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SUs at odds with USI and activists over direct provision movement

Student activists have criticised unions for disregarding grassroots campaigners

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Relations between students’ unions around the country and the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) are fraught over developments in campaigning against direct provision. The tensions follow a meeting of students’ union leaders in recent weeks to discuss a national,

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Hist comes out top of CSC funding in 2017/18

The college debating society received €21,007 from the capitated body

The College Historical Society (the Hist) received the most funding out of all 126 societies that fall under the Central Societies Committee (CSC) last year. The debating society received €21,007, an increase from €18,872 in 2016/17.

The University Philosophical Society

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Four of Trinity’s five capitated bodies record deficit in 2017/18

The accounts for each body were presented at a meeting of the Capitations Committee last week

Four of Trinity’s five capitated bodies recorded deficits in the 2017/18 academic year, Trinity News has learned. The figures emerged following a meeting of the Capitations Committee on November 22. The Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) was the only capitated body

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Provost says Trinity is “under-ranked”, as he presents new Strategic Plan

The comment came in Prendergast’s final “State of the College” address

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Trinity is “under-ranked” compared to other universities, Provost Patrick Prendergast has said at an address to staff and students this afternoon. Prendergast has noted that this was his last “State of the College” address before his tenure ends in 2021.

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USI pass motion to boycott Aramark

The motion was proposed by USI Vice President for the Dublin Region, Colm O’Halloran

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has today passed a motion to boycott Aramark, the company that provides catering services in three direct provision centres in Ireland. The motion was proposed by USI Vice President for the Dublin Region