Conor O’Toole is an 18 year old 2nd year Engineering student. He likes mountains and his room is green and blue.
O’Toole is running for Ents this year as he feels it needs to be shaken up. According to him people have fallen into a perception of what they think Ents should be. He wants to show the human side of Ents. He cares more about being entertained rather than losing massive amounts of money.
If elected he plans to make Freshers’ Week really, really fun and sleep with as many 1st years as possible. He does however want to be as efficient as possible, with a booking system in place, so that everyone can have a turn.
He is also interested in free entertainment and will try his best to fund as much of the alcohol as possible so that students don’t have to. When asked as to why the average Trinity student should vote for him, he replied; “because I am the average Trinity student. I would vote for me.”
O’Toole was disappointed this year with current Ents Officer Mick Birmingham as he has yet to see a barbecue at the Pav.
O’Toole feels Ents needs more events, more entertaining things, yet one thing it definitely needs is more tea; “There is no proper tea facility in this college. One of the best universities in the world yet appalling tea facilities. Students should have a place to relax with a cup of tea for seven, eight hours at a time.”
When informed that we had the Buttery for this O’Toole stated that “I don’t think it’s working out as a bar.”
In terms of his ideal Trinity Ball act, regardless of money or logistics, O’Toole replied that “money and logistics are no issue.” Ideally he would love to have the Pixies play.
Currently O’Toole is excited about Andrew Maxwell playing on Monday, yet he is also excited about the start of elections.
It is the first time a comedy promoter has ran for Ents, yet O’Toole prefers to be known as a ‘comedy informer’ as comedy promotes itself. If elected, he plans to increase informing and decrease promotion as he feels this would be a “good idea.” According to O’Toole this “is the way forward.”
