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USI Affiliation – Who Benefits?

Jan 24, 2015 | #YesToUSI, Featured, President

When they go to vote this Monday and Tuesday, UCC students will decide, on balance, whether a fiver is too much to spend to fund their national student movement. They’ll decide whether a fiver is too much to pay to fund and support the organisation fighting and...

USI launches Students for Marriage Equality campaign

Jan 20, 2015 | Equality, Featured, President, RELEASES

NEWS RELEASE On Tuesday 20 January, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) will launch its campaign to secure a ‘YES’ vote in the forthcoming marriage equality referendum. See the new website voteforlove.ie USI believes that equal access to civil marriage...

Nominations open for USI Officer Board positions

Jan 16, 2015 | Democracy, Featured

USI Annual Congress 2015 USI Annual Congress 2015 will occur from Monday 23rd March, 2015 to Thursday 26th March, 2015. Nominations Nominations for the following positions will open on Friday 16th January, 2015 and must be submitted prior to 5.30pm on Thursday 12th...

USI dismisses mature student exclusion video

Jan 8, 2015 | Equality, Featured, RELEASES

A video released on an Irish student-focused website today entitled ‘Don’t you just hate Mature Students…’ has been dismissed by the Union of Students in Ireland as an attack on diversity inside the student movement. The short features a...

Athy road accident – statement

Jan 7, 2015 | Featured, RELEASES

The Union of Students in Ireland wishes to express its deepest sympathies to the families and friends of four students who passed away in a road traffic accident in Athy last night, and to extend our hope for a full recovery for all those injured in the accident. As...