[…]Union: 2500 Galway Mayo IT SU: 1080 IT Sligo SU: 950 St Angela’s College, Sligo SU: 47 Athlone IT SU: 450 Letterkenny IT SU: 220 Dundalk IT SU: 100 St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra SU – 468 IT Tallaght SU – 700 Dublin City University SU – 800 Trinity College Dublin SU – 3150 IT Blanchardstown – 156 Dublin IT – 750 National College of Ireland SU – 175 Total – […]
[…]26th August Event: Photo Stunt at Knock Airport Re: Emigration and Youth Guarantee Location: Knock Airport, County Mayo Hard Knock Life for the Youth of Ireland ACROSS the west of Ireland today, colleges are calling on the government to tackle the youth employment and emigration problems that Ireland has been experiencing the past few years. The colleges NUIG (National University of Ireland, Galway), GMIT (Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology), IT Sligo, St. Angela’s Sligo, Athlone IT and the USI (Union of Students in Ireland) united today at Knock Airport for a photo stunt to hammer home the message to the government that […]
[…]academic year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to this campaign, the USI had been inundated with messages from students who are losing thousands of Euro in rent they had to pre-pay. And in order to publicly highlight the accommodation issues students are facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the USI created an online portal to enable members to share their stories with the union. In one message, Orla, a student in St Angela’s College said: “Having to pay over €1,000 for accommodation that I can’t be in is very upsetting and challenging. Now I have to start paying a […]
[…]that May is too late to start providing refunds to students who have already been out of their accommodation for over a month. Student accommodation operator, Aparto, has offered to refund students for rent paid for the period after May 2, despite many having to leave when colleges closed in early March. USI President, Lorna Fitzpatrick said the refunds should be backdated to when the students had to leave the accommodation due to the unprecedented actions taken to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Aparto has also stated it will charge students a €50 cleaning fee. On this, Lorna said: “It’s extremely […]
[…]will lead a student bloc at this evening’s Action on X protest at 6pm, which will gather at City Hall Plaza and protest outside Dublin Castle, where an EU conference on gender equality is taking place. USI believes that access to safe and legal abortions in Ireland is critical to advancing gender equality and the position of women in Irish society. USI calls for the implementation of comprehensive X case legislation without delay. It must include: • The risk of suicide as grounds for abortion; • The opinions of no more than two medical practitioners to approve an abortion; • State-wide […]
