Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Over the past number of weeks, FUSE has been extremely active in grass roots campaigning and garnering support for the establishment of a university for the South-East region. Members of FUSE have campaigned in town centres and at GAA matches across the region. Our spokesman, Dr. Mark ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
An article in today’s Irish Times by Ed Walsh, founding president of the University of Limerick, states unequivocally that the South East is the only region in Ireland with a legitimate claim for a new university. Ed examines the recent application by CIT and describes this as ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Published today in the Irish Times is an article by Noel Whelan surrounding the application of WIT for university status. Yet another hugely supportive article that follows on from the Jim Power article in yesterday’s Irish Examiner. In his article Noel explicitly states that "Waterford's application should ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Published in the Irish Examiner on March 21st, is an article by Jim Power, Chief Economist with Friends First. In his article Jim states that a university for the South East region would revive the entire South East region and that a university would greatly help to ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
This weekend FUSE received an official statement from Dr. Martin Mansergh, TD for Tipperary South, showing his support for the university of the South East. In his statement, Dr. Mansergh draws attention to the progressive attitude of neighbouring countries such as Britain, toward catering for all regions ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
March 18, 2008 – 12:05 pm FUSE in St. Patrick’s Day Parade Originally uploaded by se4u2008FUSE were represented in this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Waterford City. Several groups carried banners of support for the campaign and other entries in the parade also did their bit to ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Photo GAA Support Originally uploaded by se4u2008The Friends of the University for the South East visited the National Hurling League clash between Waterford and Kilkenny at Nowlan Park in Kilkenny today. There was a great turn out for the game and many of the supporters took an ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Since we started to send out our newsletters we have noticed that some e-mail addresses are bouncing back as they were accidentally typed incorrectly or the e-mail server is incorrectly marking our newsletter as spam. To ensure that you don’t miss out on our newsletters we have ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
The issue of the University for the South East was debated in the Dáil today with contributions from many members of the house including Deputy Tom Hayes and Deputy Martin Mansergh. The discussion was incredibly favourable of a university being established in the South East, with emphasis ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
A number of people have sent their support to the website but have also said that they are unsure about what they should write in a letter to the Minister or to their local TD. We have created a set of sample letters that you can use as ...
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