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UOS Conference a Success

July 29th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Anyone lucky enough to be in Galway last week had a good chance of stumbling across – wait for it – almost every USI-affiliated sabbatical officer in the country....

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UCC Students win Irish business challenge

July 9th, 2010 at 06:07 pm
A team of students from UCC have walked away with top prize in the Irish final of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Global Business Challenge. The Challenge...

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High Turnout For Christian Union Debate

July 4th, 2010 at 01:07 am
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UOS Conference a Success

Anyone lucky enough to be in Galway last week had a good chance of stumbling across – wait for it – almost every USI-affiliated sabbatical officer in the country. Ranging from Belfast to Cork, SU officers crammed into the student accommodation at GMIT for a week of training, guidance and tips. President Aengus Ó Maoláin, [...]

UCC Students win Irish business challenge

A team of students from UCC have walked away with top prize in the Irish final of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Global Business Challenge. The Challenge is an international business competition, with the UCC team now representing Ireland at the global final on August 5-6th at Taylors University College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [...]

UCC Spends E1.3m on Flights

Between January and December last year, Irish Universities spent a collective 4.3 million on flights for staff and visiting academics, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information act. Top spender UCC, spending €1.28m on flights. UCD was second with €995,000, Trinity with €848,000, NUI Galway with 550,000, DCU with €504,000 and University of [...]

Preview: New Postgrad Building

MSU President Aengus O Maolain and VP Comms and Dev Rob Munnelly took a little tour of the new building flying up by John Hume today. We were seriously impressed.

Get Grant Applications In Early: USI

Predicting a recession-induced surge in the number of grant applications next year, the Union of Students in Ireland has urged students nationwide to apply as early as possible to avoid last year’s ”meltdown”. In the press release, the Union said that “The current recession will result in a huge hike in the number of people [...]

LnD Society Gets Amazing Wiki

Maynooth’s Literary and Debating Society has embraced Wikipedia, with its first incarnation appearing just hours ago. However, there is some speculation on boards.ie and Facebook as to just how seriously the article’s editor takes the subject. It seems to be entirely about communism and anarchy. Some quotes: The society was incorporated into the college as [...]

Glorious Leader Makes Glorious Blog Post

”Let the reign of terror commence”, says wonderful new President.

High Turnout For Christian Union Debate

An amazing turnout to see the debate jointly hosted by the Christian Union and the L n’ D

New SU Takes Office

From Aengus: Your new Student’s Union team is already hard at work making next year as awesome as possible. If there’s anything you need, or you have a great idea for the year ahead, contact the relevant officer: President: Aengus O Maolain president@nuimsu.com VP Welfare / Education: Liz Murray vicepresident@nuimsu.com VP Communications and Development: Rob [...]

ISSU demand Second-Level Reform

Not a month following the end of the Junior and Leaving Certificate exams the Irish Second-Level Students’ Union has insisted that the Department of Education should take heed of recommendations to reform the junior cycle. This time last year, then Education Minister Batt O’ Keefe asked the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) to [...]