Young Fine Gael Munster Regional Council

The Munster Regional Council consists of Chairpersons and one appointed delegate from each branch in the Ireland South European Parliament Constituency. The President (ex-officio), National Executive members from the Munster area and Munster Constituency Youth Officers are also members of the Council.

The tasks of the MRC are:

· To develop and co-ordinate the organisation in the Ireland South Area.

· To provide an opportunity to discuss mutual needs between branches.

· To co-ordinate Regional campaigns in conjunction with the National Executive of the organisation.

· To foster and promote close cooperation with units and organs of the Fine Gael Party.

· To discuss resolutions proposed by the Council to the Branches

The Munster Region is co-ordinated by a Regional Organiser, who is the member of the National Executive from that region. The Regional Organiser shall be responsible for and to the branches in his region. The Regional Organiser may combine the position of Chairperson and Regional Organiser if he/she is of the opinion that this will be of benefit to the Council.

A Committee is elected on a yearly basis to lead the MRC and ensure that the aims of the MRC are fulfilled.

Committee 2010-2011

Chairperson - Conor Crean (Munster Regional Organiser)

Secretary - Patrick Butler

Treasurer / Finance - Una Ryan

Policy Officer - Frankie Mulqueen

PRO - Séamus Kearney

Bus Eireann 51 Service (Addressed to management)

I am a student at the University of Limerick and as I am from Cork I regularly get the Bus Eireann 51 service from the Bus Station in Limerick to either Charleville or Mallow. This service is useful to me as it is cheap and always on time. This is not without its problems though. In order for me to get the service I must travel into the City Centre, getting the 308 city bus service. The 308 does not stop at the bus station, indeed from whatever point I must get off, it always necessitates at least a 5 minute walk. This is one aspect of the journey that is least appealing, as I usually carry expensive items such as my laptop with me when I travel home. At present customers getting the 51 service to Ennis or Galway can board a bus at the University itself, which I believe leaves at 16.00 on Fridays. This service is regular and timetabled. I ask then, why not put on a similar service for customers heading to Cork destinations. On a number of occasions when getting the service a relief bus operates from Limerick to Cork, usually leaving before the scheduled 18.35 service on Friday evenings. I propose starting this bus from the University and making it a regular and timetabled service, akin to the service operated to Galway.

Also I would ask that a similar service be put in place for Sunday Evenings, where’s that a dedicated 51 service stops at the University on Sunday Evenings.

Also to be fair to the students from the Limerick Institute of Technology I also prose that on Sunday Evenings the regular 51 bus from Galway/Ennis stops at LIT on two different services and on Friday evenings two of the 51 service’s going to Galway/Ennis stops there also.

26th of June 1997

The Day Fianna Fail began their time in Government

Ray was still on the Den,

Eric Cantona gave Beckham the number 7 shirt,

The pint was €2.52,

I would have been able to light up in the pub,

Ross and Rachel on a break,

The only mobile numbers began with 088,

No Oxegen,

No Facebook, not even bebo,

People using Windows 1995, those who even had a PC,

Today….their last full day in power.

Jaysus…times have changed!

The country had 14 long years of a wait!

Charlie Sheen

It is a vicious cycle that is evolving around Charlie Sheen and we as the global audience are now becoming part of it. From his recent interviews he by no means apologises for drug taking, even describing what he was doing as ‘radical’. He does now claim he his clean but in effect that has little significant on what has been said already. Young teenagers and adolescents watching his antics will see him as not only a justification for drug taking but as a way of making it cool again. Here in Ireland media stars such as Gerry Ryan and Katie French have died from drugs so there is less of an idol image associated with it. But from what we are seeing from Hollywood, people like Sheen can do it when they liked, never fear health consequences and indeed evoke new found fame out of it. The vehicles that report what has doing are the major culprits though. They’re seems to be little social or editorial understanding. If a particular media outlet reaches young people then the editorial staffs is not censoring reports of what has doing. While there is a need to report the news exactly as it happened, not all the details as in Sheen’s case need to be highlighted. Charlie Sheen is clearly an addict, or recovering addict and when he his given that much publicity he obtains cult status. The antics of stars like Charlie Sheen are what many describe as the norm in Hollywood and that is fine, if that is the way they want to live their lives then they are perfectly entitled to. But when that lifestyle which by the vast majority would view as unhealthy where drug taking is normal than please do not plaster it over our television screens where young minds are tantalised by the rock star lifestyle.