And that’s all that matters.
The launch of the Union of Students in Ireland ‘Everyone Loves Nurses’ campaign to highlight the €4,000 drop in salary for new graduate nurses.
From top: USI’s Paddy Guiney and Kevin O’Donohue as James Reilly. Above: USI ‘s Sean Kearns (with placard).
Decent pins, in fairness.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
What do we want?
A high-tech voter database.
The Union of Students of Ireland launching SERD (Student Elector Registration Database). A national student voter whastit allowing the USI to “marshall and influence hundreds of thousands of votes in constituencies all over the country”.
As the database will instantly match student votes to constituencies and local TDs.
FIGHT!
From top: President of the USI Joe O Connor; Michaella Hannick (Athlone IT), at left, and Karen Cambell (IT Tallaght); group shot.
(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)
Students.
This morning.
Probably watching Countdown around now.
Ronan Costello writes;
USI Congress is on in [The Carlton Hotel] Ballinasloe, Co Galway, this week. Over 250 students (some of them pictured at top) from 24 of USI’s affiliated students’ unions are discussing the future of third level education and electing a new President for 2013/2014. Outgoing President John Logue (above) will give his final address to Congress tomorrow night at 9pm.
“Once [USI President John Logue, above] finished, just one question was taken from the floor before it was declared that we were all going to the Dáil viewing gallery to “scare the shit out of the TDs”. As the small crowd proceeded to jump up with excitement, a councillor asked if he could speak briefly, since he had also been asked to come to the meeting. He spoke while half the room ignored him.
Oh
“The low point was when I saw people, including our own Students’ Union’s education officer, using the hashtag #freelogue on Twitter, creating a comparison between being an idiot in the Dáil gallery and people who have actually engaged in serious protests and been persecuted politically in other countries. Another low was when I saw our Students’ Union’s president making ridiculous comments to TDs on Twitter, including the comment: “I think Intel, Google … etc are not concerned about reading and writing”.
Trinity’s Mark O’Meara delivers a scathing appraisal of the USI, following the arrest of its president John Logue at the Dáil a fortnight ago.
USI Pres @john_logue addresses the crowd of students gathered outside Eamon Gilmore’s constituency office. #standuptwitter.com/TheUSI/status/…
— USI (@TheUSI) November 19, 2012
Also: Hot student leader is hot.
Meanwhile, these just in
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Is in there somewhere.
Students at IT Tallaght surround the education minister’s car within the last 40 minutes.
What all that about?
Let these comedians explain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j-UVSPJSy8Q
Thanks Ronan Costello
South Tipp CC backing down following legal advice, well done to everyone who helped keep the pressure up today. #usi12
— John Logue (@john_logue) September 18, 2012
Lars Biscuits writes:
Sometimes, it pays to have a law graduate leading the USI.
Linking grants to house tax ‘is illegal’ (Niall Murray and Pat Flynn, Irish Examiner)
And that’s the chill-out tent.
Dan O’Neill writes:
Ridiculous line up for the Union of Students in Ireland’s activist training this year. Where did we get them [the organisers] from? If they’re this conservative when they’re in their early 20s, what will they be like in their 40s ?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FMWc1foKg
Some people really don’t like it.
LOLs writes:
I thought that you might be interested in this: USI (Union of Students in Ireland) are holding an online vote to determine whether they should abandon their campaign against fees. People who are no longer students have been able to vote (USI have admitted this on their Facebook page). Now a You Tube video (above) has been posted of someone who hacked into the back end of the voting system.
Some of the 300 delegates (representing 250,000 students) at the Union of Students in Ireland annual congress in the Carlton Shearwater Hotel, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, which started today. President Higgins addresses the gathering on Wednesday.
Sez Ronan Costello, editor of Trinity College Dublin’s University Times:
USI president Gary Redmond (above) opened Congress by berating Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn for cancelling his scheduled address at the last minute.
“Minister, why won’t you come an explain yourself?” said Redmond as he asked why Quinn was happy to pose for the signing of a pledge not to raise the student contribution before the general election, but wasn’t prepared to defend the U-turn he made when he got into office.
Pics by Conor McCabe
