Jim Jim and Catherine McGrath.
This week’s show was kicked off with Jim
Jim bringing you all of the latest
entertainment news about Dundalk, most
notably that Ridleys is now open Monday
nights. So those of you missing the Monday
madness since Amber closed (gone but not
forgotten) can get your fix in Ridleys!
Also we learned that Iarla got an honourable
mention in Good Time Charlie’s karaoke
losing out to none other than DkITalk regular
Maeve. Can anyone else see a lyrical
showdown on the horizon? I think it has to
happen,
and
after
Iarla’s
uncanny
impression of Jay from 5ive, I think Maeve
has a serious contender on her hands.
The Student Union news followed next with
confirmation that the SU clinics will be
running again after great interest was shown
last week. So be sure to keep an eye out for
more details on when you will be able to
have a chat with James and David in your
department if you can’t make it over to the
main campus.
Also a poll is up on the SU website asking
whether or not you think Facebook should
be banned from the library computers. This
question has sparked a strong debate from
both sides. Some saying no it’s helpful to
students and others saying no it’s a
distraction.
Which
is
understandable,
considering almost 5 minutes were spent
discussing how the team go about their
creeping on Facebook.
Live music was brought to you this week
courtesy of SpeedKing. A group of lads from
the college who, I have to say, were
fantastic. You can check them out here on
their
MySpace
page
http://www.myspace.com/speedkingrock
.
They are definitely worth a listen!
Finally we wrapped up this week’s show
with some movie reviews. Catherine
McGrath did a great job highlighting what
films are worthy of your time this week. Be
sure to get the podcast to hear the starting
of what could be a heated discussion
between Catherine and Jim Jim on original
films and the remakes.
It’s also worth a mention to remind you of
the Tell your TD campaign. Head over to
http://tellyourTD.com and select the area
you’re from and enter your name. It’s that
simple. It really is important so please help
spread the word.
So that’s all for this week and remember you
can get in contact with us as always through
our facebook page, or via email at
info@dkitalk.ie and you can also catch our
podcast over at dkitalk.ie.
See you next week!
StudentEnterprise@DkIT’s first competition of the New Year was the Midas Challenge which ran
in October. This event was designed to challenge student’s ability to think creatively and
resourcefulness. Event Management 4 helped organise the event which resulted in over 400
entrants, the largest number of students registering for one of our events. As a result, the judges
had an extremely tough time in selecting a winner, so much so that they couldn’t separate the
top two.
Each entrant was given 5 items, a tea stirrer, an elastic band, a 1 cent coin, a treasury tag and a
plastic lamination sheet. Competitors could use all, one or any combination of items to create a
new product.
The competition produced another first, the first time a post graduate won one a
StudentEnterprise@DKIT competition, Lizzie McKenzie who is currently studying for a MBS in
Entrepreneurship and Marketing student was chosen as joint winner with Graeme King a 2ND
year Electrical Engineering student.
Congratulations to both Graeme and Lizzie.
See: www.rdc.ie/blog.
This was Graeme’s first time to enter a Student Enterprise competition and the approach he took
to solving the problem was extremely detailed. It was so methodical that we’ve included it this
edition of the DkIT times and posted it on our Blog.
Below is Graeme’s creative story:
The first thing I had to do when planning out this project was to think outside the box and think of
a use for the supplied items that was different from their obvious use. Once I had done that I
began to plan and draw out a plan for a product that could use the structural ability of the
wooden tea stirrer, the gliding ability of the plastic sheet, the light but noticeable weight of the 1
cent coin and a motion ability inspired by the elastic band. This was the outcome.
This finished design was largely based on the plastic sheet as once I discovered that it could
glide I just had to include it somehow and thus the idea of a working plane was born. Before I
continue, you may be asking yourself why a child or anyone else for that matter may be
interested in an elastic band propelled plane in this world of HD DVD’s, Xbox’s, PlayStations
and smart phones. However many modern toys are just reproductions of toys from the 80’s, 70’s
and even 60’s that have been modified to appear more extreme and prolong the toys
entertainment. An excellent example of this would be “Beyblades”, after a five year dry streak
Beyblades have once again made their way into stores with the new added gimmick of flashing
lights at a price of €10.99. Even before the lights and sounds when Beyblades were first
released they were sold for a cool €9.99 each even though they were clearly just a
reinterpretation of the classic “spinning-top”.
So as you can see, from just a simple redesigning of the product and a new way of spinning it a
new product is developed. So considering these previous example I discovered that what made
these redeveloped toys so much more popular that their predecessors was their ability to
interact with friends and also extreme new designs, so with these ideas taken into account I was
able to create a finished a retail store sellable version of my plane. The planes can be sold in
different shapes, designs and colours ad different weight balances for alternative flight styles
and even to perform tricks. The launchers can also be sold in different shapes, designs and
colours but will most likely use a spring loaded launch function instead of the prototypes rubber
band launch function as it would provide much better results. Since I have not figured out an
actual direct battle game play for two planes, I have thought of special target practice sets that
can be sold with the planes or separately where players see who can knock down targets in the
fastest times. Below are some of the ideas for different types of target kits.
This first idea involves stacking cups in a pyramid where players see who can knock down the
most cups in one shot.
--This second idea is more of a dart board based design where the plane is launched at the board
and tries to his one of ht rings with an assigned score. This method can be electronic or non
electronic in regards to score reading. This final idea is of a giant robot or monster with prerecorded evil phrases and hitting certain parts of it with the planes cause limbs and other parts
to detach until it confirms that you have defeated. This would be considered a time challenge as
the robot or monster would have to be beaten in a certain amount of time.
However, getting back to the construction of the plane almost everything from the original sketch
had to be redesigned. First of all, the winds had to be slightly elevated from the body and the
supports for the wings had to be moved from the centre to along the front like a bats wings
which are attached at the arms.
Next since the plane kept flipping mid-air I used a method of trial and error until I finally set the
weight right by positioning two “1cent” coins in the centre of the wingspan and then used blue
tack to hold them in place so that id the weight balance needed to be changed they could be
easily removed and repositioned as fit. Lastly due to the lack of time and tea stirrers the
launcher had to be redesigned to four tea stirrers glued side by side and an elastic band
securely wrapped around them, nevertheless even though it is a much simpler design the same
expected result was still achieved.
In order to launch the plane
Step 1: hold the launcher by the wrapped up section of the rubber band and stretch out the
loose section.
Step 2: Insert the stretched section of the rubber band into the notch underneath the plane.
Step 3: Pull the plane back parallel to the launcher (by the tail) until there is tension in the rubber
band, then tilt the launcher to a 35 degree angle, release the tail and watch it glide.
Throughout this report I have given you my step by step documents of the planning of the
product, the redesigning, the selling, the construction and the function of my project which I
hope has helped my to defeat the Midas Challenge.
Science Week at DkIT
Some pictures from the W5 Science Magic show for primary schools that took place
in the Nursing Building on Monday November 8th for Science Week. Interactive and
fun the show helped to bring science to life for the visiting students.
C a p ti o n C o m p e ti ti o n
Wingers are known for their ability to wing it.
Congratulations Ray McEnaney
S e n d y o u r c a p ti o n s to
e d i to r @ d k i t. i e