Comments on: €14,000 in res fines donated to Student Welfare Fund http://www.universityobserver.ie/2009/11/10/e14000-in-res-fines-donated-to-student-welfare-fund/ Ireland's Award-Winning Student Newspaper Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:44:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Jerry Burn http://www.universityobserver.ie/2009/11/10/e14000-in-res-fines-donated-to-student-welfare-fund/comment-page-1/#comment-879 Jerry Burn Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:05:23 +0000 http://www.universityobserver.ie/?p=4562#comment-879 it is great that this money is going to a good cause however the fact that students living on res were charged 14,000 euro in fines is a complete joke, these fines are always 100 euro each at very least,and are handed out for the most minor of incidents. there is only 2000 students on campus and with fines of 100 euro that means up to 1400 were fined! Breirley is a complete zealot lapdog who doesnt care about students supposed to be in his care. For what you pay campus accomadation is a comlete rip off. Fire alarms going off everyday - which is a very real danger as students become so used to them going off for no reason that in the event of a real fire someone may be killed by ignoring them. Uneconomical electricity cards of which 6 of your 10 euro goes to the maintenance of the system. I lived on campus for one year and i am never going near it again. Pulse security worked backwards making living there feel like a prison as did Richard Breirley justifying huge fines under "usual practice" guidelines .which didnt exist until he created them in the MIDDLE of last year. He also constantly changed the terms of the lease we signed for , bringing in gates without notice (or planning permission , claiming he didnt need it) and deciding when to lock these gates all day at his own whim. For anyone thinking of living on campus ask yourself do i want to pay the most expensive accomadation rates in dublin to suffer -faulty fire alarms -overpriced electricity -zealot security force -unrealistic fines that you will probably have to pay at least once for something -ever changing terms of agreement If you want any degree of independance and value for money then DONT LIVE ON CAMPUS !!! D it is great that this money is going to a good cause however the fact that students living on res were charged 14,000 euro in fines is a complete joke, these fines are always 100 euro each at very least,and are handed out for the most minor of incidents. there is only 2000 students on campus and with fines of 100 euro that means up to 1400 were fined! Breirley is a complete zealot lapdog who doesnt care about students supposed to be in his care. For what you pay campus accomadation is a comlete rip off. Fire alarms going off everyday – which is a very real danger as students become so used to them going off for no reason that in the event of a real fire someone may be killed by ignoring them. Uneconomical electricity cards of which 6 of your 10 euro goes to the maintenance of the system.
I lived on campus for one year and i am never going near it again. Pulse security worked backwards making living there feel like a prison as did Richard Breirley justifying huge fines under “usual practice” guidelines .which didnt exist until he created them in the MIDDLE of last year. He also constantly changed the terms of the lease we signed for , bringing in gates without notice (or planning permission , claiming he didnt need it) and deciding when to lock these gates all day at his own whim. For anyone thinking of living on campus ask yourself do i want to pay the most expensive accomadation rates in dublin to suffer

-faulty fire alarms
-overpriced electricity
-zealot security force
-unrealistic fines that you will probably have to pay at least once for something
-ever changing terms of agreement

If you want any degree of independance and value for money then DONT LIVE ON CAMPUS !!!

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