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My Firsthand experience for a news report in the street of Dublin

Image caption : Man is showing poster of the protest Image credit: Sukrity Sharma

On the 2nd of November, 2019 ,I went to the protest despite of the weather because it is very serious situation at the moment in Dublin.  When I arrived there, the people were slowly gathering for the protest at General Post Office. They were from the People from Profit party, locals , a news reporter, a member of city councilor as well as students who document the protest for their studies. The protest was especially targeted to the bystanders and the youths. They wanted to make people aware. There was a news reporter named Tom Douglas from the radio station called Dublin’s Q102 FM. He was covering the news by pre-recording the interviews of the protesters. It was for a news bulletin. I interviewed the protesters who are the member of the People from Profit party in which he said that they are there because of what the financial Minister said and put forward; joining this protest is the way to show the disapproval of the Minister’s words. I interviewed the city councilor who is extremely supportive. She marched all the way till the end in the rain. She was generous enough to speak her opinion about the homeless crisis.  I learnt the condition of the homeless crisis is huge than what I thought. Despite of the Ireland being considered as a develop country; there are a huge problem of housing and homeless.

I got this opportunity to learn about the ethic of Journalism by observing a professional journalist on how to take an interview. However, I didn’t got the opportunity to interview more people as they were in rush with the protest due to bad weather. In spite of that, I have to keep in mind that weather will always be challenging for a journalist because I found difficult to keep up with them during the march on the street and I was all wet. But, my persistent and determination for a news report. In terms of writing this report, headline is one which took much time to create one. It was not easy to remember all the details of interviews vividly. So, I pre-recorded the interview so it will be easy be to write on my report.  Overall, I got an amazing experience of being in action as a Journalist.

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My first experience when I was covering a court news

On 6th December, 2019 at 8:30 am, the lecturers gave us instruction and send us to different locations. We had to make a news report in order to submit before the deadline. I was sent to the criminal justice court, Phoenix Park where I was told to cover a news report on a sentence case. When I arrived there, it was holding many other cases before the hearing of the case I need to write on. Around 11:40 pm, the case opened for hearing. It was my first-time ever going to the court for a hearing. I was thrilled to see the procedure towards a hearing .

The Juries of the court first have to take an oath before opening the case for hearing. Unfortunately, I faced a challenge along the way. The judge decides hold the case till Monday at 11:30 am. I was not alone to cover this case, I shortly join my colleague who was to cover the same case. I asked my friend call our lecturer and discuss what will be the next step. He suggested to go to the museum which held a photography exhibition.

We rush to the location because it was almost pass our deadline to submit the news to our lecturer. Unfortunately, we got lost for three hours and I panicked. But, I told myself that worrying doesn’t help so we again tried to go back to the right direction and we made it finally . However, time was running out and we had two and half hours left in our hands. So, I took pictures of the exhibition and some details about it. Since it was one way towards city Centre, we had to walk for 45 minutes to catch a bus to the college. I finished my report within the nick of time.

In the end, I got the experience of the court hearings and struggle to keep up with the time to cover a story.

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An Irish University Campus technology helps disable to speaks and see technological!

Technological University Dublin supported by Disability Federation Ireland organized a lunch event for disable people to communicate with the help of their application called as Open CHAT today at the University at 10:07 am. The application is a collaboration of two companies, Sight and Sound Technology based on UK and Freedom Tech based on USA. There were guest speakers including Minister of State, Further Education addressing the success of their lunch and promising a great future for the application to introduced to the public, helping disable students and alike.

The event opened with a warm welcome by Catherine Lynch, the Head of SLWC and Disability Support and introduced the audience about Open CHAT. The application helps the blind and disable people to easily communicate with an human-sounding voices through the use of this application. The user-friendly program turns printed text into a electronic voice memo into the computer screen. The program uses quality speech and the advance optical character recognition tech. James Bronson who is disable tells the audience that he uses a lot of the program functions carries his life and even helped him to graduate from university. However, the TU Dublin Supporting officers when asked about the implication of the program tells the audience that he gets frustrated sometimes when it gets jammed, overall, he uses application to help him in his memory issues.

The event also showcases an Open Letter to the government and other officials to hear about the appeal for the application. The announcer Joan O’ Donnell who is one of the people from Freedom Tech tells the audience that UN has acknowledges the technology and wrote commitments to use the technology for the benefit of the public. The commitment was in the form of Declaration called as Bologna Declaration which is the act where it helps the disability people all around the world. With that, there were some promising words from Mary Mitchell O’ Connor, the Minister of State, Further Education says with the total budget of £ 1.9 billion, there will be investment on the application as it is most important for the school going children who are unable to speak nor see. As, she has a great concern for their future.

The inventors of Open CHAT Joan O’ Donnell from Freedom Tech and Gleen Tookey from Sight and Sound address their collaboration for this application as learning experience and was happy to work together. They talked about the application will help many disable people. It will be accessible to all the students on the university. Among the speakers, Professor Donal Fitzpatrick of DCU also shared the experience with the audience by tell them that with the help of the application which automatically function helps him to travel as he is blind.

Catherine Bates, MC for the event also talked about other products was in display among them was the robot called Mylo which is a monitoring companion robot, paired with the a health sensor watch, designed to help people live independently.

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Protesters attacks the Dubliners with their Protest

Image caption : Protester marching with the banner at O’Connell Street

Dublin Homeless Awareness, a non profit organization collaboration with People from Profit , a right wing party protest about homeless in Dublin at the O’ Connell street at 2:30 pm on Saturday. The protest was demonstrated to provide awareness about the increase of the homeless people. Around 20 people showed up for the protest including the activists from the People from the Profit party and a member of city council to support their cause.

The protest started from General Post Office and March towards the city council in the rainy busy streets of the city. They again march back to General Post Office and move forward from there. Making people aware through their banners. They shouted their slogan for “We care” as they marched the rainy street. There were banners marking that it’s a Dublin Homeless Awareness whereas the activists from People from Profit carried their flags of the party. The banners that were displays spoke of investing around 16.8 million euro on the Greyhound race rather than on homeless people. “There are 4,000 children homeless. It’s a disgraced for a rich city like Dublin” says one of the protesters. There were other people like a radio news reporter from the station called as Dublin’s Q102 covering the news and film students making the documentary about the protest.

Image caption : A protester showing the bystanders that the message should be heard

When ask why they are here? One of the protester stated that winter season is the main enemy of most the homeless people and it will get worst in coming month. Most of them die because of this; we are spreading awareness people out there. Among them was one of the members of the city council, Tina McVeigh who supports the homeless and such protest spoke that the protest is important and it is the duty to hear the voices of youths. Homelessness is a big issues for everybody and the protest will a great way to aware the future generation.  Yesterday , the Minister of Finance, Paschal Donohoe said there is an “unveiled capital” funding to support the delivery of over 11,000 new social homes in 2020 during the announcement of the next budget. When asked about this statement made by the Minister of Finance, she commented that the main tactic behind the housing system is to push through their own agenda and basically to prioritize the developer and wealthy people over the needy people. Because of this the housing and rent continue to grow up. She also adds up that most of the social housing system is not fair and they don’t support them, especially young people. People should raise their voice now.

Even though the protest was for the great cause, due to the rain and busy street some of the protestor was putting in harm’s way when a Dublin Bus hit nearly the protester. The protest itself was not that much emphasized by the bystanders due to the weather and the traffic. The protest kept on demonstrating the problem of increasing rate of homeless people in Dublin.

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