The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) launched the Say Something card, designed to provide information for students should they become victims of sexual violence, on Tuesday February 2 in IT Tralee.
30,000 Say Something cards will be delivered to …
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Students flock to garda stations to ensure their place on register of electors
President of the USI, Kevin Donoghue, strongly supported the show of strength from students
Relief for student voters as election date expected to be announced for Friday 26 February
The Taoiseach is set to publicly announce the decision on Wednesday, following weeks of rumoured coalition discord on the topic
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny is expected to announce the polling day for the upcoming general election tomorrow, further delaying the decision. The decision comes down to a choice between Thursday 25 or Friday 26 February, with Friday being considered as …
IFUT calls on Fine Gael and Labour to address crisis in third-level funding and places
Meanwhile the USI has released a statement calling on the government to avoid holding an election on a Thursday
The Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) has called on the Fine Gael and Labour to announce proposals to address the mounting crisis in third-level education, ahead of the announcement of this year’s general election.
In a press release IFUT …
The 5 on Friday: consent workshops, worsening TA conditions, USI hustings, and more
Five of our week’s top stories delivered in bite-size chunks
USI holds General Election hustings in Trinity
Labour’s Joanna Tuffy, senator Gerard Craughwell, Direct Democracy Ireland’s Cormac McKay, Fine Gael’s Barry Ward, Sinn Fein’s Louise O’Reilly, Fianna Fail’s Charlie McConalogue, Social Democrat’s Gary Gannon, the Green Party’s Roderic O’Gorman and …
USI #MakeASmartVote hustings roadshow comes to Trinity
Students issued questions, but lack of manifestos meant no concrete answers
The Union of Students in Ireland this evening brought their general election hustings to the Robert Emmet theatre. After similar events in UCC and NUIG, Trinity played host to a selection of representatives from across the political spectrum. Labour’s Joanna …
SU joins movement against ban on MSM blood donation.
After passing a motion at December’s SU Council, Samuel Riggs sets out Trinity’s campaign against the outright ban on gay men donating blood in Ireland.
USI attend SU council, respond to questions over Smartvote
Paraic McLean raised the point that while using the web-page, he found many candidates had selected the neutral option for more controversial policies, making it difficult to discern what their position was on the topic
30,000 people have made use of Smartvote, since it’s launch last Wednesday, the 13th of January, according to a presentation given at tonight’s Student Union Council. Two USI representatives came before the council to encourage students to ‘Make a SmartVote’: …
Students Against Fees Plans Expansion To Other Universities
“There was discussion over sending members of Students Against Fees to other universities to talk about how they had initially set up in Trinity to help those intending on setting up their own branch.”
A meeting was held yesterday evening regarding the issue of incoming student loans and fee increases, which was attended by members of the Students Against Fees group, and the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), as well as students from …
The 5 on Friday: party debates, MBAs, College admin failures and gladiator skeletons
Five of this week’s top news stories delivered in clickable, bite-sized chunks
Taxation reform and government corruption among main topics discussed at Hist Party Debate
The debate was panelled by five representatives out of the 16 parties running in this year’s general election: Alex White, Lucinda Creighton, Alan Farrell, Glenna Lynch and …