 I'm here on DCU's Gilles Nevin campus where excitement is building for the upcoming student union elections. With voting commencing soon, I sit down with the club's officer Thomas Darian who hopes to be re-elected again for a second term. He is the sole candidate running for the position of club's officer and I sit down with him to see why he's running again. So Thomas, you're the current club's officer for this academic year and you're hoping to be re-elected? Yeah, that's right. So can you tell me some of your achievements over the last number of months? So since I came into this position I've had the two give-it-or-go weeks, I've had copper detox jugs on same parts of campus and hopefully we'll have them in class 9 and 2 and same with Coogre classes. My students and staff have done a Coogre course in semester one and it's on campus in semester two. You mentioned in your manifesto a lack of club committee training. Now like anything training is so important. How can you ensure that this won't occur again? Well training is really important for the clubs to be run successfully and over the last year there was the pod trainer that quite frankly made most clubs quiver. But I'm hoping to bring it back to basics and I've already been talking to Siobhan Byrne who's finance for clubs and socks and Avon McGowan who is the sports development officer for the college. So over the summer we're going to put a plan in place that the CLC and SLC committees will be giving clubs and socks the training themselves just to familiarise FG by each other and give higher quality training. You've spoken about the slow uptake of female participation particularly for club sports. How can you tackle that? So we generally see girls dropping out of sports when they're in secondary school and come up to leave and so on that. But I think the sports for OMG is so important like for men to have an exercise and go to healthy living. But I'm going to have talks at the start of the year with sports personalities. This week actually I've tree celebrities as such coming in. So we've Rosemary Smith who's an eight year old rally driver who's a fantastic staff member here Fiona Hudson who plays for the women's junior team and Eve McChrystal who's an Olympian. So these are three different women of all ages across different sports and different abilities to talk to our students and tell them the benefits of sports. So I'll be having more of that at the start of the semester. Great. You'll also be going into your final year of college. You're quite fortunate enough to be able to learn from your mistakes. How do you think your workload will impact your role when going into final year? Well with my course there is very little of the change between workload in final year. And this year I spent a lot of time getting resources ready so that when I am in the role hopefully next year I can just pull out stuff as we're going along. And for me we didn't really start until September where we come into this role during the summertime and there's a lot of time lost there. So I'll hopefully work on that and be able to do more stuff during the summer so it made my life a bit easier when we start back into college next year. Another thing you've been very vocal about is your passion for healthy lifestyle, healthy eating. You've mentioned an idea about a boss running from Lidl to from DCU. Could you explain how that might come about? So we have a fantastic lecturer here at Nelson, Tracy Herrington and Chicago South in touch with another student who's from another college who's currently doing a course in this college. And she was telling us that in her own college there was a Lidl bus. So Lidl paid for this bus to come down to their campus and bring the students up. And I know there's other candidates wants to do something similar. So I'll be working with Tracy and that student and James Gavin who's the new head of sports and well-being and being able to implement that for September because on campus there isn't a great variety of food and veg for students. And I want to teach students on how to shop on a low budget but eat really happily. Brilliant, lovely. Thank you so much Thomas for taking the time out to speak to us today. Well, there you have it. That's what the sole candidate for clubs officer had to say. Voting commences this Wednesday and make sure to keep up to date with DCU TV news coverage of the election. I'm Shana Kohn for DCU TV News.