Recieved an email this afternoon…
Hi Senior Sophisters of all disciplines
If you are interested in a life less ordinary, then you should visit the Irish Army Stand in the Foyer of the Arts Building, College next Tuesday 5 December 2006 from 12-2pm. For further information visit: www.military.ie/careers
Given the increasingly incredible state of Irish neutrality, shouldn’t that read, a life less lengthy?

In John Barnes dystopian novel ‘Kaleidoscope Century‘, the protagonist occupies a 21st century a million miles away from the ordinarily rosy scientific positivism of most Science Fiction. In Barnes’s future, rival armies systematically utilise rape as a weapon in continually escalating conflicts, and alienated soldiers move as mercenaries from one side to another, too damaged to consider the impact of their actions. When we read articles like the following from Newsweek, detailing the horrific injuries inflicted on women by combatants in the Congo conflict, it’s difficult to consider such predictions …