


Students Victorious with 4% Rent Caps in PBSA
This morning, the Minister for Housing, Eoghan Murphy, presented amendments to the Residential Tenancies bill, which writes into law that students in Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) will no longer see hikes of above 4% year on year and will fully be able to...
USI welcomes €400,000 funding allocated to Third Level Institutions for consent education
This morning Minister of State for Higher Education, Mary Mitchell O’Connor announced a ring-fenced funding allocation of €400,000 for HEIs to deliver on recommendations from the Expert Group for Consent at Third Level, which included representatives of the Union of...
Lorna Fitzpatrick Elected President of the Union of Students in Ireland, 2019/2020
Gorey native, Lorna Fitzpatrick (25) has been deemed elected as the next president of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) at the Union of Students in Ireland Congress in Co. Mayo. She is a graduate of Business and Human Resource Management from IT Carlow. Lorna...
USI welcomes Taoiseach’s comments in favour of publicly funding Higher Education
After joint student and staff protests on campuses around the country called ‘Fund The Future’ on Thursday last week at the delay in Government action on the 2016 Cassells report, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has indicated that he is firmly against loans or any increase to...
SU Presidents Sign Joint Letter to #FundTheFuture
As published in the Irish Times, a joint letter was signed by USI affilliated Students’ Union Presidents calling for immediate action from the Government on publicly funded education and increases to student supports on the 11th March, 2019. Together, we are...Students call for urgent awareness and education around self harm
Students call for urgent awareness and education around self harm UNION OF STUDENTS IN IRELAND (USI)·FRIDAY, 1 MARCH 2019 Friday March 1st is Self-Harm and Injury Awareness Day. Reacting to the statistics released by the National Suicide Research foundation, which...
Students Prepare for Fairtrade Fortnight
“It’s what’s inside that counts” for students’ supporting Fairtrade Fortnight and trade justice The Union of Students in Ireland have partnered up with Fairtrade Ireland for two weeks of inspiration on global fair trade. Events across Ireland will showcase the...
Students can’t wait any longer – rent pressure zone legislation still not passed almost one year after bill proposition.
“Students across Ireland are seeing rent hikes in their college accommodation. We are growing increasingly impatient for legislation around rent pressure zones that was promised last year.” – USI President Síona Cahill expresses concern. The Union of...