Comments on: Universities belong inside cities

By: Brian Johnston

Brian Johnston — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:46:30 +0000

No way!! Keep the students out of the city and out of the Subway queue

By: conor

conor — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:56:25 +0000

Never heard that about the homeless guy, could easily have been one of our dishevelled lecturers chancing his arm!

You young whippersnapper, Dunkin Donuts was after our time. Or was it?

I never got to go to the old-old bar which was the black shed near the eng building.

By: Rambling Man

Rambling Man — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:47:44 +0000

there were a few memorable things on the belfield “albanian prison” campus … like the homeless guy who stodd in the canteen every evening to get his tea – quite an interesting chap who fell on hard times – and a former ucd english graduate.

and the old student bar … sports bar on a sunday night … the trap … the shite in dunkin donuts …

By: conor

conor — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:42:45 +0000

Is the art of carbon paper lost forever in a world of students with laptops and lecturers providing podcasts? Why would you ever turn up for lectures?

What was the record for simultaneous number of carbon copies generated by one hand?

By: Nostalgia Week at conoroneill.com » Conor’s Bandon Blog

Nostalgia Week at conoroneill.com » Conor’s Bandon Blog — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:34:18 +0000

[...] that this blog is six years old this week and we’ve started reminiscing about the good old days of Engineering Merrion Street and Earlsfort …, I’ve decided that it’s officially Nostalgia Week here at O’Neill [...]

By: conor

conor — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:27:12 +0000

Time for a quick blog post!

By: conor

conor — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:51:15 +0000

I’d forgotten Jimmy Jamjars! Catherine reminded me of the Iveagh Gardens. Sporty people playing sports and Civils using their surveying sticks and claiming that they were called something far more complicated like tallulah sticks.

I do believe the lifeguards have been commenting alright!

Belfield gave us students of Greek and Roman History accidentally sitting in our our maths lectures and staying because they saw Greek symbols on the screen.

By: Knarf Strebor

Knarf Strebor — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:30:49 +0000

OK Conor can’t resist replying to this one.

You are obviously absolutley correct. What did Belfield ever give to us? OK, so there was the longest bar in Ireland, but apart from that what? Well yes the Physios were indeed a pleasure too, but what else?

Compare that to the joys of The Stretcher Race, lazy afternoons in Hartigans, free sausage & chips in O’Donoghue’s, lazing around in the Green, the Med students, Jimmy Jam Jars on the gate at Merrion, the Olympic Ballroom, the flicks, McDaids, the Oliver Brothers playing in Merrion, the gardens in the Terrace, the culinary delights of both canteens, and the engineering womoen more than happy to oblige… (using carbon paper to take notes for me that is)

OK, so I’ve got off the point, but it’s been fun.

…ps is that my favourite lifeguard from Ennis commenting?

By: Eoghan McCabe

Eoghan McCabe — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:44:44 +0000

I hear ya, Conor. Going to college in Trinity was amazing; you can get more smack-bang in the middle of Dublin city than that. I always felt bad for my DCU / UCD peers that were stuck in the middle of nowhere, 1 hour’s traffic away from the fun.

By: conor

conor — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:15:37 +0000

And never regretted it for a minute!

In any case, Jabba the Baby Eater was the first woman’s face we saw on posters when we arrived on campus.

How long you been back in Ireland missus?

By: sheila

sheila — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:16:41 +0000

There may have been more women in Bellfield but you stuck to the original and the best – the women from Earlsfort Terrace!