Any student in a member college can be elected to the Officer Board. This year our Officer Board represents each region of the country.
All this year’s Officer Board were elected at USI Congress in Ballinasloe on 26 March 2013, with the exception of the NUS-USI President who was elected at NUS-USI Conference in Fermanagh.
President
Joe O’Connor
Member Union when first elected: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
president@usi.ie
Vice President for Campaigns
Paddy Guiney
Member Union when first elected: University College, Dublin, Students’ Union
paddy.guiney@usi.ie
Vice President for Equality and Citizenship
Laura Harmon
Member College when first elected: University College Cork Students’ Union
laura.harmon@usi.ie
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Quality Assurance
Cat O’Driscoll
Member Union when first elected: University College Cork Students’ Union
cat.odriscoll@usi.ie
Vice President for Welfare
Denise McCarthy
Member Union when first elected: Waterford Institute of Technology Students’ Union
denise.mccarthy@usi.ie
Leas Uachtarán don Ghaeilge /Vice President for the Irish Language
Peadar de Blúit
Member College when first elected: NUI, Galway, Students’ Union
feidhlim.seoighe@usi.ie
Vice President for the Border, Midlands and West Region
Kevin Donoghue
Member Union when first elected: NUI, Galway, Students’ Union
kevin.donoghue@usi.ie
Vice President for the Southern Region
Ciara Guinan
Member Union when first elected: Institute of Technology Carlow Students’ Union
ciara.guinan@usi.ie
Vice President for the Northern Region (NUS-USI President)
TBC
Member Union when first elected: Queen’s University Belfast Students’ Union
president@nistudents.org
(The Vice President for the Northern Region is jointly elected to USI Officer Board and the UK National Union of Students National Executive Committee at NUS-USI Conference)
