[…]and we won’t give them away. We won’t share your details with any company, and any details stored in our system will be deleted soon after when we’ve made the draw. As with all USI competitions, no purchase is necessary to enter. We’ll put all the names of entrants into a spreadsheet and draw one individual entry with the help of a random number generator at Random.org and contact that individual to ensure that: they are an eligible student and they want the prize. Then we’ll arrange for the prize to either be collected at USI HQ in Dublin, collected at a […]
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 managing the site somewhat complex – but rewarding when viewership increases due to changes to the site. We’re already seeing some small evidence of that today. The new design aims to put the stories we think will interest the rest of the world in our work – we have an external readership focus for 80% […]
[…]Drinking’ Roadshow will travel to colleges throughout Ireland this week with merchandise and information packs for students, starting in University College Cork on Monday. The USI broke its links with the alcohol industry last year and Greg O’Donoghue, USI Vice President for Welfare, said that this independence has been vital for a genuine and credible alcohol awareness campaign among students. “We present no-holds-barred information, based on the best research, to students, so they can protect themselves from the industry’s marketing hype and unpick the conflicting messages which float around about alcohol,” said Mr O’Donoghue. “We make it clear in our […]
[…]action will take place on Saturday the 23rd of December at 1pm on Suffolk Street outside the Avoca store to highlight to Christmas shoppers the ties the store has to direct provision centres through its owner, Aramark. The Union are calling for Avoca management to cut ties with Aramark in the New Year as part of Avoca’s New Years Resolution. Speaking ahead of the action, USI President Michael Kerrigan, said: “The situation in direct provision is cruel, and people are stuck there for up to 7 years. People can’t work, people get just over €20 a week, and people have […]
[…]away the student space on the Athlone campus that is currently used by the Students’ Union to store and distribute free period products, condoms and exam packs, as well as for other student-focused campaigns. The Students’ Union received an email that the college is converting the space, saying the decision is final – this follows a recent move by the university to take away a student space on the TUS Moylish campus in Limerick. USI President, Chris Clifford said: “This a vital space for the Students’ Union on the Athlone campus and they will not stand by and let this […]
