accomodation

insane drummer

sorry if this is in the wrong place but i cant find where else i should put it! whats the chances of me getting on campus accommodation next year, im doing my leaving cert this year and hope to be going there next year! and when should i apply?

i read about overnight guests not being a problem as long as its not to often, just how often is too often?

europerson

Quite a few first year students get accommodation, but it won't be on campus per se. It will be in Trinity Hall, which is a complex of College-owned apartments in Dublin 6, about half an hour away by LUAS. You can apply after accepting a CAO offer for Trinity. See here for information.

Overnight guests in Trinity Hall "need" to be signed in, and there's a €2 charge for them per night. The Warden, who's in charge of discipline in Halls, will take a dim view of very regular overnight guest stays.

europerson

europerson wrote:

Overnight guests in Trinity Hall "need" to be signed in, and there's a €2 charge for them per night.

Sorry, what? You're charged again for signing someone in? That's insane!

Stargal

insane drummer wrote:

i read about overnight guests not being a problem as long as its not to often, just how often is too often?

You slag!

I'm only joking, I know what you mean. I've never heard of anyone actually being penalised for having too many overnight guests ("There's only so much sex one person can have young man...") so don't worry too much.

Can't believe there's a €2 for overnight guests in Halls though! I never heard that before. What do Tangney et al do with the money? I'd feel a bit dirty spending sex money.

Good luck with getting rooms. Where abouts in the country are you? There are loads of rooms in Trinity Hall so there's a good chance of getting it.

Troglodyte

stargal wrote:

What do Tangney et al do with the money? I'd feel a bit dirty spending sex money.

That kind of makes poor old Brendan Tangney sound like some sort of pimp.

*LOLs at the very thought of it...*

Tacitha

Getting overnight guests in is no bother in Halls, and how the Warden would know you had them regularly I can't imagine. Unlike campus, there's no gate security. The only thing they would make an issue of would be overnight guests in a shared room, if your roommate complained.
And I've never heard of (or paid) this two euro charge - are you sure you aren't thinking of the lost key replacement fee?

It used to be €2 for every day after three consecutive days...

cianclarke

No mention of this €2 charge, and I'm fairly sure it doesn't exist...

Getting into halls - depends on where you're living in Ireland - chances are if you're from Dublin you won't get in, Kerry you will. You'll have to put a small bit of effort into your application form I'd imagine - I did, and I got in.

King.Penguin

2euro charge would be an incentive for me not to put random names down in case I need to bring some back later.

R. Lynch was my preferred pseudonym.

Crash

Currently I use D. Joyce and C. Keogh and F. Byrne. all good names.

I thought they got rid of the 2 euro charge after Carmel O'Sullivan resigned as warden, because nobody wanted to pay it and so nobody signed in their guests (fire risk). It was a disgrace anyway, you can't charge students to have their own friends in their own rooms. :rolleyes: There's a really good chance of getting a place in halls now there's around 1000 rooms.

europerson

I thought the €2 charge was still there, when I was there in 2005-6. Not that anyone ever paid it of course. The guy I lived that year with was fined for having an overnight guest without being signed in.

Overnight guests are signed in very rarely by students. I know I never did.

The whole issue arises as from the nature of your licence to reside, which includes explicit reference to the student-orinted community nature of Halls.

Really? When I was there 2004-05, it really sounded like they were going to drop it so I assumed they had. What good reason do they have for charging 2 euro? What is it costing them to have a guest signed in?

mizz.yelof!!!

europerson wrote:

Overnight guests in Trinity Hall "need" to be signed in, and there's a €2 charge for them per night. .

definately no longer a €2 charge any longer. nor was it there last year.

also as regards signing guests in, its never done. tho this term due to a few incidents with people coming home from nights out there sometimes a security guard at the gate looking for college id or your key card. if there someone with you staying over they just ask you to sign them in, there no big song and dance about it at all.

insane drummer

stargal wrote:

Good luck with getting rooms. Where abouts in the country are you? There are loads of rooms in Trinity Hall so there's a good chance of getting it.

offaly, tullamore to be exact! cant wait to get out to Dublin! just hope it will be trinity! thanks to all ye who replied! really answerd my questions!:D

I thought the charge was only if they were there for more then three consecutive days.

I signed in a couple of mates last year and never had to pay..

Pet

insane drummer wrote:

offaly, tullamore to be exact! cant wait to get out to Dublin! just hope it will be trinity! thanks to all ye who replied! really answerd my questions!:D

You poor thing. Hang in there, there is hope. You'll get out of that godforsaken boghole, eventually. Chin up, xxx.

insane drummer

Pet wrote:

You poor thing. Hang in there, there is hope. You'll get out of that godforsaken boghole, eventually. Chin up, xxx.

its not tullamore i wana get out of. its doing all these subjects for the leaving cert i wana get away from. like im never going to use english ( ie poetry side and that), irish, spanish, tec graph again! think its a waiste doin them, for me anyways! ooh well!

Stargal

Come on, a bit of it must be about getting out of Tullamore

What are you hoping to do in Trinity?

insane drummer

engineering , hopefully! no actually, i really like it here, its not that bad, god i never new i was this much culchie! :rolleyes:

xebec

insane drummer wrote:

engineering , hopefully!

Don't throw away the t-square too quickly after the LC! So much for getting away from tech drawing...

DemonOfTheFall

You wanna do engineering and you think that having done tech drawing is a waste ? You're gonna be spending your life looking at tech drawings and marking them up!

insane drummer

no no, i didnt mean it was a total waste, just d way its thought for the leaving cert, i meant its a waist because i find it very easy (honestly not being big headed) and a waste of time doing things that seam so trivial to me! i do like it! dont get me wrong though! just really tedious at this stage..

cianclarke

insane drummer wrote:

no no, i didnt mean it was a total waste, just d way its thought for the leaving cert, i meant its a waist because i find it very easy (honestly not being big headed) and a waste of time doing things that seam so trivial to me! i do like it! dont get me wrong though! just really tedious at this stage..

Mm, English is a complete waist of time...

sully-gormo

Hey, would it be hard to get into trinity hall as a SF? Im definetely movin out next yr. and itd be great if I could get a spot. I live in Gormanston, which is 5 miles north of balbriggan and its in Co. Meath.

europerson

sully-gormo wrote:

Hey, would it be hard to get into trinity hall as a SF? Im definetely movin out next yr. and itd be great if I could get a spot. I live in Gormanston, which is 5 miles north of balbriggan and its in Co. Meath.

Well, if you weren't in Halls as a JF, it will be harder for you to be accepted, but make a decent application and there's no reason why you shouldn't be accepted.

Aside: There's a lot of Meath people on this forum now...

DaXiS

we are supposed to pay if we stay over there?

oops

mizz.yelof!!!

DaXiS wrote:

we are supposed to pay if we stay over there?

nope as said before, there is no longer a stay over charge for halls, not for the past two acedemic years .