 and welcome to DCU TV's evening news. Our first story tonight, DCU Dance Society held their event, the full Monty, for the second year running last week. Self-described as cheeky and raunchy, our girls Amy Lawler and Shirley Donnan, went to check it and some of the contestants out. DCU Dance Society held its second annual full Monty event in the right venue in Swords earlier this month. The event sees societies from DCU taking part in a dancing competition with the aim of embracing the idea of body and soul. We spoke to DCU Dance Society's event manager, Sinead Albert, to find out more about the event. It's just mainly societies that can't, well maybe they can't dance, but we don't know that. So Rugby, Esauk, Sobersauk, the SU dancing, and then they're gonna be judged by our three judges. One of our judges, his name's Harry Delaney, he's on there at Dance Society, he's not on the committee though, and then we have two student union members, Emeryn and James. So Ronald McDonald is our chosen charity, we, all our proceeds go to them kind of after every big event that we do, so like the experiment, best dance crew that we have is best or won, and then full Monty, so yeah. It wouldn't have been a Dance Society event without an appearance from the society's very own glamorous dancing dolls. Presenters Laura Horan and Sean Kerry entertained the crowd by encouraging the audience to get involved, and even hosted an onstage first date. After much celebration and dancing, the judges crowned DCU's Rugby Society the winner of the full Monty 2017. I'm Amy Lawler, DCU TV News. Former Roscommon footballer Neil Patrick Collins was one of the key speakers for Esauk's Enterprise Week in DCU last week. The former DCU welfare officer attributed a lot of his success to the clubs and societies that he was involved in, which included the GA club and the Style Society. Collins spoke to students about making your passion your paycheck and how his personal experiences in DCU got him to where he is today. I kind of felt that I could get a balance between playing football and living that lifestyle as well, and so that's kind of what I chased after the first year. So it is like, I guess when I was thinking about this the last day or two being in here and looking back on my time, like a lot of the decisions I made that led to what I'm doing now happen when I was in DCU, so if I think you like my football side, I obviously kept that going for a couple of years. I'm just taking a small break to the world from playing, and then a lot of the stuff I do in the Style Society, that really influenced the direction I went in after DCU. So that's why I guess I think it's so important this time for you guys. Not every decision, like even if you're studying, I don't know, business A and F, that doesn't necessarily have to be the direction you go in. I think actually the things you learn at this time, maybe you'll learn that you don't want to go in that direction, and if that's what you take out of it, that's great as well. It's a really shape and time for you guys and what will happen going forward. You might be able to see it exactly now, but the small decisions you make will lead on to what you do in the future. I spoke to the founder of the Style Surgeon about his career move back home in Ross Common, and the reaction that he got to it. I think it just happened gradually, you know, when I was showing up to training in extravagant outfits and things like this, I think then it wasn't so much of a shock when I just gradually transitioned in to having an interest in that. He also told DCUTV about bearing away from his original sports science degree to follow his passion for fashion. Yeah, it can be challenging, alright, to break away from the groups of the normal parts, you know. I definitely can, but at the same time I guess you just have to go with your feeling on it and go all the way with it and I guess try and embrace it as much as possible. But it can be challenging, but I guess that's the joy in it as well, you know. And I think there's good living and there's good life in that. This is Lauren Ennis for DCUTV News. Our national drug strategist, Katharine Byrne, spoke to Aaron McElroy and Shirley Donlan about the criticism received by the Cabinet-approved legislator to create a supervised injection facility. On the 7th of February, the Cabinet approved the introduction of legislation to establish supervised injection facilities for drug users. The plan is for facilities to be stopped by medical professionals, trained to deal with overdoses and to be in place where users can access sterile needles and spaces to inject themselves with drugs they have brought with them. The legislation was suggested in 2012 and it was taken on board to be put on the government agenda for this year. The Minister of State for Communities and National Drug Strategy, Katharine Byrne, spoke about why this would be a positive move and she responded to criticisms by groups such as the Temple Bar Company and the Restaurants Association about the possibility of the city centre becoming a magnet for drug users. One of the reasons why I suppose as in other countries now there's over 90 of them around the world is to facilitate people who unfortunately are homeless and mental health and other issues to be able to facilitate them to inject in a safe environment particularly within a health service where there would be doctors and nurses and they are able to assist if they go into difficulty and has been proven I suppose in other countries that people haven't died in these places there's never been a death recorded in any of them across the world and so that's why it's called supervised safe injection facility because it is supervised in a safe environment. I think I can understand the concerns around businesses in town in the capital city but unfortunately it's already there, the people are already there injected, the only thing is they're injected openly and they're leaving all the disregarded needles which can be a health hazard. There's a pilot scheme it'll be only one for now and how well it goes we'll see then about the rest of the country but there's businesses calling for it in Cork and other places as well. There's a pilot scheme in the Dahl in the coming weeks but the first centre due to be opened in Dublin city centre in the autumn. Aaron McElroy DCUTV News posted a highly anticipated pro-life pro-choice debate on campus last week Aaron McElroy and Sarah McLaughlin heard both sides of the argument Memes? What are they? Where did they come from? And how are they actually pronounced? CFM News flagship show Newswire hosted a live broadcast debate last Wednesday in the nursing building under Glass 7 campus. The pro-life pro-choice debate is known to be controversial and Newswire had Alva Smith from Coalition to Repel the Athe and Schneed Slattery from the pro-life campaign speaking for both sides. As is in Ireland the 8th amendment of the constitution criminalises abortion and both sides were asked about the pros and cons regarding this. I'm not hearing everything that Alva said I'd like to go back to that but just in terms of my setting up my stall I believe that this is a civil rights issue and I believe it's the biggest civil rights issue of our generation. Head of news and DCUFM and moderator for the evening Steven Murphy said he was pleased with the event and that he thought it was educational for the audience. We belong to hear some of the tense and heated arguments presented. We went down to the base to find out just as very ting. There's a young book up the corner on Tinder looks like he just got some bad news. Not exactly a sold out show tonight the cheap seats still haven't been filled but there's a good crowd of lads waiting around for their lifts home nonetheless. This lad here is tapping out a sick beat very pleased with that performance. The MC for the night looked a bit wound up before the big moment. He's added up to hear with this topic of conversation it's clearly tearing his cult apart he even looks a bit blue over the whole thing. He looks like a lad who wears a suit to bed. Little do the crowd know he's in his pajamas. This lad got up then and gave the crowd a good laugh. Yeah here look look this shit. Well folks you can't argue with that an opinion that was well taught informed and clearly not coming from a woman who feels marginalised in the Irish comedy scene. I wanted to find out more about memes so I went to the one man that I knew would have enough time to take over his busy schedule to talk to us about such a pressing issue. So I'm here with Dylan Cure, SU President. Dylan what can you tell me about the memes crisis? Well there's actually a big history of the memes crisis they started off back in the day in Romans and Greeks and the black and white first of all so if you're colour blind you're in a bit of water and they're silent so they can get away with a lot of stuff. Wait wait wait a second you're talking about memes. Yeah huh? You're talking about memes. We're meant to be talking about memes, you're talking about memes. How can you call yourself a man of the people if you think memes are not only a treasure but they're still in fashion. So I was always interested in baiting I always had a passion for it and the free speech and the conversation it evoked but in DCU there wasn't a baiting society in my first year which was the real downfall for DCU I thought. So in my second year I set up the DCU debate signing on with my friend Pierce so we set up the society to really evoke free speech and just discussion within DCU like I don't get to do too much debating myself but like I facilitate and like I try and you know push that as much as possible in DCU. Have you ever been the victim of a meme yourself? No I haven't. I found this just outside the Henry Grapin building where apparently debate soft chairperson Seamus Cummins is saying cash me outside how about that was the challenge of the person to actually make this meme but that's just not up for debate Paul Dwyer DCU TV news