USI urging tens of thousands of students to get home this weekend for final campaign push The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is today launching four new posters as part of the national student-led campaign to remove the Eighth Amendment from the Constitution. The Students For Choice poster campaign is calling on voters to vote ‘Yes’ ahead of polling day on May 25th. With youth voter turnout in mind, the posters state care in a crisis needs every yes, and that students are ready to get out and vote. Speaking at the launch, USI President Michael Kerrigan said: “It’s […]
[…]Pink Training’s 21st Birthday Party. It’s a great honour to be hosting such a prestigious and important event in the LGBT+ calendar and we’re delighted to welcome the delegates from across Ireland to Queen’s this weekend.” For further information contact USI Communications and Research Executive Grainne O Reilly on 087 6776636 or 01 […]
[…]would disaffiliate from either NUSUK or from USI and join the other one. This got incredibly frustrating for all involved, so in 1972, down in Galway the two national Unions came together and negotiated the Bilateral Agreement. This meant that all affiliated Students’ Union’s north of the border where represented by both NUS and USI, and could not be members of just one. Subsequently this became the Trilateral Agreement to strengthen the autonomous decision making of students in Northern colleges, now known as NUS-USI. Twenty five years before Good Friday the students of Ireland and Britain pioneered a way forward […]
[…]We have been hearing how angry students are at the way they have been treated year after year, and today was an outlet for that anger.” They continued: “USI has been talking constantly about how we have the worst student accommodation crisis ever and of the hardship that students are facing because of the soaring cost of living. And today students showed in huge numbers how bad the situation is. But this is just the beginning. Today was a show of force, but we will keep going until we see real change in the student accommodation crisis and in the extortionate cost of going to college.” At the heart […]
