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Sunday 29 November 2020
The USI aims to make sure students stay up to date with public health guidelines.
The USI says people are ‘taking advantage of the housing crisis and accommodation shortage’.
Some 27,000 students have registered in recent months.
The USI has said the move will help students who are struggling financially.
Workers at Tesco Drumcondra have been striking since Friday.
A new campaign aims to raise awareness of the impact of suicide.
Students are objecting to any consideration of the introduction of a student loan scheme in Ireland.
Tens of thousands of students are looking for accommodation, with the new academic year just around the corner.
A survey has also shown that 60% of people have had problems getting their deposit returned.
Eligible voters have less than a week left to sign up.
The USI is launching an awareness campaign after a survey documented the unwanted sexual experiences of college students in Ireland.
These are the most powerful students in the country right now.
Irish students trashed the property – breaking walls, doors and light fixtures.
Deposits are being paid to fraudsters for non-existent properties.
Union president Joe O’Connor said that schemes such as JobBridge had led to “a very, very employer friendly market”.
The protest is being organised by the youth committees of a number of unions with two MEP hopefuls involved.
Dublin City University’s third referendum in four years on membership of the Union of Students in Ireland was passed.
As part of the union’s safe sex campaign, students will also be dazzled by the world’s only sexual health magician and can attend workshops by ‘Dr Sex’.
The USI’s proposal for the Irish Water logo shows how it values the design profession in Ireland – and represents a race to the bottom philosophy that undercuts true worth of creative work, write students Emma Grattan and Derek Doyle.
The national students’ union will no longer partner with drinkaware.ie and plans to work with “other bodies not funded by a self-regulating drinks industry”.
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The protests come as the USI attempt to mobilise a voting block of 50,000 students in a database by the local and European elections next year.
The Ombudsman was investigating complaints about the behaviour of four gardaí at the protest in 2010.
USI wants a ‘significant investment’ in youth job creation – but younger people are also less likely to have pressures like mortgages.
Latest figures have shown that 30.8 per cent of those under 25 years of age are now unemployed.
The DCU Students’ Union has declared a referendum re-affiliating to the Union of Students’ in Ireland null and void prompting criticism from USI president John Logue.
The USI said Joe O’Connor has firsthand experience with the college grant system which will help him represent struggling students.
UCD students vote to disaffiliate from the Union of Students in Ireland, in a major blow to the national umbrella union.
The response from the USI comes after a tender by UCD for the “collection of outstanding monies”.
The Union of Students in Ireland says students are going to college hungry – while one college has set up a soup kitchen for students who can’t afford food.
The Government has announced plans to introduce a €250 hike in college fees and a reduction in the income threshold for those eligible for maintenance grants.
John Logue said the union advocated for a Yes vote and that thousands of students were unable to return home to vote as they were awaiting grant payments.
The Union of Students in Ireland has been criticised by Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell in the wake of the low turnout in the children’s referendum last weekend.
John Logue was arrested in the Dáil visitors’ gallery last night but was later released without charge.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 students protested in Galway today in the run up to next month’s budget.
The group intended to block Minister Ruairí Quinn as he tried to depart IT Tallaght.
The site features information on the cost of college and encourages students, parents and businesspeople to contact their local politicians to voice their opposition to fees and cuts.
The Higher Education Authority says surging demands on the education system could mean fees could be doubled or more.
The union’s members have voted in favour of maintaining the USI’s current position in campaigning for fully Exchequer-funded fees.
The Union of Students in Ireland will hold a special congress following a week-long online vote choosing five options.
THE DEATH OF David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader, was announced this morning.
The on-screen character for which he was most famous (voiced by James Earl Jones) is often hailed as the most villainous of all movie bad guys.
But for the day that’s in it, we’re wondering if that’s a fair assessment. Today we’re asking: Who is the greatest movie villain of all time?
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