UCD elect new committee

Issued : Tuesday 12 April, 2005 by UCD

UCD Labour Youth celebrated a successful year of progress at its AGM last month and elected a new committee for 2005-06.

The new committee comprises:

Enda Duffy (Branch Chair)
Kevin McCormack (Vice-Chair/Campaigns Officer)
Chris Bond (Secretary)
Naoise Waldron (Equality Officer)
Conor Fleming (Public Relations Officer)
Jack Cane (OCM)
Jane Horgan-Jones (OCM)
Stephen Kelly (OCM)
David Kitching (OCM)

Dermot Looney, the outgoing Branch Chair for 2004-05, said it had been "a massively successful year for Labour in UCD. From an inactive society just 12 months ago, we are now the most active and dynamic political group on campus by some way. Meanwhile, other groups have hardly distinguished themselves. The 'Kevin Barry Cumann,' often afraid to call themselves 'Fianna Fáil,' have the pinnacle of their political activism in trite jokes about brown envelopes and hot whiskey nights."

"Young Fine Gael have been anonymous all year, the Greens have done little to impress, revolutionary groups have failed to make an impact and the Young PD's seem to be the vestigial joke of college politics," said Looney.

Enda Duffy, the newly-elected Branch Chair, said the progress made by Labour Youth "is testament to a massive disillusionment with establishment parties and to a re-emergence of a democratic socialist alternative, tied in to the global justice movement and anti-war, anti-racist and pro-equality activism."

"We look forward to further success in campaigning for equality, democracy, freedom and social justice inside and outside of the college," said Duffy.