Free Education for Everyone (FEE) activist Donal Fallon reports on the success of NUI Maynooth students in organizing to oppose Fianna Fáil corruption and support the unions. The ‘Student Movement’ in Ireland is a funny one. It tends to find itself in a stagnant state and with its banners well and truly under the stairs…
A MAYNOOTH professor helped get Bertie Ahern appointed as an honorary professor – just weeks after he attended the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis. The former taoiseach was named as an ‘Honorary Adjunct Professor’ of NUI Maynooth’s new Mediation and Conflict Intervention programme on April 7. He was proposed for the post by the head of the…
NUI Maynooth has defended its decision to appoint former taoiseach Bertie Ahern as a visiting professor to the college, after more than 1,200 students and a number of academics signed a petition to protest at the appointment. Mr Ahern was appointed an honorary adjunct professor by the School of Business and Law and is expected…
On December 2nd 2009, over 250 students and staff marched together to the office of John Hughes, the President of the University, to deliver a petition signed by over 1100 students, demonstrating their opposition to the appointment of Bertie Ahern as an Honorary ‘Adjunct’ Professor.
Angry students have protested in NUI Maynooth over former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s appointment as visiting professor in mediation and conflict studies. About 1,200 people, including lecturers, signed a petition opposing the university’s decision to invite Mr Ahern to take up the honorary, unpaid role. “This demonstration cannot be ignored,” a spokesman for the Free Education…
Irish Times Front Page Piece (26/11/2009) A GROUP of academics and students at NUI Maynooth has called on the university to suspend its appointment of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern as a visiting professor pending the outcome of the Mahon tribunal. Campaigners said up to 1,000 signatures opposing the appointment had been collected among the student…
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.
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…
29th September 2009 Student campaign group, Free Education for Everyone (FEE) is planning to planning to stage a blockade of Bertie Aherns appearance at a debate on the Lisbon Treaty, tonight at 7pm in UCD’s O’Reilly Hall. Following a blockade of Brian Lenihan by the group last September, Martin Mansergh, Mary Hannafin and Conor Lenihan…
NUI GALWAY (NUIG) has initiated an internal investigation into protests on campus which led to the abandonment of a public interview with former taoiseach Bertie Ahern on Monday night. The university says it may take disciplinary action against any students involved. Both it and the college’s students’ union have also “strongly condemned” the actions of…
