Athy road accident – statement

Athy road accident – statement

Jan 7, 2015 | Featured, RELEASES

The Union of Students in Ireland wishes to express its deepest sympathies to the families and friends of four students who passed away in a road traffic accident in Athy last night, and to extend our hope for a full recovery for all those injured in the accident. As...
USI welcomes Gender Recognition Bill with reservations

USI welcomes Gender Recognition Bill with reservations

Dec 19, 2014 | Featured, RELEASES

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) welcomes the publication of the Gender Recognition Bill, but urges the government to consider significant changes in order to further protect the rights of trans* people in Ireland. USI urges the government to amend the Bill to...
Winning Marriage Equality – a new year’s resolution

Winning Marriage Equality – a new year’s resolution

Dec 17, 2014 | President

Yesterday, USI welcomed the Government’s commitment to holding a referendum on equal access to civil marriage in 2015. According to media reports,  early May has been provisionally set by the Government as the timeframe for the vote. USI has always advocated that...

Redeveloping the website

Dec 17, 2014 | Uncategorized

The USI website gets quite a bit of traffic – we pull in around 94% of our viewers from Ireland and the UK (mostly from Northern Ireland).  We’re fairly extensively linked to and we attract an enormous amount of spam. All of this makes developing and...

The new design

Dec 16, 2014 | Website

We’ve chosen a new design for the USI website to harness the content production skills of our officers and the communication needs of SUs and journalists. At first glance, the site can look a bit busy – this reflects multiple policy briefs and campaigns...