[…] USI President, Síona Cahill said; “SHAG Week is one of the most important campaigns in the student calendar year. Being intimate with someone should be an amazing experience when you’re ready, but it’s an experience we’re often afraid of talking about – so for USI SHAG 2019, we’re focusing on how communication is genuinely essential for healthy, pleasurable and safe sex – every time” It is widely recognised that students have not receiving adequate sexual health and wellbeing education in primary and post-primary, and SHAG week is an opportunity to educate them about safer sex, how to […]
[…]should take a moment to reflect on how wonderful last year’s referendum has been for LGBT people and their friends and families, and how Ireland has set a positive example to other countries on an international stage, we still need to push to achieve true equality by ending the blood ban, extending gender recognition to those under 18, and introducing hate crime legislation.” The USI said many more supports need to be urgently put in place for students and young people in schools and colleges across the country who are still experiencing bullying, harassment and violence for being who they […]
[…]and protect the lives of students every day on academic and social issues through campaigns, training and research. The comments of the Minister are available to watch on the USI website Contact: Michael Kerrigan, USI President: […]
Emails between a Fianna Fáil councillor and her student lodger revealed in the media this weekend show that urgent legislation is needed to cover digs accommodation and not just the ‘guidelines’ that Minister Simon Harris is currently championing, says the Union of Students in Ireland. The emails from Cllr Deirdre Conroy show that the French student who was in Dublin for a summer internship was told not to cook in the kitchen, to wash plates in the bathroom sink and that the €260 a week rent was “very low”. USI had previously been contacted by the Department of Further and […]
