 Good evening and welcome to DCUTV News. We're your anchors. I'm Megan Rontree and I'm Rebecca Lumley. Last week it was announced that student nurses pay has increased to minimum wage. This increase came into effect on the 1st of March. The wage dispute has been an ongoing issue for student nurses for years. The union of students in Ireland were very active in campaigning for the wage increase and is a huge success for student politics. Katie Dawson, a student nurse, expressed her views on what it means to her. Are you happy about the increase in wage for student nurses? Honestly, I'm really happy. It's been kind of something that we've been fighting for for an absolutely ridiculously long amount of time. I know for some people three-year-old may not seem like the biggest real difference, but it is. We're standing there doing the trial and error shifts for two in the nights, the weekends, Christmas, New Year's. Like, I don't know if they do try and give us as many errors or the errors that kind of suit us best as well, but at the same time we are kind of stuck with the errors at no one. So for us, we do the same work as a staff nurse when we're on our internship. We just don't have our qualification yet. I know a lot of other courses as well, like they do injuries, so injury gets paid. So for us, it's just kind of level in the playing field a little bit. Like, it was kind of the decision that if it wasn't made, we wouldn't have got it ever. So all of us are absolutely delighted because not only affects me, I'm a second-year nurse, so the time I get there, it sort of, but it also affects the interns that are at the minute. They're getting paid from tomorrow, from, they're getting paid from 6.49. They're getting up to 9.49 an error. So it just, it works out so much better for us. Also, it means that when we qualify, we're on, I think we have like a set pay scale, so it's like the longer you work in nursing, the more pay you get. So we start off, I think it's the second or third pay scale after we graduate because of this rising pay that we're after getting. So everyone is absolutely delighted. So we could not. Last week saw the launch of the first ever in Actors Week. I went out to see what happened, who organised it and how successful it was. Prince, prince, prince, prince, prince, prince. Organising exercise classes taught by ex-prisoners is just one of Inactus' bright ideas. Last week, the Society, which focuses on the improvement of social issues, held its own in Actors Week. This comes after Radley, which is annually a huge success in DC youth. I spoke to Society member Lucy Madden, who was down at the Inactus boot camp, to see what the Society is all about. So in Inactus, we do social projects that help improve society and this week is all about promoting the projects that we're going to be doing this year. So on Monday, we had MISTCU, which we were using to raise money for our social projects and it was a huge success. It was over 150, 110 people there and we made loads of money for our social projects. Then on Tuesday nights, I run a class called Head Starts for people with intellectual disabilities. We do drama, dance, art and music with them and we really enjoy it and it's really something to help you. It's very empowering and a lot of people volunteer and we have a lot of members that get so excited to come to the classes. Then today, this is behind us here, there's a care after prison work camp and it's run by an ex-prisoner called Kieran. The camp is a social innovation to allow ex-prisoners to make a livelihood. They will run every Wednesday at half three in Albert College Park. Inactus then finished their week with the trip away. We're going to Galway for the Anactus Ireland Spring Summit so we're going, it's like a training day that we're all going to go and have fun, make friends and stuff like that and it's just all about learning more about Anactus and helping yourself, better yourself. Anactus members say it's not too late to join the society and students can do so through the Students' Union. I'm Rebecca Lumley, DCNTV News. Last week, awfully Inter-County footballer Niall McNamee came into DCU as part of the leadership pod to talk about his career and how he struggled with addiction. Paul Dwyer got the full details on how the talk went. Niall McNamee, awfully county footballer and all-star player came to talk to DCU students to tell them about his struggles on and off the pitch. During the talk, Niall spoke about how his gambling addiction escalated from a bit of fun on Saturday to a seven-day obsession. So it used to be a Saturday morning for a couple of hours or Saturday for a couple of hours and after a while that became Saturday on Sunday and after another short while it became Saturday Sunday Monday until eventually he got to a stage where it was seven days a week. Niall also spoke about how he got into huge sums of debt due to gambling. I wasn't overly flush, I'd normally saved up. I definitely had a treat-house in Europe saved up that I could go and pay back. So for a day that I went to the bank and I took out a loan of a treat-house in Europe. I told him I was going to buy a car. So I took out a loan of a treat-house in Europe to go back to pay off the bookie. And within a couple of days that treat-house in Europe was lost as well. That's all for me and Niall McNamee and soon you in Hope. I'm Paul Foyer and this is Steve. LGBTQTA hosted Rainbow Week in DCU. This is the second annual week and events occurred across campus that were organized by the LGBTQTA Society. I went out to see what happened and the importance of the week. DCU's LGBTQTA Society held their second annual Rainbow Week to celebrate sexuality and gender. I spoke to Chairperson Haley Helpin about its significance. I think there's still a need for Rainbow Week on campus because after the referendum passed in May, you know, people think that all LGBT issues have gone away, but that's not actually the case. We still have to fight for transgender rights. We still have to fight to, you know, make sure homophobia isn't a thing anymore. We just need to educate people. A lot of people aren't educated regarding LGBT issues, so there's a lot of work to still need to be done, so we just need to keep on going. The first event of the week was a screening of The Queen of Ireland, a documentary film about dry queen Panti Bliss. Other events that took place include a bake sale in aid of the Transgender Equality Network Ireland, a coffee morning with rainbow face painting, as well as a Kiki dance workshop. Let's go to work. I spoke to one member of the Society about what Rainbow Week means to her. I think it's a really important week because it helps us celebrate our diversity and also it kind of gives us a chance to see how we are accepted in a wider community and for people to come and celebrate every year. I suppose it makes you feel more comfortable about who we are and how time will feel to be where the chance is trying to get to know. And finally, every year the Media Production Society holds a Battle of the Cams event where contestants have a week to film short movies that must contain certain techniques or criteria. Our reporter, Nylo Dunhu, found out all the details. DCUTV held their annual short film competition, The Battle of the Cams, recently. Students had one week to write, shoot and edit their film. Each short had to fulfil three criteria, slow motion, a slamming door and the line now's not the time for. In total, five student-created films were showcased last Tuesday, with a variety of genres being represented, from romance to drama to comedy. The winner of Battle of the Cams 2016 is Transaction. The grand prize of the evening went to the buddy cop short Transaction, featuring a routine drug bust that goes horribly wrong. I also caught up with DCUTV manager Owen Luke to ask him what he thought of this series competition. Each video was based on four different things. The first one was the structure of the video, how well the video panned out, how well it was, the story was formed and then developed, then the quality of the content. So basically whether the script was funny, whether the script was well written. We also judge it based on technical qualities of the video. The graphics, the editing and even simple editing got good marks. So it wasn't kind of like if you tried something fancy and it didn't work. Like we wouldn't know what it was, but we gave good marks to ones that were just edited nicely and people knew what they were doing. And then the last one was obviously just how well our three criteria were incorporated into the videos and we ever just among those four things. This is Niall O'Donoghue for DCUTV News. Thank you Niall. That's it for now. We'll be back with more student-made news in a fortnight. Goodbye for now. Goodbye.