Group quits over storm in a D-cup
TCD’s Women’s Issues group announced yesterday it had decided to disband due a series of personal smears on its leaders.
The organisation claimed such verbal assaults were a reaction to its call for a boycott of forthcoming meetings of the college’s Philosophical Society in protest at a number of guest speakers.
The group claimed the choice of a US porn star and a British glamour model to chair debates as part of the society’s 320th anniversary celebrations was inappropriate.
However, sources within the university suggested the group, which is not part of an affiliated society at Trinity, was merely part of an “orchestrated publicity stunt”.
Kayleigh Pearson, who was named as High Street Honey 2003 by the laddish magazine FHM, is due to chair a fun debate in the college tomorrow night on the subject that this house “would do it standing up”.
Legendary porn star Ron Jeremy is also due to chair a similar debate in Trinity on October 14.
The feminist group had said the invitation to Pearson and Jeremy to appear at TCD was “insensitive and insulting”.
A statement issued by the Women’s Issues group yesterday said the decision to disband had been taken “with regret”.
It expressed annoyance the group had been used as a publicity vehicle by the Philosophical Society.
The statement also asked for its members to be left alone by journalists.
However, the president of TCD Student’s Union, Francis Kieran, expressed surprise at the latest development as nobody was aware of the group’s existence before last week.
“How can a group which never existed in the first place disband?” he said.
The president of TCD’s Philosophical society, Patrick Cosgrave, said disbandment of the group was “a bit unfortunate as they had done a great publicity job”.
Yesterday, Ms Pearson posed provocatively in Trinity in front of a marble statue of a former Provost who declared women would only be allowed into the college over his dead body. The gesture fittingly marked the annual irreverence of student Freshers’ week.
