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New Officer Board for USI

Jul 1, 2015 | Featured, USI News

The Union of Students in Ireland has a new Officer Board. The new team took office on 1 July 2015 and will serve until the end of June 2016. They’re led by Kevin Donoghue, who previously served as VP for the Border, Midlands and Western Region and Vice...

Statement on Berkeley Incident

Jun 16, 2015 | Featured, USI News

The Union of Students in Ireland is shocked and devastated at news of a serious incident in Berkeley, California, resulting the apparent deaths of Irish students. Initial reports say that a balcony collapse has killed six people and injured seven – and that at...

Maurice Dickson

Jan 20, 2015 | USI News

USI is saddened to hear of the passing of Maurice Dickson, former NUS-USI Convenor (1998-1999). Maurice served at a time of great change in Northern Ireland, taking up office less than two months after the passage of the Belfast Agreement in the historic May 22 1998...

FURTHER UPDATED: Gordon Colleary Funeral Arrangements

Jun 23, 2014 | USI News

Colleary (Gordon) – June 17th. Suddenly in Seaford, East Sussex. Surrounded by his loving wife Mairin, sons Barry and Conor, daughter Emma, daughters-in-law Kate and Sarah and four divine grandchildren. Deeply regretted by his siblings, Mary, Ann, Brendan and...

Gordon Colleary

Jun 18, 2014 | USI News

It was with a profound sense of sadness and loss that we learned of the death of Gordon Colleary on 17th June, 2014. Gordon was an inspirational figure in the student movement, whose development of student travel opportunities and USIT (originally Union of Students in...

Website planned outages

Jun 3, 2014 | Uncategorized, USI News, Website

The USI website will be down for upgrades three times in June. Outage 1: 04/06/2014: 1200 IST until 1730 IST Outage 2: 12/06/2014: 1200 IST until 1730 IST Outage 3: 20/06/2014 1200 IST until 24 /06/2014 1730 IST