by Oisín Kelly – former UCDSU Education Vice President Earlsfort Terrace Library Hours Extended Today the UCDSU has learned that the Earlsfort Terrace Library opening hours will be extended to 10pm in the new year. This week hundreds of UCD students occupied the main library in Belfield over night in protest against the 10% in…
UCD Students Protest Cutbacks in Library Budget 300 students are tonight occupying the main library in UCD. This is against the cutbacks which have been implemented in the library budget. Opening hours have been slashed, staffing levels have been cut and the materials avialble to students are in decline. UCD students Union are demanding that…
‘Draw the lesson that the time for waiting for politicians or union leaders to deliver is over. Its time to organise ourselves’ The Campaign for Free Education has welcomed the announcement by the Government to invest 42 million in improving the grants system as evidence that direct action can work in fighting against the cutbacks…
At a press conference about an hour ago, Noel Dempsey announced that he would not be reintroducing fees and that he had secured an extra 42 million directly from the exhequer to improve the grants system. After a prolonged campaign of direct action which saw tens of thousands of students take to the streets over…
A number of Campaign for Free Education activists took part in an actions today with the Union of Students Ireland around Dublin. The CFE has been one of the most formidable opponents of fees and cutbacks in education since the summer. It has organized numerous on-campus demonstrations in UCD making it a place of hostility…
The last time we gathered outside government buildings to oppose fees, we were told to go home and write letters to our local TD, as a result the march barely made the news. At the demonstration today, the CFE were determined to organise real action against the government, as USI mouthed off from a truck,…
A Student protest that started today ended in a sit in in the Department of Transport Over 1,000 students took part in a demonstration against fees outside government buildings today. While the turnout was good, the protest lacked any control from the students themselves. The USI leadership had arranged for the protest to take place…
A GROUP of university students occupied a room in the Department of Finance for three hours in protest at education cutbacks yesterday morning. Their peaceful protest came as thousands of students plan to take the streets of Dublin today for one of the largest demonstrations in years. The students entered Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy’s department…
The Campaign for Free Education (CFE) occupied the Department of Transport as part of a demonstration against FF-PD cut backs in today’s budget. The USI demonstration was supported by the UCDSU due to pressure of the elected CFE SU Councillors. Hundreds assembled outside the Department of Finance and listened to speeches. Among the speakers was…
The boycott of lectures and day of action against fees called by the Campaign for Free Education (CFE) took place today. Hundreds assembled outside the Arts Block and marched around the UCD campus. The march then proceeded to the Administration building to hand in a letter to the President of the College Art Cosgrove. The…