Sep 19, 2013 | President, RELEASES
A block of 10,000 student voters will be mobilised to vote ahead of the Seanad referendum in two weeks’ time. The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) warned the Government today (Thursday), that students are ready to demonstrate their electoral power in the upcoming...
Sep 13, 2013 | President, RELEASES
The direct link the latest OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) reports make between youth unemployment and suicide is frightening, and shows an urgent a response is needed. The latest OECD reports on Ireland support USI’s calls for greater...
Sep 11, 2013 | Campaigns, President, RELEASES
Abolish the ‘Economic Management Council’, not the Seanad THROWING their weight behind the NO campaign in the upcoming Seanad referendum, students today [Wednesday 11th September] set out alternative proposals for meaningful political reform. The launch took place...
Sep 5, 2013 | Campaigns, President
Three national student and trade union bodies today (5th September) issued a joint call for immediate government action to address the youth jobs crisis and have proposed the adoption of a new National Jobs Strategy for Young People to tackle the problem. Together,...
Aug 18, 2013 | Academic Affairs, President, RELEASES
Students are ready and equipped to face down any attempt to cut the student maintenance grant in this year’s Budget. Responding to newspaper reports that Student Maintenance Grants are likely to be cut in October’s budget, USI President Joe O’Connor said “Let there be...
Aug 13, 2013 | President, RELEASES
Further increases in the costs of third-level would be ludicrous in light of ILCU survey, says the Union of Students in Ireland New research commissioned by the Irish League of Credit Unions suggests that the cost of college bills will continue to increase past the...
