 I'm Ashley Nolan and today I'm in the DCU's Grasnevam campus to interview the two candidates running for Irish officer, Keira Doyle and Sirke-Nique Neely. These candidates are running in the upcoming Student Union elections. So Keira Doyle, you are running for the role of Irish officer. What do you feel you could bring to the role? I feel I can bring to the role. I have a lot of passion and a lot of love for the Irish language. I've been studying it since I was four years old. I went to Irish primary school and secondary school when I was doing my three-show Irish. I feel that I can bring the love and passion I have for the language into the role and try and influence other people to take on that kind of love for the language. A lot of things I want to do is engage students better into the use of the language. Something I want to do is an initiative to have a Gwail Gorn Amisa to have university-wide initiatives to engage the students in Irish language by setting up activities such as text translation, Snapchat, Little Hunts, and Shanicals. Okay, and Keira is the current Irish officer and I'm just wondering what do you think that you would change about what she's doing or that you would improve upon? I am currently not in university this year. I'm away on Intra in Seville, so I don't really have a firsthand knowledge of what she has been up to other than the emails that I receive every week, but I don't think I can really fully answer on how she's done this year. Okay, okay. Can I ask, what do you believe that's your part then from the other candidates that's running? Sorry, could you repeat that? What do you believe that's your part from the other candidate that is running? What it says in this part is, I'd say I've been in the university longer. I'm a third year student. I feel that I might have a better understanding of university life than her. And I'm also, I'm going to be there all the time on campus. I believe she's an education student. I might not have the same type of time for the role as I would. Can I ask, as you spoke quite a bit there at the beginning about wanting to engage students, what are your ideas for incorporating Irish into the daily university life across all of the three DC campuses? Something that I want to do is start Irish lessons for arousal students, but have it through their own language, such as French, Spanish, etc. I've come across a lot of people that have asked me like, can I pick up Irish even though I don't speak very good English, and they've shown a lot of interest in the language. So that's something that I would love to take on if I was elected next year, and also another thing would be like during Shack in the Gweilge, to have a Snapchat geo filter competition to engage students in the use of language and to also make use of their creativity and get them thinking through Irish. Yeah, perfect. That's brilliant Kira. Thank you very much for your time. I hope I'll go and melt you over there in Fevelle, okay? Thank you. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Bye bye. So, Sir Kenia, you are running for the position of Irish officer. Can you tell me what you think you bring to that role? I am very lucky as a native speaker, so I grew up surrounded by the language and by the culture as well. I have a whole wealth of experience behind me from being involved as an Irish officer in another organisation. I also have an awful lot of connections to other organisations that are involved in the Irish language. I feel like they've really helped this position. I'm also very thankful for the work that Kira has done this year, as if I could agree again, she was absolutely incredible. She did pull the binder, and I would love to build on the work that she did previously as well and leave my own mark on the S and U team. And you mentioned Kira there. Is there anything in particular that she did that you'd love to change or improve on? I suppose I know her, and I wouldn't criticise her ever, but I would love to have more frequent events than we have presently. I felt like you were a little bit quiet until Christmas. Of course, there is, to be fair, replacement and duty calls, but it would be nice if we had more events running from the get-go from day one when those first-year students walk in the door, have them seeing the presence of the S U with Gregor. I suppose, as well, getting more frequent kind of fun events going on, so things like free-shine night, pop-up guerrillas, that could be great practice, get everyone down, having a bit of fun on the square again, maybe a few trap songs. You never know, I might get out and do a rendition of something, and it depends how much you get into me. I'd also love to have an event for Culture Night. I think that it would be a huge loss if we didn't, as it's playing the Gregor again, we need to try and promote language more on campus, but Culture Night could bring everyone to all hellos, and we could get them into the heart of school in the Gregor again, get them to really experience what there is to avail of there, but it would also get people speaking Irish on top of that as well. And what do you think the new component of the role that Moogir and Colin cut? I had a huge amount of experience. Previously, I spent the last year working as if with the Gregor for the Irish Second Love Students Union, and I really enjoyed that role, part of my role was translation, and I just feel like the moment we're lacking a bit of presence on social media, in terms of Irish language translations and posts that go up, it would be nice to have both a Latin Gregor and a Latin bearer up, during playing the Gregor at least, I can't guarantee that people would agree to that, but it would be really nice. On top of that, I have huge amounts of experience in terms of organising events. I really enjoy it and I have a huge amount of contacts, and I think it could be really cool to apply for funding, I get some really cool regular events going from Irish language classes to obviously the part of Gwail Towns before Shine Out, and also to get everyone out there and just having a bit of crack last grade again, basically. And then what are your ideas for bringing Irish to all of the campuses in DC, because we have got three campuses at the moment, what are your ideas for that? Well, my hope will be that the hope will be done soon, and once that is complete, it will be really nice to avail of that space to possibly have a ball in the grill again and have all three campuses, and as I'm saying, that's the wrong language, have them able to avail of that space and come along and get on, let's stop just to speak Irish. I also think that it would be really nice to have some regular events going on on all three campuses, but I think at the moment, our main focus should be getting the funds out of Irish out there, especially during this momentous year. Thank you so much for coming. No problem. So there you have it, there are two candidates for Irish officer in this year's Student Union elections. You can log on to Loop Now and vote across all of the categories, and results will be out on Friday. Ashley Nolan, DCU TV News.