Tag: USI
USI Censorship Machine Takes Aim at Irish Right on Campus
The Union of Students Ireland (USI) has taken justifiable flak this week following the casual exclusion of parties to the right of and including Aontú from their pre-election survey. Questioning all seven major Irish parties on their policy positions on...
USI Waste Student Time on Asylum Crusade
Judging by this recent RTE report, USI’s recent housing protest was impressive in terms of quantity, if not quality. As the crowds that gathered at Trinity’s Dining Hall Steps, where they were addressed by student union leaders and senior academics,...
Left Wing Advocacy Groups Advertises Student Role at €1.78 an Hour
Specialising in the production of progressive audio-visual content and campus activism, ‘STAND’ is a little known website and advocacy group funded through the Department of Foreign Affairs and their Irish Aid programme. Existing under the umbrella of the Suas Educational...
Revealed : NUIGSU Facing Financial Catastrophe Over Levy Dispute
The Burkean can report this evening of an apparent schism between NUIG and the university’s Student Union (NUIGSU) that leaves the beleaguered Union in financial tatters. Centering on the controversial levy decrease at the behest of a student referendum which...
A Message to 1st Year Students
It’s been a tough enough year for you, hasn’t it? Between the standard chaos caused by the Corona-virus, the absolute farce that was the Leaving Cert, and your terrible, pseudo-cyberpunk, excuse for a first week of college, it seems like...
Irish Antifa Project: Conclusion
Entering into this project we had a series of strategic objectives to attain, in order to make the project worth our while. Firstly, we wanted to show that even complacent leftist apparatchiks, who are ensconced in a world of established...
Irish Antifa Project – Siona Cahill
This is the latest part of an undercover investigation into the tacit and sometimes overt support for antifascist harassment among elements of the Irish media and political class. We advise you to listen to all leaked audio and read all...
Dear USI Executive: Resign
In 2017 Katie Ascough stirred up controversy, and was eventually impeached due to her pulping of SU material containing advice for the procurement of an abortion. While a bugbear of the conservative right on campus, those who turned the knife...
Irish Antifa Project: USI Deputy President Michelle Byrne, NUS-USI President Robert Murtagh, and USI President Lorna Fitzpatrick
This is the third part of an undercover investigation into the tacit and sometimes overt support for antifascist harassment among elements of the Irish media and political class. We advise you to listen to all leaked audio and read all...
Student Charges and USI’s Student Levy
With September looming, the annual news cycle has invariably turned to the perennial problem of student accommodation, or, more correctly, the lack of it. What is increasingly clear is that, with their eye-watering rents, the newly built purpose built student...