Below is an email we received from an 18 year old student in Castlebar. If you were at the Clondalkin, Castlebar, or Derry protests, and want to write about your experiences for this site, or have phone/camera photos, you can use our contact form to get in touch. The Irish Times and Independent have picked up on the…
Update: The schools Board of Management have postponed the meeting. Tomorrows actions have been cancelled. We’ll keep posting updates as we receive them. If you were at the Clondalkin or Castlebar protests, and want to write about your experiences for this site, or have phone/camera photos, you can use our contact form to get in…
Today students from NUI Maynooth staged a picket at the office of Aine Brady T.D. The protest was organised by the Free Education for Everyone (FEE) campaign, who were also involved in the Castlebar secondary level walkouts. Between 150 and 200 students gathered at the office of the Fianna Fail T.D to protest against education…
This just in from Free Education for Everyone activists in two Castlebar secondary schools: Students in Castlebar are marching to the office of Beverly Cooper Flynn behind the Free Education for Everyone banner. They have expressed their solidarity with the Clondalkin students who staged a walkout on budget day. Today, students from several Castlebar educational…
Call for messages of suppot to school to stop expulsion. Approx 100, mainly 5th and 6th year students from two secondary schools in Clondalkin (Coláiste Bríde and Moyle Park College) took part in a walk out on budget day against the cutbacks in education and increased college fees. The students gathered in front of the…
Photo credit: Barry Whelan Changes to the qualifying criteria for the adjacent rate of the student maintenance grant, announced in the Budget for 2011, will lead to thousands of students facing up to the prospect of an almost 60% decrease in financial support. Currently students have to reside more than 24km from their place of study in…
Fuller report to follow later. FEE activists today joined lecturers from the university in protest at the on-campus AIB. While security prevented a sit-in from taking place, speeches were delivered by students and staff alike on the role the banks have played in the economic crisis in this country outside. Students gathered to listen to…
Dear FEE IADT, I am writing to you on the eve of Budget Day to express my support for your campaign to keep higher education free and open to all people living in Ireland. There have been several polarizing events in our public life recently, most notably the brutal treatment of protesters by gardaí at…
Assembly point: Wolfe Tone statue at Stephen’s Green- 5:30PM. FEE (Free Education for Everyone) are forming a radical student contingent for the budget night protests. We will join the 1 percent march from the Wolfe Tone statue on the corner of Stephen’s Green. We’ll then have a speaker on the left bloc platform and will…
Words by Donal Fallon. Originally published by the Workers Solidarity Movement. On November 3, the state responded to the direct action taken by students at the Department of Finance building on Merrion Row with an obscene level of violence. The baton charges of that day were sending a message into every home in the country,…
