[…]controlled timing of parturition in beef cattle, evaluating by-products for inclusion in ruminant and monogastric diets; and an advancement in fertiliser technologies for improved efficiency and reduced gaseous emissions. Irish farming is at the forefront of all of these modernisations so it’s no wonder there’s been an increase in the amount of young people applying for agriculture and horticulture courses over the past ten […]
[…]Always #AskConsent.” Tom Meagher of the White Ribbon Campaign said: “White Ribbon Ireland and the Men’s Development Network is proud to stand alongside the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and the Union Of Students In Ireland for the Ask Consent Campaign. We believe that awareness and education in this area needs to be taught as fundamental and as a priority. The Ask Consent Campaign addresses this issue directly and underlines the importance of dispelling myths and ideas about ‘grey areas’ of sexual consent. We also want to highlight that the Ask Consent Campaign clearly states that consent is not the absence […]
[…]place to call home and to study.” This Wednesday at 10.30am, the Union of Students in Ireland and national housing charity Threshold will outline their responses to the Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure Rent Certainty) Bill 2018 and the Anti-Evictions Bill 2018. Speaking in advance of the Oireachtas hearing, John-Mark McCafferty, CEO of Threshold said: “Threshold has long recognised that students are increasingly vulnerable in the private rented sector. Many students renting are effectively ‘licensees’, rather than tenants. In other words they are living in legal limbo, without the protections of a tenancy and without recourse to the […]
[…]the two year rent freeze reform from the government will provide rent certainty for both tenants and landlords, and this scheme could benefit students because they will be less likely to move into a place and then be forced to move or fork out more rent; it is not as beneficial for students moving out of their family homes as they will still be hit with increases. It’s also unfortunate that the rent freeze has come in at a time where the cost of rental accommodation is this high – it’s the largest three-month jump in rent since 2007 at […]
[…]political parties. SERD will provide information to students on an unprecedented scale and provide the national student movement with the capacity to communicate the overall needs of the student movement to students as never […]
