Four national youth organisations are advising the 460,000* young people eligible to vote in the upcoming abortion referendum to ‘check the register’ before the May 8th voter registration deadline. The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI), the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), youth website SpunOut.ie and LGBTI youth organisation BeLonGTo are all urging young people aged between 18 and 25 to ensure their voices are heard in the May 25th poll by making sure they are registered. Anyone not registered by the May 8th deadline will not be able to vote in the referendum. The youth groups are also […]
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 action on Youth Unemployment, and are critical of Ireland’s efforts to address this crisis. The report describes Ireland as ‘leaving behind far too many for far too long’, with an enormous spike in young Irish people now categorised as being long-term unemployed. The key conclusions of the latest Economic Survey of Ireland and a new report ‘Local Job creation: How Employment and […]
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has welcomed a new report to address gender inequality in high education, by introducing gender quotas. USI said gender quotas will improve the third level education sector in terms of equal representation, diversity and rights. One of the outcomes of the report is funding being withheld from higher education institutions if they fail to address gender inequality in the coming years. “The lack of women in senior positions in higher education institutions is not because they do not have the talent, ability or drive to fulfil these roles.” Kevin Donoghue, USI President, said. […]
Ahead of tomorrow’s USI Student Summit 2014, we decided to ask some of the participating startups what life as a young startup is really like? First up (drumroll please) we have the tremendous triple act, the McGinn sisters; Jennie, Sarah and Grace. OPSH With a myriad of experience in the form of innovative digital business ventures (fashion blogging “What Will I Wear Today?” and the online shoppable magazine Prowlster.com which was acquired by new media group Sweatshop) the McGinn sisters are a force to be reckoned with. The team have blended the right mix of straight talking content with fashion […]
