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USI supports National Condom Week 2012
Almost a third of Irish men and women (30 per cent) NEVER receive any sexual health education at school, a figure significantly above the global average of just 22 per cent, a new survey from Durex reveals. In time for National Condom Week, (October 15-21), the...
Dundalk IT hosts Mental Health Day to Challenge Stigma and See Change on Campus
World Mental Health Day, 10 October 2012 Dundalk IT will play host to a full programme of events for World Mental Health day staged in collaboration with See Change, the national stigma reduction partnership, Suicide or Survive, Save Our Sons and Daughters,...
Trinity students vote to remain affiliated with USI
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Publication Thursday, October 4th, 2012 The students of Trinity College Dublin have voted in favour of their Students’ Union remaining affiliated with the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). Students were asked to vote ‘Yes’ if they were in...
LGBT Ally Campaign
Today sees the launch at University College Dublin Students' Union, Waterford Institute of Technology Students Union, University College, Cork Students' Union, St Angela's College Sligo Students' Union and Queen's University Belfast Students' Union of Ireland's first...
Sexual Health Education Roadshow
USI kicks off Sexual Health Education Roadshow in NUI Maynooth Roadshow will tour campuses in effort to encourage students to practice safer sex The Union of Students in Ireland will launch its Sexual Health Education Roadshow today in NUI Maynooth at 1pm. The...
Taoiseach backs Clare County Council
Enda Kenny, in response to a question by Louth TD Gerry Adams: "Now, Clare County Council made its own decision here, Deputy Adams. And it took the decision to issue letters in relation to the dispersal of the Higher Education grant for this year, and asked, in that...
Dismay at household charge grant link
Students from Galway Mayo IT Students' Union, NUI Galway Students' Union and Limerick IT Students' Union and University of Limerick Students' Union will converge on Ennis, Co. Clare today in a snap protest to voice their anger at the County Council's decision to link...
President Higgins to meet USI and Students’ Union representatives
President Michael D. Higgins is to meet with representatives from the Union of Students in Ireland and its member Students’ Unions tomorrow in Áras an Uachtaráin at 4.30pm. The meeting is intended to give student representatives a chance to discuss the President’s...
A new beginning
On the day USI waves goodbye to its home in Crumlin, we present this new website, which we're calling 5.01 beta. We hope you like it better than the last one. Our new physical address is: USI Ceann Áras na Mac Léinn Portview House York Road Dublin 4 The roadmap for...
USI urges Labour: Stand up for students
The Union of Students in Ireland has called on the Labour Party to re-affirm its commitment to free college education ahead of its annual Parliamentary Party think-in. In the Sunday Independent the Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn said that it was time to...