 Good evening and welcome to DCU TV News. I'm Megan Carmay and tonight we'll be looking at the top stories that have taken place across the university over the last two weeks. We'll also be looking at national news stories that directly affect DCU students. Our first story this evening looks at the controversial alcohol bill, which have implemented what set out minimum pricing. It's believed that minimum unit pricing will ban low cost sales of alcoholic products. Our reporters Helen O'Neill and Adam Daley spoke to students to get their reaction. The amount of alcohol consumed down home in Ireland rose to 51% in 2016 according to the CSO. The proposed alcohol bill being discussed aims to set out a minimum pricing for alcohol in off licenses and bars. The bill also proposes warning labels to be put on alcoholic packaging. Under the new rules, Dutch gold will cost a minimum of €1.58. Guinness will cost €1.66. A bottle of Smirnoff ice will rise to €20.71. An off-license worker said that the bill won't affect future sales as all retailers will be in the same boat and the habits of drinkers won't change. We spoke to students on campus on their thoughts. It's probably like driving more people to drugs because drugs are going to be cheap like alcohol probably being direct in drugs so they're probably going to do that. I'm from the United States and alcohol is a lot more expensive here compared to the United States so we're already kind of like being careful with money on that front I guess. It probably would yeah they'd expect it you'd probably end up pre-drinking a lot more and you wouldn't be going to the bar as much you know the pub trade's probably gone so. Yeah probably would affect my decision I suppose people like especially students don't have that much money to spend going out so obviously if drink prices go off then probably less people will go out well people still go out but probably not as often I think. Speaking to the owner of New Bar he said that the minimum pricing legislation would not affect a business as their prices would never go that low. He also said that the second part of the legislation which looks at putting warning labels on bottles and cans would not come into effect in New Bar as they would each have to put on the labels manually. Hell no Neil DCUTV News. Seasonal affective disorder is a mood disorder which can affect people around the winter months. People who would usually have normal mental health which right most of the year exhibit depressive symptoms most commonly in winter. Colin McKay reports. Seasonal affective disorder or SAD is class as a mood disorder associated with the changing of seasons. SAD is a season effective disorder so if students don't know from this time of year what the season changes some students may guess it's kind of form of depression so it's into the depression due to season changes, due to the cold, the lack of light, it's usually around the winter. Any student could be affected by it and I think there's a recent study that in America that was one in 20 students are actually fully benched. We're fully down with what's SAD. Seasonal affective disorder and I think a lot of students don't know what it is and especially students who would have it because they won't realise why they're feeling down. If you notice in the front it takes that seriously, sooner rather than later. Simple things such as add more light into your house because often it's due to the lack of light in the surrounding area and maybe invest in some sort of alarm, sorry a lamp system that turns off 30 minutes after you fall asleep and turns on 30 minutes before you wake up in the morning so you're waking up to night so you might be happier at exercise properly and stay with your friends. We ask students if they experience an effect and what they think of the change of season. So it's not about seasons but it's more it's more about like a new lifestyle or something like that yeah it happens. Yeah I do like loads gets cold and just no motivation to do work so yeah it's sad isn't it? No no I like winter enjoying it man you know I got the scarf out I've got my winter chic I'm pretty happy with how things are going not sad at all but I don't really find much difference between summer and winter in terms of the sad concepts. Although some students found a bright side to the seasonal change. Nice, it's dark. Nah there's less light you can't do any activities football is over for the year it is a depressing time of the year. You can start drinking earlier because it's dark out earlier. The recently approved redevelopment of the Phibsbury shopping centre will also see the construction over 340 student beds. Dublin City Council approved the 50 million euro plan earlier this month. Rachel Martin and Shawna Cohen spoke to students about the costs of accommodation. Often named as one of the ugliest buildings in Dublin the Phibsbury shopping centre is getting a makeover. New apartments that are expected to accommodate 340 students are set to be developed in Phibsbury as part of the 50 million euro redevelopment of the 1960 shopping centre. The scheme was approved by the council this month and was welcomed by DCU Student Union. Yeah new shopping accommodation is always welcome in Phibsbury so close it's fantastic for us but the only thing I'd worry about is the pricing of it. I'm looking for compared to the one in the military that is for students but it's 249 euro a week so what I'd be worried about is will it be priced for a reasonable amount for a student or will it be overpriced? The price of student accommodation however is a concern. Seem as recent developments have rooms in Dublin costing a minimum of 249 euro a week. It's absolutely not fair like from my experience of renting I'm really really struggling especially during times like Christmas when everything's so much more expensive given why presents and all this but I think the sad fact of it is is that if you go to college in Dublin Dublin is just an expensive place to live anyway not just for students for anyone buying a renting so yeah I mean I think unfortunately just living in the capital it's always going to be a bit more expensive. I'm looking since I still live at home but I have to commute to college daily and I find that expensive so I can't imagine how people are affording to live like away from home because they have to pay for the food and everything as well. My man pays for all that for me I know I wouldn't be able to afford it anyway. Definitely way too expensive even now with all the new accommodation centers popping up they're like extortionate still so even though there's more and more becoming available it's it's still out of the reach of a lot of people and Stephanie taken advantage of students as well because they know that they're desperate for accommodation and would do anything to be near their college so even though there's more now and it seems like we could do more for it I mean they could do more in terms of pricing and making it more affordable in general. Although many of the local people here are excited and supportive of the idea of the development some of them are concerned that the arrival of more students will also result in the arrival of more fast-food restaurants especially when there's already an abundance of them here in Pubsborough. Rachel Martin DCU TV News. The St. Vincent de Paul Christmas Giving Tree has been stationed in the Students Union where students are welcome to leave toys and gifts under the tree. Alex Stone at Michelle Townsend tell us about how students can get involved. St. Vincent de Paul and DCU have teamed up as part of their annual Christmas Giving Campaign by bringing the SVP Giving Tree to the university. The tree features special star shape tags with each tag listing a person and age group such as teenage boy, adult, baby girl and so on. Donators take a tag from the tree and leave a gift for that person underneath with all the gifts being donated to the charity. Giving trees are positioned in the Student Union offices on all three of DCU's campuses and students have until the 30th of November to donate gifts. With even more families in need of support across the nation this year the charity are looking to make Christmas a little brighter for those in need in communities country-wide. The St. Vincent de Paul Giving Tree here in DCU is part of a nationwide campaign however those of you that can't get involved here can get involved at your local SVB charity shop. Alex Stone DCU TV News. And finally the sport. DCU women's soccer team faced minutes last week at St Pat's. Despite tree goals where the DCU side wasn't enough to steal the win. Our reporter is Colleen Brady, Shona Cohn and Anya Kennedy report. The cold and cloudy weather wasn't enough to stop the DCU women's soccer team from displaying a great performance in their league match on Tuesday. However despite their best efforts the home side suffered a narrow defeat in minute in the CULF Premier Division of the Rusters League. DCU had a strong start with Amber Boret scoring the standout goal of the game in the first 15 minutes. However Manu kept them on their feet looking danger to right the first half. Naima Chuawe's foot found the back of the net sending both teams into the dressing room for halftime level with a two-wall draw. The second half saw both camps upping the tempo in an effort to secure their win. Manu had the upper hand securing the first goal off the half. The DCU side didn't let this set them back and continued to put up a fight. However the Manu team proved that they were the better side finishing the game with a strong goal from Naran Riling. The game ended full tree to Manu. Despite DC's best efforts they were unsuccessful in their game against Manu. Manu's All Ireland goalkeeper had a great performance throughout the game and Manu took more chances. We spoke to the Manu player to get her reaction from the game. I was a good game and I didn't think DCU had a like a good team but they had a very good team strong players. Very very very competitive they are. You have Amber coming in now from Manu University and she has a lot of experience and even for the other girls I have like Carolee I saw and Jade Reddy and Lynn and all them. Even Ashley and the captain there just a very strong team it was very impressive to come and play against you know. That's all for this evening. Be sure to tune in next time for our last broadcast of the semester. Remember you can keep up with news throughout the week on Facebook and on Twitter at DCUTVnews. I'm Megan Calmy. Good evening.