The Gown
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The Gown is the
Queen's University, Belfast
, Northern Ireland. It was formed by Richard Herman, a medical student, in April 1955. In 2005 Dr. Herman attended the paper's 50th Anniversary.
The paper is run voluntarily by students, and is funded by advertising without University or Students' Union assistance, although it is located in the Union building.
History
During
Robert Bradford and the murder of Queen's university lecturer and Assembly member Edgar Graham in 1983.[citation needed] The paper also interviewed Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin during the height of the Provisional Irish Republican Army's campaign.[citation needed] The Gown also interviewed the then little-known band U2.[citation needed
]
Past contributors include
Irish Times foreign correspondent Conor O'Clery and that paper's political cartoonist Martyn Turner.[citation needed
]
In February 2010, standing news editor Lorcan Mullen published in The Guardian an article concerning a leaked NI government report regarding university fees.[2]
References
- ^ "About | the Gown - student newspaper at Queen's University Belfast". Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ "The cap sticks, says university fees panel". The Guardian. 23 February 2010.
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