“In a press release issued yesterday, it has been announced by the Free Education for Everyone Galway Group that students are set to march against the arranged increase of third-level fees to €3000 by 2015 and the abolition of the Postgraduate grant …” (more)
[College Tribune, 21 February]
“Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in cities across Europe to voice anger at a controversial international copyright treaty (ACTA), which they fear will lead to a curtailing of Internet freedoms …” (more)
[Deutsche Welle, 11 February]
“The President of Trinity SU and the Students’ Union of Dun Laoghaire Institute Art, Design and Technology have proposed referenda on their continued association with the USI …” (more)
[College Tribune, 9 February]
“Anti-ACTA protesters gathered in Dublin today to demonstrate against proposed EU legislation which aims to tackle the trading of counterfeit goods and illegal file-sharing online …” (more, pictures)
[TheJournal.ie, 4 February]
“A protest against Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific journal publisher, is rapidly gaining momentum since it began as an irate blog post at the end of January. By Tuesday evening, about 2,400 scholars had put their names to an online pledge …” (more)
[Josh Fischman, Chronicle of Higher Education, 31 January]
“Protest against ACTA and ‘SOPA Ireland’. Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square East, Dublin 1. February 4th, 13:00 until 18:30 …” (more)
[Why We Protest, 30 January]
“First year biological science student Sam Weaver is taking the university of Birmingham to court over its widely publicised ‘ban’ on protests, he explains here in his own words what has lead him to take this extraordinary step …” (more)
[HT: Eoin O'Dell]
[Bright Green, 24 January]
“Between 3,000 and 4,000 parents, children, teachers and principals of disadvantaged schools protested loudly, with music and hundreds of home-made, multi-coloured banners outside the Department of Education yesterday, against proposed cuts to teacher numbers …” (more)
[Kitty Holland, Irish Times, 20 January]
“Trinity College Dublin Graduate Students’ Union has criticised the Union of Students in Ireland for failing to consult with Trinity’s postgraduate representative body before deciding to begin confrontational protest measures against the government’s abolition of the postgraduate maintenance grant …” (more)
[Jack Leahy, University Times, 19 January]
“In a year that was marked by the euro crisis, and bailouts not only of banks but also entire sovereign countries, it is not surprising that higher education in Europe has taken quite a battering …” (more)
[Allan Pall, University World News, 8 January]
“The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has warned that a hike in university fees and the abolition of the postgraduate grant announced in the Budget will exclude thousands of would-be students from education …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 5 December]
“A group of students protesting cuts to third-level grants has occupied the Ranelagh constituency office of Dublin TD Eoghan Murphy …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 5 December]
“Nine NUI Maynooth students are this morning entering the third day of their occupation of the constituency office of Kildare TD Anthony Lawlor in Naas …” (more)
[Donie O'Sullivan, College Tribune, 4 December]
“The leader of the group of students who have occupied the constituency office of a Fine Gael TD in Kildare confronted him as he gave an interview outside his office this afternoon …” (more, video)
[TheJournal.ie, 3 December]
“Eight students from NUI Maynooth who have occupied the constituency office of Fine Gael TD Anthony Lawlor in Naas, Co Kildare, have said they are there for the long haul …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 3 December]
“The Fine Gael TD whose offices are being occupied by several Maynooth students in a protest against cuts to third-level grants and increased fees says he does not want to see the group get into trouble over their actions …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 3 December]
“Eight students from NUI Maynooth have occupied the constituency office of Fine Gael TD Anthony Lawlor to highlight their fear that student maintenance grants may be cut in next week’s Budget …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 3 November]
“Members of the Maynooth Students’ Union have occupied the Naas constituency office of Fine Gael TD Anthony Lawlor in the latest escalation of the wider student movement against the reintroduction of fees and cuts to third-level grants …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 2 December]
“The nine student protesters arrested during a demonstration at Galway Deputy Brian Walsh’s office yesterday have been released. A spokesperson for Mill Street Garda Station confirmed to the Galway Independent this afternoon that all of the protesters were released without charge …” (more)
[Marie Madden, Galway Independent, 1 December]
“Four students, arrested for occupying a room at the Department of Social Protection yesterday, were released last night. A file has been sent to the DPP …” (more)
[Irish Times, 30 November]
