[…]at the #CorkDemo. The nationwide “Fight for Your Future Now” demonstrations are taking place today against potential cuts to the maintenance grant in the upcoming October budget 2014. The march will begin in UCC and finish in Grand Parade where speeches will be delivered to a large crowd of students. Students from WIT, UCC, IT Tralee, LIT Campuses, , and CIT will gather at UCC at 1pm and march together to Grand Parade for 2pm to express their collective voice on the upcoming Budget 2014. The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) warned the Government last week, that students are […]
[…]top of the agenda when making budgetary decisions. Fighting for the future of students now is crucial to the economic recovery of Ireland. Paddy Guiney USI VP for Campaigns said: “Students today face many challenges and that’s even before they engage with their degree. The rise in the cost of living, ever-growing student charges, and year on year student supports getting cut across the board, have left a place in college a distant reality for many students. Students are demanding the government to see that we cannot take any more cuts. We’re demonstrating outside the Dail and asking our elected […]
[…]Budget 2014. The march will begin in Sligo IT and finish in Stephen Street Car Park where DJ Scruffy Duffy will be playing on arrival and speeches will be delivered to masses of students. Students from NUIG, GMIT, Letterkenny IT, St Angelas College, Athlone IT, Sligo IT and DKIT will gather at at 1.30pm and march together to Stephen Street Car Park to express their collective voice on the upcoming Budget 2014. The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) warned the Government last week, that students are ready to demonstrate their electoral power in the upcoming Seanad referendum. With voter […]
THE USI HAS WRITTEN TO THE JOINT OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE ON 8TH AMENDMENT AHEAD OF CRUCIAL VOTE The Union of Students in Ireland has written to all members of the Joint Oireachtas committee examining the 8th amendment, regarding the Committee’s final decision-making process. USI has written the letter jointly with other leading civil society organisations including the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI), the Abortion Right’s Campaign (ARC), the Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment, and Amnesty International Ireland, who are advocating for the repeal of the Eighth Amendment and the introduction of legislation mandating women’s and girls’ access to safe abortion […]
