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The Union of Students in Ireland stands in solidarity with Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union and the Trinity students who have set up an encampment for Palestine on the campus.   USI also strongly condemns attempts by the college to fine the Students’ Union €214,000 for using their right to protest to demand the university cuts ties with Israel, as it carries out genocide against the Palestinian people. TCD Students’ Union and Trinity students have carried out a number of protests against the college’s links with Israel and against attempts by Trinity management to increase rents and fees for students, […]

[…]out.” The six main demands are: Permanent funding to bring student counselling services to a 1:1000 ratio of counsellors to students Increase in core grant funding for institutions to plug the €307 million funding gap in the third-level education sector Abolish tuition fees and move to a fully free higher education system Seize vacant housing, restore the eviction ban and introduce rent controls to affordable levels End precarious work in universities, among both academic and professional workers including postgraduates Implement Universal Design for […]

The Union of Students in Ireland congratulates everyone involved in the Scrap the Green Paper coalition for its success in campaigning for Government not to go ahead with the changes to disability payments. USI is completely opposed to the changes that disability groups said would not help break down the barriers that face people trying to enter the workforce and would only leave them financially worse-off. In opposing the green paper, USI had said that Government should be looking to address the societal challenges that people with disabilities face in engaging with education, including third level, and in developing meaningful careers. And the union […]

Now is the time for Taoiseach Simon Harris to prove to the students of Ireland that he is not just ‘all talk’ by delivering long overdue and badly needed change to our higher education system, says the Union of Students in Ireland. USI has met with Simon Harris on numerous occasions since he was appointed Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in June 2020, but has not seen any real change to improve the increasingly stressful situation facing students in Ireland. Any measures that have been introduced have been temporary, piecemeal, or simply PR exercises aimed at making […]

The results of the 2024/2025 USI Coiste Gnó elections have just been announced at USI Comhdháil in the Clayton Hotel, Sligo. The team for next year will be… President Chris Clifford (USI CG) Vice-President for Academic Affairs Bryan O’Mahony (USI CG) Vice-President for Welfare Niamh Doherty (MTUK SU) Vice-President for Campaigns Nathan Murphy (USI CG) Vice-President for Equality & Citizenship Aoife Hynes (USI CG) Vice-President for Postgraduate Affairs Sarah Fitzpatrick (DCU SU) Vice-President for the BMW Region Christopher Stewart (CMLOG) Vice-President for the Southern Region Niamh Kennedy (TUS SU) Vice-President for the Dublin Region Emma Monahan (DCU SU) Leas Uachtarán […]

[…]housing crisis. Ending the Government’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza – directly intervening in the International Court of Justice case against […]