Inside Eye......Gavin Brady

Sex, stamps and......hopscotch.

Age: 20

Hometown: Clonsilla

Manifesto Highlights:

· Introduction of Student Loyalty Card: One of the more original manifesto policies and regarded by the candidate as “his baby”. At hustings, Gavin proposed the introduction of a student loyalty card which would coincide with the current student card. This invention would work in the same way as a Tesco club card, giving students a bonus for attending S.U events and to encourage greater student interaction with it’s Union which has been flailing in recent years.

· Remake of S.U Website: While more a job for the V.P for Comms and Dev., Gavin hopes to work closely on making the site far more accessible then it already is. This would be no mean feat, considering that nobody I know actually uses the thing. Then again, an increase of five people could be regarded as a success.

· Laser Card facilities on campus: The facility is pretty self explanatory

· Private Parking system for students: Another interesting idea which would relieve the disastrous parking situation in the University. He proposes a cheaply implemented parking scheme for commuting students which would whittle down the number of non academic and student parkers from availing from the parking and apparently easier for security to spot the cheaters.

On the Campaign...

While the Aengus machine has been making popular strides at on the canvas and at the betting shops but Gavin and his ‘Brady Bunch’ of campaigners are not too far behind him as we head into the final day before the vote. Gavin’s advertising has been in another league and could be all the difference to many of the universities swing voters. Nothing encourages a vote more than when the suggestion is spread across a gigantic bosom. The only flaw in the plan comes on election day when no one can find Lucy Pinder’s name on the ballot paper and vote for Jason Whelan for his Micheal Jackson moves from Hustings day. While he has come under scrutiny from a lot of the politically aware on campus, Gavin has showed that he is up to the task and his friendly and joking nature may swing him a lot of second preferences which may call it at the end of the day. Many students have fallen victim to his ink stamps with even rival candidates branded by his mark. His teams entry into the ongoing ‘battle of the chalk’ was by far the most imaginative with a giant game of hopscotch leading to a massive ‘Vote for Gav’. Will he hop, skip and jump his way to the presidency or will it turn into a game of snakes and ladders?

Student Observer Odds: 4/1

-Juvenal