The Results Are In
So the NUIG results have come through. While the vote may not have been a win it’s certainly been a confidence booster. I honestly expected to poll around the 200, 300 mark as it’s a college I’ve never had the opportunity to visit before and is the oppositions home turf. To come away with over 750 votes I think is pretty stunning!
After husting to a group of about 30-40 and then spending the day with some campaigners talking to students and sharing ideas it was amazingly satisfying to more than double my expected turnout! It’s a great confidence booster and certainly has me thinking that we were talking some sense, that many people voting for someone from the opposite side of the country can’t be wrong. That is also the key point.
In order to be successful in the coming weeks and months we have to stay away from being union of division, of different colleges only being out for themselves and their own. To be successful we must see past the small things that seperate us, geography and affiliation, and work together to achieve our goals. We must examine ideas and insights on their merits, not on the college or location of the people who have brought them forward.
That so many students have not only done that but also decided that my thoughts on USI have merit and are worth their vote is a great feeling.
To everyone who voted for me a thank you. Thanks also to everyone else who voted, regardless of whom got their vote. I honestly believe that a vote is a precious thing not to be ignored or wasted as it is your voice.
On another note it’s RAG Week here in DIT soI won’t be updating that often. Despite the bad press I think RAG can show some of the best of students, as with the close to 30 students who braved the freezing Irish Sea in Dun Loaghaire this afternoon to raise money for Console - this is the true nature of student life, not the headline grabbing sensationalism that frequents alot of papers.