STRIKE ACTION BY CAMPUS TRADE UNIONISTS, 24 NOVEMBER 2009 All of the trade unions representing staff working on the Maynooth campus are taking part in a one-day strike on Tuesday November 24th. The strike is protesting against the threat of further government-imposed cuts in the pay of university employees. Action is being taken following ballots…
In the last two weeks, activists (both staff and students) from the Social Solidarity Network and Free Education for Everyone have been attempting to organise against the honorary professorship awarded to Bertie Ahern T.D by the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
On November 6th, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions is staging a series of nationwide demonstrations. Many students return home on Thursday night and Friday morning, with Friday traditionally the quiestest day on campus. We would urge students, and their families, to attend one of the demonstrations on November sixth.
Free Education for Everyone, NUI Maynooth welcome the concessions won by the Green Party in relation to education, but encourage students to continue the campaign against education cutbacks and remain cautious of this governments policies in relation to education. The Green Party have voted with Fianna Fail on education cuts in the past, and there…
Why Bertie Ahern is not welcome or wanted in NUI Maynooth, why we will oppose him, and why there is a great onus on the Students Union to do likewise. It seems almost surreal any Irish University would want to wine and dine Bertie Ahern at the minute. “One of the last socialists in Irish…
Up to 40 third-level students staged a protest outside the Department of Finance in Dublin today at the planned reintroduction of college fees and the education cutbacks announced in the Budget. Some 15 of the protesters from the Free Education for Everyone (FEE) group entered the building in Merrion Street and held a sit-in on…
Last week, on the 11th of February F.E.E activists in N.U.I Maynooth dropped a reasonably sized banner off the bridge connecting the North and South campuses reading: NO TO FEES! WE WONT PAY
Over 20 students from UCD occupied the office of Paul Gogarty Green Party TD for Dublin Mid-West and Spokesperson on Education in Lucan Village. This is in protest at the increase in college registration fees to €1500 per year and the possible full re-introduction of fees.