Before you vote, listen to the Trinity News and Trinity FM Leadership Race interviews here

Trinity News and Trinity FM have conducted a series of audio interviews with candidates for the sabbatical offices

President interview with Kieran McNulty, Stephen Carty and Dan O’Brien

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Hosted by Una Harty

-Timestamps-
0.00 – Lynn Ruane on her time in the SU
6.08 – Stephen Carty’s TAP donation pledge
11.55 – How would the candidates utilise new forms of protest?
17.10 – How will Dan O’Brien apply knowledge of managing UT staff to managing a union?
18.20 – Is Kieran McNulty most entitled to be president?
24.00 – What ways do the candidates see themselves as having a hands on approach to the job if elected?
29.00 – How do candidates intend to work as a sabbatical team?
36.00 – In three words, why should students vote for you?

Education interview with Dale O’Faoilléacháin and Patrick Higgins

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Hosted by Niamh Lynch

-Timestamps-

0.00 – Outlining of Dale’s manifesto points
2.17 – Outlining of Patrick’s manifesto points
4.50 – How are the reforms on broad curriculum different from what the candidates are proposing?
8.00 – How would you tackle student disengagement with the students’ union?
10.55 – Do you view the education officer as a political role?
13.00 – Should the education officer role prioritise lobbying college for greater change or solving smaller student issues?
15.12 – What are your specific plans to tackle the behemoth of college admin?
22.09 – How will you ensure your manifesto promises are fulfilled?
25.00 – Why are you the best education candidate?

Communications & Marketing interview with Glenn Byrne and Emmet Broaders

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Hosted by Dee Courtney

-Timestamps-
1.20 – What can each of you bring to the SU?
3.45 – How do you market the SU to disaffected students?
7.00 – With all the methods we have of communicating within College, why do students still feel disconnected?
9.30 – In terms of sponsorship, should a union have corporate sponsorship?
11.50 – While the SU can be transparent about some things, students still don’t know about how the SU acts during big board decisions. How would you change that?
14.50 – Should the communications & marketing officer be using UT as a resource for communicating?
19.30 – What would your biggest campaign issue be?

Entertainment interview with Katie Browne, Grace O’Boyle and Padraic Rowley

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Hosted by Luke Hally

Welfare interview with Aoibhinn Ní Lochlainn, Eammon Redmond, Andrew Wafer

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Hosted by Ken Donnelly

-Timestamps-
0.00 – Introductions, and why run for welfare officer?
2.45 – Should the welfare officer position be elected or should it be a qualified staff member?
5.40 – What experience do you have that qualify you to to be welfare officer?
9.00 – How would you make the supports available to students more visible and accessible?
14.50 – Conor Clancy has said that the accommodation crisis will be the number one problem for the next welfare officer to tackle. How can the problem be resolved?
18.42 – The biggest issue to do with welfare this year has been that of consent workshops, following reports in the media. How important are these classes?
22.05 – Would you support all of the SU’s various political campaigns such as repeal the eighth or against student fees?
23.55 – Can you outline some of the ideas featured in your manifestos?
28.46 – This year we saw a lot of new campaign weeks, would any of you have any ideas for new campaign weeks?

Matthew Mulligan

Matthew is Editor for the 62nd volume of Trinity News. He is a Sociology and Social Policy graduate and was previously Deputy Editor of tn2 Magazine.