[…]the HSE in promoting sexual health at third-level USI has been accepted as a partner in the Healthy Ireland framework and will be part of the new network initiative. This will be launched in Dublin Castle next Thursday. The Vice President for Campaigns met with SIPTU to discuss workers’ rights, Early Education and began plans for the next academic year. USI have are now in the finals for 3 awards at the Social Media Awards Ireland for: Best Non-Profit/Organisation Twitter account, Best Business Twitter Campaign and Zero Budget Social Media Campaign. See the full list of nominations […]
[…]and representation from across the country.” Accommodation Crisis High among the reasons for finance-related student drop out is the current crisis in securing student accommodation – and this seems to be on track to get far worse this year, as the rental shortage across the country seems to be concentrated in college towns and […]
[…]Citizenship and now as Deputy President managing events like Europe’s largest LGBTQ student training event in Europe, Pink Training and sits on the LGBTI Youth Strategy Oversight Committee. Speaking at the ceremony, Cahill said, ‘I went to my first GALAS to support Senator Averil Power in 2014 for Politician of the Year, as a young woman who wasn’t out to myself, never mind anyone else. I sat in a room full of amazing people who were successful and hard working across all parts of the LGBT+ community, and I aspired to contribute in some way myself as soon as I […]
[…]won Zero Budget Social Media Campaign at the Social Media Awards Ireland. USI were finalists in the Best Twitter Business Campaign and Best Twitter Account for Non-Profit too. See the full list of finalists here. Waterford IT Students’ Union hosted the USI National Council where officers from around Ireland discussed issues related to welfare, academic affairs and equality and citizenship. Policy and Campaigns: The USI Vice President for Equality & Citizenship along with NUS-USI President and NUS UK VP for Society & Citizenship attended and spoke at NUS-USI’s ‘Big Gay Wedding’ outside Stormont in Belfast on Monday 22nd of May, on […]
The Union of Students in Ireland is asking students to join them and protest against the imprisonment of Irishman Ibrahim Halawa in front of the Egyptian embassy, 12 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, today, Monday October 3rd, between 5.30pm and 7pm. Ibrahim Halawa’s trial in Egypt has been adjourned for the 15th time, meaning that he has now spent 38 months in jail without a trial. The 20-year-old has been jailed since August 2013 after he was arrested and detained at a protest in Cairo. The demonstration was in support of the Muslim Brotherhood which had been ousted from power […]
