Losing the rag over students’ behaviour

IT was with shock and disgust that I viewed the events of Rag Week at the University of Limerick last week.

As a post-graduate student recently returned from working and living abroad, I was genuinely horrified at the complete disregard, disrespect and ignorance so many students demonstrated throughout the week.

Flashes of nudity, defacement of public property, littering, loud music and drunken parties until the early hours of the morning, a drunken student hurling himself against my front door at 2am and shouting obscenities, harassment of people who dared attend classes, a steady flow of alcohol from Sunday evening to Friday morning.