Aug 13, 2021 | Campaigns, Equality, Featured, LGBT, RELEASES, USI News
USI is proud to back the Blood For All campaign, which is calling for for an end to the ban on men who have sex with men donating blood for a year after sex. This should be done to end the unfair discrimination. However, would also help to tackle the shortage of...
Jun 28, 2021 | Campaigns, Featured, International Students, RELEASES, USI News
USI has written to Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD with an an urgent appeal for him to support the Health Insurance (International Students) (Amendment) Bill 2021. Re: Urgent need to support the Health Insurance (International Students) (Amendment) Bill...
Jun 15, 2021 | COVID-19, Featured, National Affairs, RELEASES, USI News
The Union of Students in Ireland welcomes the plan published today, which aims to re-open campuses and have most third-level activity back on site from the start of the new academic year. Along with getting students back into lectures and classrooms, that the plan...
Jun 9, 2021 | Accommodation, Campaigns, Featured, RELEASES, USI News
The Union of Students in Ireland welcomes the decision by cabinet to act on the USI’s Student Accommodation Bill and stop landlords forcing students to pay numerous months’ rent in advance to secure accommodation. The move this morning (Wednesday) comes on the back of...
Jun 2, 2021 | Featured, Mental Health, RELEASES, USI News, Welfare
Below is a letter sent to Minister Simon Harris, Minister Stephen Donnelly and Minister Mary Butler by the Union of Students in Ireland today, World Eating Disorders Day (2 June, 2021) Dear Minister Simon Harris, Minister Stephen Donnelly and Minister Mary Butler, We...
May 25, 2021 | Featured, National Affairs, RELEASES, Repeal The 8th, USI News
Action must be taken to resolve the current situation where many women across Ireland still face barriers to accessing abortion care, the Union of Students in Ireland has said on the third anniversary of the vote to remove the Eighth Amendment from the Irish...
