– Aidan Rowe discusses UCD’s Disaffiliation from the Union of Students of Ireland, its implications for the student movement, and whether there actually is a student movement in Ireland . It is something of a paradox that leftists – those progressives who fight for a radical restructuring of society – often end up adopting antiquarian…
Experienced student activist, Karl Gill, shares his concerns about the future of the Irish student movement. Ireland’s largest student union, University College Dublin Students’ Union, is facing a referendum on affiliation to the Union of Students in Ireland. The call for disaffiliation is becoming extremely popular and increasingly hard to challenge. The old mantra of ‘united we…