 Hi, I'm Megan Brady and welcome to the final broadcast of DCU TV News. Our top story today is the fantastic achievements of DCU Societies at this year's BICS Awards. Congratulations to NPS who won Best Society in Social, Academic and Cultural field, RAG who won Best Society in a Civic Contribution or Charity, and Kaushani Kealkhan who won Best Pressure. This was a brilliant result and congratulations to all involved. DCU came away on top at this year's Student Media Awards at the Aviva last Thursday. The Student Media Awards are awards run by Oxygen.ie that recognise the most talented students working in media in the country. DCU FM managers Owen Sheehan and Sean Defoe won two awards and DCU FM flagship shows Action Replay and Newswire both won in the respective categories. Last Wednesday the annual Student and Staff 5K Fun Run took place. Anna Kazadiova went along to have a look. This year's Student and Staff Fun Race took place on the DC campus this afternoon. The run was organised by the School of Nursing and Human Sciences. It stretched for five kilometres through Albert College Park starting and finishing at the Helix. This year's winner thoroughly enjoyed the race. We had to get my ankle ligaments repaired so I missed nearly a year. I used to do a lot of running and then obviously I missed a year or more so I've been back to an event for the last since Christmas really. It was the first time we've been out running so it feels extra special. It's actually a winner race for the first time ever. Yeah, I enjoyed the run. It was really fun. It's nice like a flash park and it's just going around in circles and it's really good that they have the markings that you do when you're at like 2k and more things. I enjoyed it. I enjoy it now. I didn't enjoy the last kilometre but it was good fun and I suppose it's good to see staff and students mix on a day like this. It's an annual event and long may it continue. Entering the race got five year for students and ten year for staff. Upon reaching the finish line participants received water, a special t-shirt and refreshments. So we started it three years ago to try and get students and staff and participate in a more healthy event together and so far it's worked out really well. Good turnout, good mixture of students with staff. Slightly competitive sometimes but other than that it's actually mostly fun. Some of the awards included a three-month gym membership, hoodies and many more. Anna Kazadaeva, DCU TV news. As a result of the referendum passed in DCU this year with 93% voting yes DCU students are actively campaigning for a yes vote with a rainbow flag being erected on campus last week. Megan Roundtree reports from the hub. A crowd gathered outside the hub last week as DCU unveiled their rainbow flag on campus. The flag was raised as a symbol of solidarity and support from DCU to the LGBT community. Welfare officer Eve Curtin who organised the event made the opening speech. 593% in favour with such a positive mood and direction and I think it shows the students that are here, that they are accepted, the staff that are here that are accepted and that we are all behind them and we just need to keep that kind of momentum going for the next month. We only have a few left and I'm so proud to have been here as a flag of race. On the same day a voting registration drive took place on campus to encourage students to register. A marriage equality panel discussion also took place whereby speakers such as TD John Lyons, USI representative Annie Hoy and lecturer and coordinator of the yes equality campaign Steve Conlon all discussed why the yes vote is so important. Because we're not just fighting the government, the government on our side this time. We're fighting the constitution and we're fighting a fight to convince the people of Ireland. Of course we already have a civil partnership but why offer a second class recognition for a first class relationship. That's all from me, Megan Rowntree, DCU TV News. The SLC AGM was held two weeks ago. The AGM was held to elect next year's Society Life Committee. The SLC are responsible for maintaining a good quality of society life on campus and allocating funds and awards throughout the year. The new chair of the SLC is Garo Klesham and he will take over from Jake Ryan. The rest of the SLC is made up of Jordan Loog Secretary, Deermott Smith P.O.R.O. and three ordinary members Emma Kavanaugh, Hugh Daly and Sean Casty. The newly elected Society offer, Breach Brown, will also sit on that committee. The hybrids took place last Monday in the Helix. These awards recognized the excellent work produced by DCU students in media. The awards were presented by Republic of Tele presenter Kevin McGarhoun and the categories were all judged by industry professionals. Jordan Kavanaugh has more. The hybrids took place last week to a packed out hall in the Helix. The MPS event, which was sponsored by Jemson this year, is an awards show for outstanding work in media throughout the year. There were 21 categories including photograph of the year, radio DJ of the year and journalists of the year. Republic of Tele star Kevin McGarhoun hosted the ceremony and many media professionals such as RTE's Rick O'Shea and 98 FM's Ray Foley judged the categories. A new award introduced this year was Irshore Nabilina, which was won by Barry Scanlon. I cut up with Barry after his win. I'm Jordan Kavanaugh, DCU TV News. Dublin's 98 FM's Adrian Kennedy called into DCU to talk to DCU's aspiring radio journalists. Tomasz Douglas has more. The weather was glorious in a busy lecture hall as popular radio personality Adrian Kennedy spoke to DCU MPS. The 98 FM presenter spoke about his career from volunteering in 1983 to hosting popular radio for a 17-year stint in FM 104 and more recently 98 FM. Mr Kennedy shared some of his wisdom with up-and-coming presenters from DCU FM. His talk titled The Future of Radio outlined competitors to radio including YouTube and Spotify. I caught up with him afterwards to ask him how his position on the FM 104 phone show came about. For a couple of years before I took over the phone show I'd been used as holiday cover and when the guy who was presenting the show back in 1997 left, who was Chris Barry, who subsequently came back to FM 104, I was kind of the natural choice because they'd been using me to fill in on the show for four years so every time Chris was on holidays I would do the show and at the time I was working in news and FM 104 I was the head of news at the station so it was kind of a choice of packing in the news gig and I took it on for the challenge of it to be honest with you. I went on to ask him if he was happy he'd taken the phone show over the news team. Yes and no. One of the most difficult things when I took the job on the phone show originally had I known the impact it was going to have on my life I probably wouldn't have taken it. That's the God's honest truth because I worked nights for 17 years and 17 years working until one or two in the morning really takes its toll on you and one of the reasons that I chose to go to 98 at this point in my career was to get off working nights and no other reason it wasn't for a massive pay rise I didn't get back any wages to move to 98 FM. I got a 10% pay increase on what I was getting in 104 so it wasn't for money it was to get off working nights I just couldn't do it anymore so in answer to your question am I glad I gave up the news gig yes and no. It is the season of AGMs and with many new people taking up roles in societies in DCU Jordan Kavanaugh caught up with the new chair of ESOC Shane Carter who has big plans to upscale Rag Week next year despite continued pressure over the last few years from the Student Union due to negative aspects of Rag Week One of the first EGMs of the year was ESOCs which was held in the business building a whole new committee was elected comprising of some old and new faces such as Dylan Keough two first years went for the role of chairperson with Shane Carter being elected I caught up with Shane to find out how he feels and what plans he has in store for the society You mentioned Rag in your speech and would you incorporate the Rag Society? Okay so the Rag Society do a lot of great things you obviously see there are after bigs next week we're after bigs with them and then I definitely like to emphasize Rag Week but emphasize nearly the after parties and the minds out afterwards and to go hand in hand with the charity raising even obviously and so I think after events we can do a few spinoff events and then make it a great week for students and I'd like to get students from other colleges around the country to come to Dublin for a week better and all of us have to go to Kerala or go all the way all around the country. That's all from me Jordan Kavanaugh DCU TV News While I'm talking about the streets in DCU and New York, I'd like to say that I'm happy to be here with you all. I'm so happy to be here and I'm sure she'll be happy to be here and I'll be happy to meet you all. I'm going to talk to you more about it, I'm very happy that you're here with us and I'm excited to be here with you all, T-Rex Osaurus. I'd like to say that I'm Despite the fact that the nation is a very common place in the world, the most promising society, a Wunch, is the nation and the heart of the nation. Co-operates with me, and the DCU, Sivan Shoiga, are the best among the best. I'm a bit worried because my plan was not in the best way, the DCU and the DCU are the best in the world, and the DCU and the DCU are the best in the world, That's all for this broadcast of DCU TV News and it is the last broadcast of the year. Remember you can keep up to date on Facebook and on Twitter. I'm Megan Brady. Thanks for watching.