what are these nsults? dictionary perhaps?

i lived in Elms for one year, Stranmillis for one year and the Holylands for two years so at this point I require you to retract your comment “this prat lives on the lisburn road he thinks he is better than them”.

By the way, pity you lose all credibility by using the term “prat”.

The authorities are attempting to treat the symptoms, not the cause, with heavy handed police and CCTV cameras. The Universities are as bad, pointing the finger at the student population instead of tackling the real issue of overcrowding.

Then every young person in the North also knows that the Holylands is ‘the place to be’ on St Patricks day, so you can add a few more thousand on top of an already overcrowded small area of belfast, most of the arrests last year were people who did not even reside in the area or attend either university. They were blow-ins who only come to the area on St Patrick’s day because of the reputation the Holylands has. The bad-press attracts the type of people who revel in this kind of disorder.

the gown is an independant newspaper at QUB, it is not a platform for ignorant hoodlums who think that confining residents to one street for the day is a viable solution and i would well believe that this girl was 100% serious when she made that comment, something i will clarify the next time I’m talking to Catherine.

QUB is responsible for the behaviour of its students because it is unable to provide affordable on-site accomodation. Annually there are about 25,000 at QUB, Queen’s Elms Village is able to accomodate a tiny percentage of these students, in fact Elms has become so expensive and middle-class that they’ve had to open their doors to UUJ and UUB students because enough QUB students are unable to foot the bill. If the students union is selling alcohol at reduced prices they too are responsible. if the behaviour of these students causes any emotional or financial problems for the residents of the Holylands then QUB should be making financial payments to these residents. where does the money that is collected from fining students go?

I now live on the Lisburn Road, how ridiculous would it be if I was to complain to the IFA that there was massive amounts of noise, cheering, loud music, huge crowds walking up and down the street, drinking, people urinating in public, singing sectarian songs etc. coming from Windsor Park? Farcical – i knew all this before I moved in. Likewise if someone has voluntarily moved into the Holylands as a long-term resident in the last 15-20 years they knew exactly what they were getting themselves into and HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN. However, and this is where i do have an enormous degree of sympathy, the long term residents that have been there since before the Holylands became a student dominated area are treated disgracefully, obviously primarily by the students but also by BCC, QUB & UUJ, the Students Union and the PSNI.