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# maintenance grant

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2022

# maintenance grant

Student grant holders to receive additional maintenance payment in mid-December

For some students, it will result in an additional €679 before the end of the year.

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Oct 17th 2022, 9:03 AM

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Voices

Opinion: I had to leave home and become independent at 18 – but SUSI won't recognise that

The grant is supposed to be there for people like me – people who can’t survive in college without it. But I don’t fit into SUSI’s picture of what a student is.

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Nov 12th 2014, 1:52 PM

# Students

Roscommon native elected as new USI President

The USI said Joe O’Connor has firsthand experience with the college grant system which will help him represent struggling students.

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Mar 27th 2013, 5:32 PM