Ever since I enrolled in IT Tralee two and half years ago, our local Students’ Union has been appallingly undemocratic. I recall a brief encounter with Mike Thompson in November 2010 when he was education officer. I asked how the Tralee SU voted on a particular motion at USI National Council. His answer: “We don’t have to tell you that”. That pretty much sums up the current SU president’s attitude towards his role as a union representative.
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Category Archives: Free Education for Everyone
The Tralee Students’ Union must explain its disgraceful behaviour towards its members.
Democracy Suppressed in DCU
The farce of the DCU referendum on higher education funding descended deeper into controversy last night when the DCU Student’s Union President Ed Leamy vetoed a FEE DCU motion at Class Rep Council to have the result of the recent referendum respected as a ‘democratic survey’ and adopted as union policy. The action by DCU…
DCU Student’s Union Disrespect Democratic Result
DCU SU President Ed Leamy has just declared the result of the DCU referendum on the funding of higher education “null and void”. The option of a “fully free education system” had won the vote. FEE DCU will campaign for the democratic will of students to be respected and for the result to be maintained….
DCU Students Vote for “Free Education for Everyone”. Recount Called by SU.
After a mandate from DCU’s Class Rep Council, a historic referendum was held in DCU this week to ask students their opinion on how higher education should be funded in Ireland. The original mandate put before the council had four options for students to vote on, but left out the option of a “fully free…
Occupation #4 – Students occupy Fine Gael TD’s office in opposition to education cuts
December 5 2011. Students from the Free Education for Everyone (FEE) campaign have occupied the Ranelagh offices of Eoghan Murphy, Fine Gael TD. They are protesting against any cuts to the grant and any increase of third level fees. FEE last week occupied the office of Brian Walsh T.D in Galway, and this is the…
Live Updates from FEE Galway Occupation
Free Education for Everyone (FEE) Galway have occupied Deputy Brian Walsh’s Constituency office in an action against the raising of student fees and in suport of the public sector strikes in Britain and the North. Click here for the full press release. FEE’s twitter account can be found @feeireland LIVE UPDATES: Final Update:…
FEE GALWAY OCCUPATION
This is only the beginning… Free Education for Everyone (FEE) Galway is currently engaged in an occupation of Deputy Brian Walsh’s Constituency Office to bring awareness to the fact that students will not accept any hike in the Registration Fee, any cut to the maintenance grant or any austerity measures aimed to make the most…
FEE Supports the Strikes
Free Education for Everyone (FEE) QUB extends its unreserved support and solidarity to all striking public sector workers on November 30th . We will be joining strikers tomorrow, and call on all students to do the same. Stand in solidarity with your lecturers by: refusing to attend scab classes and joining picket lines/marches across the…
Statement of Support with USI Occupations
Today, Tuesday the 29th of November, several officers from the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) took part in consecutive occupations of two government buildings, that of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation for 15 minutes, and the Department of Social Protection for a longer period. The Free Education for Everyone (FEE) student campaign…
8 FEE QUB members elected to student council
Originally posted over at the Student Observer Eight activists from Free Education for Everyone in Queens University Belfast were elected to the Student Council in elections which were held yesterday. The establishment of FEE QUB along with FEE Derry over the last year has now made the Free Education for Everyone Campaign an island wide…