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THE PAKISTANI TEENAGER whose activism and subsequent survival from an assassination attempt caught worldwide attention last year is to be given an honorary membership from students at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT).
Malala Yousufzai will be honoured by DIT’s Students’ Union (DITSU) at a ceremony in Dublin on Wednesday evening, eight months after she survived being shot in the head at point-blank range by a Taliban gunman in the Swat Valley.
The attack drew worldwide condemnation and attention to her activism.
Malala began writing a blog when she was 11, charting her life under the Taliban in the Swat Valley and her cause has been taken up by millions worldwide since the shooting.
The 15-year-old has been recovering from her injuries in recent months, undergoing surgery at a hospital in Birmingham, England last year.
She said in February that she had been given a “second life” to campaign for girls to have the right to go to school.
Her honorary membership will be accepted by the deputy head of mission at the Pakistani Embassy in Dublin, Ahmad Hussain Dayo, at a ceremony in Dublin on Wednesday evening at 6.30pm.
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She deserves everything and anything, but I’m disgusted by DIT’s cheap publicity stunt.
I fail to see how this is a cheap publicity stunt…?http://www.ditsu.ie/content/meetings/Honorary_Membership_of_DITSU_to_Malala_Yousafzai_06Dec12.pdf
Didn’t trinity students years back snidely refer to the DIT as the ‘poly tech’! Wonder if that still goes on….
We don’t really pay any mind to what those in DIT Dame Street campus have to say.
Ah yes, DIT, where all the special kids go. You take the leaving cert applied to a college of further education for two years before doing a three year FETAC level 6 course in DIT.
Don’t knock it egg – I hear their course in ‘how not to drool on your keyboard’ is a roaring success.
I believe that particular course is held in high regard by employers as it has such demanding criteria for entry – ability to spell own name with 3 or less mistakes, written vocabulary of at least 15 3 letter words and capability of differentiating between a mouse and a computer mouse.
Of course the most popular course remains introduction to the off button, but this has a higher fail rate.
No the most popular course is still – how to wipe your ass with three sheets of paper. The post grad option is – how to use a bidet.
For the physically adept – the chop sticks course, as usual, has far more applicants than places available.
I thought they discontinued that due to too many injuries? Obviously not. I do know they definitely stopped the – how to switch on a light bulb module as too many of the “students” ingested the light bulbs.
I think they replaced it with – how to chew food with your mouth closed. As you can imagine, it was an unmitigated disaster.
Or my personal favourite PHD available there – little do the attanding students to DIT know that PHD stands for Pizza Hut Delivery boy.
That’s the problem, “little do they know”…
Such immaturity… Where were you educated?
Well deserved
50% : 50%. Dislike: Like at present. She is an amazing young person. Come on she deserves 800 plus likes
There are too many people in this country that prefer killers to victims.
” Malala to become honorary member of Tralee snooker club ”
” Malala to become honorary member of Mayo Elvis fanclub. ”
etc….
Francie, lets shoot you in the head and see how you deal with it!
idiot!
it was rather honest of you to sign your name underneath…
thanks for proving my point!
Fantastic young woman deserves all the credit she gets for her brave stance and following her beliefs!
Well deserved to a very brave little girl who stood up for her belief in a male dominant country.
I wish her all the best after surviving a murder attempt by ‘freedom fighters’.
I agree. And of course, a lot of the people who applaud her as a hero are the first to criticise waging war on those who tried to kill her
You are totally contact Chuck.
I wonder will Olivia O’Leary be along to tell her she’s lucky she wasn’t born in Ireland?
This country loves adoptin victims from different countries but we have a habit of forgetting our own
I’m sure this honour makes getting shot in the head worth it
What an idiotic comment. Obviously that’s not the purpose of this award. Back under your bridge!
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