 Gweithio, ond yw'n ysgolwch ar DCU TV News. Yn ysgolwch, ac mae'n gweithio i'w freithio eu cyfrannu cwestiwn ar y Cymru yma, wrth y fwrdd o'r gweithio'r cyfrannu cyfrannu. Mae'n gweithio'r cyfrannu cyfrannu cwestiwn ar y Cymru yw'r cyfrannu gyfrannu. Mae'r ddweud yw'r cyfrannu cwestiwn Helfer Simon Harris yn ystod, mae'n ddweud y cwestiwn arnau sgwm eich gyfrannu cyfrannu a'r cyfrannu cyfrannu gyfrannu. A'r reporter Ystod, Ashley Nolan a Rachel Merton, ddim yn rhoi ddweud i'r ddweud i ddweud i ddweud penedigau â'r cyfloghau. Yn ymgyrch, yma, yma 1,800 ddweud i ddweudio gymrydol yn Arland. Dyma, ymgyrch i ddweud i ddweud iâm, Simon Harris, maen nhw'n gyrfaith bod yr trefdeid mewn cwmaint yn ardal i ddweud i ddweud i ddweud i ddweud i ddweudio. The move comes as part of the health service people's strategy, which aims to combat the issues with Ireland's revolving door health system. We spoke to student nurses in DCU where reactions to the announcement were mixed. I think it would be brilliant if it comes true, but I believe when we see it it's very easy to make those promises, but what's the guarantee or how can you guarantee that? Yeah, it's really nice to know that when we qualify we'll have something definitely there, and not have to go to another country to look for a job basically, and we have a safety net here. And was emigration something you had considered before? Yeah, you'd be thinking about it if you weren't guaranteed something here, so it's nice not to have to now. Well it's a great idea and I hope that does happen, but I know for current fourth years that they still haven't been issued with their contracts and they were told that they would do them and they're still in. A survey done by the Irish Nursing and Midwives Organisation last year showed that only 30% of nursing graduates were offered contracts by the HSE and only 16% of these were permanent. On top of this, 78% of graduates were considering emigration following their degree. Ireland is now the top producer of plastic waste in the European Union. With Ireland's waste and plastic levels increasing, DCU's Sustainability Living is campaigning for a plastic-free campus. Helen O'Neill and Amy Murphy report. Ireland was number one in Europe for plastic waste in 2017 according to Eurostat figures. Each person produced 61kg of waste per year. DCU have started a petition to eliminate the use and sale of single-use plastics on DCU campuses. This includes coffee cups, cutlery, bottles, straws and bags. There's two Euro-reusable cups on campus. The environmental lecturer in DCU, Ciaran Fagin, said he is in favour of the reusable cups. We ask students if they think they are a good idea. I think people use them for a while and forget about them. I think it's a really, really good idea. I think we really need to be more conscious of the environment in every little aspect of our daily lives because it all really adds up and especially when there's so many people on campus it really does add up big time. If everybody gets on board with it and doesn't throw them all away every time they use them, it could really be a really good initiative. Definitely, I'd be off for that. I'd just be afraid that I'd forget it and then I'd have to buy a new reusable cup, but it's great. It's definitely a good idea. I mean, with the amount of waste that we contribute every day of life anyway. There's nothing wrong with reusing a cup a couple of times. How no-neal DCU? DCU was granted the status of University of Sanctuary in December 2016. The college has provided 15 scholarships for Irish-based refugees and asylum seekers since September. Michelle Townsend and Alex Dunn report. DCU welcomes students from over 110 countries, including Sheppard-Machea from Zimbabwe. But how he got to DCU is a tale more fraught than most. On the run from his home, Sheppard sought asylum in Ireland and is staying in a direct provision centre in Port Leish. I was under persecution from the recent party. I was being forced to protect the activities that they do in like forcing people to join the party and forcing people to go and attack other people like the opposition parties and those that are not interested in joining the party. So I refused. I'm not a politician myself and I'm not interested in politics. So the things like when I refused, I then became an enemy to them. They kept trying to force me and I kept refusing until I became a target. They started persecution me and they were beating me up and they took me several times and they tortured me until one day I got a chance to skip out of the country. That's how I ended up in Ireland. After studying in Port Leish College for a year, he applied through the CIO to go to university but didn't have the money. Luckily, the University of Sanctuary programme helped him out. I applied through the CIO and when I met my application, I actually put DCU on top. This is where I wanted to study. For some reason I don't know but I've just heard some people making very good recommendations about DCU. Then I didn't have money to go to university. All of a sudden we got a reception here. They put a link saying DCU was offering scholarships. So I applied and thank God I was accepted. DCU took on 15 students through the programme, which has been a major success in its first year. We had a very successful colloquium at the start of September. We were running again or many projects every week for two hours bringing in people from Mosnig. We're doing a storytelling project with our DCU students. There's a few things going on like this and it's been a really good energy. Shepard now plans to work in IT after graduation and his education is helping him to build a better life. I've learnt a lot of things. I've been in school now close to six months, but I've actually learnt a lot of things to be honest with you. And though I'm studying online, it's a very, very tough thing to do. It's very challenging. It comes with a lot of challenges. It comes with a lot of discipline, studying online. I'm studying on my own, spending a lot of time like feeding and to be honest, it has done a lot of good and made a lot of changes in my life in terms of how far I can push myself. Michelle Townsend, DCU TV News. The independent radio sector has received a boost with communications minister Dennis Nocton making a number of significant changes. Zoe Ryan reports. The Minister for Communications, Dennis Nocton, recently proposed to relax radio advertising caps to allow radio stations to broadcast more than ten minutes of advertising per hour. In light of this announcement, we spoke to professionals and experts in the industry, as well as radio listeners, to ask their opinion on the matter. I would have a lot of faith in the standard of radio and our standard of broadcasting. So I think the producers are going to be working hard to try and keep the balance between actually funding the shows and letting the presenters keep the flow of the actual show itself. That's going to be the big problem of trying to keep the balance between the two. So by increasing the time, it's going to impact the show but there's going to be a lot of people working hard to try and keep the standard of the show the same. The people are keyed in and they're listening than one or two extra minutes. I don't know that that would make a big difference and of course I would expect the broadcasters and to compensate for that by offering more engaging content. I know there's a fair number of people who at least for music radio think that there is already an overwhelming amount of radio advertising. It's tough to say, I mean obviously they would probably be unhappy with the news but whether or not the actual increase would have any particular effect on people's listening habits I'm not sure. The Afternoon Show with Carl James on Midlands 103. It is Carl James here from The Afternoon Show on Midlands 103. Effective advertising makes people remember your name. Advertising around special events like GAA matches are key to both radio and the advertiser. There's a guaranteed audience and it's an easier sell for the station. Increasing the time per hour on these occasions would both win new advertisers plus reduce the chance of offending key clients by refusal. Bring in the new flexibility rule and help prevent further breaches. Remember the overall cap of 15% between 7am and 7pm remains so everyone's a winner. So by increasing the space of advertising times that means there's more income going into radio stations which means they can actually do more with the money they get. For example, spin might be able to fuel the cars more to go out to more places or it could help them buy new equipment let them do more things. In the end 30 seconds longer of advertising might increase like how good the quality is of their shows. At the radio days conference in Dublin this week the minister confirmed that he is considering an offer from the IBA to change the 10-minute rule. Zoe Rhyn, DCTV News. The government's latest action plan for education aims to boost learning of foreign languages. O'n yw Cymru a Megan Conway report on what this means for DCU. German, Spanish, French and Italian. These are just some of the foreign languages students will be encouraged to learn under the latest education action plan launched by the government. The plan sets out an ambitious roadmap to put Ireland in the top 10 countries in Europe for the teaching of foreign languages by 2026. Speaking at the launch, Tish Ugly of Raikor said it was a shame that many people in Ireland can only master one language. A viewpoint that many students in DCU share. I studied French in the leave insert and I didn't really take to it that much but I was in Germany last week and I definitely think that a second language would be very beneficial because we're so isolated just speaking English. I know a lot of people speak other languages that aren't English and when I was in Germany I really found it difficult at times. Yeah, I do know another language. I know a conversational level of Spanish. I used to live there so obviously I know a good bit. I do think it's important for people to even attempt to learn a little bit of another language. So yeah, I think it's something that everyone should look into learning at least once in their life. I don't regret not taking up a language at university because I think if you ever want to work abroad it's just really handy to have and even... You know when you go on a holiday I kind of feel really ignorant that you just know English and that's it and no one knows any other language so especially with my course I have the option to take a language and I didn't and sometimes I regret it not doing it because then I could have widened the scope for possible future careers and stuff like that. The language community in Ireland the language professionals, researchers teachers and so on has been waiting for at least 30 years because there is no language strategy or language policy in Ireland. As Ireland and its economy build closer links with Europe knowledge of foreign languages will be crucial. Companies need to have people who can engage with Europeans and beyond if they really want to export for instance because this idea that the world speaks English so you don't need to speak their language this is you know it is a myth really. The strategy for the teaching of foreign languages is set to change dramatically with 20% of all higher education students learning a language as part of their course by 2026. Shauna Cohn DCU TV News The annual crack in up event organised by DCU's mental health society was held in the city earlier this month. A reporter Karen Gaffney went along to see what all the cracks about. I'm down in Wilins on Wexford Street for the annual crack in up event in aid of the DCU mental health society. I caught up with some of the committee members and fans to see what they had to say about the event. This is a period of crack in up. Crack in up is a concert that's put on by the mental health society here in DCU. It's held in Wilins every year so we've had acts like the Kronos, David Keenan the young folk Owen Schneider and loads and loads more. It's been really a successful last couple of years. We're fundraising for Jigsaw. Jigsaw is an organisation that focuses on the youth's mental health. It's the one that's very close to many hearts on the committee. So we're really excited to be able to donate 100% of all proceeds that are raised to the charity tonight. Supporting the charity event were musicians Joel Erkins, Eve Bell, Flat Out and poet and DCU alumni James O'Connor along with Oshino Hanlon as MC. Bring it up, bring it up, bring it up! Welcome to the stage, James O! I was part of the mental health side years ago when it first started. I was on the first committee and I became the first mentor manager for The Hub. I just think it's a really great cause and I love to come back every chance I get to help the committee out and to help with these big events. I was involved in the first crack so I would love to come back and see what I was involved in. As I failed to pull myself together I was wrapped around me and hold me into my head. I was performing this evening and I was really happy to get involved because Jigsaw do absolutely fantastic work. They're really important. Focusing on youth's mental health in Ireland is that it should be a way bigger issue than it is. It's an effort going into rectifying a lot of issues that we have and Jigsaw are doing amazing work towards that. I was delighted to get involved and it's a very great cause to see. I'm excited. No loads of people coming. There's loads of brilliant acts playing and I'm just all around excited for it. It's amazing to be there. That Mr is so good. I'm having a great night. It's going very well. Feeling very mentally sound and fantastic. Mental health stock in DCU is unreal and I feel like they deserve all the support in the world. I wanted to come and support them because they're all great people working for something very good. Because I turned sex last week. Karen Gaffney at Crackinup 2018 for DCU TV News. That's all for this week. Remember you can keep up to date with what's going on through our Facebook page. I'm Shauna Cohn. Good evening.