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Trinity Knew For Months, But Did not Consult Sports Clubs for Interim Exhibiton
Essentially, Ms. Scanlon’s Tweet about her dissent is the way the wider student body discovered the new proposed location
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Get Involved! Lessons from the Mass Student strike in Quebec, Irish University Speaking Tour
Interesting little piece from Aidan Rowe on an Irish nationwide university speaking tour of a Canadian speaker from the mass student strikes in Quebec in 2012. If anyone would like to help organising at your university level, or know anyone who would be, link is at the bottom of the
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An accessible version of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013
Joseph Loughnane cuts through the waffle to give us a plain proletarian english version of the recently published X-Case legislation. Part 1 1. Title and when it comes into force. 2. Definitions: Here is where the “unborn” is given a definition as a ‘life’ that commences after the implantation of
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Picnics, People Power, Direct Action and Damage – Week of Action against Shell kicks off at Rossport Solidarity Camp
Cruss T. Anarcho Mc Professional Protester gives us a rundown of events so far at the Week of Action against Shell in Erris, Co. Mayo. In the rural parish of Kilcommon in Erris, North Co. Mayo, many had come from all over Ireland and further afield still to resist the
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ReOccupy Galway – “Has anything gotten any better?”
For further information on the schedule or to volunteer to take part visit www.occupygalway.org or contact info@occupygalway.org On the 16th of May last year Gardaí and workers from Galway city council launched an early morning raid on the Occupy Galway camp in Eyre Square. As dawn
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A Call to Educate – via Irish Left Review
(This entry was originally posted on Irish Left Review – a blog all of you should be following!(twt – fb) It is reposted here with the permission of the author because we think it’s really, really good. There is already a discussion going on in the comments section on ILR,
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Go to the #Apr13 ‘Stop the Robbery’ Protest this Saturday! Yes, You!
This Saturday(tomorrow!) at lunchtime, the #Apr13 ‘Stop the Robbery’ protest takes place. Called by the Campaign Against Home & Water Taxes and organized in conjunction with some of the anti-CrokePark2 trade unions and various other campaign groups, it begins at 12.30pm on Parnell Square in Dublin. The plan
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“Go Home UCD SU, You’re Drunk”
More controversy from Congress: UCD walk off congress floor in pro-austerity direct action campaign launch, Joseph Loughnane gives us the lowdown… The UCD delegation to the USI Congress walked out in protest at the fact that they couldn’t speak against a motion that proposed that the Union of Students
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Controversy at congress: NUS-USI Womens’ Officer removed from QUB delegation for voting against “mandate”
Róisín Jackman of Queen’s University Belfast writes about the controversy surrounding the removal of QUB Students’ Union delegate Aisling Gallagher, The NUS-USI Womens’ Officer, from her delegation for claims that she voted against her Union’s mandate on abortion services twice. Róisín raises questions about the legitimacy of these
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Welcome to Irish Student Left Online!
Obligatory first blog post. Those of us at ISLO are very happy to welcome you all to the site. We hope it will be the start of some very stimulating discussion and debate. The following is just a little bit about Irish Student Left Online and its plans for the