[…]registered to vote in the upcoming local, European and by-elections. With the deadline for inclusion on the supplementary register of electors just 5 days away (May 6th), it is essential that young people move to ensure they are eligible to cast a ballot on May 23rd. Large numbers of young people across the country are registered and using their vote (The 2011 general election saw an increase of 12% in voter turnout for young people on the previous general election – CSO, Quarterly Household Survey), but approximately 50,000 young people turn 18 every year in Ireland and they need to […]
[…]to USI USI is the national representative body for 354,000 students in third-level education on the Island of Ireland. We are a membership organisation – our members are our affiliated Students’ Unions around Ireland, North and South. USI is a democratic organisation. The supreme authority of the Union is the Congress, which is representative of each affiliated students’ union, apportioned according to the size of the student body in each union. Each union also sends one voting member to the National Council – the executive body of the organisation. We work across Ireland to represent the views and needs of all students […]
[…]and talking about them. At Durex, we are committed to raising awareness of sexual health education and the importance of safer sex, which is why we are delighted to support the USI with such an important campaign.” Organisations supporting the campaign: Durex MSD Think Contraception IFPA (Irish family planning association) Dublin Aids Alliance Crisis Pregnancy Programmes Aids West Rape Crisis Network – ENDS – For more information contact Grainne O’ Reilly, USI Communications and Research Executive on 0876776636 or […]
[…]Committee to honour Principle 6: “Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement,” in relation to Sochi and future Olympic venues. The Irish Government to condemn the treatment of LGBTQ people in Sochi and across Russia. President Putin to lift the 100 year ban on Moscow Pride. Speakers included Vladimir Dotsenko, a Russian national working as a lecturer in Dublin; Max Kyrzanowski, Organiser with LGBT Noise; Amy Dudley, Auditor of DIT LGBT Society; Patrick Dempsey, Co-Chair of IGLYO (International […]
[…]and in some cases impossible to earn one’s livelihood without access to higher education and vocational training.” This was subsequently challenged by Minister for Education, Joe McHugh TD. The Union of Students in Ireland, alongside the European Students’ Union (ESU), are supporting the Global Campaign for Education (GCE).The GCE’s Global Action Week for Education in 2019 is taking place between the 24th of April and the 1st of May, focusing on making the right to an inclusive, equitable, quality, free public education a reality. USI are supporting the Global Campaign today by calling for third-level education in Ireland to […]
