 Hello and welcome to DCU-TV's very first DCU-TV News, I'm Claire Prentie. DCU's raising for animal welfare sock held a holofest last week in Albert College Park. The colourful event had everything from henna art to a colour run, and a Casa dojava was there to join in on all the fun. One of this year's biggest inter-society events, known as the Holy Festival of Colours, took place in DCU today, the 25th of March. The event was organised by art sock in conjunction with friends, raw, Indian and psych societies. The tickets for the event were sold out in under two hours and over 1,000 euro was raised for animal welfare. The next problem we're going to do in 20 minutes, 20 minutes for the next problem. Well I was backpacking around Australia with my brother last summer and we saw one going on. There was 10,000 people going and it was absolutely amazing, it was all for charity and since then I came back from the summer, started DCU Raw and we've been planning it for seven months. So it was more just having fun but raising for charity at the same time, trying to combine the two and getting people to enjoy raising money for fundraising. This particular event, it's Kildare Animal Foundation and Holly's Horse Haven. Raw society, we have numerous charities such as DSPCA, Dogs Trust, Blue Cross, Paws etc but for this event we really wanted to help them so we've raised a ton of money for them which they desperately need. Oh it was so good, it's like nothing I've ever done before. Yeah it was really interesting, I've always wanted to do the raw ones so just get a chance to do this for you. Yeah the event was absolutely fantastic, you know you always see pictures of that kind of thing, like in India itself and it's just crazy to be part of it, so much fun. Holly is the festival, like a lot of festivals we usually play this thing in India in back in our country. So this event is always nice, even if it's like at any place, any time. Upon arrival, students received a wristband, three bags of powder and a bottle of water. Additional bags of powder were sold for one euro to raise even more money for the chosen charities. UCD and Trinity held similar events in early March but DCU topped it with having a henna artist and a before and after photo booth. Anakazatoeva, DCU TV News. Every year DCU students travel all the way to the Crown Plaza in Sanctuary to celebrate all things to do with society life at their annual Society Awards Ball. Aisling Lachlan went down last Wednesday to see what all the excitement was about. The annual event is the one time of year where the work of the best societies is recognised. With 26 categories, each society gets the opportunity to showcase their best achievements. Members on the night included CancerSock for best new society, Kachni Kyalahan for most promising fresher and MPS for best academic, cultural and social society. This is a fantastic win for MPS, earning them a place in the big awards in the coming weeks. Hundreds of dedicated society members were in attendance as they were wind and dined until the dance floor was opened by DCU's very own DJ Daymo. The annual event held in the Crown Plaza is the one time of the year where the best work of the societies is recognised. Pop the Cherry Comedy is a comedy group set up by DCU students. The aim of the group is to give people an opportunity to try stand-up comedy for the first time. The Pop the Cherry performances have become very popular among DCU students. Jordan Kavanaugh went along to their fourth gig to see what all the fuss is about. Earlier in the over, Pop the Cherry Comedy for its fourth installment. It is a stand-up comedy event that was stared by DCU students and has grown into success with every show. My name is Emmett Jones, and my name is Fussy Eater, and so is my boyfriend. Good night. And we caught up with Emmett Jones to find out how he finds performing and how Pop the Cherry are stared at. The last time it was good, the audience was great, it was great to be in the old bar, it was kind of like a natural progression from the intimate maze. And then the way that we set it up was the blankets around, not the blankets, but the drapes around and how basically it was set up in Vickers Street then followed by the couch at home style with space mass at the back. Yeah, it just kind of, it worked. It was a nice way of doing it and the audience really offered it and everyone did well. It was good. Pop the Cherry started. Basically Pop the Cherry started from Dwayne Dugan, David Atkinson, and now if I were in a bar one day and decided it's a really good idea to start doing comedy in DCU because it's not really something that's done. And then Dave kind of took it upon himself to go and start organizing Pop the Cherry one and contacted me and contacted a few others and just generally kind of split the ball from there and end up being as good as this today. This is an event that always guarantees a laugh. I'm Jordan Cabinet, DCU TV News. Exposes Lisa Cannon visited DCU last week to talk to students about her career and give them advice on how to break into television. I went along to see what she had to say. I'm here in the Henry Graham, where DCU's Journal Society and DCU's Star Society have come together to host a talk from expose Lisa Cannon. What's the secret to your success? Oh, I think that's a hard question because success is always evolving, but I suppose the secret is that I just worked really hard and a lot of stuff for free and built up a lot of experience over a period of time and put together a really good show and I knocked on loads of doors and just didn't give a really pushed impression because that's what I wanted to do. Yeah. If you don't like anything, if you fancy someone and you really want them, you have to just go after them and whatever the consequences are, so be it. So whenever the cards fell, that's what happened to me and luckily I got in the door. She spoke to the students for over an hour and gave them advice on journalism and how to break into the world of television. They're lively and they're bubbly and they're excited and they're interested and they're passionate. They usually go further. And you've done loads of interviews over the years. Loads, yeah. Which has been your favorite interview? Well, I kind of toss up, we're talking about the females first, I loved Beyonce. I loved her because she was warm and she was kind and she was really touchy-feely as well. She loved women and she's very supportive of women and their strengths and I think as a person, she's quite unique. As a performer, she's exceptional. And then as an interviewer, she was just really fun. And she talked about her dad being annoying and she talked about wanting to evolve to an even greater human being and she's very spiritual, yeah, she's really dead to earth. So for me, she kind of had the whole package. And then for men, well, it has to be Brad Pitt because I waited so long to interview him. It was 20 years. Not really, I obviously loved him and fancied him. I don't like 20 years, but he was always on my wall and when I finally got to meet him, he didn't disappoint. And that to me was like the best moment ever. This is Claire Prenti for DCU TV News. DCU's Media Production Society held their version of Big Brother. Students from 13 societies took part. With all the usual twists and turns you'd expect from Big Brother, the event was a big success. Darren McGowan went to have a look. On Wednesday, March 25th, DCU TV teamed up with Bank of Ireland to air their second 24-hour broadcast event of the year as the venue was transformed to host DCU's Big Brother. Members of the Media Production Society took on behind-the-scenes roles, which boasted a large social media campaign online and topped off with exceptional graphics by Deputy Station Manager Glenn Griffin. The event went on overnight as contestants were kept awake with various tasks from the man upstairs, Big Brother himself, Owen Sheihin. I don't think I was too brutal at all. I think I was honest, I think I was straightforward. I think I was supposed to use the word plump in certain circumstances, but I do believe at the start of the show we outlined the rules of the show, but clearly to anybody, and anytime I'm allowed to come across as harsh or anything like that, it was mainly to do with just a breach of the rules. How much preparation went into DCU TV's Big Brother? Yeah, it was a lot of preparation, basically for about a month or two prior to Big Brother, we kind of met every Monday for an hour just to make sure all the plans were in place. Just before committee meetings we'd have a separate Big Brother meeting. We did that for the broadcast too, so we were kind of used to it. But yeah, it was a lot of preparation, just a lot of work. Just to kind of, it was a small thing, just like getting sponsorship, coming up with little ideas in the house. You know, recording the BT's, a lot of work went into that. Contestants each represented a society in DCU, varying from rag to circus arts to photosock and many others. The show took many turns throughout, resulting in contestants to take part in regular dance-offs and even a wedding which featured an appearance from Father Emmett Jones. I caught up with the event's runner-up contestant, Lisa Kirby. But up until like the last two hours that's when I got tired. And then I was like, okay, get me out of here. But other than that, I absolutely loved, I had great fun and I actually loved everyone in there and I got on everyone really well so I was really happy with that. What was your favourite moment of you two in the house? Um, like, I have to give a shout-out to Barbie for making it, like, when she came out with that bed and a toy Barbie. Like, to be honest, I was like, dad, but like, you actually made it class. And, oh, there's so many highlights. All in all, this was one of DCU TV's most successful broadcasts to date. Darren McGown, DCU TV News. It's always heavier than you expect. Yeah. DCU Drama held the very first society roast in the venue this month. The event gave representatives from various societies a chance to let other societies know exactly what they thought about them. Glenn Murphy was there to watch the action unfold. The DCU Drama Society's comedy roast took place on Tuesday, the 25th of March in the venue. The roast was held to help raise money for the society. This is so they can afford to put on a run of shows in the heat at the beginning of April for their Broadway musical Spring Awakening. Six societies took part in an evening of cheap jobs, venomous insults, and general slagging. Music, drama, rag, sober, NPS, and dance societies, all chose one representative each. The representative then had five minutes to tell as many jokes as possible at the other society's expenses. Shane O'Mahani for rag, Shaneane McCool for dance, Sean Ward for music, O'Sheen for NPS, Mark Young for drama, and Slaigo Steve Halanan for sober sock where the performer's on the night. We're performing in the DCU Drama roast, which is an event where basically there are six members of different societies from DCU that pitied against one another to deliver the most best put-downs to one another to shatter each other's confidence. DCU Drama Society's next production will be the Broadway musical Spring Awakening taking place in the Helix next week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. I'm going to continue to drink and I hope that by the end of the night I find him attractive, so I... I'm Glenn Murphy for DCU TV News. DCU Boxing held a Dublin City Cup in the venue this month for the very first time. Jordan Kavanaugh was there to find out more. DCU hosted the Dublin City Boxing Tournament last weekend. DCU Boxing, along with St. Sadie's Box Club, welcome other clubs from across Ireland and the UK to the event. The event was held in the venue and it was the first time that DCU was hosted. I met with Terry Keegan, the chair of DCU Boxing, to find out how DCU fighters did and how the overall, how the tournament went. So it went really good and the Saviors and Warwick won the Dublin City Cup combined with the Dublin City Boxing. So we're really happy with that. The Saviors have been running for the last five years and then we coach-hosted it here in DCU. So basically we brought four traveling teams from England and Warwick to London and we have teams from Terry and teams from Kavanaugh and a lot of clubs from Dublin and so on. The Saturday went really well. We had fight boxes and we had three wins and two losses and then today we had two boxes in but St. Sadie and I and our decisions went our way. But obviously it's a boxed-out club and we've got a lot of club members so it's a higher standard for me and so it's really good for me. The women, the 50-60s, the numbers for vision, the 20s, the 20s, the 20s, the 20s. I'm Jordan Kavanaugh, this is DCU TV News. Members of DCU's Handball Club travelled to America to compete in a competition this month. Barry Scanlon caught up with the players to see how they got on. And Lee and Jane Club, Lee Rudd-Leva, DCU and Alga America, the Blacko Parch, the Grieu Donde-Calistre, Lee Rudd-Leva from Portland, was the best player for them. The game was played in the Commodus in the 3rd World Cup where the third team of Michelin players were given a chance to play in Portland. For example, Ben Michelin from Canada, Ovexical from Sheppan and Overgéhane from Fickellan. The first team was Ferrell, Ben, Nualia, La It's all for this edition of DCU TV News. Thanks to all our reporters and crew, our next broadcast will be in two weeks. Thanks for watching.