The University Times promised a good report on this today and they delivered, to say the least. Reports of a Dublin University Snowsports Club trip to Grenoble getting up to all sorts were all over Twitter and had begun to make their way into the mainstream media, but the college paper has an excellent look at events on its website. It mainly involves students from Trinity College Dublin (how do you go from Swift and Wilde to this?) but a few UCD students decided to drag that institution into the dirt too. It’s an incredible piece of journalism from a student paper and it should be commended.
Reports of their antics make Fade Street sound like Moore Street in all truth.
Some gems from the piece:
A University Times investigation has revealed that members of a group of between 25 and 30 students, alumni of the private South Dublin schools Blackrock College, CBC Monkstown and Mount Anville wrought havoc on Trinity’s Snowsports Club’s annual ski trip in the week prior to the start of term.
Students on the DUSSC ski trip, in interviews with The University Times, described the behaviour of the group as “sociopathic”, reporting a “spend-off” between two former Blackrock students, one from Trinity and one from UCD, in which they competed to see who could spend or waste the most money
Both the DUSSC trip and the external trip were ejected from the hotel by gendarmes after a swastika was daubed on the wall of the third floor of the hotel with a two-inch thick paint marker. Displaying a swastika is punishable by a custodial sentence in France.
….and to think they tell you ‘class’ is a dead term.
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OBNOXIOUS !!!
There was always an element of that behavior in college in Dublin in my time (and possibly in most colleges the world over) but the Celtic Tiger has brought it to the fore in Ireland.
They mimic England’s Young Conservatives
What was it about skiing during the Celtic Tiger years? Irish people never had snow to ski. A ski trip is probably the most expensive there is for such a short time in comparison to a sun hollier etc. Ski resorts are full of the most obnoxious people like those mentioned in the article…….. and yet during th Celtic Tiger years dumb wannbes from Dublin flocked to these resorts. It was beyond me.
Maybe we should recommend that Dail Eireann commission a “Tayor Report” into this sporting disaster ;> ………it’d help fund the barrister’s children’s education !??!!?